Why using dirname in find command gives dots for each match?

Question

I\'m using find for a task and I noticed that when I do something like this:

find `pwd` -name \"file.ext\" -exec echo $(dirname {}) \\;

it will

Answer 1

you do not have to call dirname() for each file found. with GNU find, you can use -printf and its faster this way

find /path -type f -iname "*.ext" -printf "%h\n"