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Why does Mac's $find not have the option -printf?

Not sure what is wrong with the following command, but can anyone spot the error:

find public_html -name '*.php'  -printf '%h \n' | sort -u > dirlist.txt

Basically, I am attemtping to find out in my public_html directory names of all directories that have *.php extension. and then print out the directory in which that file is found. The output of this is piped to sort, duplicate entries are removed by the -u flag, and the result is stored in new file dirlist.txt

But what I am getting upon execution is :

find: -printf: unknown option

Not sure where I am getting this wrong

Thanks

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Your version of find seems to have no -printf option.

I would do the same task like so:

find public_html -type f -name '*.php' | xargs -n1 dirname | sort -u > dirlist.txt
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  • I guess this is because I am following a linux manual on a OS X terminal ! – user1020069 Mar 20 '12 at 17:06
  • thanks all! the stackoverflow community is amazing, hopefully I am getting up to speed to start contributing as well ! – user1020069 Mar 20 '12 at 17:13
  • @user1020069: I recommend updating your name. – bukzor Mar 20 '12 at 17:14
  • @bukzor Similarly, do you know how to do the following without the -printf option (which I don't have)? --> find . -printf "%p (%s, %Tb %Td %TY %TH:%TM)\n" Basically I want the size and date/time to be listed as well. – Jobs Mar 07 '19 at 23:34
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yes, your version does not seem to have -printf option - Mac variant doesnt i know - there may be others

your alternative is to pipe it to sed and sort, like so:

find public_html -name '*.php'|sed 's#\(.*\)/.*#\1#' |sort -u
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