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Concatenating thousands of files: > vs >>

I found two seemingly contradictory answers on StackOverflow to the following questions: Concatenating Thousands of Text Files Across Hundreds of Directories (while keeping some structure) How do I ...
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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 all directories, in which user has access to search and echo this directories in shell

I need to find all directories, in which user has access to search(command find) and echo this directories in shell. USER is read from ksh. for example: read user I know, if user want to use find ...
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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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Quoting curly braces in the shell [duplicate]

I found examples of different quoting for curly braces for find, but I could not find an explanation. The possible choices are: 1. {} 2. '{}' 3. "{}" And they all seem to work fine. Is ...
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Find directories that do not contain subdirectories

I'm writing script is ksh. Need to find all directory names directly under the current directory which contain only files, not subdirectories. I know that I could use ls -alR and recursively parse ...
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Use a parameter in a command argument

I run a find command to search files with a name containing perl: find /tmp -name '*perl*' /tmp/perl.pl /tmp/run-perl-stage.pl But when I set the perl name in a variable PARAMETER and run the find ...
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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 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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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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What is wrong with this call to sed -i?

I have this line find . -type f \( ! -name '*.plist' \) -and \( ! -name '*.mp4' \) -and \( ! -name '.DS*' \) -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/AAA/BBB/g' my intention is from the current directory ...
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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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Compress old log file into single zip-linux

I have a folder /home/testuser/log which contain log files of one day old *.log. I wish to compress all the log files older than one day to a single zip(gzip or tar.gz) and delete the older files. I ...
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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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Why doesn't 'find' show this file?

Using find with grep, one can locate files that match a pattern: # find | grep error ./solr-modifiedSolr4/SolrPhpClient/phpdocs/errors.html ./error_log ./includes/classes/error_log However, using ...
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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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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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Find files which are created a certain time after or before a particular file was created

I need a shell script which finds files which are created 1 hour before or 1 hour after a particular file (test.txt) was created. If I go with find -newer, that means I'd have to create a temporary ...
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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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Running sha1sum into several directories

I have several directories that share a common parent directory. In each directory there are regular files, but no other subdirectories. Something like this: top/dir-1 top/dir-1/file-11 ...
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How to run a command against all the files of particular types on a filesystem?

I've just recovered tons of files (distributed in a complex directory structure, having very long names, using Unicode symbols, spaces etc in names) from a damaged hard drive. Now I'd like to verify ...
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Remove 50GB oldest files in busybox when used capacity reaches 95%

Ok i have requested a code here but initial i didn't ask to make it busybox compatible. My bad. I'm new to linux and coding. The code needs to do the following: Delete 50GB of oldest data (dir ...
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rename files maching specific mtime value within directory

I use simple set of shell commands to in order to create mysqldumps daily. The script is called by cron daemon. It looks like: presentdate="`date +%d-%m-%Y_%H:%M.%S`" basedir="/var/db_my_backup" ...
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How can I substitute into this shell command?

I have a find command that I want to substitute a list of GIDs into. Here's the command: find / -follow \( -group 39 -o -acl_group 39 \) -exec ls -ln {} \; 2> $HOME/error.39.log 1> ...
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Make directory copies using find

I have a directory with a bunch of subdirectories in it. Thus /usr/local/src/ccl/ccl-1.8/x86-headers$ ls elf gl gmp gnome2 gtk2 jni libc Each of these directories has a further subdirectory C ...
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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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Search and delete .Trash

I have 4 large USB devices with lots of backups collected over the years. I want to search for all .Trash folders and delete the contents on Fedora 17. I tried the following which failed:- # ...
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How to change permissions of multiple files found with find command?

I have a directory with numerous files. Part of the files have the 755 permissions and the other part have 644 permissions. I'd like to convert the files with 755 permissions to 644. I have tried the ...
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issue with find -exec cp

Consider this example (newbie alert): touch test0 touch timestamp touch test1 sudo find /var/www/import -iname 'test*' -newer timestamp -exec cp {} new \; It actually copies file test1, but it ...
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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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How to find the total number of occurrences of text and files with find command

I am trying to run the find command to find the total number of occurrences of a particular text string and also the number of files which has this text string. What I have right now is this command. ...
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find usage - command line vs script

I am seeing different results from the find command between being run manually on the command line vs run in a script. If I run the following on the command line: find . -name '*.txt' ! -name ...
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Why 2 linux machine behave differently with command of the same syntax?

I am using 2 machine , which is both Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 3 (Taroon Update 2) ( I check it in /etc/*-release ). I checked they are using the same default shell by ps -p $$, which is ...
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Sorting the output of “find”?

I need to be able to alphabetically sort the output of find before piping it to a command. Entering | sort | between didn't work, so what could I do? find folder1 folder2 -name "*.txt" -print0 | ...
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How to move files into newly created directory on condition in shell/perl

It was a mess of music files and directory. It is needed to perform the below operation over multiple directories at once: If the directory contains ".jpg" files, then create a new directory ...
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Using files that have spaces in their name in pipes

I have folder named play which contains a file damn file (with space). When I use find and pipe the output to tar: find play/ -name 'damn*' | tar cf archive.tar -T - It works perfectly. Why does ...
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What is this Bash line supposed to mean?

find . -name "*.html" -exec grep -l somethingtobefound {} \; I was just wondering what the keywords "-name" "-exec" "-l" "{}" "\" and ";" were supposed to signify. Also, I commonly see ...
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find command with -execdir not reading flags?

I am trying to locate all .jpg picture files in my current directory and sub-directories and move them to another directory. I want the source files to overwrite the destination files, but that is ...
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Delete matching file from every subfolder of current dir

I used this one to copy file in every dir: find -type d -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 cp .htaccess Now i need to do reverse one and delete file with matching name from every sub directory of ...
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How to exclude a list of full directory paths in find command on Solaris

(Duplicated from Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7854975/how-to-exclude-a-list-of-full-directory-paths-in-find-command-on-solaris) I have a very specific need to find unowned files ...
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How to search for a word in entire content of a directory in linux

need to search for something in entire content I am trying: find . | xargs grep word I get error: xargs: unterminated quote How to achieve this? Thanks.
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How to list ALL directories according to their size? [without including the parent directory]

I have a bunch of random folders, some of them are hidden (beginning with a period). I want to list all of them, sorted by their sizes. I have something on the lines of this in mind: ls -d -1 -a */ ...
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How can I find a file whose name includes a given string, such as “abcde”?

Within a set of directories, how do I find a file whose name includes a given string, such as "abcde"?
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Remove slashes/parent paths from filenames inside CSS and Javascript content

I need to go through all my css and js files and if there is a filename referenced that has any slashes (/) at all then the slash should be removed. What I want is: if any files referenced are ...
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Delete files recursively that DON'T match regexp

I'm attempting to clean out a bunch of temporary files from a folder tree, but don't want to delete files that match some criteria, specifically executable files, .tpl files, and not the subfolder ...
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Is it possible in unix to search inside zip files

I have 100s of directories and within those I have a few zip files. Now there are images named abc.jpg in those zip files. The zip files may be in any folder or in any subfolder so its difficult to ...
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How copy and rename files found in “find” function Linux?

I have a folder named /home/user/temps which has 487 folders. In each folder I have a file called thumb.png. I want to copy all files named thumb.png to a separate folder and rename them based on ...

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