Questions tagged [file-search]
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How to set up local Windows directory in WSL correctly?
I ran this script in Windows Subsystem for Linux at the command line. I wanted to search for the latest files but I got the error message "no such file or directory", and so I wonder how do ...
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search for a section of log that was appended upon execution of script
I'm using WebLogic start script startmymanageserver1.sh that writes(appends) to a managedserver.log log file every time it is executed.
The managedserver.log may have logs from the past few months ...
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Unzip files with the same name from multiple directories
I have the file archive.zip located in multiple directories, i.e.:
dir/001/archive.zip
dir/002/archive.zip
dir/003/archive.zip
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Is there a way in which I can recursively unzip all the archive.zip ...
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How to search for 3 specific things within a file?
Within the file, security.log I need to find how many IP addresses have the most DNSBL 5 rankings.
This is what a line in this file can look like:
Oct 24 00:00:28 MAIL-00 postfix/postscreen[10909]: ...
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Only output the name of file containing a pattern (without the line output) using grep
I want to list the files that contain a pattern,
without outputting the line(s) containing the pattern.
I assume that it's possible to do this with grep.
How should I use grep in that sense?
For ...
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Search for all videos created on a Saturday
I am using Linux Mint. There are several years worth of files and folders scattered everywhere.
My goal is to find a way to search my entire hard drive for any video files that were created on a ...
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Find Files Recursively With Different ACLs
How would I go about finding all files recursively that have ACLs different from what I'm searching for? For example I would like to find all files in a directory that have ACLs that are not ...
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Find XML file with specific path
I'm working with XML files, each of which could be dozens of lines long. There are literally hundreds of these files, all over a directory structure. Yes, it is Magento.
I need to find the file that ...
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Find recursively all files whose content match a specific regular expression
I like to search all PHP files and find a particular string that is identified by a regular expression.
The regular expressions that I use to find the string is:
\$[a-zA-Z0-9]{5,8}\s\=\s.{30,50}\;\$[a-...
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Difference between GNU find -not and GNU find -prune -o -print
This answer on opening all files in vim except [condition]:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/149356/98426
gives an answer similar to this:
find . \( -name '.?*' -prune \) -o -type f -print
(I adapted ...
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find command does not find the file in /sys/devices/ recursively
I'm using find to find the file cpuinfo_max_freq in the the directory /sys/devices/
This is the command I used, it's not showing me any output:
find /sys/devices/ -name 'cpuinfo_max_freq'
I also ...
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Search inside files with Nemo?
Is it possible to search the content of files in Linux Mint Debian Edition 4? Is this functionality implemented in Nemo or can this only be done in the terminal? If so, how?
Problem: I need to find a ...
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how to find specific type of file that are modified within a certain range of dates
There are many questions here that seek files modified within a certain date range.
How do we use linux (Ubuntu) command line to search for a certain type (e.g. *.odt) file within a certain date range?...
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List files in directory recursively and what they contain
I'm trying to find all the values stored in files in a directory.
I can cat /some/dir/* but that just gets me something like
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What I want is something like
/some/dir/file1: 1
/some/dir/...
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Find all files with character: �
Have a massive codebase (2Gb mostly code) where valid utf8 symbols in German were replaced by this symbol: "�"
Is there a way I can find all files that contain this reliably?
Visual Studio Code does "...
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How to search for hidden files and folders in dolphin?
I'd like to be able to search for hidden files and folders in dolphin.
Currently I was trying to search for backups of the .bash_history file but no results showed up despite hidden files being set ...
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How to determine whether a file is duplicated but has a different name? [duplicate]
Say you have one file called foo.pdf. How can I find out whether my machine contains another file, say bar.pdf, that has the exact same content but just a different name?
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get count of a specific file in several directories
I have a directory structure as follows:
dir
|___sub_dir1
|_____files_1
|___sub_dir2
|_____files_2
|___sub_dirN
|_____files_N
Each sub_directory ...
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Search for arbitrary files but only list matches in results once
I want to search for arbitrary file/directory names, but only want to list file paths containing the search string at the same position once.
Especially not every file within a directory matching the ...
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How to find all files that contain the + sign on a directory recursively?
I have tried many suggestions but nothing worked. I have to find all files containing + signs anywhere on the name, like:
Hello + World.jpg
A + good + file + name + to + find.png
Using Ubuntu 16.04 ...
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Is there a command to start Nemo file manager and search for files?
Nemo is good at searching for files and folders.
I use Nemo file manager in Xfce and would like to add the Nemo file-search action to WhiskerMenu in the same way Catfish is integrated to Whisker Menu ...
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show number of files not matching certain file name pattern
I have some non standard and standard filenames like the ones below . I need to get the count of files that are NOT standard..
Standard file names: XYZABC.txt, XYZABC.csv, *.msg
Non standard file ...
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BASH Script to find files of multiple types
I switch a lot of people from Windows to Linux. As we all know, not all files on Windows end at their intended location (i.e.: the Downloads folder).
I'd like to run a BASH script to search for all ...
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how can i make grep/find/locate beep as it finds each match
I am looking for files, since I added a backup external HD. I want to continue working elsewhere, while find/grep/locate find a file. As a match is found, I'd like to be alerted so that i can stop the ...
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bash command to create array with the 10 most recent images in a dir?
I'm writing a bash script and I need to create an array with the 10 most recent image files (from new to old) in the current dir.
