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Why are there empty lines in the output of my command?: find ~/x/y/ | shuf > ~/Desktop/z.txt

As it turns out the reason for this problem was one filename with several newlines. (No idea how that happened.) find ~/x/y/ | shuf > ~/Desktop/z.txt This command works pretty much as expected ...
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How can I rename all files with one extension to a different extension recursively [duplicate]

Say I have a folder: / /a.bub /v.bub /dr.bub /catpictures /catpictures/or.bub /catpictures/on.bub How can I format a script to change each of these to .aaa. Here is what I've got, although it ...
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Setting file permissions in bash script

This script is not working the way I thought it would .I though it would find all the scripts that have every one rwx permissions changed to the permissions of xx5 #!/bin/bash # the / makes find ...
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Execute multiple bash commands on the output of find

I want to execute some commands using the find -exec option, but I'm not sure what' wrong with this code. Currently, it's only processing the first find result, then getting stuck. I'm using bash in ...
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Why is this Bash command using regex not replacing my brackets?

I have this command to go through all my files in my Music directory, and all subdirectories, and replace any square brackets in the file name with rounded brackets: find /home/Music/ -depth -name "* ...
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What is a sure fire way to find all files and/or path that contains 2 keywords?

I was doing a find . -iname '*sitesearch*' | grep demo because I know the file should be some/path/SiteSearch/demo/SiteSearch.html, but it turned out a person put the file in as ...
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Script to remove spaces and lowercase in file names

I am trying to write a script that will replace spaces with "-" and make all letters lower case for all files in the current directory. for x in 'ls' do if [ ! -f $x ]; then ...
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How to run "find -exec <script> {}\;

I have a script that changes the properties of the files for a folder. Here is the example tree: dir 1 --file 1 --file 2 --file 3 dir 2 --file 1 --file 2 dir 3 --file 1 ...
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find command with regex {1,2}

I have been trying to create a find command string that will find all files that end with a number 1-99 but exclude all others. e.g. I want to find myfile1 myfile99 but not myfile456 and not ...
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find all cpp files and list only those files with names that match a pattern (regex) does not work

I have a whole repository of files and I am trying to get a list of files that match a certain criteria. For example, let us say that I want to take all the files that have the string foo1 and ...
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How to print find match as well as run an -exec

I was wanting to run a find and then execute a script on each match; however, I was wanting to print the name of the matched file above the output from each exec. How can I produce the following ...
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Find Directory and copy another directory to found directory?

I'm attempting to find a directory A that could be in a variable location and copy another directory B into the found directory. So, I'd like to find directory A, and copy Directory B into Directory ...
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find flags: -exec rm -rf vs -delete

I thought the flags I mentioned in the question are the same, but I get the following message with the former, but nothing with the latter: $ find . -mindepth 1 -type d -exec rm -rf {} \; find: ...
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Howto recursively create PDF thumnbails on linux command line

I am able to use ImageMagick to create a thumbnail of the first page of a PDF using: convert -thumbnail x80 95.pdf[0] thumb_95.png This works fine and generates a thumb_95.png file. I have tried ...
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Move video files to directory by width

I'm trying to move video files to directory by width of that video file. For example I have ./xxx/pr0n.mkv ./pokemon.mkv After running script ./xxx/1920/pr0n.mkv ./1920/pokemon.mkv If I run ...
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Find functions, commands, and builtins [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Executing user defined function in a find -exec call Suppose I have the following bash code: !#/bin/bash function print_echo (){ echo "This is print_echo Function" ...
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Alter path of find result [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Manipulate file name piped from find command How can I alter the path of a file found with find before I run an exec on it? I want to find files and then mv them to a ...
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Recursive find that does not find hidden files or recurse into hidden dirs

I am wanting to search recursively through a directory and find all files that are not hidden files themselves and are not in a hidden dir. I tried using find . -type f -not -name '.*' which excludes ...
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How to have find recurse into subdirectories when using -prune option

I see that the find command does not descend into subdirectories when you're using the -prune option. How do I tell find to recurse into the sub directories, but also ignore some stuff? ...
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comm fails on bash variable input

I have a script that's supposed to get the list of files of two directories, get differences and execute some code for certain files. These are the commands to get the file lists: list_in=$(find ...
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Find files in multiple folder names

I am trying to list all the files from dir1, dir2, dir3 and dir4 which might be anywhere in as a sub directory of my cwd using the find command. I tried the following with no success: find . -type f ...
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Get total size of jpeg images per directory in each directory containing jpegs

I'm trying to get a per-directory total size of all the .jpg/.jpeg images in each directory that contains such images. And showing the full directory path. I'm no bash expert but I've managed to ...
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variables in find command and more shell problem [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Recursive rename files and directories I wrote the following script: #!/bin/bash SAVEIFS=$IFS alias export='export' IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b") find $1 -name "*" ...
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Manipulate file name piped from find command

I'm relatively new to Bash and am trying to do something that on the surface seemed pretty straightforward - run find over a directory hierarchy to get all of the *.wma files, pipe that output to a ...
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Preserve directory structure when moving files using find

I have created the following script that move old days files as defined from source directory to destination directory. It is working perfectly. #!/bin/bash echo "Enter Your Source Directory" read ...
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Error while running bash script that moves files

I am new to bash script and want to create bash script that moves some days old files between source and destination as per days defined in script. When I run this script I get error find: paths ...
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Sort the output of find before piping to openssh

I'm using this command to recursively generate a SHA-512 hash for each file in a directory hierarchy: find . -type f -exec openssl sha512 {} \; I'd like to sort the files in lexicographical order ...
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bash - can I do : find … -exec this && that?

