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Find all files modified after a given files last modification time

This function will find the modification time in unix_time of the given file, then calculate the number of minutes from now to then and then find all files modified in that range. Show Sample Output
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```
[rderose@dunkin] (01:42 PM) / 
$ findOlderThan version.txt
./index.html
./js2/select2/select2.png
./js2/select2/select2x2.png
./js2/select2/select2-bootstrap.css
./js2/select2/select2.css
./js2/select2/select2-spinner.gif
./js2/select2/select2.js
./js2/ace-editor/theme-solarized_dark.js
./js2/ace-editor/theme-twilight.js
./js2/ace-editor/theme-idle_fingers.js
```
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function findOlderThan () { find . -mmin -$((($(date "+%s") - $(stat -c %Y $1))/60)) -type f ; }

RobertDeRose · 2014-08-29 17:52:34 8
rename files (in this case pdfs) numerically in date order

Caution: distructive overwrite of filenames Useful for concatenating pdfs in date order using pdftk
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find . -name "*.pdf" -print0 | xargs -r0 stat -c %y\ %n | sort|awk '{print $4}'|gawk 'BEGIN{ a=1 }{ printf "mv %s %04d.pdf\n", $0, a++ }' | bash

Randy_Legault · 2014-09-23 06:40:45 9
rename all dirs with "?" char in name

rename all dirs with "?" char in name, leave spaces and () in place Show Sample Output
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```
dir?s -> dir_s 
 
```
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find . -type d -name "*\?*" | while read f;do mv "$f" "${f//[^0-9A-Za-z.\/\ ]/_}";done

miccaman · 2014-11-28 14:52:46 7
BIGGEST Files in a Directory

Way more easy to understand for naive user. Just returns the biggest file with size.
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find . -printf '%s %p\n'|sort -nr| head -1

ranjha · 2014-12-14 15:40:56 8
BIGGEST Files in a Directory
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du -k . | sort -rn | head -11

b0wlninja · 2014-12-29 17:12:25 8
Find with compress logs

Command to compress logs
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find ./ -name "file.name" -type f -print -exec bzip2 -9 '{}' \;

alissonf · 2014-12-29 20:18:54 8
Play files with mplayer in fullscreen, including files in sub-directories, and have keyboard shortcuts work

"$PWD" (in quotes) accounts for spaces and other characters normally escaped in file or folder names
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mplayer -fs -playlist <(find "$PWD" -type f)

unixmonkey86478 · 2015-01-11 03:03:27 10
Resize and compress jpg images to another path with mogrify
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find /media/mmc/ -iname "*.JPG" -exec mogrify -quality 75 -resize '800x600' -path ~/Temp/ {} \;

chrisv · 2015-01-19 10:08:38 8
Search recursively to find a word or phrase in certain file types, such as C code

Warnings and errors will be suppressed Show Sample Output
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```
./web/blah.html:33:		<div>some string and some such</div>
```
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grep --include=\*.html -R "some string" . 2>/dev/null

sjmixon · 2015-02-04 17:59:41 8
Recursively find files over a certain size and list in descending size order
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find . -size +10M -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -Sshl1

bradym · 2015-02-26 20:23:26 8
Recursively find files over a certain age and list in descending size order
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find . -mtime +7 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -Sshl1

bradym · 2015-02-26 20:25:15 8
show a sorted list of directory whose name matches the pattern

Uses "locate" instead of "find", "sort -u" instead of "sort | uniq" and it's case insensitive. Show Sample Output
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```
/Library/Caches/Homebrew/Formula
/usr/local/Library/Formula
```
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locate -i /pattern/ | xargs -n1 dirname | sort -u

dardo1982 · 2015-05-09 21:22:05 9
Find and tar.gz all folders within a directory

This command tars/gz all the folders contained in a directory. Only applies to top level directory. Very handy when you have to transfer mny folders containing lots of stuff. Can also work with tar only, zip...
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find . -type d -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -exec tar czf {}.tar.gz {} \;

deadbird · 2015-05-25 13:03:05 11
Find and delete all archives like file.ext.nco only if file.ext exists

Single file archives nested in subdirectories. After extracting them, you'll have the file (e.g. file.ext) and the archive (e.g. file.ext.nco) side by side. Sometimes you'll only have the archive (if you didn't extract them, or if there was an error during extraction). Only delete the archive if the single file is present in the same directory. Show Sample Output
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```
removed './abc.JPG.nco'
removed './file.ext.nco'
```
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find . -type f ! -iname "*.nco" -execdir bash -c ' if [ -f "{}.nco" ]; then rm -v "{}.nco"; fi' \;

tralston · 2015-06-28 20:38:08 11
Replace + Find

This version works on OS X (if you have installed `rename`)
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find <mydir> -type f -exec rename 's/<string1>/<string2>/g' {} \;

thrifus · 2015-11-19 17:51:13 10
Replace + Find
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find <mydir> -type f -exec rename 's/<string1>/<string2>/g' {} \;

Dentorman · 2015-11-20 04:50:27 18
grep in .odt files

find '.odt' files that contain USAGE: grepodt
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grepodt () { W=$1;P=$2;ls *.odt > /dev/null 2>&1;if [[ $? -ne 0 ]];then exit 1;fi;if [[ ! "$P" ]];then P='*';fi;for i in $P.odt;do unzip -qq "$i" content.xml;grep -l $W content.xml>/dev/null;if [[ $? -eq 0 ]];then echo $i;fi;rm content.xml; done;}

roberto_scotti · 2015-12-09 20:37:52 10
Execute grep only with files related to current node.js project

Only search source files directly related to current project. Everything under the "node_modules" directly are ignored.
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find * -type d -name node_modules -prune -o -type f -name \*.js -exec grep [opts] [pattern] {} \;

panic · 2015-12-11 16:42:07 11
Finding all files on local file system with SUID and SGID set
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find / $ -mount -o -prune $ $ -perm -4000 -o -perm -2000 $ -type f -exec ls -l {} \;

AlmightyOatmeal · 2015-12-17 17:28:48 10

Returns the N most recently modified files from anywhere 'below' (and including) the current working directory, in order, with details.

Returns a list, with attributes (think `ls -l`), in reverse chronological order. N is a single numeric parameter. Robust against unfriendly filenames and directory structures. Show Sample Output

nmf() { find . -type f -printf '%T@ ' -print0 -printf '\n' | sort -rn | head -"$1" | cut -f2- -d" " | tr -d "\0" | tr "\n" "\0" | xargs -0 ls -Ulh; }

incidentnormal · 2016-03-04 14:53:14 12

Btrfs: Find file names with checksum errors

debian kernel 4.4.6 Show Sample Output
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```
images/10000/vm-10000-disk-1.raw
images/8001/BUGBTRFS/vm-8001-disk-2.raw
images/9003/vm-9003-disk-2.raw.crash.btrfs
```
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grep "checksum error at logical" /var/log/messages | egrep -o "[^ ]+$" | tr -d ')' | sort | uniq

