find is a command line utility to search for files in a directory hierarchy
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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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How to find every file that includes a given function?
I am trying to list all of the files that include a function, e.g., matrixCal.
How can I to do this in linux?
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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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How to copy a piped list of files contained spaces and apostrophes?
I have a list of files generated using find that I want to feed (pipe) to cp. My problem is that the files have spaces and apostrophes in them, leading cp to repeatedly complain that it "cannot stat". ...
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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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find command in cygwin giving parameter format not correct
I am using cygwin in my windows machine. I am trying to do a find and it is giving parameter format not correct. Why is that?
$ ls
bootstrap.jar
catalina-tasks.xml
catalina.bat
catalina.sh
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How to delete files filtered out by awk
I have the following files in a directory:
-rw-r--r-- 1 smsc sys 46 Apr 22 12:09 bills.50.1.3G.MO.X.20120422120453.Z
-rw-r--r-- 1 smsc sys 28 Apr 22 12:15 bills.50.1.3G.MO.X.20120422120953.Z
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How to find every symbolic link on a server?
I need to find every symbolic link on the server.
The version is AIX 6.1.
man find says
-L Follow symbolic links
But find -L is not a proper usage. Usage: find [-H | -L] Path-list ...
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How to search for a string only in textfiles? (recursively)
I can list all the textfiles (by mimetype) in a folder with:
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 file -i | fgrep -i text | sed 's/:$//g' 2>/dev/null | awk 'BEGIN {FS=": "} {print $1}'
Ok. But how ...
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Deleting Lines Containing a Specified String in Different Files
Suppose there are two files in web/ named foo.php and bar.php. The 1st line of foo.php is "sdajgeSTRINGdsad" and the 10th line of bar.php is "gdfhu98324STRING". The task is to first locate these two ...
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removing folders with find - strange message
mkdir foodir
find . -iname foodir -exec rm -fr {} \;
It does the job, but barfs message:
find: `./foodir': No such file or directory
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Which is a better way to search- find with regex or find with grep?
Of these two ways of searching a file recursively in all the subdirectories, which is faster / better ?
find . -regex ".*/.*abc.*"
or
find . | grep ".*abc.*"
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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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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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Show files from the last 2 days on a mounted ntfs system?
What's exactly the command to show files younger than 2 days? I thought about something like this:
$ find / -mtime -2
...but I'm not sure how to print the date of the found files. My target is to ...
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file mass deletion
I would like to delete all the txt, xls,pdf files in a directory as well as its sub directories. I would like to save everything else.
find . -type f ! -iname '*.xml$,.png$,.jpeg$,.gif$,' -delete
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`solaris + xargs command for solaris
the command
find /tmp -name 'core*' -type f -print0 | xargs -0
works fine on Linux,
but xargs -0 option is not legal on Solaris
what is the equivalent option ( xargs? ) for Solaris 10
second ...
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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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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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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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How can I enhance the output of find and grep?
I really don't look forward to having to do find/grep because the output, as returned by
find . -exec grep sometext {} \; -print
is just not very easy to read even when you dump it in a file. What ...
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UNIX commands help - find
I'm trying to learn UNIX commands and I'm playing this game to learn and I'm really stuck at the moment. I'm in a server through ssh and the directory is full of random files and folders and the ...
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Why is bash completion of a symlink different than a directory?
I usually do a find with an environment variable as the path when searching for source code. Recently I replaced my environment variable with a symbolic link, and it broke Bash's shell completion. ...
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How can I loop through lines of a file and find files matching each line?
In a BASH shell, I would like to take the lines of a file (eg pattern.txt) and find the files on my system whose names contain the patterns in each line of my file. So, I have the following for loop
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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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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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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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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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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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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 generate folder ownership lists for each user?
I'd like to generate several separate lists for each user in Ubuntu. The lists contains the files and folders belong to each user.
Using the command following list me all the users in the system:
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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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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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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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Spaces as line breaks from inline for loop command
Someone care to enlighten me as to why the spaces in the first command seem to be interpreted as line breaks? Also occurs substituting print for echo.
$for l in $( find *.txt -exec head -1 {} \; ); ...
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Explain the output of -D rates in GNU find
I did
~/pythonsource1/python2.6-2.6.5$ find -D rates . -type d
and got
Predicate success rates after completion:
[need type] -type d [0.4] [280/4350=0.0643678] -a [0.4] [280/4350=0.0643678] ...
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How to count recursively for the number of files in several directories?
I have a directory, containing a lot of files and directories.
I am trying to get the number of files (and directories) contained recursively in every directory.
I tried the following approach:
for ...
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Why is the output of find sorted in Cygwin but not in Solaris?
I wonder why find does not behave in the same way in Solaris as in Cygwin or Linux.
I have a bunch of directories that have files called CS##########. Each # is a digits but there are always 10 ...
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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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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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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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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: combine -depth with -prune to feed cpio
I'm building a backup script where some directories should not be included in the backup archive.
cd /;
find . -maxdepth 2 \
\( -path './sys' -o -path './dev' -o -path './proc' -o -path ...
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Difference between ctime 1 and ctime +1 in find command
If I run the following command:
find . -name "*.jar" -type f -ctime +1
I get no results back, whereas if i run:
find . -name "*.jar" -type f -ctime 1
I get results.
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Find incoming symlinks
In Linux, what is the best way to find all symbolic links that point to a given file (regardless of whether the symlink is relative or absolute)? I realize this will require scanning the whole ...
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Passing multiple directories to the -prune option in find
I am using find to locate and delete backup files but wish to exclude certain directories from the search. The backup filenames could terminate in .bck, bak, ~, or backup.
The Minimal Working Example ...
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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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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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