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Commands using find

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find . -name "*~" -exec rm {} \;
2009-02-06 06:46:30
User: yasu00000
Functions: find rm
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Delete Text Editor's Backup
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find DIR -name "FILE" -exec grep -IHn STRING {} \;
2009-02-06 02:59:53
User: yanbe
Functions: find grep
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Show all occurences of STRING with filename and line number for given FILE pattern under the DIR.
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find . -name "*.txt" | xargs perl -pi -e 's/old/new/g'
2009-02-06 00:28:03
User: neztach
Functions: find perl xargs
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a find and replace within text-based files, to locate and rewrite text en mass.

syntax follows regular command line expression.

example: let's say you have a directory (with subdirs) that has say 4000 .php files.

All of these files were made via script, but uh-oh, there was a typo!

if the typo is "let's go jome!" but you meant it to say "let's go home!"

find . -name "*.php" | xargs perl -pi -e "s/let\'s\ go\ jome\!/let\'s\ go\ home\!/g"

all better :)

multiline: find . -name "*.php" | xargs perl -p0777i -e 's/knownline1\nknownline2/replaced/m'

indescriminate line replace: find ./ -name '*.php' | xargs perl -pi -e 's/\".*$\"/\new\ line\ content/g'

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find $PWD -exec rpm --query -f {} \; | sort -u | grep -v "not owned"
2009-02-05 19:33:43
User: wwest4
Functions: find grep rpm sort
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List RPM packages installed in current tree

shows all RPMs with files in the current directory & its subdirectories.

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find /path/to/dir -type f -mtime +[#] -exec rm -f {} \;
2009-02-05 19:24:13
User: wwest4
Functions: find rm
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Periodic Log Deletion

deletes logs not modified in over [#] days - modify to compress or move, as needed

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find . -type d -name '.svn' -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rdf
2009-02-05 17:47:03
User: blue64
Functions: find rm xargs
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Recursively remove .svn directories from the current location
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find . -name "*.py" | xargs wc -l
2009-02-05 17:39:44
User: rlotun
Functions: find wc xargs
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Get line count for any file ending with extension recursively rooted at the current directory.
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ct find -avobs -nxname -element 'brtype(branch_name)' -print 2>/dev/null
2009-02-05 17:02:29
User: naseer
Functions: find
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Clearcase find branch
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chgrp -R [projgroup] ; find /path/to/dir -type d -exec chmod g+s {} \;
2009-02-05 16:49:24
User: wwest4
Functions: chgrp chmod find
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Turn /path/to/dir and subdirectories into a project tree

changes group ownership of all files/dirs in /path/to/dir to a project group [projgroup] and then gives the sgid bit to directories in that tree - all subsequently created files will inherit [projgroup]'s gid.

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find /path/to/dir -user root -exec chown [nonprivuser] {} \;
2009-02-05 16:42:14
User: wwest4
Functions: chown find
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For files owned by root only, change ownership to a non-privileged user.

useful if you want to start running a svc as a non-privileged user instead of root.

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find . -regex ".*\.[cChH]\(pp\)?" -print | etags -
2009-02-05 16:27:26
User: chidarste
Functions: etags find
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Create etags file of .c, .cpp, and .h files in all subdirectories

The regular expression matches patterns of .c, .cpp, .C, .Cpp, .h, .hpp, .H, .Hpp. The matched files are piped through etags to create a TAGS file, useful for emacs. Alternate regex (if you aren't worried about capital .Cpp) is -regex ".*\.c\|.*\.cpp\|.*\.h"

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find /path/to/dir -type f |sed 's/^.*\///'|grep -o '\.[^.]*$'|sort -f|uniq -i
2009-02-05 12:34:44
User: beila
Functions: find
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list all file-types (case-insensitive extensions) including subdirectories
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find . -type f -print0 | grep -vzZ '.svn' | xargs -0 grep --color -nEHi "SEARCHTERM"
2009-02-05 10:27:15
User: troelskn
Functions: find grep xargs
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Search through files, ignoring .svn

Variant of find grep that ignores files with .svn in the name. Useful for searching through a local repository of source code.

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URL=www.example.com && wget -rq --spider --force-html "http://$URL" && find $URL -type d > url-list.txt && rm -rf $URL
2009-01-27 17:59:08
User: root
Functions: find rm wget
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Retrieve a list of all webpages on a site

This spiders the given site without downloading the HTML content. The resulting directory structure is then parsed to output a list of the URLs to url-list.txt. Note that this can take a long time to run and you make want to throttle the spidering so as to play nicely.

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find /path/to/dir -type f -exec grep \-H "search term" {} \;
2009-01-26 16:32:14
User: root
Functions: find grep
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Find the files that contain a certain term

Simple use of find and grep to recursively search a directory for files that contain a certain term.

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find /path/to/dir -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm
2009-01-26 11:30:47
User: root
Functions: find xargs
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Optimal way of deleting huge numbers of files

Using xargs is better than:

find /path/to/dir -type f -exec rm \-f {} \;

as the -exec switch uses a separate process for each remove. xargs splits the streamed files into more managable subsets so less processes are required.

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find . -name "*.php" -exec grep \-H "new filter_" {} \;
2009-01-26 10:43:09
User: root
Functions: find grep
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Display PHP files that directly instantiate a given class

This greps all PHP files for a given classname and displays both the file and the usage.

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find . \( -name "*.php" -o -name "*.js" \) -exec svn propset svn:keywords Id {} \;
2009-01-24 00:54:35
User: root
Functions: find
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Add SVN keywords property to all PHP and Javascript files
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find . -type f | wc -l
2009-01-23 17:19:32
User: root
Functions: find wc
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Count files beneath current directory (including subfolders)
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find . -name "*\.php" | xargs grep -o --color "\w\+::\w\+" | cut -d":" -f2 | sort | uniq -c
2009-01-20 23:18:06
User: root
Functions: cut find grep sort uniq xargs
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Display a list of all PHP classes that are called statically

Searches all .php files for a static instantiation of a class and displays the class names along with their frequencies.

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