How can I force grep to only return files and ignore directories?

Question

I'm trying to use grep to automatically locate the bibtex program in the user's bin folder. The problem is, it frequently returns a directory with the name bibtex, which means that the script fails to automatically run the command. How can I force grep (or indeed the locate command) to automatically ignore directories? EDIT: The current command is: `locate bibtex | grep "/bibtex$" -d skip | head -n1`

Accepted Answer

The `find` command?

```
find /bin -name bibtex -type f
```

Looks for a file name "bibtex" of type "f", which is a regular file.

How can I force grep to only return files and ignore directories?

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