andrefalgon · 2016-04-30 09:13:36 8
Search recursive all docx files for SearchTerm and print its name
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find . -name '*docx' -exec sh -c "unzip -p {} word/document.xml | sed -e 's/<[^>]\{1,\}>//g; s/[^[:print:]]\{1,\}//g' | grep -i SearchTerm -q && echo {} " \;

kkeasdj · 2016-08-24 12:28:08 14
Find broken symlinks and delete them

It's always a good idea to check the output of find without -delete before hand to make sure the results are as you expect. If you want to see where the broken symlinks point, use find . -xtype l -exec ls -l {} \+
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find . -xtype l -delete

bobpaul · 2016-12-02 22:58:44 16
Find the top most 5 duplicate files in a folder

To allow recursivity : find -type f -exec md5sum '{}' ';' | sort | uniq -c -w 33 | sort -gr | head -n 5 | cut -c1-7,41- Display only filenames : find -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec md5sum '{}' ';' | sort | uniq -c -w 33 | sort -gr | head -n 5 | cut -c43- Show Sample Output
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```
     50 ./file17.txt
     32 ./file44.txt
     11 ./file72.txt
      5 ./file29.txt
      3 ./file53.txt
```
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find -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec md5sum '{}' ';' | sort | uniq -c -w 33 | sort -gr | head -n 5 | cut -c1-7,41-

MaDCOw · 2017-02-09 11:36:31 18
Find text in contents with multiple filename

-name : base of filename -o : 'or' '*.c' : avoiding "paths must precede expression" error message -type f : only find file type --color: hightlight specific word with color -E : extended regexp Show Sample Output
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```
./test.c: int Data;
./test.c: int iData;
./test.h: float fnData();
```
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find ./$(PATH) -name '*.h' -o -name '*.c' -type f | xargs grep --color -E '*Data*'

debpolaris · 2017-02-10 04:17:16 19
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Paged, colored svn diff

I put this in a shell script called "svndiff", as it provides a handy decorated "svn diff" output that is colored (which you can't see here) and paged. The -r is required so less doesn't mangle the color codes.

Periodically run a command without hangups, and send the output to your e-mail

Run "ps -x" (process status) in the background every hour (in this example). The outputs of both "nohup" and "ps -x" are sent to the e-mail (instead of nohup.out and stdout and stderr). If you like it, replace "ps -x" by the command of your choice, replace 3600 (1 hour) by the period of your choice. You can run the command in the loop any time by killing the sleep process. For example $ ps -x 2925 ? S 0:00.00 sh -c unzip E.zip >/dev/null 2>&1 11288 ? O 0:00.00 unzip E.zip 25428 ? I 0:00.00 sleep 3600 14346 pts/42- I 0:00.01 bash -c while true; do ps -x | mail (...); sleep 3600; done 643 pts/66 Ss 0:00.03 -bash 14124 pts/66 O+ 0:00.00 ps -x $ kill 25428 You have mail in /mail/(...)

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

Print environment information.

Print environment (system) information using Perl.

Get mouse location (X,Y coordinates)

make, or run a script, everytime a file in a directory is modified

Uses inotifywait from inotify-tools ( http://wiki.github.com/rvoicilas/inotify-tools/ ), that is compatible only with linux. Usefull when you work with files that have to be compiled.. latex, haml, c..

Convert seconds into minutes and seconds

This is a very simple way to input a large number of seconds and get a more useful value in minutes and seconds.

Create a local compressed tarball from remote host directory

The command uses ssh(1) to get to a remote host, uses tar(1) to archive a remote directory, prints the result to STDOUT, which is piped to gzip(1) to compress to a local file. In other words, we are archiving and compressing a remote directory to our local box.

Check if *hardware* is 32bit or 64bit

This command tell you if your hardware is 32 or 64 bits even if you install a 32bits OS on a 64 bits hardware. If your distro don't support the -q switch, try doing : $ grep &>/dev/null '\' /proc/cpuinfo && echo 64 bits || echo 32 bits

Convert ascii string to hex

If you're going to use od, here's how to suppress the labels at the beginning. Also, it doesn't output the \x, hence the sed command at the end. Remove it for space separated hex values instead

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