Have Find print just the filenames, not full paths

shell ksh

If you're using GNU find, then

find path -printf "%f\n"

will just print the file name and exclude the path.

shell ksh

find ... -exec basename {} \;

will also do the trick .. but as @Kent asks, why do you want this?

shell ksh

you can do it with:

find ..... |sed 's#.*/##'

however does it really make sense? if there are two files with same filename but located in different directories, how can you distinguish them?

e.g.

you are in /foo/foo/a.txt/foo/bar/a.txt

EDIT

edit the answer to gain some better text formatting.

As you described in comment, so you want to

This could be done in one shot:

find ...|xargs tar -czf /path/to/your/target/a.gz

this will find files, make a tar (a.gz) to your target dir.

CodeHunter