Use bash to find first folder name that contains a string

Question

I would like to do this in Bash    in the current directory  find the first folder that contains  foo  in the name   I ve been playing around with the find command  but a little confused  Any suggestions

User · Accepted Answer

You can use the -quit option of find   find  lt dir gt  -maxdepth 1 -type d -name   foo   -print -quit

User · Answer

pattern  foo  for  dir in     pattern     do       -d     dir      amp  amp  dir     dir    amp  amp  break done echo    dir     This is better than the other shell solution provided because   it will be faster for huge directories as the pattern is part of the glob and not checked inside the loop actually works as expected when there is no directory matching your pattern  then   dir  will be empty  it will work in any POSIX-compliant shell since it does not rely on the    operator  if you need this depends on your pattern  it will work for directories containing newlines in their name  vs  find

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for example   dir1   find   -name   foo   -type d -maxdepth 1 -print   head -n1  echo   dir1    or  For the better shell solution see Adrian Fr  hwirth s answer   for dir1 in   do        -d   dir1   amp  amp    dir1     foo     amp  amp  break     dir1          fix based on comment done echo   dir1    or  dir1   find   -type d -maxdepth 1 -print   grep  foo    head -n1  echo   dir1    Edited head -n1 based on   hek2mgl comment  Next based on  chepner s comments  dir1   find   -type d -maxdepth 1 -print   grep -m1  foo     or  dir1   find   -name   foo   -type d -maxdepth 1 -print -quit

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