find is a command line utility to search for files in a directory hierarchy
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Select greatest numbered filename
Simple requirement but can't find anything online which can achieve it.
I have a list of dated files as below...
filename_20120101.dat
filename_20120102.dat
filename_20120103.dat
I ...
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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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Remove all Vim undo files in all but one directory
I just realized that I have tons of Vim undo (.un~) files sprinkled around my file system. I'd like to delete all of these files except in one directory—~/.tmp. My first problem is that I can't seem ...
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How to copy a list of files and adjust destination filenames on the fly?
When I don't need to adjust destination filenames I can do something like this:
$ find -type f -name '*.pat' -print0 | xargs -O cp -t /path/to/dest
It is safe because the filenames may even ...
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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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List the files containing a particular word in their text
I would like to list the files recursively and uniquely that contain the given word.
Example: Checking for word 'check', I normal do is a grep
$ grep check * -R
But as there are many occurrence ...
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How to find and replace a particular string in a specific line
I developed a code which find and replaces a specific string in all xmls under all subdirectories. But i dont want all occurances to be replaced. In entire xml, code should find the tag xyz and ...
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How to use the find command in Perl script?
Could someone tell me why the find command always go to the root directory but not the directory that is specified in $srceDir?
my $srceDir = "/mnt/SDrive/SV/Capture Data/";
my $find_cmd = 'find ...
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Error trying to call find from perl
use warnings;
use File::Find;
my $srceDir = "//mnt/Share_Drive/Verizon PM&T/Capture Files/";
opendir(DIR, $srceDir) or die "Can't open $srceDir: $!";
my @files = (find -type f -newermt "12 Feb ...
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list all files newer than given timestamp and sort them
I want to list all files (sorted by date) that are newer than timestamp in format 20130207003851 in directory /tmp only. Subdirectories can be omitted.
Using SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.
The ...
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How to search file based on DAY of week
Actually I need to search for files and folder that were created in 2012 on Friday of every month.
I did some attempts using the FIND command but it didn't work.
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Unix: find directory filenames listed in a text file and move to new directory
I'm a command line novice trying to figure out the appropriate command to execute the following within the Terminal in Mac OS X.
Assuming I've placed all files in the same directory, I want to ...
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How to exclude NFS directories with find?
I need to search for files that has no user OR no group.
find / -nouser -o -nogroup
I think this is OK. But, I don't want to search NFS shares. How can I exclude the NFS shares in the find ...
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Exclude symbolic links to other filesystems with find -mount
I am working on a script that, among other things, extracts a list of all items in a directory (files and subdirs) for archival but it needs to skip remote symlinks (i.e. on other file systems). The ...
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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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Speeding a find rm command with test through parallelization
I want to recursively delete all files in directories and subdirectories with number of lines less than 10, and am currently using the following command
find . -type f -name "*.txt" | while read; do ...
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Use find + sed + cp to find files and copy them to a directory with a different name
I'm trying to copy a bunch of files named folder.jpg into a folder. The problem is because all the files are named the same thing, I need to rename them in the process. I know I can probably do it ...
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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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How to find inode number using “find” command?
How do you find the inode number of the name of files that start with a particular keyword like "test"?
We'll assume that there are files called: test, test1, test2.
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How to find old directories in local directory using find in AIX?
I need to find all old directories in current directory.
find in AIX does not provide -maxdepth parameter.
There is only -depth and -prune parameters.
It is possible to write something like following: ...
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How to stop the find command after first match?
Is there a way to make the find command to stop right after finding the first match?
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Using 'find' for recursive search and delete
My queston is kind off a basic * nautilus at time cant do well at recursive search & related operations...
I want to search files having name libre in them & then delete them...
I am half ...
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Help me parse this `find` command
Following command tells me the length of mp4 video files:
find -type f -name "*.mp4" -print0 | \
xargs -0 mplayer -vo dummy -ao dummy -identify 2>/dev/null | \
perl -nle ...
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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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What is an equivalent of rm `find lib/ -name *.swp` without find?
As in the title, I would like to remove all files in the lib directory with .swp in the end.
How can I do this without find in:
rm `find lib/ -name *.swp`
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Omitting extension with find?
I need to create thumbnails from multiple .png files and would like to do this using ImageMagicks convert utility. To recursively find all files that are not thumbnails themselves, I am using the ...
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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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Command to find file/path lengths that are too long for burning to DVD?
I'm trying to burn a DVD from Windows but it fails because the full path name length exceeds the limit of something like 255 characters.
Our files are stored in Debian Linux (accessed by Windows ...
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Find folders containing a file
How can I find all subfolders containing a given file?
For example, in a Minecraft server installation, the different worlds are stored in subfolders with arbitrary names. To identify that a given ...
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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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IOStat report large ocassional writes but find reports no big file
root@host [/home4]# find . -type f -size +2000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'
...
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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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locate vs find: usage, pros and cons of each other
In Linux and Unix systems there are two common search commands: locate and find.
What are the pros and cons of each? When one have benefits over the other?
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Delete all folders containing files which match pattern
I'm trying to delete all subdirectories of my current working directory which contain a rar file.
My first attempt: find -name *.rar -exec rm -r {}/.. ';' failed because that is not a valid ...
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GUI for find which can show video thumbnails
Is there a GUI for find (or just a graphical search tool which supports regex searches on filenames starting from a specific directory) which is able to show thumbnails found video and image files?
I ...
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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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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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How to find files with 100% NUL characters in their contents?
What is the Linux command-line command that can identify such files?
AFAIK the find command (or grep) can only match a specific string inside the text file. But I want to match whole contents, i.e. ...
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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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tar: how can I exclude intermediate directories but include leaf directories?
I want to create a tar file suitable for extracting into /. I've created a work directory that represents the root of the file system, and it has all the stuff I want included in the tar underneath, ...
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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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Find: Reference to Current Directory
I'm trying to use find with the regex option. However my regular expression only captures the basename of the file. Is there a reference to the "directory find is currently in" I can use in my regular ...
