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Remove all node_module folders recursively

makes sure not to skip children nodemodules credit: https://coderwall.com/p/guqrca/remove-all-node_module-folders-recursively
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find . -name "node_modules" -type d -prune -exec rm -rf '{}' +

ctcrnitv · 2018-02-10 04:23:36 22
Find inside specific file type function
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findin() { find . -type f -name "*.$1" | xargs ack $2 }

maurobaraldi · 2018-02-23 17:53:05 27
Lower jpg quality
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find -type f -name '*.jpg' -exec mogrify -quality 70% '{}' \;

specktator_ · 2018-04-24 08:33:33 158

a quick function for searching changed files. just copy it in the bash Show Sample Output

FINDDATE() { LOCATION="${1:-.}"; find ${LOCATION} -type f -print0 | xargs -0 stat -c "%y %n" | sort | sed 's/.$[0-9]$\{9,\} +0[1-2]00/\t/' | sed 's/ /\t/g' }

emphazer · 2018-05-14 14:27:41 163

Compare directories (using cmp to compare files byte by byte) to find files of the same name that differ

Compare the content of the files in the current directory with files of the same name in the duplicate directory. Pop Quiz: You have a duplicate of a directory with files of the same name that might differ. What do you do? You could use diff to compare the directories, but that's boring and it isn't as clever as find -print0 with xargs. Note: You must omit stderr redirect 2>/dev/null to see the list of missing files from DUPDIR, if any. Hint: Redirect stderr to a new file to produce a more readable list of files that are missing from DUPDIR. Warning: This doesn't tell you if DUPDIR contains files not found in the current directory so don't delete DUPDIR. Show Sample Output
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```
./DIFFER.PNG /DUPDIR/./DIFFER.PNG differ: char 59, line 3
cmp: /DUPDIR/./NOMATCH.PNG: No such file or directory
```
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find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 -I % cmp % /DUPDIR/% 2>/dev/null

RiskNerd · 2018-07-08 02:25:57 252
Find only folders in a directory
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find . -type d

fredericorama · 2018-07-23 20:17:11 258
Convert libreoffice files : .odt .odg and other to .pdf

Find and Convert all libre office files to PDF without libreoffice GUI Show Sample Output
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```
convert /home/foo/Documents/test.odt -> /home/foo/Documents/test.pdf using filter : writer_pdf_Export
```
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find /home/foo/Documents/ -type f -iname "*.odt" -exec libreoffice --headless --convert-to pdf '{}' \;

switch · 2018-08-29 21:44:26 329
Disable updates for installed Chrome plugins

This will allow you to ensure you don't get nagged by updates and also protects you from watering hole attacks! Please be sure to make sure your plugins don't have any security issues! Backups are manifext.jason.bak credit @Jay https://chat.counterpoint.info
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find / -iname "manifest.json" -exec sed 's/\"update_url\": \"http/\"update_url\": \"hxxp/g' -i.bak '{}' \;

operat0r · 2018-10-09 19:50:31 395
replace recursive in folder with sed
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find <folder> -type f -exec sed -i 's/my big String/newString/g' {} +

