Commands tagged find

Good for finding outdated timthumb.php scripts which need to be updated, anything over 2.0 should be secure, below that timthimb is vulnerable and can be used to compromise your website.

This sums up the page count of multiple pdf files without the useless use of grep and sed which other commandlinefus use.

Better awk example, using only mplayer, grep, cut, and awk.

Count your source and header file's line numbers

For example for java change the command like this

find . -name '*.java' -exec cat {} \;|wc -l

cd /

find `pwd` -name '.*' -prune -o \( -name *.h -o -name *.cpp \) -print | cscope -bi-

export CSCOPE_DB=/cscope.out

vim +'set cst'

needs grep what supports '--recursive'

You could avoid xargs and sed in this case (shorter command and less forking): At least bash and zsh have some mighty string modifiers.

I would also suggest using find with exec option to get more flexibility. You may leave out or include "special" file for example.

Enhancement for the 'busy' command originally posted by busybee : less chars, no escape issue, and most important it exclude small files ( opening a 5 lines file isn't that persuasive I think ;) )

This makes an alias for a command named 'busy'. The 'busy' command opens a random file in /usr/include to a random line with vim.

calls grep on all non-binary files returned by find on its current working directory

Requires ImageMagick to be installed.

This command was stolen from @climagic on Twitter.

Probably a duplicate of command below, but this command uses slightly higher quality.

http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/707/compress-images-using-convert-imagemagick-in-a-bulk

It does not work without the verbose mode (-v is important)

Sort by time and Reverse to get Ascending order, then display a marker next to the a file, negate directory and select only 1 result

Find which directories on your system contain a lot of files.

Edit: much shorter and betterer with -n switch.

This command will give you the same list of files as "find /etc/ -name '*killall' | xargs ls -l".

In a simpler format just do 'ls /etc/**/file'.

It uses shell globbing, so it will also work with other commands, like "cp /etc/**/sshd sshd_backup".

-sl : show just file names

Find all files in /var/spool/mqueue older than 7 days, pass to perl to efficiently delete them (faster than xargs or -exec when you've got millions or hundreds of thousands to delete). Naturally the type, directory, and file age vars can be adjusted to meet your specific needs.

Videos are found using their MIME type. Thus no need to for an extension for the video file.

This is a efficent version of "jnash" cmd (4086). Thanks for jnash. This cmd will only show video files while his cmd show files having "video" anywhere in path.