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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 ~/.thunderbird/*.default/ -name *.msf | sed 's/ /\\ /g' | xargs rm {} \;

allrightname · 2010-06-04 12:35:24 6
find names of files ending in *log that have both foo and bar

Uses xargs to call the second grep with the first grep's results as arguments
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grep -l bar *.log | xargs grep -l foo

dlebauer · 2011-01-10 19:54:46 3
Reorder file with max 100 file per folder

Take a folder full of files and split it into smaller folders containing a maximum number of files. In this case, 100 files per directory. find creates the list of files xargs breaks up the list into groups of 100 for each group, create a directory and copy in the files Note: This command won't work if there is whitespace in the filenames (but then again, neither do the alternative commands :-)
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files -type f | xargs -n100 | while read l; do mkdir $((++f)); cp $l $f; done

flatcap · 2011-02-15 23:15:16 4
Convert one's Java source file encoding

One of my friends committed his code in the encoding of GB2312, which broke the build job. I have to find his code and convert.
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find . -name "*.java" -type f -perm +600 -print | xargs -I _ sh -c 'grep -q hexianmao _ && iconv -f gb2312 -t utf8 -o _ -c _ '

Sunng · 2011-03-08 13:02:25 7
Clean-up release directories keeping the only the latest two

Deletes capistrano-style release directories (except that there are dashes between the YYYY-MM-DD) Show Sample Output
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```
user@server:~/apps/appname/releases$ ls
2010-12-02-121502  2010-12-01-215457
```
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find . -maxdepth 1 -type d | grep -Pv "^.$" | sort -rn --field-separator="-" | sed -n '3,$p' | xargs rm -rf

wilmoore · 2011-03-08 17:38:26 6
use ImageMagik to convert tint (hue rotation) of an icon set directory.
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mogrify -modulate 100,100,70 ../../icons/32x32/*.png

houghi · 2011-06-13 15:11:16 3
Find files and list them sorted by modification time
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find -type f | xargs ls -1tr

unixmonkey50727 · 2013-03-20 16:43:54 4
Recursively change permissions on files, leave directories alone.

xargs is a more elegant approach to executing a command on find results then -exec as -exec is meant as a filtering flag.
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find /var/www/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644

FiloSottile · 2013-03-28 11:10:30 6
Randomize lines (opposite of | sort)
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ls -1 | xargs ruby -e'puts ARGV.shuffle'

jacaetevha · 2014-01-17 17:42:08 7
Remove all files previously extracted from a tar(.gz) file.

xargs deals badly with special characters (such as space, ' and "). To see the problem try this: touch important_file touch 'not important_file' ls not* | xargs rm Parallel https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/ does not have this problem.
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tar -tf <file.tar.gz> | parallel rm

unixmonkey8046 · 2010-01-28 08:28:16 3
add all files not under version control to repository

xargs deals badly with special characters (such as space, ' and "). To see the problem try this: touch important_file touch 'not important_file' ls not* | xargs rm Parallel https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/ does not have this problem.
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svn status |grep '\?' |awk '{print $2}'| parallel -Xj1 svn add

unixmonkey8046 · 2010-01-28 08:47:54 3
archive all files containing local changes (svn)

xargs deals badly with special characters (such as space, ' and "). In this case if you have a file called '12" record'. Parallel https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/ does not have this problem. Both solutions work bad if the number of files is more than the allowed line length of the shell.
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svn st | cut -c 9- | parallel -X tar -czvf ../backup.tgz

unixmonkey8046 · 2010-01-28 11:43:16 3
List top ten files/directories sorted by size

If a directory name contains space xargs will do the wrong thing. Parallel https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/ deals better with that. Show Sample Output
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```
33M     a b
17M     libxnee
3.6M    doc
3.0M    gnee
```
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du -s * | sort -nr | head | cut -f2 | parallel -k du -sh

unixmonkey8046 · 2010-01-28 12:59:14 6
Edit all "text" files (exclude binary and directories) in the current directory
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ls . | xargs file | grep text | sed "s/$.*$:.*/\1/" | xargs gedit

matthewbauer · 2010-02-08 02:06:40 6
find files containing specifc pattern on filename and specific patternts in its content, open all in textmate
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find . -name "*noticia*" -name "*jhtm*" -name "*.tpl" -exec grep -li "id=\"col-direita\"" '{}' \; | xargs -n1 mate

irae · 2010-09-18 02:55:40 4
remove unneeded configuration files in debian

This will, for an application that has already been removed but had its configuration left behind, purge that configuration from the system. To test it out first, you can remove the last -y, and it will show you what it will purge without actually doing it. I mean it never hurts to check first, "just in case." ;)
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dpkg-query -l| grep -v "ii " | grep "rc " | awk '{print $2" "}' | tr -d "\n" | xargs aptitude purge -y

thepicard · 2009-04-28 19:25:53 11
backup and remove files with access time older than 5 days.

This deals nicely with files having special characters in the file name (space ' or "). Parallel is from https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/
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tar -zcvpf backup_`date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M%S"`.tar.gz `find <target> -atime +5 -type f` 2> /dev/null | parallel -X rm -f

unixmonkey8046 · 2010-01-28 12:41:41 3
Kill multiple instances of a running process

Find and kill multiple instances of a process with one simple command.
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pgrep rouge-process | xargs sudo kill -9

mheadd · 2010-05-09 22:30:05 6
Revert all modified files in an SVN repo
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svn revert .

zhenggc1 · 2013-03-13 06:07:42 4
use ImageMagik to convert tint (hue rotation) of an icon set directory.

see http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/color_mods/#modulate
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/bin/ls *.png | xargs -l1 -I {} convert {} -modulate 100,100,70 ../../icons/32x32/{}

hute37 · 2011-06-13 14:35:10 4
Poll and print end of lates modified file

Watches for file modifications in the current directory and tails the file.
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watch 'ls -tr1 | tail -n1 | xargs tail'

batandwa · 2013-05-09 11:37:59 10
Copy all images to external hard-drive
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ls *.jpg | xargs -n1 -i cp {} /external-hard-drive/directory

techie · 2013-05-09 08:33:01 10
Find broken symlinks
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find . -type l | xargs file | grep broken

kineticrick · 2011-04-07 22:58:02 4
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list files recursively by size

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Create a tar archive with all files of a certain type found in present dir and subdirs

Note: the tar archive must not exist in order to create it. If exists it will only be updated and no already existent files in present search will still remain in the tar archive. The update option has to be used instead of create because the command tar may be executed more than once depending on the number of arguments that find throws. You can see maximum number of arguments with 'getconf ARG_MAX'

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Insert a comment on command line for reminder

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List the Sizes of Folders and Directories

I wanted an easy way to list out the sizes of directories and all of the contents of those directories recursively.

Update IP filter for qBittorrent

Downloads Bluetack's level 1 IP blocklist in .p2p format, suitable for various Bittorrent clients.

Convert CSV to JSON

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Reuse last parameter

Reuse the last parameter of the previous command line

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