aysadk · 2018-12-05 00:50:23 717
find sparse files

Prints the path/filename and sparseness of any sparse files (files that use less actual space than their total size because the filesystem treats large blocks of 00 bytes efficiently). Uses a Tasker-esque field separator of more than one character to ensure uniqueness. Show Sample Output
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```
$ find /var/log -type f -printf "%S=:=%p\n" 2>/dev/null | gawk -F'=:=' '{if ($1 < 1.0) print $1,$2}'
7.88593e-08 /var/log/with space
1.11717e-07 /var/log/lastlog
```
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find -type f -printf "%S=:=%p\n" 2>/dev/null | gawk -F'=:=' '{if ($1 < 1.0) print $1,$2}'

TommyTwoPuds · 2019-02-06 14:12:32 33
Replacement of tree command (ignore node_modules)
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alias tree='pwd;find . -path ./node_modules -prune -o -print | sort | sed '\''1d;s/^\.//;s/\/$[^/]*$$/|--\1/;s/\/[^/|]*/| /g'\'''

yo · 2019-02-21 05:55:48 42
Remove scripts tags from *.html and *.htm files under the current directory
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find ./ -type f $ -iname '*.html' -or -iname '*.htm' $ -exec sed -i '/<script/,/<\/script>/d' '{}' \;

mikhail · 2019-05-10 23:27:12 152
Identifies the file types in a directory and adds or replaces their file extensions.

It tries to identify the file types in a directory and adds or replaces them with their appropriate extensions. Please, update the "file" tool before use it (last version: 5.37): https://github.com/file/file
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find "$(realpath .)" -type f -exec bash -c 'p="{}"; b="${p##*/}"; e=${b#"${b%.*}"}; e2=$(file -b -F="" --extension "$p"| awk -F/ '\''$1~/^\w+$/ {print $1} '\''); if [ "$e" != ".$e2" ] && [ ! -z $e2 ]; then mv "$p" "${p%$b}${b%$e}.$e2"; fi;' \;

mikhail · 2019-05-18 01:56:25 40
PHP7 - Fix incompatibility errors like: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected new (T_NEW) in file.php on line...

New objects cannot be assigned by reference. The result of the new statement can no longer be assigned to a variable by reference. Check the "Sample Output" example ("sample.php"). The Output of the above example in PHP 5: "Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in sample.php on line 3". Output of the above example in PHP 7: "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected 'new' (T_NEW) in sample.php on line 3. Show Sample Output
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```
echo -e "<?php\nclass C {}\n\$c =& new C;\n?>" > sample.php
cat sample.php
<?php
class C {}
$c =& new C;
?>
busybox sh -c 'find "$(realpath ./)" -type f $ -iname "*.php" -or -iname "*.inc" $ -exec sed -i -r "s~=[[:space:]]*&[[:space:]]*new[[:space:]]+~= new ~gi" {} \; '
cat sample.php
<?php
class C {}
$c  = new C;
?>
```
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find "$(realpath ./)" -type f $ -iname "*.php" -or -iname "*.inc" $ -exec sed -i -r "s~=[[:space:]]*&[[:space:]]*new[[:space:]]+~= new ~gi" {} \;

mikhail · 2019-05-29 18:20:45 38
find all files that have 20 or more MB on every filesystem, change the size and filesystem to your liking

find all files that have 20 or more MB on every filesystem, change the size and filesystem to your liking
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find / -type f -size +20000k -exec ls -lh {} \; 2> /dev/null | awk '{ print $NF ": " $5 }' | sort -nrk 2,2

Marius · 2019-07-08 21:04:09 37
Check if the same table name exist across different databases

Useful command for MySQL Show Sample Output
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```
Count of databases for e.g. 3
```
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find . -name "withdrownblocks.frm" | sort -u | awk -F'/' '{print $3}' | wc -l

shantanuo · 2020-02-09 07:22:42 86
find and remove old backup files

remove all files in /home/ folder that starts with bk_all_dbProdSlave and not created in the last 2 days
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find /home/ -name bk_all_dbProdSlave_\* -mtime +2 -exec rm -f {} \;

shantanuo · 2020-02-19 10:47:34 73
find all executable files across the entire tree

I can think of using this command after compiling an downloaded source from anywhere as an easy way to find all executable products. We usually issue the find command (without arguments) to list the full paths of all directories and sub-directories and files in the entire current tree. Similar command is tree -aicfnF
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find -executable -type f

knoppix5 · 2020-03-29 11:46:18 91
List only empty directories and delete safely (=ask for each)

Will delete empty directories and sub-directories (hideen too = whose names are starting with dot .). Used 'rm' command instead of 'rmdir' to give the possibility of asking for confirmation before deleting i.e. it is not wise do delete all empty directories in /etc folder. Replace dot in 'find .' with any for other starting directory instead of current. in 'rm -i -R' 'i' stands for ask before delete and 'R' for delete folder recursively or folder itself if it is empty
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find . -type d -empty -exec rm -i -R {} \;

knoppix5 · 2020-03-29 13:12:21 136
find hard linked files (duplicate inodes) recursively

If you have two sets of files that may share hard-linked files, it can be useful to identify which ones are hard links to same underlying inode (file). This command shows you all of those, sorted by inode#. In my example the two directory trees to compare share a common parent, so I run the command in that parent and just use find . to start from the current directory. If yours are in different locations, you can pass both paths to find: find /directory1 /directory2 -type f -printf '%10i %p\n' | sort | uniq -w 11 -d -D | less Show Sample Output
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```
 190186228 ./10/alpha1/2612_fsm
 190186228 ./12/alpha1/base/19108/2612_fsm
 190203401 ./10/alpha1/pg_internal.init
 190203401 ./12/alpha1/base/19108/pg_internal.init
 190206322 ./10/alpha1/3079_fsm
 190206322 ./12/alpha1/base/19108/3079_fsm
```
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find . -type f -printf '%10i %p\n' | sort | uniq -w 11 -d -D | less

