change the *.avi to whatever you want to match, you can remove it altogether if you want to check all files.

This pipeline will find, sort and display all files based on mtime. This could be done with find | xargs, but the find | xargs pipeline will not produce correct results if the results of find are greater than xargs command line buffer. If the xargs buffer fills, xargs processes the find results in more than one batch which is not compatible with sorting.

Note the "-print0" on find and "-0" switch for perl. This is the equivalent of using xargs. Don't you love perl?

Note that this pipeline can be easily modified to any data produced by perl's stat operator. eg, you could sort on size, hard links, creation time, etc. Look at stat and just change the '9' to what you want. Changing the '9' to a '7' for example will sort by file size. A '3' sorts by number of links....

Use head and tail at the end of the pipeline to get oldest files or most recent. Use awk or perl -wnla for further processing. Since there is a tab between the two fields, it is very easy to process.

you must be in the directory to analyse

report all files and links in the currect directory, not recursively.

this find command ahs been tested on hp-ux/linux/aix/solaris.

A little bit smaller, faster and should handle files with special characters in the name.

This can be much faster than downloading one or both trees to a common servers and comparing the files there. After, only those files could be copied down for deeper comparison if needed.

This helped me find a botnet that had made into my system. Of course, this is not a foolproof or guarantied way to find all of them or even most of them. But it helped me find it.

This is really fast :)

204753

real 0m0.191s

user 0m0.068s

sys 0m0.116s

This is the way how you can find header and cpp files in the same time.

Put the positive clauses after the '-o' option.

Have wc work on each file then add up the total with awk; get a 43% speed increase on RHEL over using "-exec cat|wc -l" and a 67% increase on my Ubuntu laptop (this is with 10MB of data in 767 files).

Based on the MrMerry one, just add some visuals and sort directory and files

Make sure that find does not touch anything other than regular files, and handles non-standard characters in filenames while passing to xargs.

needs no GNU tools, as far as I see it

It only works in zsh

You can also use, $ find . -depth -type d -exec rmdir {} \; 2>/dev/null

I used this to copy all PDFs recursively to a selected dir

Best to put it in a file somewhere in your path. (I call the file spath)

#!/bin/bash

IFS=:; find $PATH | grep $1

Usage: $ spath php