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find . -iname \*${MYVAR}\* -print
2010-08-04 05:43:51
User: Buzzcp
Functions: find
Tags: find script variable bash String Manipulations
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Use a variable in a find command. Useful in scripting.

You define your variable MYVAR with the desired search pattern:

MYVAR=

...which can then be searched with the find command.

This is useful if you in a script, where you want the arguments to be fed into the find command.

The provided search is case insensitive (-iname) and will find all files and directories with the pattern MYVAR (not exact matches). This may go without saying, but if you want exact matches remove the \* and if you want case sensitive, use the -name argument.

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find -maxdepth 1 -mtime 0 -type f
2010-07-30 01:56:34
User: claudelepoisson
Functions: find
Tags: find today mtime
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LIST FILENAMES OF FILES CREATED TODAY IN CURRENT DIRECTORY

Then pipe to 'xargs ls' for a familiar listing, possibly using find's -print0 and xarg's -0 options.

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find . -name '*.txt' -print0 | parallel -0 -j+0 lzma
2010-07-28 21:01:12
User: unixmonkey10455
Functions: find
Tags: find grep lzma
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Recompress all text files in a subdirectory with lzma

This will deal nicely with filenames containing newlines and will run one lzma process per CPU core. It requires GNU Parallel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpaiGYxkSuQ

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echo ${fullpath##*/}
2010-07-21 22:35:29
User: quincymd
Functions: echo
Tags: find basename expansion
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Isolate file name from full path/find output

Quick method of isolating filenames from a full path using expansion.

Much quicker than using "basename"

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find . -name '*.txt' | grep -v '\.lzma$' | xargs -n 1 lzma -f -v -3
2010-07-21 16:58:41
User: cout
Functions: find grep xargs
Tags: find grep lzma
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Recompress all text files in a subdirectory with lzma
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find -type l -xtype d
2010-07-17 15:35:11
User: dooblem
Functions: find
Tags: find directories symlinks
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Find all symlinks that link to directories
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ls -l $(find ./ -type l | perl -ne 'chomp; if (-d) { print "$_\n" }')
2010-07-16 19:31:28
User: rwadkins
Functions: find ls perl
Tags: find directories symlinks
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Find all symlinks that link to directories

This will list all symlinks that are directories under the current directory. This will help you distinguish them from regular files.

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nmap -v -sP 192.168.0.0/16 10.0.0.0/8
2010-07-14 19:53:02
User: anapsix
Tags: find nmap scan ip address
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Find all active ip's in a subnet

nmap for windows and other platforms is available on developer's site: http://nmap.org/download.html

nmap is robust tool with many options and has various output modes - is the best (imho) tool out there..

from nmap 5.21 man page:

-oN/-oX/-oS/-oG : Output scan in normal, XML, s|

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grep -R --include=*.cpp --include=*.h --exclude=*.inl.h "string" .
2010-07-14 16:32:28
User: sweinst
Functions: grep
Tags: find xargs grep
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Recursive grep of all c++ source under the current directory

Gnu grep allows to restrict the search to files only matching a given pattern. It also allows to exclude files.

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find . -name '*.?pp' -exec grep -H "string" {} \;
2010-07-14 15:10:23
User: rthemocap
Functions: find grep
Tags: find xargs grep
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Recursive grep of all c++ source under the current directory
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find . -name '*.?pp' | xargs grep -H "string"
2010-07-14 14:41:07
User: cout
Functions: find grep xargs
Tags: find xargs grep
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Recursive grep of all c++ source under the current directory

I like this better than some of the alternatives using -exec, because if I want to change the string, it's right there at the end of the command line. That means less editing effort and more time to drink coffee.

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find /usr/share/figlet -name *.?lf -exec basename {} \; | sed -e "s/\..lf$//" | xargs -I{} toilet -f {} {}
2010-07-13 20:12:54
User: unixmonkey3987
Functions: basename find sed xargs
Tags: find
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Show demo of toilet fonts

Lists a sample of all installed toilet fonts

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find . -name .svn -exec rm \-rf {} \;
2010-07-01 18:47:50
User: eneko
Functions: find rm
Tags: svn find exec subversion
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Recursively remove all subversion folders
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sudo arp-scan -I eth0 192.168.1.0/24
2010-07-01 02:46:41
User: sata
Functions: sudo
Tags: windows find scan ip address
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Find all active ip's in a subnet
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FOR /L %i IN (1,1,254) DO ping -n 1 10.254.254.%i | FIND /i "Reply">> c:\ipaddresses.txt
2010-06-29 21:02:21
User: barrytrujillo
Functions: ping
Tags: windows find scan ip address
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find all active ip?s in a subnet

documents all active ips on a subnet and saves to txt file.

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for f in $(find /path/to/base -type f | grep -vw CVS); do grep -Hn PATTERN $f; done
2010-06-29 15:58:11
User: nikunj
Functions: find grep
Tags: find grep
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Search for a pattern across files in a code base (leaving out CVS directories)

I use this sometimes when ctags won't help.