dmmst19 · 2020-09-13 22:12:58 385
Replace lines in files with only spaces/tabs with simple empty line (within current directory - recursive)
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find . -type f -regex '.*\.$cpp\|h$' -exec sed -i 's/^[[:blank:]]\+$//g' {} \;

swarzynski · 2020-09-15 09:07:08 145
From all PDF files in all subdirectories, extract two metadata fields (here: Creator and Producer) into a CSV table
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echo "File;Creator;Producer";find . -name '*.pdf' -print0 | while IFS= read -d $'\0' line;do echo -n "$line;";pdfinfo "$line"|perl -ne 'if(/^(Creator|Producer):\s*(.*)$/){print"$2";if ($1 eq "Producer"){exit}else{print";"}}';echo;done 2>/dev/null

langec · 2020-12-17 21:08:55 1277
Recursive dwdiff using find -exec

Recursively compares files in directories DIR and OLD_FILES using dwdiff Word-by-word comparison with dwdiff results in words unique to NEW file versions in the DIR directory tree shown enclosed in [- SQUARE BRACKETS -] and words unique to OLD file versions in the OLD_FILES directory tree shown enclosed in {+ CURLY BRACES +} Note: does not detect files unique to the OLD_FILES directory tree. Show Sample Output
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```
Can't open file /OLD_FILES/new_file1: No such file or directory
Can't open file /OLD_FILES/new_file2: No such file or directory

dwdiff.txt contains output:
./DIR/file1
======================================================================
 [-NEW-] {+OLD+}
======================================================================

{+OLD+}
======================================================================
======================================================================
--EOF--
./DIR/file2
======================================================================
 [-NEW-] {+OLD+}
======================================================================
--EOF--
```
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find DIR -exec sh -c "if [ -f \"{}\" ]; then echo {} >> dwdiff.txt; dwdiff --no-common {} /OLD_FILES/{} >> dwdiff.txt; echo \"--EOF--\" >> dwdiff.txt; fi" \;

RiskNerd · 2022-02-23 08:52:13 368
Change Windows line endings to Unix version

https://www.howtogeek.com/771399/how-to-use-the-find-command-in-linux/
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find . -type f -regex '.*\.$cpp\|h$' -exec egrep -l $'\r'\$ {} \; | xargs dos2unix

swarzynski · 2022-08-02 09:28:38 1124
Clearcase find branch
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-1

ct find -avobs -nxname -element 'brtype(branch_name)' -print 2>/dev/null

naseer · 2009-02-05 17:02:29 23
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Press ctrl+r in a bash shell and type a few letters of a previous command

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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"

Detect illegal access to kernel space, potentially useful for Meltdown detection

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Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server

Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

Find usb device in realtime

Using this command you can track a moment when usb device was attached.

Encrypt and password-protect execution of any bash script, Version 2

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Dumping Audio stream from flv (using mplayer)

Print a horizontal line

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