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Re: How to find directories that only contain a certain type of files (e
From: |
Andreas Metzler |
Subject: |
Re: How to find directories that only contain a certain type of files (e.g., .txt)? |
Date: |
Tue, 12 Sep 2023 18:39:32 +0200 |
On 2023-09-12 Peng Yu <pengyu.ut@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> How to find directories that only contain a certain type of files (e.g.,
> .txt)?
> One idea that I have is to just search for all files' paths. Then use
> a post-processing script to analyze which directories only contain
> files of a certain type (e.g., .txt extension).
> Does anybody have a better idea of how to do this search?
find -name '*.txt' -printf '%h\n' | sort -u
(Actually you should use \0 and sort -u --zero-terminated and work on
that nul-terminated list.)
cu Andreas