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Indent all the files in a project using emacs

Use find's exec and reduce the need for multiple evals with a progn wrapper.
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find . -iname \*.c -or -iname \*.h -exec emacs -nw -q {} --eval "(progn (mark-whole-buffer) (indent-region (point-min) (point-max) nil) (save-buffer))" --kill \;

zev · 2010-09-10 05:07:11 3
Change directory by inode

First use ls -i to list files and directories with their inode number Then if you want to change to one of the directories, replace inode_no with its inode then execute the command Show Sample Output
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```
 
```
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cd $(find -inum inode_no)

emacs · 2010-09-25 06:04:32 6
Search for classes in Java JAR files.
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find . -name "*.jar" | while read line; do echo "### $line "; unzip -l $line; done | grep "^###\|you-string" |less

onk · 2010-09-28 17:51:40 3
Delete all files in a folder that don't match a certain file extension

This command is recursive and will delete in all directories in ".". It will find and delete all files not specified with ! -name "pattern". In this case it's file extensions. -type f means it will only find files and not directories. Finally the -delete flag ask find to delete what it matches. You can test the command by running it first without delete and it will list the files it will delete when you run it. Show Sample Output
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```
enki 13:09:08 /tmp/foo/bar $ find . ! -name "*.xml" ! -name "*.js" -type f -delete
enki 13:12:23 /tmp/foo/bar $
```
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find . -type f ! -name "*.foo" -name "*.bar" -delete

sh1mmer · 2010-10-07 20:17:38 5
Delete duplicated dictionaries in spell check list

When you right click a text box in Firefox and you have installed a few dictionaries you'll see a loooong list of spellcheckers. Most of them are duplicated (symlinks). This command deletes de duplicates and reduces the list.
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sudo find /usr/share/hunspell/ -lname '*' -delete

atti · 2010-11-07 15:11:02 6
find all file larger than 500M

you can change the size :)
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find / -type f -size +548576 -printf "%s:%h%f\n"

sdblepas · 2010-11-09 07:11:13 5
print the first line of every file which is newer than a certain date and in the current directory

create the "newer than" file by: touch -t 201011151300 ./201011151300.txt the format for the time is [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.SS] Show Sample Output
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```
hello this is file one line 1
hello this is file two line 1
```
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find . -type f -newer 201011151300.txt -exec head -1 {} \;

abm2009 · 2010-11-15 22:51:13 5
copy selected folder found recursively under src retaining the structure

This command will a particular folder-name recursively found under the src-path-to-search to the dest-path-to-copy retaining the folder structure
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find <src-path-to-search> -name "<folder-name>" | xargs -i cp -avfr --parent {} /<dest-path-to-copy>

crxz0193 · 2010-11-22 10:58:42 6
recursive transform all contents of files to lowercase
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perl -e "tr/[A-Z]/[a-z]/;" -pi.save $(find . -type f)

miccaman · 2010-11-25 12:48:39 4
Extract every parted-files which had the same password

Extract in the current directory the content of all parted archives. Use the same password for each one.
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find . -name '*.part1.rar' -exec unrar e \{\} -pPASSWORD \;

arcanis · 2010-12-01 10:21:15 4
Remove all .svn folders
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find . -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

strzel_a · 2010-12-15 09:20:53 3
Find Files over 20Meg

Output made so that it will match initial suggestion for this task. Personally, I think that output of du -h is more readable.
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find . -type f -size +20000k -print0 | xargs -0 du -h | awk -F"\t" '{printf "%s : %s\n", $2, $1}'

depesz · 2010-12-15 17:51:09 3
Convert a directory of pdfs into scaled down pngs

Using ghostscript instead of imagemagick to convert pdfs into pngs. It keeps pngs with pdfs
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shopt -s nullglob; for i in $(find "Your/file/system" -name "*.pdf"); do e="$(dirname $i)/$(basename $i '.pdf').png"; gs -sDEVICE=png16m -q -dPDFFitPage -g492x380 -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -dNOSUBSTDEVICECOLORS -o $e $i; done

unixmonkey15302 · 2010-12-17 13:30:54 5
Recursively scan directories for mp3s and pass them to mplayer
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$ find . -iname *.mp3 | while read line ; do ln -s "$line" $(echo -e "$line" | openssl md5).mp3 ; done ; mpg123 *.mp3

yababay · 2011-01-02 20:54:37 3
get a random command
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find $(echo "$PATH" | tr ':' ' ') -name "*program*"

hunterm · 2011-01-07 22:27:44 5
find rcs locked file in a given folder

find the files locked by rcs utility Show Sample Output
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```
/etc/RCS/fstab,v
```
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find /path/to/folder/ -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 2 -name "*,v" -exec sudo rlog -L -R {} \;

