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How to find files with a certain subpath?

I need to find all xml-files that are placed in folders named config. Also config must be somewhere under a folder named trunk. For example, I am interested in all files like below: ...
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remove duplicate files

On my Mac OS X 10.6.7, iTunes duplicated every single file in my music library. Now I have 3,840 files instead of 1,920. The problem is that iTunes didn't simply duplicate the whole folder, but each ...
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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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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 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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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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Compacting `find` name patterns

I am using find . -name '*.[cCHh][cC]' -exec grep -nHr "$1" {} ';' find . -name '*.[cCHh]' -exec grep -nHr "$1" {} ';' to search for a string in all files ending with .c, .C, .h, .H, .cc and .CC ...
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Find and regex

What am I doing wrong with this find expression? ; touch ook ooks ; find . -name 'ook' -or -name 'ooks' -type f ./ook ./ooks ; find . -name 'ook[s]?' -type f [returns nothing] ; echo $? 0
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How to remove the (1) from filenames using the find command

I recently converted all of my FLAC files to a lower sampling rate of 44.1 kHz and bit depth of 24 bits (because iPhone/iPod don't support anything above that) using XLD on my Mac OS 10.7 (Lion). ...
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match files based on an md5 using find

I have a bunch js and css files in a directory. Some of them have been given a name based on an md5() of their content (looks like f10521a21bb013cb81e0909809818ad6.js). I'd like to match these files ...
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Find files starting with ~$ (MicroSoft Word Temp files)

For some reason my machine is full of M$ Word temporary files such as: ~$Filename.docx ~$AnotherFile.docx Can someone suggest a find/regex command to search $HOME and delete them?
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Does find support OR in its regexes?

For example, I want to find all files in a directory that end in 'm' or 'sh'. The following works correctly: find . -regex '.*.m' -o -regex '.*.sh' But this fails: find . -regex '.*.(m|sh)' What ...
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How to use find command to search for multiple extensions

I can get all jpg images by using: find . -name "*.jpg" But how can I add png files to the results as well?
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Why do some regex commands have opposite intepretations of '\' with various characters?

Take, for example, this command: find . -regex ".*\.\(cpp\|h\)" This will find all the .h and .cpp files in your directory. The period character '.' in regular expressions usually means "any ...
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How to find files with names having a long string after the first dot

My Samsung Galaxy S doesn't like files where the name contains a long string after the first dot. I guess some part of the software has a too short buffer for the file extension. How can I find all ...
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How can I find files with certain extensions

How can I use find to find all files that have a .xls or .csv extension? I have seen a -regex option but I don't know how to use it.