Using locate to only find directories containing the string "foo"

Maybe a litte tricky but here it comes:

locate foo | xargs file -NF '|' |grep '| directory' | sed 's/| directory//g'

Locate only reads preprepared databases and not the filesystem.

Using find

directories containing foo

find /path -name '*foo*' -type d

links that contain foo, you need to read the link and test to see if the destination is a directory which requires a script

#!/bin/bash
f=$(readlink $1)
if [ -d "$f" ]
then
    echo $1
fi

use it like this

find /path -name '*foo*' -type l -exec script {} \;

locate foo | sed 's%/[^/]*$%/%'

Edit: This just snaps all info out after the last slash.

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