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Terminal - Commands tagged find - 334 results

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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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find -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 stat -c %y\ %n | sort

2010-05-29 13:40:18

User: dooblem

Functions: find stat xargs

Tags: sort find xargs stat

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Find files and list them sorted by modification time

Works with files containing spaces and for very large directories.

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watch 'find -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d |xargs du -csh'

2010-05-19 13:13:57

User: shadycraig

Functions: du watch xargs

Tags: size find directory watch

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Show directory sizes, refreshing every 2s

This command shows the size of directories below here, refreshing every 2s.

It will also track directories created after running the command (that what the find bit does).

for i in $(find ~/.config/chromium/*/Extensions -name 'manifest.json'); do n=$(grep -hIr name $i| cut -f4 -d '"'| sort);u="https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/";ue=$(basename $(dirname $(dirname $i))); echo -e "$n:\n$u$ue\n" ; done

2010-05-18 15:16:36

User: new_user

Functions: cut find grep

Tags: bash sort find chromium chrome

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List your installed Chromium extensions (with url to each page)

Gives you a list for all installed chrome (chromium) extensions with URL to the page of the extension.

With this you can easy add a new Bookmark folder called "extensions" add every URL to that folder, so it will be synced and you can access the names from every computer you are logged in.

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Only tested with chromium, for chrome you maybe have to change the find $PATH.

find . -type f -not -regex ".*\/.svn\/.*" -exec sed -i 's/oldstring/newstring/g' {} +

2010-05-15 14:16:25

User: binarysys

Functions: find sed

Tags: sed find .svn

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Find and replace recursivly a ignoring .svn

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find /tmp -type f -atime +1 -delete

2010-05-11 17:08:49

User: mattoufoutu

Functions: find

Tags: Linux find shell tmp

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cleanup /tmp directory

Cleans all files in /tmp that have been accessed at least 2 days ago.

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find . $ -iname '*.[ch]' -o -iname '*.php' -o -iname '*.pl' $ -exec wc -l {} + | sort -n

2010-05-03 00:16:02

User: hackerb9

Functions: find sort wc

Tags: find wc count GNU find

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Count lines of code across multiple file types, sorted by least amount of code to greatest

The same as the other two alternatives, but now less forking! Instead of using '\;' to mark the end of an -exec command in GNU find, you can simply use '+' and it'll run the command only once with all the files as arguments.

This has two benefits over the xargs version: it's easier to read and spaces in the filesnames work automatically (no -print0). [Oh, and there's one less fork, if you care about such things. But, then again, one is equal to zero for sufficiently large values of zero.]

find . $ -iname '*.[ch]' -o -iname '*.php' -o -iname '*.pl' $ | xargs wc -l | sort -n

2010-04-30 12:21:28

User: rbossy

Functions: find sort wc xargs

Tags: find count

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Count lines of code across multiple file types, sorted by least amount of code to greatest

find -exec is evil since it launches a process for each file. You get the total as a bonus.

Also, without -n sort will sort by lexical order (that is 9 after 10).

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find . $ -iname '*.[ch]' -o -iname '*.php' -o -iname '*.pl' $ -exec wc -l {} \; | sort

2010-04-28 07:18:21

User: rkulla

Functions: find wc

Tags: find count code

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Count lines of code across multiple file types, sorted by least amount of code to greatest

Gives you a nice quick summary of how many lines each of your files is comprised of. (In this example, we just check .c, .h, .php and .pl). Since we just use wc -l to count, you'll just get a very rough estimate of how many lines of actual code there are. Use a more sophisticated algorithm instead if you need to.

find ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/Cache -exec file {} \; | awk -F ': ' 'tolower($2)~/mpeg/{print $1}'

2010-04-19 06:59:55

User: sata

Functions: awk file find

Tags: awk find file mp3 firefox cache

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Grab a list of MP3s out of Firefox's cache

Grab a list of MP3s (with full path) out of Firefox's cache

Ever gone to a site that has an MP3 embedded into a pesky flash player, but no download link? Well, this one-liner will yank the *full path* of those tunes straight out of FF's cache in a clean list.

Shorter and Intuitive version of the command submitted by (TuxOtaku)

vim -r 2>&1 | grep '\.sw.' -A 5 | grep 'still running' -B 5

2010-04-17 19:43:35

User: rkulla

Functions: grep vim

Tags: vim find grep files locate open

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Find all files currently open in Vim and/or gVim

Catches .swp, .swo, .swn, etc.

If you have access to lsof, it'll give you more compressed output and show you the associated terminals (e.g., pts/5, which you could then use 'w' to figure out where it's originating from): lsof | grep '\.sw.$'

If you have swp files turned off, you can do something like: ps x | grep '[g,v]im', but it won't tell you about files open in buffers, via :e [file].

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