How to force grep to force file returns and ignore directories?

Question

I am trying to use grep to automatically search for a bibtex program in a custom bin folder.

The problem is that it often returns a directory called bibtex, which means that the script cannot automatically execute the command.

How to make the grep command (or indeed the locate command) automatically ignore directories?

EDIT: current command: locate bibtex | grep "/bibtex$" -d skip | head -n1

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icecreamhead May 07 '12 at 14:34

4 answers

Team find?

find /bin -name bibtex -type f

Searches for the file name "bibtex" of type "f", which is a regular file.

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Stephen darlington May 07, '12 at 14:37

locate --basename '\bibtex' --limit 1

grep head, - , .

:

type -P bibtex

which will look in PATHfor a program with this name?

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Dennis williamson May 07 '12 at 14:44

I don’t understand exactly, maybe my decision is wrong: why don’t you use which ? Or is bibtex not in PATH?

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uzsolt May 07 '12 at 16:39

Jeffery thomas · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-07T15:01:27+0000

A sigh, not my cleanest, but it works. perl -ne 'chomp($f=$_);print if !-d $f'

which makes your team locate bibtex | perl -ne 'chomp($f=$_);print if !-d $f' | grep "/bibtex$" -d skip | head -n1