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find -size +100M
2013-10-07 18:16:14
User: pdxdoughnut
Functions: find
Tags: disk usage find disk space
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Recursivly search current directory for files larger than 100MB
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find -L /home/sonic/archive -name '*gz' -type f
2013-10-07 14:32:22
User: sonic
Functions: find
Tags: find
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make GNU find follow symbolic links

If /home/sonic/archive/ was a symlink to /backup/sonic/archive it would follow the links and give you the file listing. By default find will NOT follow symbolic links. The default behavior for the find command is to treat the symlinks as literal files.

I discovered this when trying to write a script run via cron to delete files with a modification time older than X days. The easiest solution was to use:

/usr/bin/find -L /home/sonic/archive -name '*gz' -type f -mtime +14 -exec rm '{}' \;

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find . -name '*pdf*' -print0 | xargs -0 ls -lt | head -20
2013-10-03 21:58:51
User: fuats
Functions: find head ls xargs
Tags: last, modfiied find xargs
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Prints the latest modified files in a directory tree recursively

Sorts by latest modified files by looking to current directory and all subdirectories

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find .git/objects -type f -printf "%P\n" | sed s,/,, | while read object; do echo "=== $obj $(git cat-file -t $object) ==="; git cat-file -p $object; done
2013-10-02 09:09:00
User: hamador
Functions: echo find read sed
Tags: git repository content
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Print out the contents of a Git repository (useful for broken repositories)
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for AAA in $(find /usr/local/bin -type l); do ls -gG "${AAA}"; done
2013-10-01 10:49:12
User: rgregor
Functions: find ls
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Display a list of local shell scripts soft-linked to /usr/local/bin

Display a list of local shell scripts soft-linked to /usr/local/bin

Put local shell scripts to local ~/bin/ directory and soft-link them to /usr/local/bin/ which is in the $PATH variable to run them from anywhere.

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find ./ -type f -size +500k -exec ls -1Ash {} \; | sort -hr | cat -n
2013-10-01 10:32:28
User: rgregor
Functions: cat find ls sort
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Display a numbered list of files bigger than 500K, sorted by size (human readable)

"find ./ ..." could be replaced with "find $PWD ..." to display absolute path instead of relative path.

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find /Applications -path '*Contents/_MASReceipt/receipt' -maxdepth 4 -print |sed 's#.app/Contents/_MASReceipt/receipt#.app#g; s#/Applications/##'
2013-09-28 15:44:32
User: bugmenot
Functions: find sed
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Show me all of my Mac App Store apps

Shows the OS X applications downloaded from App Store. Doesn't include manually added apps.

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find . -type f | perl -ne 'chop(); $ext = substr($_, rindex($_, ".") + 1); print "$ext\n";' | sort | uniq --count | sort -n
2013-09-26 07:45:19
User: t3o
Functions: find perl sort uniq
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Find used fileextensions in a project

When trying to find an error in a hosted project it's interesting to find out how the source is organized: Are there .inc files? Or .php files only? Or .xml files that probably contain translated texts?

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find -f . png | while read line; do pngcrush -ow -brute $line; done
2013-09-25 13:40:14
User: mildfuzz
Functions: find read
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pngcrush all .png files in the directory structure

Find's all png's in the current folder and all of its children

pngcrushes all results.

Destructive.

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echo '#! /usr/bin/ksh\necho `cat $1 | openssl dgst -sha256` $1' > sslsha256; chmod +x sslsha256; find directory -type f -exec ./sslsha256 \{\} \;
2013-09-18 17:37:50
User: RAKK
Functions: chmod echo find
Tags: find unix aix sha256sum
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IBM AIX: Calculate the SHA256 hashes of a directory without sha256sum

This command is for producing GNU sha256sum-compatible hashes on UNIX systems that don't have sha256sum but do have OpenSSL, such as stock IBM AIX.

1.- Saves a wrapper script for UNIX find that does the following:

A.- Feeds a file to openssl on SHA256 hash calculation mode

B.- Echoes the output followed by the filename

2.- Makes the file executable

3.- Runs find on a directory, only processing files, and running on each one the wrapper script that calculates SHA256 hashes

Pending is figuring out how to verify a sha256sum file on a similar environment.

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find -name *.bak -print0 | du -hc --files0-from=-
2013-08-23 14:15:33
User: muffl0n
Functions: du find
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Show sizes and calculate sum of all files found by find
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find . -name "*.h" -o -name "*.cpp" | xargs sed -i 's/addVertexes/addVertices/g'
2013-08-07 07:31:45
User: egeoffray
Functions: find sed xargs
Tags: search and replace
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Recursive find and replace in h an cpp files
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find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 stat -c'%Y :%y %12s %n' | sort -nr | cut -d: -f2- | head
2013-08-03 09:53:46
User: HerbCSO
Functions: cut find sort stat xargs
Tags: sort find HEAD cut stat
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Find last modified files in a directory and its subdirectories

Goes through all files in the directory specified, uses `stat` to print out last modification time, then sorts numerically in reverse, then uses cut to remove the modified epoch timestamp and finally head to only output the last 10 modified files.

Note that on a Mac `stat` won't work like this, you'll need to use either:

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 stat -f '%m%t%Sm %12z %N' | sort -nr | cut -f2- | head

or alternatively do a `brew install coreutils` and then replace `stat` with `gstat` in the original command.

