Remove path from find result in Bash

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Posted: 16 Apr, 2010
by: Zavadschi S.

Updated: 16 Apr, 2010
by: Zavadschi S.

Find all .sh files from current directory.

$ find . -name "*.sh"


./als.sh
./engine/a.sh
./engine/mysc.sh
./tools/new/slv.sh
./tools/instant-parse/iparse.sh

Now if we need to remove the path part from the above find command output:

$ find . -name "*.sh" -exec basename {} \;


als.sh
a.sh
mysc.sh
slv.sh
iparse.sh

Same as

$ find . -name "*.sh" | xargs -i basename {}

And using sed:

$ find . -name "*.sh" | sed 's!.*/!!'

i.e. replace all characters until last / by nothing (here ! is used as the sed delimiter instead of the usual /)

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