Question

Having trouble listing the contents of a folder I’m not in, while excluding the actual folder name itself.

ex:

root@vps [~]# find ~/test -type d
/root/test
/root/test/test1

However I want it to only display /test1, as the example.

Thoughts?

Answer 1

You can do that with -exec and basename:

find ~/test -type d -exec basename {} \;

Explanation:

• The find ~/test -type d part finds all directories recursively under ~/test, as you already know.
• The -exec basename {} \; part runs the basename command on {}, which is where all the results from the last step are substituted into.