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Delete Text Editor's Backup
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find . -name "*~" -exec rm {} \;

yasu00000 · 2009-02-06 06:46:30 19
Renaming jpg extension files at bunch
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find . -name "*.jpg" | perl -ne'chomp; $name = $_; $quote = chr(39); s/[$quote\\!]/_/ ; print "mv \"$name\" \"$_\"\n"'

mnikhil · 2009-02-07 18:44:54 11
bkup the old files

U have to make key exchange in order to avoid continuous password prompt. Show Sample Output
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```
[root@localhost ~]# find /home/ -type f -mtime +30 -exec scp -r {} root@myhost:/data/bkup \;
.bash_history                                 100%  639     0.6KB/s   00:00
saved_state                                   100%   41KB  41.4KB/s   00:00
......
```
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find <dir> -type f -mtime +<days> -exec scp -r {} user@backuphost:/data/bkup \;

rbattu · 2009-02-12 07:43:29 12
Compress Images using convert (ImageMagick) in a bulk

* lowQ/ is the output directory * pass quality level from 1 to 100
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find . -maxdepth 1 -iname '*jpg' -exec convert -quality 60 {} lowQ/{} \;

abhinay · 2009-02-15 19:34:38 8
find forms in a symfony 1.2 project

finds all forms instanciated into a symfony project, pruning svn files.
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find apps/ -name "*.svn-base" -prune -o -print -name "*.php" | xargs grep -E 'new .+Form\('

ubermuda · 2009-02-17 14:56:01 8
simulates the DOS tree command that you might be missing on your Mac or Linux box

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
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```
$ cd amsn_received
$ find . -print | sed -e 's;[^/]*/;|____;g;s;____|; |;g'
.
|____amsn_received
| |____screenshot1.png
| |____DSCF1171.JPG
| |____DSCF1202.JPG
| |____DSC00887.jpg
| |____DSC00953.jpg
| |____DSC00595.JPG
| |____at92A3.tmp.jpg
| |____ReadMe 1.pdf
| |____Screenshot.png
| |____cpuz.html
```
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find . -print | sed -e 's;[^/]*/;|____;g;s;____|; |;g'

JesusSuperstar · 2009-03-12 22:25:26 8
Find the median file modification time of files in a directory tree

I needed to get a feel for how "old" different websites were, based on their directories. Show Sample Output
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```
2006-05-20
```
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date -d "@$(find dir -type f -printf '%C@\n' | sort -n | sed -n "$(($(find dir -type f | wc -l)/2))p")" +%F

allengarvin · 2009-03-24 18:48:49 7
Rename *.MP3 *.Mp3 *.mP3 etc.. to *.mp3.

Extensible to other ugly extensions like *.JPG, *.Jpg etc.. Leave out the last pipe to sh to perform a dry run.
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find ./ -iname "*.mp3" -type f -printf "mv '%p' '%p'\n" | sed -e "s/mp3'$/mp3'/I" | sh

jnash · 2009-03-27 13:42:40 11
Find all python modules that use the math module
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find . -name "*.py" -exec grep -n -H -E "^(import|from) math" {} \;

chillihead · 2009-03-31 19:56:42 6
Show all video files in the current directory (and sub-dirs)
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find -type f -printf '%P\000' | egrep -iz '\.(avi|mpg|mov|flv|wmv|asf|mpeg|m4v|divx|mp4|mkv)$' | sort -z | xargs -0 ls -1

udim · 2009-04-19 19:45:11 23
Remove all .svn folders inside a folder
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find . -name "\.svn" -exec rm -rf {} ";"

caiosba · 2009-05-14 12:02:25 9
Generate CHECK TABLE statements for all MySQL database tables on a server

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
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```
CHECK TABLE `mysql.columns_priv` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.db` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.func` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.help_category` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.help_keyword` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.help_relation` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.help_topic` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.host` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.tables_priv` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.time_zone` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.time_zone_leap_second` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.time_zone_name` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.time_zone_transition` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.time_zone_transition_type` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.user` ;
CHECK TABLE `mysql.user_info` ;
```
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DD=`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"`",";";}' )

atcroft · 2009-07-25 03:42:31 15
Edit all files found having a specific string found by grep

needs no GNU tools, as far as I see it
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find . -exec grep foobar /dev/null {} \; | awk -F: '{print $1}' | xargs vi

verboEse · 2009-09-03 16:02:18 3
Edit all files found having a specific string found by grep

