Print the directory where the 'find' linux command finds a match

Question

I have a bunch of directories; some of them contain a \'.todo\' file.

/storage/BCC9F9D00663A8043F8D73369E920632/.todo
/storage/BAE9BBF30CCEF5210534E875FC80D37E/.         


        

Answer 1

The quick and easy answer for stripping off a file name and showing only the directory it’s in is dirname:

#!/bin/bash
STORAGEFOLDER='/storage'
find "$STORAGEFOLDER" -name .todo  -exec dirname {} \;