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Removes the .svn entries from a project

simple find and exec example
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find -name ".svn" -exec rm -rf {} \;

ugiflezet · 2009-03-08 15:53:24 6
zip all files in a directory, one file per zip

Note that this will not work with files with spaces or characters that need to be escaped. Feel free to leave any comments to improve upon this command, and I'll add it in. Thanks! Show Sample Output
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```
zip error: Nothing to do! (..zip)
zipping file: ./stuff
  adding: stuff (stored 0%)
zipping file: ./stuff2
  adding: stuff2 (stored 0%)
zipping file: ./stuff3
  adding: stuff3 (stored 0%)
zipping file: ./zipscript.sh
  adding: zipscript.sh (deflated 16%)
```
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for i in $( find . ); do echo zipping file: $i zip $i.zip $i done

archlich · 2009-04-07 20:37:49 12
Remove executable bit from all files in the current directory recursively, excluding other directories

I hate -exec with find, and this pattern quickly expands to other tasks.
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find . -type f | while read f; do chmod -x "$f"; done

alesplin · 2009-11-09 04:30:44 3
/bin/rm: Argument list too long.

root@wow/var/spool/clientmqueue # rm spam-* /bin/rm: Argument list too long.
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find . -name 'spam-*' |xargs rm;find . -name 'spam-*' -print0 | xargs -0 rm

mancipar · 2011-01-22 06:46:21 3
Replace spaces with tabs & format file source recursively within a directory

Recursively find php files and replace tab characters with spaces. Options: "\*.php" -- replace this with the files you wish to find "expand" -- replace tabs with spaces (use "unexpand" to replace spaces with tabs) "-t4" -- tabs represent 4 spaces Note: The IFS="" in the middle is to prevent 'read' from eating leading/trailing whitespace in filenames.
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find . -type f -name \*.php | while IFS="" read i; do expand -t4 "$i" > "$i-"; mv "$i-" "$i"; done

flatcap · 2011-04-08 12:53:14 50
Show the single most recently modified file in a directory

Takes a directory name as an argument (defaults to current directory if no arguments are given). Prints the newest file in the directory. Show Sample Output
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```
$ ls -lart /tmp | tail -3
-rw-rw-rw-  1 bchittenden bchittenden    25919 Oct 17 10:37 image.txt
drwx------  2 bchittenden bchittenden     4096 Oct 17 11:30 orbit-bchittenden
drwxrwxrwt 22 root        root           12288 Oct 17 11:30 .

$ lastfile /tmp
/tmp/image.txt
```
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lastfile () { find ${1:-.} -maxdepth 1 -type f -printf "%T+ %p\n" | sort -n | tail -n1 | sed 's/[^[:space:]]\+ //'; }

bartonski · 2011-10-17 16:08:02 3
Counting the source code's line numbers C/C++ Java

