How to only get file name with Linux 'find'?

Question

I\'m using find to all files in directory, so I get a list of paths. However, I need only file names. i.e. I get ./dir1/dir2/file.txt and I want to get fi

Answer 1

If you want to run some action against the filename only, using basename can be tough.

For example this:

find ~/clang+llvm-3.3/bin/ -type f -exec echo basename {} \; 

will just echo basename /my/found/path. Not what we want if we want to execute on the filename.

But you can then xargs the output. for example to kill the files in a dir based on names in another dir:

cd dirIwantToRMin;
find ~/clang+llvm-3.3/bin/ -type f -exec basename {} \; | xargs rm