Is there a way to logically combine two shell commands that are invoked with find - exec? For instance to print out all the .csv files that contain the string foo together with its occurrence I would ...
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find and globbing (and wildcards)

I tried finding some files (*.e*) that are in the same directory as another file (md.tpr). I needed to list them (for further processing) using the following: find . -name md.tpr -execdir ls *.e* \; ...
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Passing results of “find” to zenity

The result of the following script: results=$(find -iname "*.mp4") echo $results; is something like: file1 file2 file3 How do I pass the results of the find command to a variable, as it is shown ...
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find with user variables

I am trying to call find with a few variables. So far I had this: DIRECTORY="./ " FILENAME=-regex" .*test.*" find $DIRECTORY $FILENAME Which works fine. If I change the filename to : ...
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Linux: Does find | xargs grep have limitations?

I've historically performed something like: find . 2>/dev/null | xargs grep -i something_to_find 2>/dev/null If my pwd is barfoo (/foo/bar/baz/foofoo/foobar/foobaz/barfoo) it finds matches. ...
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Bash: How to read one line at a time from output of a command?

I am trying to read the output of a command in bash using a while loop. while read -r line do echo "$line" done <<< $(find . -type f) The output I got ranveer@ranveer:~/tmp$ bash ...
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How to combine 2 -name conditions in find?

I would like to search for files that would not match 2 -name conditions. I can do it like so : find /media/d/ -type f -size +50M ! -name "*deb" ! -name "*vmdk" and this will yield proper result ...
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Syntax error in a bash script that calls find

Where is the error in this script please: #!/bin/bash rep="git" files=`find' ${rep} '-type f` for f in ${files} do echo $f done When i run find git -type f alone in the shell, it works!
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How do I perform an action on all files with a specific extension in subfolders in an elegant way?

My current best bet is: for i in $(find . -name *.jpg); do echo $i; done Problem: does not handle spaces in filenames. Note: I would also love a graphical way of doing this, such as the "tree" ...
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List files created on Sundays

How do I list/find all the files created on Sundays or Mondays? How do I use the date parameter to display them? Something like : ls -f date + %a or find -type f | date +%A or find -type f ...
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Auto-expansion problem with array elements containing an '*' (asterisk)

I'm trying to write me a find script that should later be able to read a list of directories to be excluded from an external file. Whilst I can accomplish that part myself, it's the annoying array ...
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Passing parsed output of sed to find (in this direction)

Well, I think you can find dozens of questions on this platform how to pipe find output to sed, but I haven't found anything for the reverse direction so far. What I want to do is modify my input, and ...
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List of top level folders with contents no younger than 30 days

I have an automated system for creating FTP accounts (vsftpd with jailed virtual users) that works well, but I still rely on manual cleanup of stale accounts. My definition of a stale account is one ...
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How can I use bash's if test and find commands together?

I have a directory with crash logs, and I'd like to use a conditional statement in a bash script based on a find command. The log files are stored in this format: /var/log/crashes/app-2012-08-28.log ...
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Use a shell variable to execute a comand

I have a unix command in a variable, it looks like this: cmd="find /path/to/webpage -type f | grep -v .svn | xargs grep $@" `$cmd` find: paths must precede expression Usage: find [-H] [-L] [-P] ...
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missing argument to find -exec

I want to remove certain files using find and -exec. But unlikely bash tells me, that I'm "missing" some argument. find . -name *.png -exec rm {} /; what do I miss? same "missing argument" return ...
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Use find command to convert markdown files to html

Lets suppose I have files on my harddisk having extensions as .md. I want to convert all those files to .html through find and the -exec option. The command to convert a markdown file to html is ...
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Error in Script. Command find is skipping folders with space character

I need a script that counts the files in a directory (and sub). I've taken the followed script, and changed it to my need. It works like it should, except for folders with space characters. I'm ...
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chown all files based on file name pattern in current directory

I'm trying to chown all files whose filenames begin with ChownFileNames. I've used this command, but it doesnt seem to work: find . -maxdepth 1 |grep 'ChownFileNames*' -exec chown hadoop:hadoop -- {} ...
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How to find executable filetypes?

I want to find file types that are executable from the kernel's point of view. As far as I know all the executable files on Linux are ELF files. Thus I tried the following: find * | file | grep ELF ...
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Delete files of certain size range

I want to delete files which size is between certain values. For example I have the following list of files: -rw-r--r-- 1 smsc sys 558 Apr 30 13:07 stats.sfe.1.20120430130513.xml.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 smsc ...
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`$RANDOM` is not random within `find`'s `-exec`

I'm trying to find and move a whole bunch of folders on a linux box. All the folders are named the same, so I am using echo $RANDOM to provide a random number to use for a folder name. echo $RANDOM ...
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How can I get this java command to act on each file found by a find command?

I have this command inside a Bash shell script, the intention of which is to apply a java command, htmlcompressor, to each HTML file found in a directory: find $DIR -type f -name '*.html' -exec java ...

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