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Find core files

Will find and list all core files from the current directory on. You can pass | xargs rm -i to be prompted for the removal if you'd like to double check before removal.
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find . -type f -regex ".*/core.[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]$"

H3liUS · 2014-01-17 16:44:47 7
get md5sum for all files, skipping svn directories

recurse through all files, get the message hash, flip the output as filename, hash value Show Sample Output
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```
/appl/hdcdw/cntl/CDINadSrc.fld  2b90c02cf391872e330001d2bdf28315
/appl/hdcdw/cntl/CDIUcsSearsSrc.fld     9ca2dd125a0785fe8cd4c2b9d67109dc
/appl/hdcdw/cntl/CDI_StatsAcxiom.fload  0d31df4ebf16aa99e9bd00ad85c3e813
/appl/hdcdw/cntl/DailyETLMailList.dat   6fb4e9c1ceb50024a31bc9969eb3ed80
```
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find $1 -not -iwholename "*.svn*" -type f | xargs md5sum | awk '{print $2 "\t" $1}'

dronamk · 2014-02-12 19:04:08 5
bzip2 all files in a directory older than 1 week (nicely)
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find /logdir -type f -mtime +7 -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 nice -n 20 bzip2 -9

rootninja · 2014-02-12 19:35:09 6
Find pictures excepting a path

If you need to find some pictures on your disk but excluding some path.
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find . $ -not -path "./boost*" $ -type f $ -name "*.jpg" -or -name "*.png" -or -name "*.jpeg" $ 2>/dev/null

bilbopingouin · 2014-02-13 09:11:11 6
Make a folder and everything in it world-viewable
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find . -exec chmod o+rx {}\;

tbodt · 2014-02-17 23:15:17 7
Call `svn mv` recursively to rename the C prefix from class names
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for i in $(find . -regex '.*\/C.*\.cpp'); do svn mv `perl -e 'my $s=$ARGV[0]; $s=~m/(.*\/)C(.*)/; print "$s $1$2"' "$i"`; done

nbolton · 2014-02-27 17:28:29 6
Search and replace multiple files with substitution

Does a search and replace across multiple files with a subgroup replacement.
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find . -name "*.txt" | xargs -n 1 perl -pi -w -e "s/text([0-9])/other\$1/g;"

kennethjor · 2014-02-28 06:38:38 6

Show all symlinks

shows you the symlinks in the current directory, recursively, but without following them Show Sample Output

find ./ -type l -print0 | xargs -0 ls -plah

jmorganwalker · 2014-03-20 20:36:39 7

Recursive find all mp4s in a folder and convert to ogv if the ogv does not exist or the mp4 is newer then the current ogv
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for file in $(find . -name *.mp4); do ogv=${file%%.mp4}.ogv; if test "$file" -nt "$ogv"; then echo $file' is newer then '$ogv; ffmpeg2theora $file; fi done

fatlinesofcode · 2014-04-14 23:26:19 7
find only current directory (universal)

This find syntax seems a little easier to remember for me when I have to use -prune on AIX's find. It works with gnu find, too. Add whatever other find options after -prune Show Sample Output
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```
linux:
$ find /etc/* -prune -type f -name *.conf
/etc/asound.conf
/etc/ca-certificates.conf ...

AIX:
$ find /etc/* -prune -type f -name *.conf
/etc/aixmibd.conf
/etc/cdrecord.conf
/etc/cdromd.conf...
```
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find /some/directory/* -prune -type f -name *.log

bigstupid · 2014-05-02 00:14:32 6
Generate SHA1 hash for each file in a list
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find . -regex ".*$avi\|mp4\|wmv$$" -print0 | xargs -0 sha1sum

hochmeister · 2014-05-07 05:45:12 8
for a particular file system, find all files > 10MBytes, sorted by size

