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mplayer -endpos 0.1 -vo null -ao null -identify *.avi 2>&1 |grep ID_LENGTH |cut -d = -f 2|awk '{SUM += $1} END { printf "%d:%d:%d\n",SUM/3600,SUM%3600/60,SUM%60}'
2011-12-12 15:49:07
User: Coderjoe
Functions: awk cut grep printf
Tags: video audio mplayer perl find
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Get the total length of all video / audio in the current dir in H:m:s

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

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find /usr/include/ -name '*.[c|h]pp' -o -name '*.[ch]' -print0 | xargs -0 wc -l | tail -1
2011-12-02 07:20:09
User: f4m8
Functions: find tail wc xargs
Tags: tail find xargs wc source count java code counter C/C++ source code
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Counting the source code's line numbers C/C++ Java
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find /usr/include/ -name '*.[c|h]pp' -o -name '*.[ch]' -exec cat {} \;|wc -l
2011-12-01 19:58:52
User: kerim
Functions: cat find wc
Tags: cat find wc source count java code counter C/C++ source code
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Counting the source code's line numbers C/C++ Java

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

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find . -type f -exec awk '/linux/ { printf "%s %s: %s\n",FILENAME,NR,$0; }' {} \;
2011-11-29 12:32:06
User: Neo23x0
Functions: awk find printf
Tags: solaris find grep unix aix recursive content
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Rekursive Grep on Solaris or AIX Systems without GNU egrep -r funcionality
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find `pwd` -name '.*' -prune -o \( -name *.h -o -name *.cpp \) -print | cscope -bi-
2011-11-02 08:43:40
User: kev
Functions: find
Tags: find cscope
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build cscope.out from all *.{h,cpp}, but ignore hidden files

cd /

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

export CSCOPE_DB=/cscope.out

vim +'set cst'

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find . ! -name "$(printf '*[\001-\037\177]*')"
2011-10-25 17:29:19
User: totti
Functions: find
Tags: find newline filename
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Skip filenames with control characters, a.k.a tab,newline etc
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grep -Ilr "<?php" .
2011-10-23 05:11:53
User: mitry
Functions: grep
Tags: find grep PHP
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find php files even without extension

needs grep what supports '--recursive'

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for i in /usr/bin/* ;do touch ${i##*/}; done
2011-10-20 12:38:45
User: _john
Functions: touch
Tags: bash find xargs zsh
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Create a false directory structure for testing your commands

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.

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alias busy='rnd_file=$(find /usr/include -type f -size +5k | sort -R | head -n 1) && vim +$((RANDOM%$(wc -l $rnd_file | cut -f1 -d" "))) $rnd_file'
2011-10-16 00:05:59
User: frntn
Functions: alias cut find head sort vim wc
Tags: bash vim sort find alias cut wc zsh $RANDOM
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Makes you look busy

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.

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#!/bin/bash find | grep -P -v "(class)|(zip)|(png)|(gz)|(gif)|(jpeg)|(jpg)" | xargs -I @ grep -H $1 @
2011-10-14 13:28:49
User: kirdie
Functions: find grep xargs
Tags: find grep
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find&grep all in once

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

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find . -type f -name '*.jpg' -exec convert -quality 75 {} {} \;
2011-09-23 13:51:18
User: bobby_tables
Functions: find
Tags: ImageMagick find jpeg jpg
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Converts all jpg files to 75 quality.

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

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find /path/folder -type f -name "*.*" -print -exec rm -v {} + | wc -l;
2011-09-19 14:53:37
User: Koobiac
Functions: find rm wc
Tags: find delete exec wc rm count
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Count the number of deleted files

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

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ls -trF | grep -v \/ | tail -n 1
2011-09-14 20:05:37
User: mrpollo
Functions: grep ls tail
Tags: find stat mtime
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Hunt for the newest file.

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

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sudo find / -type f | perl -MFile::Basename -ne '$counts{dirname($_)}++; END { foreach $d (sort keys %counts) {printf("%d\t%s\n",$counts{$d},$d);} }'|sort -rn | tee /tmp/sortedfilecount.out | head
2011-09-14 19:41:19
User: tamouse
Functions: find perl sort sudo tee
Tags: tee sort perl find HEAD
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Find directories with lots of files in them

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

Edit: much shorter and betterer with -n switch.

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fn=$(find . -type f -printf "%T@\t%p\n"|sort -n|tail -1|cut -f2); echo $(date -r "$fn") "$fn"
2011-09-13 14:26:20
User: tzot
Functions: cut date echo find sort tail
Tags: find stat mtime
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Hunt for the newest file.
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find . -printf "%T@ %p\n" | sed -e 1d | while read ts fn; do ts=${ts%.*}; if [ $ts -ge ${gts:-0} ]; then gts=$ts; echo `date -d @$gts` $fn; fi; done
2011-09-13 08:00:27
User: bandie91
Functions: echo find read sed
Tags: find stat mtime
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Hunt for the newest file.
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ls -l /etc/**/*killall
2011-08-30 05:57:49
User: xeor
Functions: ls
Tags: bash find globbing
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find builtin in bash v4+

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".

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find . -iname '*.conf' | xargs grep "searh string" -sl
2011-08-26 14:58:51
User: mesuutt
Functions: find grep xargs
Tags: find grep
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Search recursively to find a word in certain file types

-sl : show just file names

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find /var/spool/mqueue -type f -mtime +7 | perl -lne unlink
2011-08-19 15:22:02
User: mengesb
Functions: find perl
Tags: bash Linux perl find
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Find all e-mails older than 7 days in the queue and delete them

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.

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allVideos() { find ./ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 file -iNf - | grep ": video/" | cut -d: -f1; }
2011-08-19 11:58:59
User: totti
Functions: cut file find grep xargs
Tags: video find grep mime
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Find all videos under current directory using MIME a.k.a not using extension

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.

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find . -type f | sed -n 's/..*\.//p' | sort -f | uniq -ic
2011-08-19 00:19:43
User: tyler_l
Functions: find sed sort uniq
Tags: bash find count extension
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Count files by extension

Change "sort -f" to "sort" and "uniq -ic" to "uniq -c" to make it case sensitive.

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lsr() { find "${@:-.}" -print0 |sort -z |xargs -0 ls $LS_OPTIONS -dla; }
2011-08-15 03:10:58
User: h3xx
Functions: find ls sort xargs
Tags: sort find ls xargs function list
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Sorted, recursive long file listing

Tells you everything you could ever want to know about all files and subdirectories. Great for package creators. Totally secure too.

On my Slackware box, this gets set upon login:

LS_OPTIONS='-F -b -T 0 --color=auto'

and

alias ls='/bin/ls $LS_OPTIONS'

which works great.

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find . -type f -printf '%TY-%Tm-%Td %TT %p\n' | sort
2011-08-14 23:34:10
User: sammcj
Functions: find
Tags: sort find recently changed
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Find the most recently changed files (recursively)
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find . -type d -name 'CVS' -exec rm -r {} \;
2011-08-12 12:15:44
User: Enirevlow
Functions: find rm
Tags: find
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remove all CVS directories
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find . -type d -name 'CVS' | xargs rm -r
2011-08-10 07:38:51
User: kev
Functions: find rm xargs
Tags: find
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remove all CVS directories
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