When using grep you can search for a specific regex, but only inside of a file. Is there any way, I can search for a folder name?
6 Answers
I usually use find:
$ find . -name 'FolderBasename*' -type d or for more complex queries
$ find . -regex '{FolderRegex}' -type d As pointed out in the comments if you want case insensitive searches do -iname and -iregex
3If you really mean regexp instead of shellglob, you may want to use
find <path> -regex <regex> -type d
eg.
find Code/ -E -regex '(bin|redblack)_tree\.hs' -type d
the option -E turns on extendend regexp, see man find for more.
If you are just concerned with matching the name you can simply use '-name' in find.
find <path> -name '<regex>' -type d find is far better but a clunky answer to your question:
ls -l | grep '^d' Another answer, which works without using regex (and Bash4: shopt -s globstar):
ls **/dirname/ -d (based on recursive globbing: **/ and matching only folders /*/)
I created a script file called dsearch (directory search) to do this:
# !/bin/bash # search all folders from the current folder for a foldername foldername=$1 find . -name "*$foldername*" -type d 
