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find site/ -type d | xargs sudo chmod 755
2012-09-26 00:12:37
User: unixmonkey39631
Functions: chmod find sudo xargs
Tags: find, xargs, chmod,
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Change permission for all directories inside the current one
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find ./ -type f | xargs sudo chmod 644
2012-09-26 00:11:14
User: unixmonkey39631
Functions: chmod find sudo xargs
Tags: find, xargs, chmod
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Change permissions for all files in the current directory
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find /var/cache/pacman/pkg -not -mtime -7 | sudo xargs rm
2012-09-20 12:36:44
User: brejktru
Functions: find sudo xargs
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archlinux:Delete packages from pacman cache that are older than 7 days

Sometimes my /var/cache/pacman/pkg directory gets quite big in size. If that happens I run this command to remove old package files. Packages that we're upgraded in last N days are kept in case you are forced to downgrade a specific package. The command is obviously Arch Linux related.

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find . \( -iname '*.cpp' -o -iname '*.h' \) -exec wc -l {} \; | sort -n | cut --delimiter=. -f 1 | awk '{s+=$1} END {print s}'
2012-09-19 15:21:01
User: jecxjoopenid
Functions: awk cut find sort wc
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Count the number of lines of code, returns total

Searches for *.cpp and *.h in directory structure, counts the number of lines for each matching file and adds the counts together.

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find . -type f -size -80k -print0|xargs -0 rm
2012-09-19 12:15:32
User: DeepThought
Functions: find xargs
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find and delete files smaller than specific size

Probably neither faster nor better than -delete in find. It's just that I generally dislike teaching find builtin actions.

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echo $(find <directory> -name '*.<extension>' -exec du -s {} \; | tee $(tty) | cut -f1 | tr '\n' '+') 0 | bc
2012-09-17 22:46:50
User: ysangkok
Functions: cut du echo find tee tr
Tags: find du tty-dependant
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Sum files of certain extension in given directory

Also shows files as they are found. Only works from a tty.

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find . -type f -exec grep -Hn <pattern> {} \;
2012-09-08 19:43:08
User: funkjedi
Functions: find grep
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Search for a string inside all files below current directory
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find . -name "*" | xargs grep "mystring"
2012-08-30 21:41:34
User: deepakfrenzy
Functions: find grep xargs
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find all files in the current directory matching name * and searching for a string "mystring". outputs all the filenames that contain the search string.
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sudo find . -name "*.csv" | xargs /bin/rm
2012-08-29 11:38:37
User: defc0n1
Functions: find sudo xargs
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Delete large amount of files matching pattern

In case you ever got to many arguments using rm to delete multiple files matching a pattern this will help you

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find . -name vmware-*.log -exec rm -i {} \;
2012-08-29 11:19:37
User: defc0n1
Functions: find rm
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Delete all files matching a pattern
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find . -type f | xargs -I% bash -c 'echo -e "\033[31m%\033[0m" && [[ ! `file %` =~ .*binary.* ]] && head "%"'
2012-08-28 12:52:38
User: mx4492
Functions: bash find head xargs
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Preview All Files in Directory
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touch -t 201208211200 first ; touch -t 201208220100 last ; find /path/to/files/ -newer first ! -newer last | xargs -ifile mv -fv file /path/to/destination/ ; rm first; rm last;
2012-08-22 09:51:40
User: ktopaz
Functions: file find last mv rm touch xargs
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find files between specific date/times and move them to another folder

touch -t 201208211200 first ; touch -t 201208220100 last ;

creates 2 files: first & last, with timestamps that the find command should look between:

201208211200 = 2012-08-21 12:00

201208220100 = 2012-08-22 01:00

then we run find command with "-newer" switch, that finds by comparing timestamp against a reference file:

find /path/to/files/ -newer first ! -newer last

meaning: find any files in /path/to/files that are newer than file "first" and not newer than file "last"

pipe the output of this find command through xargs to a move command:

| xargs -ifile mv -fv file /path/to/destination/

and finally, remove the reference files we created for this operation:

rm first; rm last;

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find . -type f -size -80k -delete
2012-08-19 22:15:37
User: paranic
Functions: find
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find and delete files smaller than specific size
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find $(locate hello) -type f -executable -print|grep -E "hello\$"
2012-08-18 07:51:53
User: unixmonkey14859
Functions: find grep locate
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quick find executable from locate db

This command allow you quick find any executable by keyword(s) in your system.

NOTE: Sometime this command will output like this:

`hello.py.launch': No such file or directory

this is normal behaviour

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find . -name ".svn" -type d -exec rm -rf {} \;
2012-08-16 13:04:47
User: gigo6000
Functions: find rm
Tags: svn git rm
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Remove .svn dirs

This is useful when you are uploading svn project files to a new git repo.

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find . -cnewer <file a> -and ! -cnewer <file b>
2012-08-15 21:57:42
User: rdc
Functions: find
Tags: find
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Find files changed between dates defined by ctime of two files specified by name

This command finds all the files whose status has changed between the ctime of the older and newer .

Very useful if you can see from an ls listing a block of consecutive files you want to move or delete, but can't figure out exactly the time range by date.

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ff() { find -maxdepth 3 -type f -iname "$1"; }; fd() { find -maxdepth 4 -type d -iname "$1"; }
2012-08-15 15:04:48
User: plasticboy
Functions: find
Tags: find simple
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Quickly find files and folders in the current directory

These should be a little faster since they don't have to spawn grep.

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ff() { find -maxdepth 3 -type f | grep -i "$1"; }; fd() { find -maxdepth 4 -type d | grep -i "$1"; }
2012-08-12 13:44:39
User: expelledboy
Functions: find grep
Tags: find simple
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Quickly find files and folders in the current directory

My most used bash function without a doubt!

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find . -type f -exec file '{}' + | grep shell | awk -F':' '{print $1}' | xargs chmod u+x
2012-08-09 18:53:08
User: llebegue
Functions: awk chmod file find grep xargs
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Add executable bit to all shell scripts under current directory recursively.

Allows to change 'shell' compatible files execution bit even if their name is not *.sh

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find . -type f -name "*.sh" -exec chmod u+x {} \;
2012-08-09 18:10:22
User: djangofan
Functions: chmod find
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Add executable bit to all shell scripts under current directory recursively.

An example of this command that includes the -name arg.

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find ./ -empty -type d -delete
2012-08-09 13:01:35
User: bugmenot
Functions: find
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Delete recursively only empty folders on present dir
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find ./ -empty -type d -print
2012-08-09 13:01:04
User: bugmenot
Functions: find
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List recursively only empty folders on present dir
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find ./ -maxdepth 1 -empty -type d -delete
2012-08-09 12:58:46
User: bugmenot
Functions: find
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Delete empty directories only in present level
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find ./ -maxdepth 1 -empty -type d -print
2012-08-09 12:58:06
User: bugmenot
Functions: find
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List empty directories only in present level
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find Files/ -type d | parallel 'mkdir -p /BKP/{}' && find Files/ -type f | parallel 'rsync -a {} MKD/$(dirname {})'
2012-08-08 21:01:37
User: phribbr
Functions: dirname find
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Parallel copy - Faster copy

Copy files and dir in parallel. It is Faster.

Using the gnu-parallel.

Has 2 commands:

- First - Create dir structure in /BKP

find Files/ -type d | parallel 'mkdir -p /BKP/{}'

- Second - Copy for structure created

find Files/ -type f | parallel 'rsync -a {} /BKP/$(dirname {})'

- Great for backups!

- Can use "rsync" or "cp".

- Compare with a simple "rsync" or "cp"!

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