This is a quick way to find what is hogging disk space when you get a full disk alert on your monitoring system. This won't work as is with filesystems that allow embedded spaces in user names or groups (read "Mac OS X attached to a Windows Domain"). In those cases, you will need to change the -k 5 to something that works in your situation. Show Sample Output
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```
[dritchie@dlmdc-prod2 ~]$ find . -xdev -size +10000000c -exec ls -l {} \; | sort -n -k 5
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dritchie platform 10067603 Apr 26 23:09 ./bin/valid.out
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dritchie platform 13669316 Apr 26 23:09 ./repack/hd/hd_files.txt
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dritchie platform 17220128 Apr 26 23:09 ./fsmedlist.strace.out
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dritchie platform 29587970 Apr 26 23:09 ./snapi_RedHat60AS_26x86_64_2.0.3_25257.bin
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dritchie platform 49060805 Apr 26 23:09 ./bin/updatestatus
[dritchie@dlmdc-prod2 ~]$ 
```
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cd <mntpoint>; find . -xdev -size +10000000c -exec ls -l {} \; | sort -n -k 5

deritchie · 2014-05-20 14:13:54 6
Find directories in pwd, get disk usage, sort results
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find . -type d -d 1 -print0 | xargs -0 du -sm | sort -nr

hochmeister · 2014-06-05 22:00:45 8
Get the total length of all videos in the current dir in H:m:s

Use case insensitive regex to match files ending in popular video format extensions and calculate their total time. (traverses all files recursively starting from the current directory) Show Sample Output
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```
203:11:32
```
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find -type f -iregex '.*\.$mkv\|mp4\|wmv\|flv\|webm\|mov\|dat\|flv$' -print0 | xargs -0 mplayer -vo dummy -ao dummy -identify 2>/dev/null | perl -nle '/ID_LENGTH=([0-9\.]+)/ && ($t +=$1) && printf "%02d:%02d:%02d\n",$t/3600,$t/60%60,$t%60' | tail -n 1

powerinside · 2014-06-07 15:50:41 6
Find files in current directory which are larger in size (500000k)
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find . -type f -size +50000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'

maheshmahajan · 2014-06-24 07:24:39 7
Convert mp4 to mp3 in a directory

Good for when you download youtube videos and want the mp3 for your mp3 player.
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for a in $(find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*.mp4" -type f -printf "%f\n" | rev | cut -d '.' -f2- | rev | sort -u); do if [ ! -f "$a.mp3" ]; then avconv -i "$a."* -vn -ab 128 "$a.mp3"; fi done

adanisch · 2014-06-27 05:13:53 7
Append html-extension to all files in a directory structure that contains html-code.
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find . |xargs grep '<html\|<body\|<table' |sed '/~/d;s/:.*//' |sed 's/.*/mv & &.html/' |uniq >run.sh; sh run.sh

mobluse · 2014-07-09 19:20:40 13
Re-encode all flac files below

Sometimes I get FLAC files that RhythmBox can't play but VLC can. So I re-encode them using GStreamer at highest compression.
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find . -type f -iname '*.flac' | while read i; do mv -- "$i" "$i.tmp"; gst-launch filesrc location="$i.tmp" ! flacdec ! flacenc quality=8 ! filesink location="${i%.tmp}"; rm -- "$i.tmp"; done

qdrizh · 2014-07-10 19:21:22 7
scan folder to check syntax error in php files

Same but will only returns the invalid file (great when emailing the list to the team).
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find . -name "*.php" -exec php -l {} \; | grep found

