Terminal>> Remove filename from 'find' output

##Halooah. Just a quick question: is there any way that I can omit the filename ##from the output of 'find'?
EEe.g. I type in:

'find / -name somefile.file -oPtIoNs'

and the output is:

/home/enthdegree/Desktop/misc/

as opposed to:

/home/enthdegree/Desktop/misc/somefile.file

I'm writing a backup script for xPud, so I kind of need to be able to do this from the terminal.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance. :D
Scratch that. I found out that I can just use the 'dirname' command.

Now I seem to have run into another problem; Is there any way I can take the output of one command and, after that command has completed, slap it onto the end of the next command?
Thanks.

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Originally Posted by enthdegree

Now I seem to have run into another problem; Is there any way I can take the output of one command and, after that command has completed, slap it onto the end of the next command?
Thanks.

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Put the command you want to paste the output of inside back-quotes:

Code:

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do_something `another_cmd`

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This will take the output of another_cmd and pass that to the do_something command. Is that what you were looking for?

Yes, that seems to be what I was looking for, thanks. :D But I seem to have found a workaround for my script.
Still good to know!