Make sure that find does not touch anything other than regular files, and handles non-standard characters in filenames while passing to xargs.
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find . -type f -exec grep -qi 'foo' {} \; -print0 | xargs -0 vim

arcege · 2009-09-03 17:55:26 7
Make a statistic about the lines of code

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).
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find . -type f -name '*.c' -exec wc -l {} \; | awk '{sum+=$1} END {print sum}'

arcege · 2009-09-04 15:51:30 6
search for a file in PATH

search argument in PATH accept grep expressions without args, list all binaries found in PATH Show Sample Output
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```
$ sepath noo
/usr/openwin/bin/ttsnoop
/usr/sbin/snoop
$ sepath ^ps$
/bin/ps
/usr/bin/ps
/usr/ucb/ps
```
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function 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 ; }

mobidyc · 2009-09-11 15:03:22 5
Erase empty files

The command find search commands with size zero and erase them.
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find . -size 0 -print0 | xargs -0 rm

osvaldofilho · 2009-10-29 14:10:02 3
remove files and directories with acces time older than a given time

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.
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find -amin +[n] -delete

TeacherTiger · 2009-11-20 17:15:28 4
search for a pattern (regex) in all text files (ignoring binary files) in a directory tree
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find . -type f | perl -lne 'print if -T;' | xargs egrep "somepattern"

unixmonkey7263 · 2009-12-01 19:12:03 6
Find and print pattern location from all files on command line from directory and its sub directories.

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"
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find . -exec grep $foo {} \; -print

linuxgeek · 2009-12-30 17:41:44 4
[Gentoo] Input modules, commented, in your module.autoload file

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
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```
# /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6:  kernel modules to load when system boots.
#
# Note that this file is for 2.6 kernels.
#
# Add the names of modules that you'd like to load when the system
# starts into this file, one per line.  Comments begin with # and
# are ignored.  Read man modules.autoload for additional details.

# For example:
# aic7xxx
# mixer-oss.ko
# pcm-oss.ko
# seq-device.ko
# seq-oss.ko
# snd-seq.ko
```
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find /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

paragao · 2010-01-13 02:12:08 4
Find all files containing a word

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.
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find . -name "*.php" -exec grep -il searchphrase {} \;

unixmonkey7797 · 2010-01-16 05:09:30 4
Extract all 7zip files in current directory taking filename spaces into account

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.
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find -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*.7z" -exec 7zr e '{}' ';'

minnmass · 2010-01-23 19:50:10 4
Rename all the files in the current directory into their sha1sum
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find . -maxdepth 1 -type f| xargs sha1sum | sed 's/^$\w*$\s*$.*$/\2 \1/' | while read LINE; do mv $LINE; done

foremire · 2010-01-25 20:21:01 11
Recursively search a directory tree for all .php .inc .html .htm .css .js files for a certain string

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
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```
./index.html
./lib/php/buttons.php
```
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find . -type f $ -name "*.js" -o -name "*.php" -o -name "*.inc" -o -name "*.html" -o -name "*.htm" -o -name "*.css" $ -exec grep -il 'searchString' {} \;

niels_bom · 2010-02-07 15:28:20 3
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Remove security limitations from PDF documents using ghostscript (for Windows)

#4345 also works under windows

Set your profile so that you resume or start a screen session on login

From screen's manpage: "Attach here and now. In detail this means: If a session is running, then reattach. If necessary detach and logout remotely first. If it was not running create it and notify the user. This is the author's favorite." Toss this in your ~/.bash_profile so that you never have that "oh crap" moment where you wanted to run something in screen and didn't.

cat large file to clipboard with speed-o-meter

shortest alternative without the speed-o-meter"xclip large.xml" "xclip -o" to get the clipboard content, alternatively [shift key] + insert or middle button of your mouse.

Google Translate

allow multiword translations

check open ports without netstat or lsof

Place the argument of the most recent command on the shell

This works if your terminal is in Vi mode

list block devices

Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Find files that were modified by a given command

This has helped me numerous times trying to find either log files or tmp files that get created after execution of a command. And really eye opening as to how active a given process really is. Play around with -anewer, -cnewer & -newerXY

Rename files in batch

extract column from csv file

extracts the 5th column using the delimiter ','

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