I consider "image files" to be files with certain extensions, like ....
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Searching for a string that contains the file name
I have a large set of files in a directory. The files contains arbitrary text.
I want to search for the file name inside that particular file text. To clarify, I have file1.py.txt (yeas, two dots .py....
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Search for a string in lots files in a directory, if found, save the file name and line
I have several files, with different names. no specific format for them. But all are .txt. For example:
example.txt
flower.txt
abc.com.txt
They are in the same directory. I want to search for a ...
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How to list all filenames in the system [closed]
I want to perform checks on all files in the system. For that I need the full paths of all files in the system. My initial idea was to do something like this:
for file in $(sudo find / ); do
if [ -...
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How to match for an empty string in a grep pattern search?
I have a set of files containing boot variables from several cisco switches in the network. I have an requirement to filter only the switches with the boot variable empty on the next reload and print ...
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How to grep '$$$$$'? [duplicate]
I want to check the absence of the following sequence of characters $$$$$ (i.e., 5 dollar signs) in a json file using grep as it has been used instead of comma to separate fields and I need to make ...
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RegEx for matching strings in 2nd and 5th columns using grep
I have a file (test.txt) that contains string such as:
name1,6.5.8.12,specs1,version1,['66.55.89.12']
name2,19.13.13.159,specs2,version2,['13.13.173.59'; '14.19.232.42']
name3,141.101.196.40,specs3,...
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Bash: search for keywords PDF files and return pages [duplicate]
Hopefully somebody can help me out with this,
I'm looking for a small script which does a keyword search in a PDF file (actually a folder of PDF files), and it needs to return all pages including the ...
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Search for special characters using grep
I want to search for the lines that contains any of the following characters:
: / / ? # [ ] @ ! $ & ' ( ) * + , ; = %
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Find files created by UID during last 5 minutes
Is it possible to scan entire filesystem (or some recursively some directory) for files created by user with specific $UID created during last 5 minutes ?
For examle, `show me files from /home/ ...
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Recent activity is not recorded or lost
A couple of days ago I started to experience issues with search/activity log on my Arch Linux system to be precise what I mean I'm using search tools like Synapse and basic one from Cairo Dock both of ...
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Simple CLI tool for searching
Is there a CLI tool similar to gnome-search-tool?
I'm using locate, but I'd prefer that it grouped results where directory name is matched. I get a lot of results where the path is matched which is ...
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How do I search files using grep for multiple strings (intersection search)
How do I use grep to search a nested directory structure for files containing all words in my search pattern?
I want to grep for files that contain multiple words - let’s use foo bar and bah. I can ...
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Fuzzy searching for words close to each other
Given a small group of words (for concreteness, say 3), but more generally n, I want to search a file for occurrences of two of those words being close to each other. By close, let's say that the two ...
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Why is the command "find | grep 'filename'" so much slower than " find 'filename' "?
I tried both commands and the command find | grep 'filename' is many many times slower than the simple find 'filename' command.
What would be a proper explanation for this behavior?
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Replacing a Part of URL String in a Linux File With Another String
I have an HTML file on a Linux server that contains a long list of links. I am trying to edit this file as follows.
Find original occurrences of this type: http://www.test.org/name
Replace them with: ...
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Is there a content search program/port (*not* index based) that's efficient for files needing text extraction filters
If using FreeBSD as a file server for windows clients, it's useful to be able to run file searches server-side rather than client-side.
A typical example might be: find all files meeting some ...
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How to use the grep command to search all Urls in a database file except hyperlinks and http://www.example.com and store it in a different file
I have a database file called prod_database.sql and I wanted to search all Urls in that file except hyperlinks* and http://www.example.com and wanted to store the results in a file.
Hyperlinks pattern*...
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How to use soundex search in file searching?
I have a directory that contains numerous files. Moreover, I forget exact file name. So, when I want to find a file I don't find it.
If there is any tool that use soundex algorithm for searching ...
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How do I search files and folders on Linux Mint 18.1 Cinnamon?
I switched over from Windows 7 Ultimate to Linux Mint 18.1 Cinnamon a few days ago, and I wanted to search files and folders in my Home directory using the menu, but nothing happened. It seems like ...
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Multiple years grep [closed]
How can I grep exact years in my file which contains world champions from years 1950-2000 but I want only years 1950/60/70/80/90/00? Thank you so much
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Find files by change date [duplicate]
I'd like to search recursively for files with a specific Change date. Note, this is not the Access or Modify date, but the Change date as outputted by stat.
#stat prototype.js
File: `prototype.js'
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Loop round folders to find and list which folders contain a file excluding a keyword, in bash?
I want to loop through thousands of folders all which contain a file called output(foldernumber).txt and check which of these output files DO NOT contain a keyword and have the script write out a list ...
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Trying to use `pwd` inside an alias giving unexpected results [duplicate]
If I want to search a file in the system I use the following command:
sudo find `pwd` -name filename.ext
I want to make an alias for an easier word like search, so I used the command:
alias search "...
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How do I find multiple file types in one search?
I have done lots of searching about this, but I cannot seem to find an answer that satisfies my needs. I want a simple way to search for two file types or more (e.g. *.mp3, *.aac, *.pdf, etcetera.) I ...
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How to search-replace-backup files recursively in linux?
I'd like to recursively search for a string within all files in a folder.
If the string was found, backup the file to the same location (copy to <filename>-orig) and replace the found string ...
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