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find . -type f -exec md5sum {} \;
2013-07-30 08:56:07
User: qistoph
Functions: find md5sum
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md5sum for files with bad characters
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find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec sh -c "printf '{} ' ; find '{}' -type f -ls | wc -l" \;
2013-07-29 19:46:35
User: HerbCSO
Functions: find sh
Tags: find file count subfolders
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Count number of files in subdirectories

For each directory from the current one, list the counts of files in each of these directories. Change the -maxdepth to drill down further through directories.

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find (); { ls $1 | while read line; do [[ -d $1/$line ]] && find $1/$line $2 || echo $1/$line | grep $2; done; }
2013-07-28 22:21:39
User: a8ksh4
Functions: echo find grep ls read
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bash find function

basic find implementation for systems that don't actually have find, like an android console without busybox installed.

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find $(YourPATH) -type f -exec dos2unix '{}' \;
2013-07-26 09:07:35
User: chenhow1985
Functions: find
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change file format at one time
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find /var/scripts -name 'backup*' -exec {} ';'
2013-07-24 21:25:21
User: piscue
Functions: find
Tags: backup
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run all

It eases the way of creating cron jobs of backup scripts.

Just put this line as cron job, and all your backups are called sequentially.

Allows you to forget, when in time, call this backup, just focus on your scripting. Also maintains the way of calling a single backup script when It's needed.

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find /logs -ls -xdev | sort -nrk 7 | head -10
2013-07-22 08:36:03
User: vidya99343
Functions: find head sort
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Find Largest files of mount point

bash-3.2$ find /logs -ls -xdev | sort -nrk 7 | head -10

1761905 205380 -rwxrwxr-x 1 wsadmin logadmin 210095353 Jul 22 01:33 /logs/intlpymt/Trace.log

652689 187360 -rwxrwxr-x 1 wsadmin logadmin 191663182 Jul 21 23:00 /logs/websphere/wsfpp1lppwa1213omsecureServer/SystemOut_13.07.21_23.00.12.log

2380449 186536 -rwxrwxr-x 1 wsadmin logadmin 190819939 Jul 16 14:03 /logs/omset/traceIntl.log.201307161403.lppwa1213.gz

2119524 183888 -rwxrwxr-x 1 wsadmin logadmin 188110111 Jul 22 01:33 /logs/intlpymt/intlpymtria/Trace.log

652816 160332 -rwxrwxr-x 1 wsadmin logadmin 164011871 Aug 14 2012 /logs/websphere/wsfpp1lppwa1213omsecureServer/SystemOut.log_08142012.gzip

653312 128916 -rwxrwxr-x 1 wsadmin logadmin 131873943 Jul 18 10:49 /logs/websphere/heapdump.20130718.104150.27592.0006.phd.201307181406.lppwa1213.gz

653320 128916 -rwxrwxr-x 1 wsadmin logadmin 131873735 Jul 18 10:40 /logs/websphere/heapdump.20130718.104012.27592.0002.phd.201307181406.lppwa1213.gz

653309 128912 -rwxrwxr-x 1 wsadmin logadmin 131867602 Jul 18 10:46 /logs/websphere/heapdump.20130718.104008.27592.0001.phd.201307181405.lppwa1213.gz

653323 128872 -rwxrwxr-x 1 wsadmin logadmin 131828157 Jul 18 10:41 /logs/websphere/heapdump.20130718.104109.27592.0004.phd.201307181407.lppwa1213.gz

652783 120288 -rwxrwxr-x 1 wsadmin logadmin 123047750 Aug 13 2012 /logs/websphere/wsfpp1lppwa1213omsecureServer/SystemOut.log_0813.2012.gzip

bash-3.2$

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find /logs -ls -xdev | sort -nrk 7 | head -10
2013-07-22 08:34:28
User: vidya99343
Functions: find head sort
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Find Largest files of mount point
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find ./ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum
2013-07-18 07:18:54
User: d24m
Functions: find xargs
Tags: find xargs md5sum print0
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md5sum for files with bad characters
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find ./ -type f | sed "s:[\ \',\"]:\\\&:g" | xargs md5sum
2013-07-17 18:54:14
User: crazedsanity
Functions: find sed xargs
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md5sum for files with bad characters

Recursively list all files in the current directory & get their md5sum, even if the filename has bad characters.

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find . -type d | sed -e "s/[^-][^\/]*\// |/g" -e "s/|\([^ ]\)/|-\1/"
2013-07-16 10:08:34
User: opexxx
Functions: find sed
Tags: sed find
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show directory three

show directory three

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find . | sort | awk 'NR%2==0' | xargs rm $1
2013-07-11 07:36:18
User: sucotronic
Functions: awk find rm sort xargs
Tags: backup space clean
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purge half of files in backup directory

If you have a directory with lot of backups (full backups I mean), when it gets to some size, you could want to empty some space. With this command you'll remove half of the files. The command assumes that your backup files starts with YYYYMMDD or that they go some alphabetical order.

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find . -name ".DS_Store" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf
2013-07-08 07:24:01
User: alexanv
Functions: find rm xargs
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Recursive remove files by mask
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