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Clean-up release directories keeping the only the latest two

Deletes capistrano-style release directories (except that there are dashes between the YYYY-MM-DD) Show Sample Output
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```
user@server:~/apps/appname/releases$ ls
2010-12-02-121502  2010-12-01-215457
```
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find . -maxdepth 1 -type d | grep -Pv "^.$" | sort -rn --field-separator="-" | sed -n '3,$p' | xargs rm -rf

wilmoore · 2011-03-08 17:38:26 6
one line command to recursively add all jar files in current folder to java class path

a pretty simple script when running java programs from command line Show Sample Output
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```
.:/home/hyhu/Ubuntu One/javalibs/a.jar:/home/hyhu/Ubuntu One/javalibs/b.jar:/home/hyhu/Ubuntu One/javalibs/c.jar:/home/hyhu/Ubuntu 
```
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CLASSPATH=.; export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH$(find "$PWD" -name '*.jar' -type f -printf ':%p\n' | sort -u | tr -d '\n'); echo $CLASSPATH

dexterhu · 2011-03-11 19:21:15 3
recursively add all sub folders with executable file of current folder to PATH environment variable

(1) don't run twice, or the same folder will occur in $PATH. (2) otherwise you need to start a new terminal Show Sample Output
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```
blah blah blah ..... (too long)
```
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export PATH=$PATH$(find "$PWD" -name '.*' -prune -o -type f -a -perm /u+x -printf ':%h\n' | sort -u | tr -d '\n'); echo $PATH

dexterhu · 2011-03-11 19:31:17 7
Convert filenames from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8

Warn: use convmv or detox if you can: they are the right tools. But if you want to do it manually, you can use this command to find the problematic files and transliterate their accented characters to their ascii equivalent. (Useful when doing cd backup: growisofs may fail on files which come from the old iso8859-* days.)
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LANG=fr_FR.iso8859-1 find . -name '*['$'\xe9'$'\xea'$'\xeb'$'\xc9'']*'|while read f; do a="$(echo $f|iconv -f iso8859-1 -t ascii//TRANSLIT)"; echo "move $f => $a"; done

gibboris · 2011-04-06 17:03:31 3
Find the files that include a TODO statement within a project
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find . -iname '*TODO*'

Force4 · 2011-04-07 09:58:11 53
Find files older than 60 days
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find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -mtime +60 -ls

mack · 2011-04-26 01:11:07 7
Recursively remove all '.java.orig' files (scalable)
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find . -type f -iname '*.java.orig' -delete

evandrix · 2011-05-18 15:39:36 9
Find and replace

You can replace "." with your folder
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find . -name '*.txt' -exec mv {} {}.sh \ ;

wilbercarmona · 2011-06-02 23:47:19 3
Find redirection and grep

You can find every file with png extension and redirect its output to file. Later you can find a string inside the file.
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find . -name "*.png" | tee images.txt | grep book

wilbercarmona · 2011-06-02 23:55:50 4
To compact all SQLite databases in your home directory
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find ~ -name '*.sqlite' -exec sqlite3 '{}' 'VACUUM;' \;

kev · 2011-06-29 16:36:05 3
Count the lines of source code in directory, ignoring files in generated by svn

There's nothing particularly novel about this combination of find, grep, and wc, I'm just putting it here in case I want it again. Show Sample Output
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```
123 ./src/java/com/company/app/service/Foo.java
 42 ./test/java/com/company/app/service/FooTests.java
165 total
```
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find . -name '*.java' -o -name '*.xml' | grep -v '\.svn' | xargs wc -l

ewilson · 2011-06-30 12:45:40 5
Renames all files in the current directory such that the new file contains no space characters.

Replaces space in a file with a underline
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find ./ $1 -name "* *" | while read a ; do mv "${a}" "${a//\ /_}" ; done

mamue · 2011-07-04 08:40:34 3
copy selected folder found recursively under src retaining the structure

It's not better than the former, just another possible way. Found at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/copy-directory-structure-only-208796/ Credits to whansard The command finds all .mp3 files in all subfolders from where it's ran, catches its "relative path" and creates inside /new/path/ with the same "relative path". PS: /new/path/ must exists Use case: folder with flac files with tree structure ../artist/album/number-title.flac 1) convert flac->mp3 in the same folder: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/6341/convert-all-.flac-from-a-folder-subtree-in-192kb-mp3 2) search for mp3 files and recreate tree structure to another path: this command 3) move all mp3 files to that new folder: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/8854/move-mp3-files-to-another-path-with-existing-subtree-structure Show Sample Output
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```
$ find . -type d -exec mkdir /home/myuser/new/{} \;
mkdir: cannot create directory `/home/myuser/new/.': File exists
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find . -type d -exec mkdir /new/path/{} \;

paulochf · 2011-07-18 05:17:39 3
Hunt for the newest file.
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find . -printf "%T@ %p\n" | sed -e 1d | while read ts fn; do ts=${ts%.*}; if [ $ts -ge ${gts:-0} ]; then gts=$ts; echo `date -d @$gts` $fn; fi; done

