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remove all CVS directories
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find . -type d -name 'CVS' | xargs rm -r

kev · 2011-08-10 07:38:51 3
Search for all files that begin with . and delete them.

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```
maggie:~ root# find ~/Desktop/ $ -regex '.*/\..*' $ -print -exec rm -Rf {} \;
~/Desktop/.DS_Store
~/Desktop/.fseventsd
```
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find ~/Desktop/ $ -regex '.*/\..*' $ -print -exec rm -Rf {} \;

unixmonkey4063 · 2009-06-02 19:45:06 8
recursively change file name from uppercase to lowercase (or viceversa)
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find . -type d -name '*[A-Z]*' -execdir bash -c '! test -f "$(echo "$0" | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]")"' {} \; -execdir bash -c 'mv "$0" "$(echo "$0" | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]")"' {} \;

ashawley · 2010-04-01 04:35:52 31
recursive remove all htm files
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rm -rf `find . -type f -name *.htm`

miccaman · 2010-11-25 12:46:33 4
Search for the file and open in vi editor.
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vifind() { vi `find . -name "$1"` }

deepanaidu · 2009-03-06 05:52:48 7
Move all files with common extension to current directory

This is useful if you have a collection of files in folders (for example, a bunch of .zip files that are contained in folders) and you want to move them all to a common folder.
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mv `find .zip ./` .

smcpherson · 2009-03-27 04:42:48 14
Replace spaces with '_' in filenames

Takes filenames and directory names and replace space to '_'.
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find -depth . | (while read FULLPATH; do BASENAME=`basename "${FULLPATH}"`; DIRNAME=`dirname "${FULLPATH}"`; mv "${DIRNAME}/${BASENAME}" "${DIRNAME}/${BASENAME// /_}"; done)

mohan43u · 2009-03-24 21:04:32 11

find all active ip?s in a subnet

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

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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

barrytrujillo · 2010-06-29 21:02:21 3

Find broken symlinks
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find . -type l | xargs file | grep broken

kineticrick · 2011-04-07 22:58:02 4
recursive remove all htm files
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rm -rf *.htm

unixmonkey2363 · 2010-11-25 14:37:22 5
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You need to install WWW::Mechanize Perl module with # cpan -i WWW::Mezchanize or by searching mechanize | grep perl in your package manager With this command, you can get forms, images, headers too

Fast tape rewind

Traditionally we rewind a tape using this syntaxis: $ mt -f /dev/rmt/0cbn rewind Redirecting the dispositive to nothing as shown above is faster. Less typing is always better.

Lookup hostname for IP address

Create the signature base string required for a Twitter stream feed

This is the SECOND command in a set for five that are needed for a Twitter stream feed. This command creates variable "b", the so-called "base string" required for oauth in Twitter stream feed requests. (The 256 char limit prevents giving it a better name) We use five environment variables created by a previous step: id, k1, once, ts and k3. The five environment variables are created in a separate command, please see my other commands. For more information on the signature base string, see dev.twitter.com/apps, click on any app (or create a new one) and then go to the "OAuth Tool" tab.

Prevent an IPv6 address on an interface from being used as source address of packets.

If two or more IPv6 addresses are assigned to an interface, apply this command to all but the address that you want to use as the source address of outbound packets. This is Linux-specific and requires the iproute package, or equivalent for your distribution.

Choose from a nice graphical menu which DI.FM radio station to play

This is a very simple and lightweight way to play DI.FM stations For a more complete version of the command with proper strings in the menu, try: (couldnt fit in the command field above) $zenity --list --width 500 --height 500 --title 'DI.FM' --text 'Pick a Radio' --column 'radio' --column 'url' --print-column 2 $(curl -s http://www.di.fm/ | awk -F '"' '/href="http:.*\.pls.*96k/ {print $2}' | sort | awk -F '/|\.' '{print $(NF-1) " " $0}') | xargs mplayer This command line parses the html returned from http://di.fm and display all radio stations in a nice graphical menu. After the radio is chosen, the url is passed to mplayer so the music can start dependencies: - x11 with gtk environment - zenity: simple app for displaying gtk menus (sudo apt-get install zenity on ubuntu) - mplayer: simple audio player (sudo apt-get install mplayer on ubuntu)

List .log files open by a pid

Uses lsof to display the full path of ".log" files opened by a specified PID.

Update twitter with curl

Same as below, but no quotes are necessary when twitting more than one word

Go to directory or creat it and go to

For use in scripts this command is very usefull

See entire packet payload using tcpdump.

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