Find file then cd to that directory in Linux

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In a shell script how would I find a file by a particular name and then navigate to that directory to do further operations on it?

From here I am going to copy the file across to another directory (but I can do that already just adding it in for context.)

filesystems shell linux
11 Answers

try this. i created this for my own use. 

cd ~
touch mycd
sudo chmod +x mycd
nano mycd
cd $( ./mycd search_directory target_directory )"

if [ $1 == '--help' ]
 then
    echo -e "usage: cd \$( ./mycd \$1 \$2 )"
    echo -e "usage: cd \$( ./mycd search_directory target_directory )"
else
  find "$1"/ -name "$2" -type d -exec echo {} \; -quit
  fi
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