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collect fullcalib data
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find . -name "fullcalib4.csv" -exec tail -n1 \{\} \; >>all.csv

kaplan2539 · 2012-06-27 16:12:47 3
list all world-writeable Linux files
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sudo find / -perm -2 ! -type l -ls

gwd · 2012-07-13 07:01:42 3
search and replace in multiple files
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find . -name "*.php" -print | xargs sed -i 's/foo/bar/g'

bisio · 2012-07-15 21:55:35 3
List down source files which include another source file
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find . -type f $ -name '*.c' -o -name '*.cpp' -o -name '*.cc' -o -name '*.cxx' $ | xargs grep "#include.*\.c.*" 2>&1 | tee source_inside_source_list.txt

rajendra_s_y · 2012-07-17 09:41:18 3
List all symbolic links in current directory
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find /was61 -type l

djenal · 2012-07-18 18:19:37 3
List all symbolic links in current directory
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find /was61 -type l

djenal · 2012-07-18 18:20:11 3
List all symbolic links in current directory
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find /was61 -type l

djenal · 2012-07-18 18:20:13 3

Find biggest 10 files in current and subdirectories and sort by file size

This requires a version of GNU find that supports the -exec {} + action, but it seems more straightforward than the versions already posted. Show Sample Output

find . -type f -exec ls -shS {} + | head -10

erichamion · 2012-07-28 17:21:46 3

Create a tar archive with cpio containing a set of files
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find path -name '*' -type f | cpio -ov -H ustar -F txtarchive.tar

bugmenot · 2012-07-29 00:44:12 4
Create a tar archive with pax containing a set of files

NOTE that pax goes always recursively, for that reason -d option should be added when you don't want to go recursively into directories.
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find path -name '*' -type f | pax -wd > txtarchive.tar

bugmenot · 2012-07-29 00:44:51 3
Verbosely delete files matching specific name pattern, older than 15 days.

Like the above, but runs a single rm command
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find /backup/directory -name "FILENAME_*" -mtime +15 -exec rm -vf {} +

mrfixit42 · 2012-08-03 04:20:53 3
Find biggest 10 files in current and subdirectories and sort by file size

"-exec" ftw.
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find . -type f -exec du -sh {} + | sort -hr | head

mrfixit42 · 2012-08-03 04:24:36 4
Recursively set the files to ignore in all folders for svn

To use this comment you'll have to create a file entitled 'ignorelist' where you put the file name or pattern of the files you want to ignore. I used it for my maven project which generates the child project files in each folder so I can import them into eclipse. By adding these project files to the ignore list ensure they won't appear each time I run 'svn status'. Show Sample Output
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```
property 'svn:ignore' set on '/home/User/workspace/parentProject'
property 'svn:ignore' set on '/home/User/workspace/parentProject/common'
property 'svn:ignore' set on '/home/User/workspace/parentProject/domain'
property 'svn:ignore' set on '/home/User/workspace/parentProject/integration'
property 'svn:ignore' set on '/home/User/workspace/parentProject/presentation'
property 'svn:ignore' set on '/home/User/workspace/parentProject/services-impl'
property 'svn:ignore' set on '/home/User/workspace/parentProject/services-intf'
property 'svn:ignore' set on '/home/User/workspace/parentProject/webservices
```
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for folder in $( find $( pwd ) -maxdepth 1 -type d | grep -v .svn ); do svn propset svn:ignore -F ignorelist ${folder}; done

Highwayman · 2012-08-03 13:50:45 15
Remove / delete file with ? or special characters in filename

Code to delete file with gremlins/special characters/unicode in file name. Use ls -i to find the INODE number corresponding to the file and then delete it using that find statement. detailed here: http://www.arsc.edu/arsc/support/howtos/nonprintingchars/ Show Sample Output
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```
$ ls
?????D?P?test.txt
$ rm ./
^_?^H^H?D^\P^Ctest.txt  
$ ls -b
\037\213\b\b\240D\034P\003test.txt 
$ rm \037*
rm: cannot remove `037*': No such file or directory
$ ls -il
total 8
86870 -rw-r--r-- 1 mememe mememe   0 2012-08-03 14:38 ?????D?P?test.txt
$ find * $ -type d -prune $ -o -inum 86870 -exec rm -i {} \;
rm: remove regular empty file `\037\213\b\b\240D\034P\003test.txt'? y
```
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ls -il; find * $ -type d -prune $ -o -inum <NUM> -exec rm -i {} \;

yingw · 2012-08-04 00:22:33 10
Parallel copy - Faster copy

Copy files and dir in parallel. It is Faster. Using the gnu-parallel. Has 2 commands: - First - Create dir structure in /BKP find Files/ -type d | parallel 'mkdir -p /BKP/{}' - Second - Copy for structure created find Files/ -type f | parallel 'rsync -a {} /BKP/$(dirname {})' - Great for backups! - Can use "rsync" or "cp". - Compare with a simple "rsync" or "cp"!
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find Files/ -type d | parallel 'mkdir -p /BKP/{}' && find Files/ -type f | parallel 'rsync -a {} MKD/$(dirname {})'

phribbr · 2012-08-08 21:01:37 17
List empty directories only in present level
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find ./ -maxdepth 1 -empty -type d -print

bugmenot · 2012-08-09 12:58:06 3
List recursively only empty folders on present dir
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find ./ -empty -type d -print

bugmenot · 2012-08-09 13:01:04 3
Add executable bit to all shell scripts under current directory recursively.