Count your source and header file's line numbers For example for java change the command like this find . -name '*.java' -exec cat {} \;|wc -l Show Sample Output
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```
855476
```
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find /usr/include/ -name '*.[c|h]pp' -o -name '*.[ch]' -exec cat {} \;|wc -l

kerim · 2011-12-01 19:58:52 7
Find top 5 big files

This command is more robust because it handles spaces, newlines and control characters in filenames. It uses printf, not ls, to determine file size.
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count=0;while IFS= read -r -d '' line; do echo "${line#* }"; ((++count==5)) && break; done < <(find . -type f -printf '%s %p\0' | sort -znr)

sharfah · 2013-03-19 17:19:26 4
Find all IP's in /etc directory
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find /etc -exec grep '[0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9][0-9]*' {} \;

techie · 2013-04-29 10:10:11 8
show directory three

show directory three
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find . -type d | sed -e "s/[^-][^\/]*\// |/g" -e "s/|$[^ ]$/|-\1/"

opexxx · 2013-07-16 10:08:34 7
md5sum for files with bad characters
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find . -type f -exec md5sum {} \;

qistoph · 2013-07-30 08:56:07 8
Shortcut to find files with ease.

Actually your func will find both files and directorys that contain ${1}. This one only find files. ..and to look only for dirs: finddir() { find . -type d -iname "*${*}*" ; }
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findfile() { find . -type f -iname "*${*}*" ; }

Xk2c · 2015-01-01 03:15:51 8
Remove all pyc files
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find . -name \*.pyc -delete

zluyuer · 2016-09-07 01:49:59 17
Searching files

"*" is important if you don't know exact name of file. Check it out and you'll see
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find /dir/ -name *name*

cinan · 2009-02-09 20:24:10 16
delete files except some file
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find . |more |grep -v filename |xargs rm

shannan · 2009-03-01 03:21:18 7
Truncate logs in unix

This find files of name like *.log and truncates them.
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logs=$(find . -name *.log);for log in $logs; do cat /dev/null > $log;done

unixmonkey2006 · 2009-03-04 10:05:48 13
Delete all files in current directory that have been modified less than 5 days ago.
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find ./ -mtime -5 | xargs rm -f

skye · 2009-03-23 21:00:45 13
exec option in find

This example uses the -exec option to move all matching files into a backup directory
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find ~ -mtime +365 -exec mv {} /tmp/mybackup \;

kayowas · 2009-04-11 12:16:48 7
Recursively grep thorugh directory for string in file.

Recursive grep through directory for file.
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find directory/ |xargs grep -i "phrase"

tuxtutorials · 2010-01-26 14:56:56 3
Remove VIM temp files

Assuming only VIM has *~ files in your current dir. If you have usefull data in a file named in the *~ pattern, DO NOT RUN this command!
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find . -name "*~" -exec rm {} \;

ivanatora · 2010-02-26 10:54:02 7
bat add copyright info
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find . -name "*.c" -exec sed -i "/\/sh/a\####################################\n#Date:2010-05-18\n#Company:XXXXX tech Co.\n#Author:Wangjunling\n#Copyright:gpl\n####################################" {} \;

yogoloth · 2010-05-18 03:08:47 5
Recursive chmod all files and directories within the current directory

Corrected.
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find . -exec chmod 777 {} \;

craverii · 2010-10-11 21:00:26 3
Move files matching a certain pattern to another folder
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find . | grep ".*\[[Church|CPYAF].*" | while read f; do mv "$f" ../emails;done

evandrix · 2011-06-12 15:37:28 3
Chmod all directories (excluding files)
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chmod 755 $(find public_html -type d)

flxndn · 2011-07-25 14:50:17 10
remove all CVS directories
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find . -type d -name 'CVS' | xargs rm -r

kev · 2011-08-10 07:38:51 3
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Converting video file (.flv, .avi etc.) to .3gp

ffmpeg -i = input file name -s = set frame size, qcif=176x144 -vcodec = force video codec -r = frame-rate [default = 25] -b = bit-rate [200 kb/s] -acodec = force audio codec -ab = audio bitrate in bits/s [64k] -ac = no. of audio channels [1] -ar = audio sampling frequency [44100 Hz] optional: -sameq = use same video quality as source (implies VBR) -f = force format -y = overwrite output files

start vim in diff mode

vim will open both files side by side and show colored diffs

list block devices

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

Exit mc with 2 keystrokes

For those who like to hit instead of typing "exit" to leave the shell and find it annoying that it doesn't work in Midnight Commander, just press to switch to the subshell and now you can leave with

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"

Show a Package Version on Debian based distribution

if you don't want to show string "version?, then use awk or cut filter it: apt-cache show pkgname | grep -i "version:" | awk '{ print $2 }' we can also use regex to search many packages and show their versions: apt-cache search pkgregex | grep -i "version:"

Graphical tree of sub-directories

Prints a graphical directory tree from your current directory

Batch Convert SVG to PNG (in parallel)

Convert some SVG files into PNG using ImageMagick's convert command. Run the conversions in parallel to save time. This is safer than robinro's forkbomb approach :-) xargs runs four processes at a time -P4

Print one . instead of each line

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Changes a User Password via command line without promt

Used to change a password via a winscp faux shell

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