Commands tagged find (410)
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you can find all "trace" phrases within everywhere else under the pentest directory.. Show Sample Output
0find /pentest/ -type f -iname "*trace*" -
you can find a special things(with defined -iname "*sql*") from in most of one direcroty(for example from both /etc/ and /pentest/) and then you can want to grep only include "map" word Show Sample Output
0find /etc/ /pentest/ -type f -iname "*sql*" | grep map -
This command does a basic find with size. It also improves the printout given (more clearer then default) Adjusting the ./ will alter the path. Adjusting the "-size +100000k" will specify the size to search for. Show Sample Output
0find ./ -type f -size +100000k -exec ls -lh {} \; 2>/dev/null| awk '{ print $8 " : " $5}' -
I use this find command example to find out all the executable files you can modify it to find readonly file as well.
0find . -perm 777 ?print -
Find is used to "find" all filenames - grep shows those that are invalid.
0find . | grep -E "(\||\\|\?|\*|<|\"|:|>|\+|\[|\])" -
Find all files under "." that are invalid NTFS filenames. Find locates all files, and grep shows the invalid ones.
0find . | grep -E "(\||\\|\?|\*|<|\"|:|>)" -
You must have the android sdk installed with 'adb' executable on your system. This is just a way to loop over files in a folder using 'find' to locate and install android apps. Show Sample Output
0find ~/path/to/apk/files -name '*.apk' -exec adb install {} \; -
This let me find some a set of modifications that were made to a rather large tree of files, where the file-names themselves were not unique (actually: insanely redundant and useless. "1.dat 2.dat ..."). Pruning down to last-branch brough things back to the "project-name" scope, and it's then easy to see which branches of the tree have recently changed, or any other similar search. Ideally, it should sort the directories by the mtime of the most recent *file* *inside* the directory, but that's probably outside the scope of a (sane...) command line.
0ls -ltr --directory $(find . -regex "./.*[^/]*\'" -type f | xargs -n 1 dirname | sort | uniq) -
0find -L / -samefile path/to/foo.txt
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0find / -lname path/to/foo.txt
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This can be used to delete or archive old mails. In fact, for archiving its a bit different, you need to archive mails with any tools (e.g archivemail), and then deleting (if you want!). Here we use -path ".*/cur/*" to avoid files limit in bash globbing and to search in any inbox (e.g .mymail .spam .whatever). ! -newermt "1 week ago" can be read: All files which is older than "1 week ago", adapt it in consequence. Show Sample Output
0find . -path ".*/cur/*" -type f ! -newermt "1 week ago" -delete -
Improvement on Coderjoe's Solution. Gets rid of grep and cut (and implements them in awk) and specifies some different mplayer options that speed things up a bit. Show Sample Output
0find /path/to/dir -iname "*.ext" -print0 | xargs -0 mplayer -really-quiet -cache 64 -vo dummy -ao dummy -identify 2>/dev/null | awk '/ID_LENGTH/{gsub(/ID_LENGTH=/,"")}{SUM += $1}END{ printf "%02d:%02d:%02d\n",SUM/3600,SUM%3600/60,SUM%60}' -
When I do a major change in my entities, I want to find a way to find all my Entities names and create the commande for me. So instead of doing ls src/Your/OwnBundle... and then do it manually, this helps a lot. Show Sample Output
0find ./src -type d -name "Entity" | xargs ls -A | cut -d . -f1 | sed 's_^_app/console doctrine:generate:entities YourOwnBundleName:_' -
Find files matching multiple descriptions (*.c and *.cpp) excluding multiple directories (unit-test and android).
0find . ! -regex '.*/\(unit-test\|android\)/.*' \( -name '*.c' -o -name '*.cpp' \) -
works only in zsh, requires EXTENDED_GLOB to be set.
0ls **/*.c(|pp)~(unit-test|android)/* -
This command won't delete resource forks from an HFS file system, only from file systems that don't natively support resource forks.
0find . -name ._\* -exec rm -f {} \; -
Handles spaces in file names and directories. Optionally change directories as well by pipe to tr from dirname.
0find ./ -type f -exec sh -c 'echo "{}" "$(dirname "{}")/$(basename "{}" | tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]")"' \; -
rm /SOME/PATH/*, when you hit "argument list too long".
0find /SOME/PATH -type f -execdir rm -f {} \+ -
0find /path/to/dir -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l "foo"
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here's a version which works on OS X.
0find . -type f -exec stat -f '%m %N' {} \; | sort -n -
0sudo find / -perm -2 ! -type l -ls
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0find . -type f \( -name '*.c' -o -name '*.cpp' -o -name '*.cc' -o -name '*.cxx' \) | xargs grep "#include.*\.c.*" 2>&1 | tee source_inside_source_list.txt
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This requires a version of GNU find that supports the -exec {} + action, but it seems more straightforward than the versions already posted. Show Sample Output
0find . -type f -exec ls -shS {} + | head -10 -
Like the above, but runs a single rm command
0find /backup/directory -name "FILENAME_*" -mtime +15 -exec rm -vf {} + -
"-exec" ftw.
0find . -type f -exec du -sh {} + | sort -hr | head - ‹ First < 9 10 11 12 13 > Last ›
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