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find /protocollo/paflow -type f -mtime +5 | xargs tar -cvf /var/dump-protocollo/`date '+%d%m%Y'_archive.tar`
2010-06-29 12:43:30
User: 0disse0
Functions: find tar xargs
Tags: find tar dump
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How to archive all the files that are not modified in the last x number of days?

The following command finds all the files not modified in the last 5 days under /protocollo/paflow directory and creates an archive files under /var/dump-protocollo in the format of ddmmyyyy_archive.tar

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find / -type f -name *.tar.gz -size +10M -exec ls -l {} \;
2010-06-29 12:39:02
User: 0disse0
Functions: find ls
Tags: find ls exec rm type
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How to delete all the archive files with extension *.tar.gz and greater than 10MB?

Please be careful while executing the following command as you don?t want

to delete the files by mistake. The best practice is to execute the same

command with ls ?l to make sure you know which files will get deleted when

you execute the command with rm.

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find . -regextype posix-extended -not -regex '.*/[A-Za-z_]*([.][A-Za-z_]*)?'
2010-06-25 00:27:09
User: zhangweiwu
Functions: find
Tags: find iso9660
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find filenames and directory names that doesn't conform ISO 9660 level 2

You might want to check what file and directory names would be renamed or chopped if you create iso 9660 level 2 image out of them. Use this command to check first.

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quickfind () { find . -maxdepth 2 -iname "*$1*" }
2010-06-12 03:04:50
User: dbbolton
Functions: find
Tags: find function
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Quick find function

A function that allows you to perform a case-insensitive search in the current directory, and directories in the current directory (but no further), for files containing the first argument anywhere in their names.

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find $PWD -maxdepth 1 -printf '%.5m %10M %#9u:%-9g %#5U:%-5G [%AD | %TD | %CD] [%Y] %p\n'
2010-06-10 22:03:08
User: AskApache
Functions: find
Tags: bash sort find ls column sorting permissions function GNU/Linux pwd stat askapache sh printf GNU find
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Advanced LS Output using Find for Formatted/Sortable File Stat info

I love this function because it tells me everything I want to know about files, more than stat, more than ls. It's very useful and infinitely expandable.

find $PWD -maxdepth 1 -printf '%.5m %10M %#9u:%-9g %#5U:%-5G [%AD | %TD | %CD] [%Y] %p\n' | sort -rgbS 50%

00761 drwxrw---x askapache:askapache 777:666 [06/10/10 | 06/10/10 | 06/10/10] [d] /web/cg/tmp

The key is:

# -printf '%.5m %10M %#9u:%-9g %#5U:%-5G [%AD | %TD | %CD] [%Y] %p\n'

which believe it or not took me hundreds of tweaking before I was happy with the output.

You can easily use this within a function to do whatever you want.. This simple function works recursively if you call it with -r as an argument, and sorts by file permissions.

lsl(){ O="-maxdepth 1";sed -n '/-r/!Q1'<<<$@ &&O=;find $PWD $O -printf '%.5m %10M %#9u:%-9g %#5U:%-5G [%AD | %TD | %CD] [%Y] %p\n'|sort -rgbS 50%; }

Personally I'm using this function because:

lll () { local a KS="1 -r -g"; sed -n '/-sort=/!Q1' <<< $@ && KS=`sed 's/.*-sort=\(.*\)/\1/g'<<<$@`; find $PWD -maxdepth 1 -printf '%.5m %10M %#9u:%-9g %#5U:%-5G [%AD | %TD | %CD] [%Y] %p\n'|sort -k$KS -bS 50%; }

# i can sort by user

lll -sort=3

# or sort by group reversed

lll -sort=4 -r

# and sort by modification time

lll -sort=6

If anyone wants to help me make this function handle multiple dirs/files like ls, go for it and I would appreciate it.. Something very minimal would be awesome.. maybe like:

for a; do lll $a; done

Note this uses the latest version of GNU find built from source, easy to build from gnu ftp tarball. Taken from my http://www.askapache.com/linux-unix/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html

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find ~/.thunderbird/*.default/ -name *.msf -delete
2010-06-08 13:34:16
User: skygreg
Functions: find
Tags: find thunderbird
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Find and delete thunderbird's msf files to make your profile work quickly again.
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find ~/.thunderbird/*.default/ -name *.msf -print0 | xargs --no-run-if-empty -0 rm;
2010-06-07 12:34:21
User: tersmitten
Functions: find xargs
Tags: find thunderbird
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Find and delete thunderbird's msf files to make your profile work quickly again.
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find ~/.thunderbird/*.default/ -name *.msf -exec rm -f {} \;
2010-06-05 06:33:59
User: dooblem
Functions: find rm
Tags: find thunderbird
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Find and delete thunderbird's msf files to make your profile work quickly again.
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find ~/.thunderbird/*.default/ -name *.msf | sed 's/ /\\ /g' | xargs rm {} \;
2010-06-04 12:35:24
User: allrightname
Functions: find rm sed xargs
Tags: sed find xargs thunderbird
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Find and delete thunderbird's msf files to make your profile work quickly again.

The thunderbird message datastores get corrupt some times causing random failures, compaction to fail and general suck in thunderbird. Removing them causes thunderbird to rebuild the indexes and makes things quick again.

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