bouktin · 2011-01-13 16:07:42 4
decompiler for jar files using jad
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unjar () { mkdir -p /tmp/unjar/$1 ; unzip -d /tmp/unjar/$1 $1 *class 1>/dev/null && find /tmp/unjar/$1 -name *class -type f | xargs jad -ff -nl -nonlb -o -p -pi99 -space -stat ; rm -r /tmp/unjar/$1 ; }

return13 · 2011-01-18 16:54:42 8
Recursively change permissions on files, leave directories alone.

per comments
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find ./ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} +

djbender · 2011-01-29 19:13:58 4
List 50 largest source files in a project

Will work with filenames with spaces inside. Will not break in case of someone making directory that matches *.pm. And sorts from largest. Where largest is file size, not line count.
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find . -type f -name '*.pm' -printf '%6s %p\n' | sort -nr | head -n 50

depesz · 2011-02-09 16:19:11 17
Sum file sizes

Computes total size of files in a directory. This value is different "du -b" because doesn't includes directory sizes. Show Sample Output
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```
9346375
```
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find . -type f -printf %s\\n | paste -sd+ | bc

rubenmoran · 2011-02-10 09:44:36 3
Find the main file :D
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find . -name "*.cpp" -exec grep -Hn --color=tty -d skip "main" {} \;

Saorel · 2011-02-11 21:44:39 4
Reorder file with max 100 file per folder

Smaller Code Better Runtime
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find files/ -type f | while read line; do if [ $((i++%100)) -eq 0 ]; then mkdir $((++folder)); fi; cp $line $folder/; done

sraeder · 2011-02-13 00:25:48 3
add a particular track to a playlist by looking for a part of its file name

must be in the directory containing the track outputs to ~ but could be replaced with whatever you like e.g. ~/music/
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find `pwd` -iname *SEARCH_STRING* >> ~/PLAYLIST_NAME.m3u

wxl · 2011-02-27 09:00:38 3
Find large files in current directory

This is for bash - make an alias - also a good blueprint for making aliases that take arguments to functions. If for Solaris use "-size +${1}000000c" to replace "-size +${1}M" Show Sample Output
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```
$ big 100
1428749   524288 -rw-------    1 user staff    268435456 Mar  1 09:53 ./Desktop/centos-5.5-2.6.4/564d24cb-9632-8f69-724d-15622e3b68fc.vmem
1427799  2065664 -rw-r--r--    1 user staff    1057619968 Mar  9 22:30 ./Desktop/centos-5.5-2.6.4/CentOS-min-s001.vmdk
1427808  2334464 -rw-r--r--    1 user staff    1195245568 Mar  9 22:30 ./Desktop/centos-5.5-2.6.4/CentOS-min-s002.vmdk
...
```
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alias big='BIG () { find . -size +${1}M -ls; }; BIG $1'

greggster · 2011-03-10 06:33:00 6
Find all files over 20MB and print their names and size in human readable format
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find / -type f -size +20000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{printf $9} {for (i=10;i<=NF;i++) {printf " "$i}} {print ": "$5}'

loicb · 2011-03-17 10:26:48 3
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quick copy

Utilizes shell expansion of {} to give the original filename and a new filename as arguments to `cp`. Can easily be extended to make multiple copies.

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS

Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

Find usb device in realtime

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

show current directory

Opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application.

Send a local file via email

Another way of sending an attachment. -s : subject file : file to be sent

Change prompt to MS-DOS one (joke)

This one eliminates the additional backslash at the end (which is not necessary)

Display _something_ when an X app fails

When you run an X program from a terminal you can see any errors. But when it's run from another X program (eg from a menu item, from your fluxbox 'keys' file etc) it might just die and you see nothing (except perhaps in .xsession-errors). Instead, launch it via this command and you'll see the termination status, stderr and stdout. eg: "xlaunch firefox" or "xlaunch 'echo stdout; echo stderr >&2; false'": 'echo stdout; echo stderr >&2; false' failed with error 1 STDERR: stderr STDOUT: stdout

Get all mac address

I prefer the ip command to ifconfig as ifconfig is supposedly going to be deprecated. Certain IP address aliases can only be seen with the ip command (such as the ones applied by RHCS).

Validate all XML files in the current directory and below

If everything validates, there's no output. Can be handy to run on a cron job set up to email output.

cpu process limitation for specific processname like java,kibana

apt-get install cpulimit

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