Commands using find (1,252)
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-1find . -name "*~" -exec rm {} \;
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-1find . -name "*.jpg" | perl -ne'chomp; $name = $_; $quote = chr(39); s/[$quote\\!]/_/ ; print "mv \"$name\" \"$_\"\n"'
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U have to make key exchange in order to avoid continuous password prompt. Show Sample Output
-1find <dir> -type f -mtime +<days> -exec scp -r {} user@backuphost:/data/bkup \; -
* lowQ/ is the output directory * pass quality level from 1 to 100
-1find . -maxdepth 1 -iname '*jpg' -exec convert -quality 60 {} lowQ/{} \; -
finds all forms instanciated into a symfony project, pruning svn files.
-1find apps/ -name "*.svn-base" -prune -o -print -name "*.php" | xargs grep -E 'new .+Form\(' -
NOT MINE! Taken from hackzine.com blog. It creates a tree-style output of all the (sub)folders and (sub)files from the current folder and down(deeper) Quoting some of hackzine's words "Murphy Mac sent us a link to a handy find/sed command that simulates the DOS tree command that you might be missing on your Mac or Linux box. [..split...] Like most things I've seen sed do, it does quite a bit in a single line of code and is completely impossible to read. Sure it's just a couple of substitutions, but like a jack in the box, it remains a surprise every time I run it." Show Sample Output
-1find . -print | sed -e 's;[^/]*/;|____;g;s;____|; |;g' -
I needed to get a feel for how "old" different websites were, based on their directories. Show Sample Output
-1date -d "@$(find dir -type f -printf '%C@\n' | sort -n | sed -n "$(($(find dir -type f | wc -l)/2))p")" +%F -
Extensible to other ugly extensions like *.JPG, *.Jpg etc.. Leave out the last pipe to sh to perform a dry run.
-1find ./ -iname "*.mp3" -type f -printf "mv '%p' '%p'\n" | sed -e "s/mp3'$/mp3'/I" | sh -
-1find . -name "*.py" -exec grep -n -H -E "^(import|from) math" {} \;
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-1find -type f -printf '%P\000' | egrep -iz '\.(avi|mpg|mov|flv|wmv|asf|mpeg|m4v|divx|mp4|mkv)$' | sort -z | xargs -0 ls -1
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-1find . -name "\.svn" -exec rm -rf {} ";"
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This command will generate "CHECK TABLE `db_name.table_name` ;" statements for all tables present in databases on a MySQL server, which can be piped into the mysql command. (Can also be altered to perform OPTIMIZE and REPAIR functions.) Tested on MySQL 4.x and 5.x systems in a Linux environment under bash. Show Sample Output
-1DD=`cat /etc/my.cnf | sed "s/#.*//g;" | grep datadir | tr '=' ' ' | gawk '{print $2;}'` && ( cd $DD ; find . -mindepth 2 | grep -v db\.opt | sed 's/\.\///g; s/\....$//g; s/\//./;' | sort | uniq | tr '/' '.' | gawk '{print "CHECK TABLE","`"$1"`",";";}' ) -
needs no GNU tools, as far as I see it
-1find . -exec grep foobar /dev/null {} \; | awk -F: '{print $1}' | xargs vi -
Make sure that find does not touch anything other than regular files, and handles non-standard characters in filenames while passing to xargs.
-1find . -type f -exec grep -qi 'foo' {} \; -print0 | xargs -0 vim -
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).
-1find . -type f -name '*.c' -exec wc -l {} \; | awk '{sum+=$1} END {print sum}' -
search argument in PATH accept grep expressions without args, list all binaries found in PATH Show Sample Output
-1function sepath { echo $PATH |tr ":" "\n" |sort -u |while read L ; do cd "$L" 2>/dev/null && find . \( ! -name . -prune \) \( -type f -o -type l \) 2>/dev/null |sed "s@^\./@@" |egrep -i "${*}" |sed "s@^@$L/@" ; done ; } -
The command find search commands with size zero and erase them.
-1find . -size 0 -print0 | xargs -0 rm -
Deletes files older than "n" minutes ago. Note the plus sign before the n is important and means "greater than n". This is more precise than atime, since atime is specified in units of days. NOTE that you can use amin/atime, mmin/mtime, and cmin/ctime for access, modification, and change times, respectively. Also, using -delete is faster than piping to xargs, since no piping is needed.
-1find -amin +[n] -delete -
-1find . -type f | perl -lne 'print if -T;' | xargs egrep "somepattern"
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The command will help to print the location of the pattern. Above command will print all the files which contain variable "$foo" along with line containing that pattern. Specify pattern after "grep"
-1find . -exec grep $foo {} \; -print -
Whenever you compile a new kernel, there are always new modules. The best way to make sure you have the correct modules loaded when you boot is to add all your modules in the modules.autoload file (they will be commented) and uncomment all those modules you need. Also a good way to keep track of the available modules in your system. For other distros you may have to change the name of the file to /etc/modprobe.conf Show Sample Output
-1find /lib/modules/`uname -r`/ -type f -iname '*.o' -or -iname '*.ko' |grep -i -o '[a-z0-9]*[-|_]*[0-9a-z]*\.ko$' |xargs -I {} echo '# {}' >>/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 -
This is very similar to the first example except that it employs the 'exec' argument of the find command rather than piping the result to xargs. The second example is nice and tidy but different *NIXs may not have as capable a grep command.
-1find . -name "*.php" -exec grep -il searchphrase {} \; -
Use find's built-in ability to call programs. Alternatively, find -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*.7z" -print0 | xargx -0 -n 1 7zr e would work, too.
-1find -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*.7z" -exec 7zr e '{}' ';' -
-1find . -maxdepth 1 -type f| xargs sha1sum | sed 's/^\(\w*\)\s*\(.*\)/\2 \1/' | while read LINE; do mv $LINE; done
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Use find to recursively make a list of all files from the current directory and downwards. The files have to have an extension of the ones listed. Then for every file found, grep it for 'searchString', returns the filename if searchString is found. Show Sample Output
-1find . -type f \( -name "*.js" -o -name "*.php" -o -name "*.inc" -o -name "*.html" -o -name "*.htm" -o -name "*.css" \) -exec grep -il 'searchString' {} \; - ‹ First < 40 41 42 43 44 > Last ›
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