That is exactly my goal. Sorry I wasn't very clear. There are a series of dated subdirectories (i.e. "20120405") underneath the directory "METAR_files" that are searched for a string and printed when that string is found. I just need to take the directory that the script is found in and print it with the script. The path name is: /d2/aschwa/archive_project/METAR_data/ and the subdirectories are "20110101","20110102","20110103", etc. I want to get the subdirectory name. Thank you so much for your help.