Timeline for bash find: get directory of found file

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Nov 9, 2018 at 10:16	answer	added	Sekar Ramu		timeline score: 0
Jan 23, 2015 at 23:14	history	edited	Gilles 'SO- stop being evil'		edited tags
Jan 23, 2015 at 12:06	vote	accept	dubbelj
Jan 23, 2015 at 11:11	comment	added	Costas		@StéphaneChazelas Thanks. I didn't know such limitation for OS/X (BSD). Poor poor mac' users!
Jan 23, 2015 at 11:07	comment	added	Stéphane Chazelas		@Costas, `-printf` is GNU-only. The OP's mentioning OS/X (a BSD system).
Jan 23, 2015 at 10:45	comment	added	Costas		`find ./ -name "foo.mp4" -printf "%h\n"` will print path to for each found file (one by line). More over as usual nobody use `-exec echo {}` therefore there is `-print` (default even omitted) or `printf` action.
Jan 23, 2015 at 10:45	answer	added	Stéphane Chazelas		timeline score: 36
Jan 23, 2015 at 10:37	review	First posts
Jan 23, 2015 at 11:27
Jan 23, 2015 at 10:36	comment	added	dubbelj		Could you show an example of that? Should I put that behind '-exec' or before?
Jan 23, 2015 at 10:32	comment	added	Costas		man find (ACTIONS): `-printf` `%h` Leading directories of file's name (all but the last element). If the file name contains no slashes (since it is in the current directory) the %h specifier expands to ".".
Jan 23, 2015 at 10:27	history	asked	dubbelj	CC BY-SA 3.0