azizsaleh · 2014-07-11 14:17:34 7
A function to find a file in the pwd downwards

A simple bash function to the find command. I use this much more than find itself. Show Sample Output
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```
$ fn resume
./Documents/2013/My Resume 2014.pdf
```
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fn() { find . -iname "*$1*" -print; }

suprjami · 2014-07-15 05:30:59 8
Remove all .DS_Store files from the current directory (recursive)

May require GNU find.
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find . -name "*.DS_Store" -type f -delete

nicolasmccurdy · 2014-07-16 02:03:38 8
find files that have been modified recently

To search for files in /target_directory and all its sub-directories, that have been modified in the last 60 minutes: find /target_directory -type f -mmin -60 To search for files in /target_directory and all its sub-directories, that have been modified in the last 2 days: find /target_directory -type f -mtime -2 To search for files in /target_directory and all its sub-directories no more than 3 levels deep, that have been modified in the last 2 days: find /target_directory -type f -mtime -2 -depth -3
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find /target_directory -type f -mmin -60 --mindepth 2

vikranth · 2014-08-09 06:59:34 9
Find all files modified after a given files last modification time

This function will find the modification time in unix_time of the given file, then calculate the number of minutes from now to then and then find all files modified in that range. Show Sample Output
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```
[rderose@dunkin] (01:42 PM) / 
$ findOlderThan version.txt
./index.html
./js2/select2/select2.png
./js2/select2/select2x2.png
./js2/select2/select2-bootstrap.css
./js2/select2/select2.css
./js2/select2/select2-spinner.gif
./js2/select2/select2.js
./js2/ace-editor/theme-solarized_dark.js
./js2/ace-editor/theme-twilight.js
./js2/ace-editor/theme-idle_fingers.js
```
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function findOlderThan () { find . -mmin -$((($(date "+%s") - $(stat -c %Y $1))/60)) -type f ; }

RobertDeRose · 2014-08-29 17:52:34 8
Count total running time for all media files in your directory

Recursive. Ignores non-media files. Requires ffprobe, paste, and bc. Show Sample Output
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```
8910.497959
```
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find -type f -exec ffprobe -i "{}" -show_entries format=duration -v quiet -of csv="p=0" \; | paste -sd+ | bc

Hype · 2014-08-29 23:45:09 7
rename files (in this case pdfs) numerically in date order

Caution: distructive overwrite of filenames Useful for concatenating pdfs in date order using pdftk
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find . -name "*.pdf" -print0 | xargs -r0 stat -c %y\ %n | sort|awk '{print $4}'|gawk 'BEGIN{ a=1 }{ printf "mv %s %04d.pdf\n", $0, a++ }' | bash

Randy_Legault · 2014-09-23 06:40:45 9
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get partitions that are over 50% usage

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"

Find removed files still in use via /proc

Oracle DBA remove some logfiles which are still open by the database and he is complaining the space has not been reclaimed? Use the above command to find out what PID needs to be stopped. Or alternatively recover the file via: $ cp /proc/pid/fd/filehandle /new/file.txt

Get all files of particular type (say, PDF) listed on some wegpage (say, example.com)

See man wget if you want linked files and not only those hosted on the website.

Find the package that installed a command

List bash functions defined in .bash_profile or .bashrc

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2625783/listing-defined-functions-in-bash#2627461

Rename files in batch

cp the file

Copy the file with the given .extension at the source file's location. Eliminates the typing of long paths again and again.

Number of open connections per ip.

Here is a command line to run on your server if you think your server is under attack. It prints our a list of open connections to your server and sorts them by amount. BSD Version: $ netstat -na |awk '{print $5}' |cut -d "." -f1,2,3,4 |sort |uniq -c |sort -nr

Take a screenshot of a login screen

when using Gnome or KDE, you will have a hard time getting a screenshot of something like a login screen, or any other screen that occurs before the desktop environment is up and monitoring the printscreen key. (this probably applies for other DEs as well, but I haven't used them) What this command is meant to do is take a screenshot of an X window using a command you can run from your virtual terminals (actual text terminals, not just an emulator) To do this: Press CTRL+ALT+F1 to go to a virtual (text) terminal once your login window comes up Login to the virtual terminal and enter the command (you'll have to type it in) You should now have a file called screenshot.png in your home directory with your screenshot in it. For those of you who are new to the virtual terminal thing, you can use CTRL+ALT+F7 to get back to your regular GUI From http://www.gnome.org

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