Use GNU find to show only the leaf directories

Question

I\'m trying to use GNU find to find only the directories that contain no other directories, but may or may not contain regular files.

My best guess so far has been:

Answer 1

@Sylvian solution didn't work for me on mac os x for some obscure reason. So I've came up with a bit more direct solution. Hope this will help someone:

find . -type d  -print0 | xargs -0 -IXXX sh -c '(ls -p XXX | grep / >/dev/null) || echo XXX' ;

Explanation:

• ls -p ends directories with '/'
• so (ls -p XXX | grep / >/dev/null) returns 0 if there is no directories
• -print0 && -0 is to make xargs handle spaces in directory names