Operating on a directory and its subdirectories, recursively.
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Find file by a part of its content
I have many files in a specific repository and i must find a file which has a specific string in its content (actually referencing the file Version.cc.in). What is the best solution to find it?
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votes
2answers
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Searching for string in files
Is there an easy way to search inside 1000s of files in a complex directory structure to find files which contain a specific string within the file?
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vote
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Move files to specific directories [closed]
This question is the same as http://askubuntu.com/questions/47155/reorder-files-inside-folder:
I have about 30K songs in mp3. I already organized/tagged them with Musicbrainz Picard. But Picard made ...
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4answers
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Find a string only in a specific file inside subdirectories
Let's say I need to find the function GetTypes() in all C# source file (.cs) the directories/subdirectories.
I used grep -rn GetTypes *.cs, but I got an error with grep: *.cs: No such file or ...
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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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votes
2answers
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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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4answers
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How to remove all the files in a directory?
I am trying to remove all files and subdirectories in a directory. I used rm -r to remove all files, but I want to remove all files and subdirectories, excluding the top directory itself.
For ...
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votes
4answers
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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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votes
2answers
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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 ...
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votes
5answers
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How do I count all the files recursively through directories
I want to see how many files are in subdirectories in there subdirectories to find out where all the inode usage is on the system. Kind of like I would do this for space usage
du -sh /*
which will ...
