How to list non-empty subdirectories on linux?

Question

I have a directory containing multiple subdirectories. I want to list only those subdirectories that contain at least one file. How can I do that?

Answer 1

 find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -not -empty -type d

will give you all nonempty directories. If you want to exclude directories that contain only other directories (but no files), one of the other answers might be better...

Answer 2

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 dirname | sort -u

Answer 3

How about:

find /nominated/directory -type f |
sed 's%/[^/]*$%% |
sort -u

Find files - drop file name part - sort uniquely.

It won't list subdirectories that contain only other sub-sub-directories.