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I want to open terminal, find a file or folder, and quickly navigate to that folder or the parent directory of the file.
I can quickly get the path using
find ~ -name 'filename.txt'
but I can't figure out how to copy that path result into the "cd" command
Is there a way to basically say "cd [path from find command]" or "open [path from find command]"
I'm just using the default terminal in OSX Mountain Lion
How about:
cd $(find -name "filename.txt" -type f -exec dirname {} \; | sed 1q)
Like this:
$ cd `find ~ -name filename.txt -exec dirname {} \;`
find questions... ;-)
$ cd find ~ -name filename.txt -exec dirname {} \;`` results in an error, but the find command by itself works perfectly:$ find ~ -name 'filename.txt' works perfectly. (I also can't figure out how to use markdown to delineate the code above because the code contains backticks so markdown stops the code formatting part early)
Jul 2, 2013 at 18:22
$ find ~ -name filename.txt -exec dirname {} \; ?
If have added this to ~/.inputrc to make \eo rerun the previous command and insert its output:
"\eo": "$(!!)\e\C-e"
Or if you use bash 4.0 or later, you can enable globstar and press \eg to expand patterns like this:
cd **/filename.txt
You can delete the filename part in both cases with option-delete.