bandie91 · 2011-09-13 08:00:27 4
find&grep all in once

calls grep on all non-binary files returned by find on its current working directory Show Sample Output
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```
./Main.java://	public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
```
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#!/bin/bash find | grep -P -v "(class)|(zip)|(png)|(gz)|(gif)|(jpeg)|(jpg)" | xargs -I @ grep -H $1 @

kirdie · 2011-10-14 13:28:49 4
recursively detecting files with a BOM
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find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0r awk '/^\xEF\xBB\xBF/ {print FILENAME} {nextfile}'

unixmonkey24812 · 2012-01-11 03:15:12 4
copy all Photos from Canon A520 to one place

You must spezify /where folder and / folder If you have another camera you must experiment with Exif data (after -g and after grep) and mask of your photo files IMG_????.JPG I have do it on Knoppix 6.7.0 You must have installed exiv2. Show Sample Output
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```
a lot of errors, it is pictures from another Cameras, which can't be grepped...
```
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find / -type f -name IMG_????.JPG -print0 |xargs -0 exiv2 -g Exif.Canon.ModelID '{}' |grep A520 |rev |cut --complement -d " " -f1-40 |rev |xargs -I {} cp --parents {} /where

fladam · 2012-03-10 03:01:01 3
find all c and cpp files except the ones in the unit-test and android subdirectories

Very useful for finding all the source code that should be compiled.
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find . -name unit-test -o -name '*.c' -o -name '*.cpp' | egrep -v "unit-test|android"

riansanderson · 2012-04-26 17:13:41 3
Delete empty directories only in present level
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find ./ -maxdepth 1 -empty -type d -delete

bugmenot · 2012-08-09 12:58:46 7
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 -iname "$1"; }; fd() { find -maxdepth 4 -type d -iname "$1"; }

plasticboy · 2012-08-15 15:04:48 3
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 Show Sample Output
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```
/usr/bin/hello
/usr/lib/tk8.5/demos/hello
```
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find $(locate hello) -type f -executable -print|grep -E "hello\$"

unixmonkey14859 · 2012-08-18 07:51:53 5
Sum files of certain extension in given directory

Also shows files as they are found. Only works from a tty.
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echo $(find <directory> -name '*.<extension>' -exec du -s {} \; | tee $(tty) | cut -f1 | tr '\n' '+') 0 | bc

ysangkok · 2012-09-17 22:46:50 11
free some harddrive space by garbage collecting in all your git repos

Assumes you've cd'd to the folder in which all your git repos reside; you could run it from ~ without -maxdepth, although that might make find take quite a while longer. If you have several processor cores, but not that much ram, you might want to run git config --global pack.threads 1 first, since gc-ing can eat lots of ram. Show Sample Output
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```
Counting objects: 1969, done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (579/579), done.
Writing objects: 100% (1969/1969), done.
Total 1969 (delta 1334), reused 1969 (delta 1334)
Counting objects: 12491, done.
Delta compression using up to 8 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (2997/2997), done.
Writing objects: 100% (12491/12491), done.
Total 12491 (delta 9355), reused 12491 (delta 9355)
```
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find . -maxdepth 2 -type d -name '.git' -print0 | while read -d ''; do (cd "$REPLY"; git gc); done

unhammer · 2012-11-07 08:38:33 4
Find out if a module is installed in perl

Will check if the given module is installed in the @INC. It will print the path and return 0 if found, or 1 otherwise. Based on script from SharpyWarpy in http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/how-to-list-all-installed-perl-modules-216603/ Show Sample Output
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```
/usr/local/share/perl5/Collectd/Plugins/Graphite.pm
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perl -MFile::Find=find -MFile::Spec::Functions -Tlwe '$found=1; find { wanted => sub { if (/$ARGV[0]\.pm\z/) { print canonpath $_; $found=0; } }, no_chdir => 1 }, @INC; exit $found;' Collectd/Plugins/Graphite

keymon · 2013-01-11 11:01:46 5
Find files and list them sorted by modification time
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find -type f | xargs ls -1tr

unixmonkey50727 · 2013-03-20 16:43:54 4
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dd with progress bar

piping through 'pv' shows a simple progress/speed bar for dd. This is a replacement for my otherwise favorite 'while :;do killall -USR1 dd;sleep 1;done'

Simple Video Surveillance by email

This takes a picture (with the web cam) every 5 minutes, and send the picture to your e-mail. Some systems support mail -a "References: " so that all video surveillance emails are grouped in a single email thread. To keep your inbox clean, it is still possible to filter and move to trash video surveillance emails (and restore these emails only if you really get robbed!) For instance with Gmail, emails sent to me+trash@gmail.com can be filtered with "Matches: DeliveredTo:me+trash@gmail.com"

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"

Execute a command with a timeout

A timeout is great, but what if the command is taking longer than expected because it's hung up or ran into some other problem? That's where the -k option comes in. Run "some_command" and timeout after 30s. If the command is still running after 1 minute, it will receive a kill signal.

Compute the average number of KB per file for each dir

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Compare two CSV files, discarding any repeated lines

The value for the sort command's -k argument is the column in the CSV file to sort on. In this example, it sorts on the second column. You must use some form of the sort command in order for uniq to work properly.

most changed files in domains by rdiff-backup output

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Change wallpaper for xfce4 >= 4.6.0

Simply changes the wallpaper of xfce4 from the command line. Not for multiple displays.

move a lot of files over ssh

copy files to a ssh server with gzip compression

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