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Command for getting the list of files with perms, owners, groups info. Useful to find the checksum of 2 machines/images.
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find / | xargs ls -l | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 1,3,4,9

pavanlimo · 2009-07-21 08:41:59 7
Rezip a bunch of files

I used this because I needed to sort the content of a bunch of gzipped log files. Replace sort with something else, or simply remove sort to just rezip everything
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find . -name "*.gz" | xargs -n 1 -I {} bash -c "gunzip -c {} | sort | gzip -c --best > {}.new ; rm {} ; mv {}.new {}"

kennethjor · 2009-08-05 14:16:15 7
Simple Find
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find / -name FILENAME

theIndianMaiden · 2009-10-10 20:12:33 3
List files in tarballs

This script will list all the files in the tarballs present on any folder or subfolder of the provided path. The while loop is for echoing the file name of the tarball before listing the files, so the tarball can be identified
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find <path> -name "*.tgz" -or -name "*.tar.gz" | while read file; do echo "$file: "; tar -tzf $file; done

polaco · 2009-11-10 20:39:04 36
List files in tarballs

The magic is performed by the parameter -t Show Sample Output
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```
[alchandia@localhost Cacti]$ tar -tvzf cacti-iostat-1.3.tgz
drwxr-xr-x alchandia/users    0 2009-05-18 06:02:27 cacti-iostat-1.3/
drwxr-xr-x alchandia/users    0 2009-05-18 06:02:27 cacti-iostat-1.3/scripts/
-rwxr-xr-x alchandia/users 5087 2009-05-18 06:02:12 cacti-iostat-1.3/scripts/iostat.pl
```
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for F in $(find ./ -name "*.tgz") ; do tar -tvzf $F ; done

alchandia · 2009-11-11 00:50:52 3
remove files and directories with acces time older than a given date

remove files with access time older than a given date. If you want to remove files with a given modification time replace %A@ with %T@. Use %C@ for the modification time. The time is expressed in epoc but is easy to use any other format. Show Sample Output
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```
~/tmp$ find . -printf '%p : %A@\n' | awk '{FS=" : " ; if($2 < 1258734167 ) print $1 ;}' | xargs rm --verbose -fr ;
removed `./file_1'
removed `./file_2'
removed `./file_3'
removed `./file_4'
removed `./file_5'
removed `./file_6'
removed `./file_7'
removed `./file_8'
removed `./file_9'
```
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find <dir> -printf '%p : %A@\n' | awk '{FS=" : " ; if($2 < <time in epoc> ) print $1 ;}' | xargs rm --verbose -fr ;

angleto · 2009-11-20 16:31:58 9
Find in all files in the current directory, just a find shorthand
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find ./ -name $1 -exec grep -H -n $2 '{}' ';'

packetloss · 2009-11-24 07:25:27 4
Normalize volume in your mp3 library

Execute this in the root of your music library and this recurses through the directories and normalizes each folder containing mp3s as a batch. This assumes those folders hold an album each. The command "normalize-audio" may go by "normalize" on some systems.
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find . -type d -exec sh -c "normalize-audio -b \"{}\"/*.mp3" \;

Mikelifeguard · 2009-12-08 03:13:13 7
finds all files in dir and replaces
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find . -type f -exec sed -i 's/gw10./gw17./g' {} \;

m03hr3 · 2010-03-01 21:40:54 3
Find all files and append to file

find all files in cur dir add to url and append to file
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find . type f -exec echo http://exg.com/{} \; > file

unixmonkey8504 · 2010-03-02 14:18:01 3
Recursively remove all empty directories

Remove all empty directories below the current directory. If directories become empty as the results of this, remove those too.
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find . -type d | tac | xargs rmdir 2> /dev/null

drmaciver · 2010-03-23 11:54:38 6
Buscar archivos con la extension mp3 y mostrar el conteo de resultados
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find -D rates . -name "*.mp3" -type f

Khreez · 2010-03-28 23:19:53 3
Find files and list them sorted by modification time

List all files from the current directory and subdirectories, sorted by modification time, oldest first.
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find . -type f -exec ls -tr {} +

goodevilgenius · 2010-05-27 14:52:28 6
Update many subversion projects which reside in one directory

If you have a directory with many working copies of various subversion projects and you want to update them all at once, this one may be for you. Show Sample Output
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```
Authentication realm: <https://foo.com:443> foo-project
Password for 'foodoo': 
At revision 221.
```
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for d in $(find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -name '[^.]*'); do cd "$d"; svn up; cd ..; done

udog · 2010-05-28 10:09:19 3
Find size of the files in this directory tree. (sorted)

Finds all files below the current directory. Orders the result from smallest to largest. Good for finding the largest files in the tree.
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find . -type f -exec ls -s \{\} \; | sort -n

Insti · 2010-06-02 11:03:31 4
Remove executable bit from all files in the current directory recursively, excluding other directories, firm permissions
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find . -type f -exec chmod 640 {} ';'

lionping · 2010-07-18 21:03:38 4
Recompress all text files in a subdirectory with lzma
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find . -name '*.txt' | grep -v '\.lzma$' | xargs -n 1 lzma -f -v -3

cout · 2010-07-21 16:58:41 4
Find errors in your php website

If your site is struck with the white screen of death you can find the syntax error quickly with php lint
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find -name "*.php" -exec php -l {} \; | grep -v "No syntax errors"

ejrowley · 2010-07-23 08:09:47 3
Find PHP files

xargs avoids having to remember the "{} \;" (although definitely a useful thing to know. Unfortunately I always forget it). xargs version runs 2x faster on my test fwiw. edit: fixed to handle spaces in filenames correctly.
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find . -name "*.php" -print0 | xargs -0 grep -i "search phrase"

randy909 · 2010-07-27 20:52:37 4
find files containing specifc pattern on filename and specific patternts in its content, open all in textmate
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find . -name "*noticia*" -name "*jhtm*" -name "*.tpl" -exec grep -li "id=\"col-direita\"" '{}' \; | xargs -n1 mate

irae · 2010-09-18 02:55:40 4
Find Files over 20Meg
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find / -type f -size +20000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'

ackers · 2010-12-15 15:09:07 4
To reduce the size of saved webpages

If you keep saved-webpages to read offline, then deleting the .js files will use a third less disk-space, without affecting the readability.
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find /path/to/webpages -type f -name '*.js' -exec 'rm' '{}' \;

munter · 2011-01-06 21:22:00 3
Count total number of subdirectories in current directory starting with specific name.

A simple command to find the total number of subdirectories in current directory starting with specific name. Show Sample Output
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```
15
```
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find . -type d -name "*TestDir*" | wc -l

linuxgeek · 2011-01-24 22:38:27 3
Replace spaces with tabs & format file source recursuvely within a directory

The sample command searches for PHP files replacing tabs with spaces. -u NONE # don't use vimrc Instead of retab! one may pass retab! 4 for instance. Look at this http://susepaste.org/69028693 also
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find $DIR -name *.php -exec vim -u NONE -c 'set ft=php' -c 'set shiftwidth=4' -c 'set tabstop=4' -c 'set noexpandtab!' -c 'set noet' -c 'retab!' -c 'bufdo! "execute normal gg=G"' -c wq {} \;

ruslan · 2011-04-08 11:42:45 4
Recursively remove all '.java.orig' directories (scalable)
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find . -depth $ -path '*/*.java.orig' -o -path '*/*.java.orig/*' $ -delete

depesz · 2011-05-18 16:40:41 3
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