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find . -type f -name "*.sh" -exec chmod u+x {} \;

djangofan · 2012-08-09 18:10:22 4
Add executable bit to all shell scripts under current directory recursively.

Allows to change 'shell' compatible files execution bit even if their name is not *.sh
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find . -type f -exec file '{}' + | grep shell | awk -F':' '{print $1}' | xargs chmod u+x

llebegue · 2012-08-09 18:53:08 3
Quickly find files and folders in the current directory

My most used bash function without a doubt!
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ff() { find -maxdepth 3 -type f | grep -i "$1"; }; fd() { find -maxdepth 4 -type d | grep -i "$1"; }

expelledboy · 2012-08-12 13:44:39 3
find files between specific date/times and move them to another folder

touch -t 201208211200 first ; touch -t 201208220100 last ; creates 2 files: first & last, with timestamps that the find command should look between: 201208211200 = 2012-08-21 12:00 201208220100 = 2012-08-22 01:00 then we run find command with "-newer" switch, that finds by comparing timestamp against a reference file: find /path/to/files/ -newer first ! -newer last meaning: find any files in /path/to/files that are newer than file "first" and not newer than file "last" pipe the output of this find command through xargs to a move command: | xargs -ifile mv -fv file /path/to/destination/ and finally, remove the reference files we created for this operation: rm first; rm last;
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touch -t 201208211200 first ; touch -t 201208220100 last ; find /path/to/files/ -newer first ! -newer last | xargs -ifile mv -fv file /path/to/destination/ ; rm first; rm last;

ktopaz · 2012-08-22 09:51:40 6
Preview All Files in Directory
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find . -type f | xargs -I% bash -c 'echo -e "\033[31m%\033[0m" && [[ ! `file %` =~ .*binary.* ]] && head "%"'

mx4492 · 2012-08-28 12:52:38 9
Delete all files matching a pattern
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find . -name vmware-*.log -exec rm -i {} \;

defc0n1 · 2012-08-29 11:19:37 4
Delete large amount of files matching pattern

In case you ever got to many arguments using rm to delete multiple files matching a pattern this will help you
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sudo find . -name "*.csv" | xargs /bin/rm

defc0n1 · 2012-08-29 11:38:37 5
find all files in the current directory matching name * and searching for a string "mystring". outputs all the filenames that contain the search string.
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find . -name "*" | xargs grep "mystring"

deepakfrenzy · 2012-08-30 21:41:34 5
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Disconnect telnet

You are stuck with testing a tcp port using telnet, and must kill the telnet session from another terminal... Or, press ctrl+5 and write close/quit to force the current connection to close..

Write comments to your history.

A null operation with the name 'comment', allowing comments to be written to HISTFILE. Prepending '#' to a command will *not* write the command to the history file, although it will be available for the current session, thus '#' is not useful for keeping track of comments past the current session.

Get ethX mac addresses

I much prefer using /sbin/ip over /sbin/ifconfig for most everything. I find the interface and output to be much more consistent and it has many abilities that ifconfig, route, etc. do not. To get the mac address for only one interface, add 'show dev [interface]' to the 'ip link' part of the command: ip link show dev eth0 | grep 'link/ether' | awk '{print $2}' . Also, both this command and the ifconfig one do not require root access to run, so the sudo is not necessary.

log your PC's motherboard and CPU temperature along with the current date

Uses the data in the /proc system, provided by the acpid, to find out the CPU temperature. Can be run on systems without lm-sensors installed as well.

urldecoding

My version uses printf and command substitution ($()) instead of echo -e and xargs, this is a few less chars, but not real substantive difference. Also supports lowercase hex letters and a backslash (\) will make it through unescaped

Writes ID3 tags using the file name as the title.

Assumes that the files are named as such: 01-Filename.mp3 If your files are named differently, change the number of periods in the sed 's/...$.*$/\1' bit to match the numbers of characters you need to cut off the front of the file. Note: This only writes the titles.

Generate random IP addresses

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Command template, executing a command over multiple files, outputing progress and fails only

This is a command template for achiving the following: * loop over files --> find -name "" | while read file; do ...; done * output progress --> echo -n . * execute some command on each file and save output for later usage --> output=$() * if command failed, open subshell and echo newline --> || (echo;...;...;) * echo output of command --> echo "$output"

Define an alias with a correct completion

In Bash, when defining an alias, one usually loses the completion related to the function used in that alias (that completion is usually defined in /etc/bash_completion using the complete builtin). It's easy to reuse the work done for that completion in order to have smart completion for our alias. That's what is done by this command line (that's only an example but it may be very easy to reuse). Note 1 : You can use given command line in a loop "for old in apt-get apt-cache" if you want to define aliases like that for many commands. Note 2 : You can put the output of the command directly in your .bashrc file (after the ". /etc/bash_completion") to always have the alias and its completion

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