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Find and copy directories containing file type

I have a directory "Movies" containing subdirectories "Movie Name". Each subdirectory "Movie Name" contains a movie file and related image/nfo files etc. I'm trying to copy all directories containing ...
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Find executable files recursively

I have got the directory called Test and a few directories inside it. Both Test and the directories inside it have executable files. I'd like to print them with ls. I'd use this command. ls -l `find ...
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Move all files with a certain extension from multiple subdirectories into one directory

Suppose I have a bunch of zip files in several directories: Fol1/Fol2 Fol3 Fol4/Fol5 And I want to move them all to a common base folder. How would I do this?
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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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find “an expression” on each file of a directory recursively

One of my website on my webserver has suffered an attack : code injection. Here is the malicious code : <script type=\"text/javascript\" language=\"javascript\"> (function () { var t ...
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Search for file permisions other than 755

In AIX really, how can I search in several directories and those below it, for files that are not of the specific permissions of 755. So I want to search /path/to/, /path/to/mydir, ...
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Find files with same name but different content?

I want to generate a list of files that have: Same name Different content in a directory (including all children directories and content). How to do? Bash, perl, anything is fine. So, two ...
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How can I find all files that do NOT contain a text string?

What concise command can I use to find all files that do NOT contain a text string? I tried this (using -v to invert grep's parameters) with no luck: find . -exec grep -v -l shared.php {} \; ...
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How do I stop a find from descending into found directories?

I'm wanting to find all directories with a specific string so I can do another find on the files contained within. So I don't want to waste time on ./my-search-term/dir/my-search-term etc. How can I ...
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create md5 hash from a recursive file listing when some paths have spaces

I need to create an md5 hash of every directory and file inside of one main directory. The only thing that is keeping me from success is figuring out a way around files with a space in the path. I am ...
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recursively copy only images and preserve path

I'm working on a website migration. I have a scrape of the site, with all the files and directory structure as you would see them in the URL. I want to pull all images, maintaining the directory ...
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find not recursive when file at top

Imagine a source tree. There are xml files everywhere. But since there is a XYZ.xml at the root of this tree it won't find my xml files. find -iname *.xml returns ./XYZ.xml instead of ...
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Find files with same name but different extensions, send to tgz

I have a large archive of edited images from my camera, each image is actually a pair of files - *.nef & *.xmp. I would like to go through all the folders and then zip these pairs into single tgz ...
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Finding a substring in files across subdirectories with a single built-in command?

In Windows, if I wanted to find a string across all files in all subdirectories, I would do something like findstr /C:"the string" /S *.h However, in Linux (say, Ubuntu) I have found no other way ...
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Tar up all PDFs in a directory, retaining directory structure

I'm trying to create a compressed tarball that contains all PDF files that exist in one of my directories. The directory structure needs to be retained. Empty directories are not needed, but I really ...