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tar -zcps <dir> -X <(find <dir> -type f -mtime -<days>) |ssh user@backuphost tar -xzpsC /data/bkup
2009-02-12 22:31:58
User: zb
Functions: find tar
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backup the old files

due to bug can not comment

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find /tmp -type f -printf 'rm "%p";\n'
2009-02-12 20:23:24
User: zb
Functions: find
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take a look to command before action

add |sh when you agree the list, I often use that method to prevent typos in dangerous or long operations

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find ./backup -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum > /checksums_backup.md5
2009-02-12 19:39:12
User: hooobs
Functions: find md5sum xargs
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recurisvely md5 all files in a tree

Found this little gem here: http://info.michael-simons.eu/2008/10/25/recursively-md5sum-all-files-in-a-directory-tree/

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find * -type d -exec mkdir /where/you/wantem/\{\} \;
2009-02-12 14:42:55
User: afinzel
Functions: find mkdir
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Copy a file structure without files

Taken from: http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum40/1310.htm

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find . -name "*.php" -exec iconv -f ISO-8859-1 -t UTF-8 {} -o ../newdir_utf8/{} \;
2009-02-12 13:07:54
User: afinzel
Functions: find iconv
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Batch convert files to utf-8

taken from http://blog.ofirpicazo.com/linux/batch-convert-files-to-utf-8/

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find <dir> -type f -mtime +<days> -exec scp -r {} user@backuphost:/data/bkup \;
2009-02-12 07:43:29
User: rbattu
Functions: find scp
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bkup the old files

U have to make key exchange in order to avoid continuous password prompt.

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i=0; f=$(find . -type f -iregex ".*jpg");c=$(echo $f|sed "s/ /\n/g"| wc -l);for x in $f;do i=$(($i + 1));echo "$x $i of $c"; mogrify -strip $x;done
2009-02-11 03:50:53
User: flaxeater
Functions: echo find wc
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Remove EXIF data from images with progress
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find ./* -name 'CVS' | awk '{print "dos2unix " $1 "/*"}' | awk '{system($0)}'
2009-02-11 01:01:56
User: kongxx
Functions: awk find
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Recover cvs ": no such repository" error
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find . -name Root -print | xargs rm -f
2009-02-10 15:28:24
User: JoseRijo
Functions: find rm xargs
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Remove CVS root files under current directory
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find . -name "*.java" -exec gnome-terminal \-x vim {} \;
2009-02-10 09:38:04
User: root
Functions: find vim
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Open a list of files in VIM using separate terminal windows

Not that useful really, more novel. Can open up an awful lot of terminal windows.

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find . -name "*.php" -exec php -l {} \; | sed -e "/^No syntax/d"
2009-02-10 09:14:25
User: TomNomNom
Functions: find sed
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Checks the syntax of all PHP files in and below the current working directory

Uses the PHP binary to check the syntax of all .php files in or below the current working directory. Really handy for doing that last minute check before you commit code to the repository.

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find /dir/ -name *name*
2009-02-09 20:24:10
User: cinan
Functions: find
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Searching files

"*" is important if you don't know exact name of file. Check it out and you'll see

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find . \( -name '*.h' -o -name '*.cc' \) | xargs grep . | wc -l
2009-02-09 11:44:35
User: dgomes
Functions: find grep wc xargs
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Counts number of lines

Counts number of lines of code in *.h and *.cc files

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find ~/random_jpegs/folder -name "*.jpg" -exec rdjpgcom {} \;
2009-02-09 02:58:13
User: Williebee
Functions: find
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displays comments from random jpeg files.

depends on libjpeg-progs

But how to display path to found comments?

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find /path -name \*.php -user nobody -exec grep -nH whatever {} \;
2009-02-07 20:53:56
User: al3x
Functions: find grep
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grep selectively

allows to grep very narrow subset of files

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find /path -type d -perm 777 -exec chmod 755 {} \;
2009-02-07 20:51:06
User: al3x
Functions: chmod find
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fix broken permissions
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find $(pwd) -type f -exec grep -l "$(echo "\r")" {} \;
2009-02-07 18:53:00
User: mnikhil
Functions: find grep
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finding cr-lf files aka dos files with ^M characters

its useful to run dos2unix command later on them.

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find ./source -depth -print | cpio -cvo> /destination/source_data.cpio; cd /destination; cpio -icvmdI ./source_data.cpio; rm -rf ./source_data.cpio
2009-02-07 18:51:49
User: mnikhil
Functions: cd cpio find rm
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copying data with cpio

Copy data to the destination using commands such as cpio (recommended), tar, rsync, ufsdump, or ufsrestore.

Example:

Let the source directory be /source, and let the destination directory be /destination.

# cd /source

# cd ..

# find ./source -depth -print | cpio -cvo> /destination/source_data.cpio

# cd /destination

# cpio -icvmdI ./source_data.cpio

# rm -rf ./source_data.cpio

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find / -xdev -size +1024 -exec ls -al {} \; | sort -r -k 5
2009-02-07 18:50:44
User: mnikhil
Functions: find ls sort
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finding more large files
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find . -name "*.jpg" | perl -ne'chomp; $name = $_; $quote = chr(39); s/[$quote\\!]/_/ ; print "mv \"$name\" \"$_\"\n"'
2009-02-07 18:44:54
User: mnikhil
Functions: find perl
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Renaming jpg extension files at bunch
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find ~ -name '*.sqlite' -exec sqlite3 '{}' 'VACUUM;' \;
2009-02-07 10:45:41
User: ggyy_sun
Functions: find
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Speed up launch of firefox

Compress information DBs of firefox to speed up the launch of browser.

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find ~ -name '*.mp4' | xargs mplayer
2009-02-06 12:12:18
User: aoiaoi
Functions: find xargs
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play all mp4 files on home directory
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find . -exec grep "test" '{}' /dev/null \; -print
2009-02-06 10:49:00
User: rbattu
Functions: find grep
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search for the content in a directory
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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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