Get Folder Name With Find ... -name Command In Bash

Trying to get name of venv folder for activating it in bash script located inside the project. Because someone could use for venv another name like 'someones_env'

projectdir=$(cd ../../ && pwd)
echo "$(dirname "$projectdir")"

venvdir=$(find "$(dirname "$projectdir")" -name '*env')
echo "$(dirname "$venvdir")"

source "$(dirname "$venvdir")"/bin/activate

but $venvdir becomes the same as $projectdir instead of 'someones_env'

what am i doing wrong? thanks

The directory of the *env folder is the project directory, that's why dirname "$venvdir" becomes the same as the project directory. Without dirname it should work.

Also, the directory of ../../ is ../../../, this might also be giving you some issues. If you are already in a directory, there's no need to use dirname. dirname calculates the parent directory.