Question

I have some files in my folder /home/sample/* * /*.pdf and *.doc and * .xls etc (‘**’ means some sub-sub directory.

I need the shell script or linux command to list the files in following manner.

pdf_docs/xx.pdf  
documents/xx.doc  
excel/xx.xls  

pdf_docs, documents and excel are directories, which is located in various depth in /home/sample. like

/home/sample/12091/pdf_docs/xx.pdf  
/home/sample/documents/xx.doc  
/home/excel/V2hm/1001/excel/xx.xls

Answer 1

You can try this:

for i in {*.pdf,*.doc,*.xls}; do find /home/sample/ -name "$i"; done | awk -F/ '{print $(NF-1) "/" $NF}'

I ve added a line of awk which will print the last 2 fields (seperated by ‘/’ ) of the result alone