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File count into directories

Show file count into directories. Usefull when you try to find hugh directories that elevate system CPU (vmstat -> sy) Show Sample Output
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```
76 -> /opt/node-v6.9.1-linux-x64/include/node/openssl
82 -> /opt/node-v6.9.1-linux-x64/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules
97 -> /opt/kingsoft/wps-office/office6
152 -> /opt/kingsoft/wps-office/office6/chart/styles
```
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find / -type d | while read i; do ls $i | wc -l | tr -d \\n; echo " -> $i"; done | sort -n

Zort · 2017-05-12 00:02:43 19

Find Duplicate Files (based on size, name, and md5sum)

It works extremely fast, because it calculates md5sum only on the files that have the same size and name. But there is nothing for free - it won't find duplicates with the different names. Show Sample Output

find -type f -printf '%20s\t%100f\t%p\n' | sort -n | uniq -Dw121 | awk -F'\t' '{print $3}' | xargs -d '\n' md5sum | uniq -Dw32 | cut -b 35- | xargs -d '\n' ls -lU

ant7 · 2017-05-21 02:26:16 16

Recursive convert all print statements in py files from python2 to python3 form

Use find . -iname "*.py" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -ne 's/^$[ \t]*$print $.*$$/\1print(\2)/p' to see what would be changed.
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find . -iname "*.py" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/^$[ \t]*$print $.*$$/\1print(\2)/g'

sleepprogger · 2017-05-22 22:39:58 16
Rename duplicate files created by GDrive

Changes files like "temp (2).txt" to "temp.txt". Does not overwrite files that already exist.
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find . -name "*$2$*" -exec rename -s \ $2$ '' -n {} +

buddacow · 2017-06-30 04:33:50 17
Find latest modified log
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find . -name '*.log' | xargs ls -hlt > /tmp/logs.txt && vi /tmp/logs.txt

zluyuer · 2017-07-07 05:13:51 20
Get MD5 checksum for directory
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find -s web -type f -exec md5 -q {} \; | md5

tlezotte · 2017-07-12 23:00:41 15
Delete huge numbers of files without intensive cpu load

I needed to find a command to delete huge numbers of files without intensive cpu load, that command does the job :) The purpose of "+" at then end of the line, tells rm to delete multiple files at once
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find <path> -type f -exec ionice -c3 rm {} +

tyjak · 2017-07-31 09:35:36 25
Find logs modified in the last 15 minutes

This is a regular find with the -wholename parameter to let it know what name pattern he need to look and then the -mmin -15 to know the last 15 minutes. Show Sample Output
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```
/var/log/sssd/sssd_nss.log
/var/log/audit/audit.log
```
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find /var/log -wholename "*.log" -mmin -15

x3mboy · 2017-08-03 15:47:43 15
in current directory delete all files with ending
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find . -name "*.bak" -type f -delete

aysadk · 2017-08-08 15:04:33 17
Change all the files on your system that have the OLDGID group by the new NEWGID.

It's change the group id of all the files on your system that have the OLDGID group as the owner group by the new NEWGID. But first do this: Document which files will be changed, use: find / -gid OLDGID ! -type l > resplado-gid.txt Be sure to disconnect users from the old group. Stop demons or services associated with the group. Be sure the new group exist and take note of GID
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$ find / -gid OLDGID ! -type l -exec chgrp NEWGID {} \;

rcorrea · 2017-08-09 21:37:51 18
nmap -sP 192.168.1.*
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nmap find alive hosts

aysadk · 2017-08-17 11:04:08 14
XZIP many catalogs

Find (by regular expression) and compress (xzip) catalogs then remove source catalogs
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find . -type d |awk '$1 ~ /[0-9]/ {print $0}' |xargs -P 4 -I NAME tar --remove-files -vcJf NAME.tar.xz NAME

Glafir · 2017-08-28 08:05:29 19
Find every directory with too many files and subdirectory.

if you have less free inode space alert in your monitoring app you can use this command to find the any directory with too many files and subdirectory . Show Sample Output
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```
  12496 /var/www/site/wp-content/cache/autoptimize/js
  15146 /var/www/site/wp-content/uploads/2016/06
  15764 /var/www/site/wp-content/uploads/2016/07
  18068 /var/www/site/wp-content/uploads/2016/11
  2076387 /var/lib/hhvm/sessions
```
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find / -xdev -printf '%h\n' | sort | uniq -c | sort -k 1 -n

ara4sh · 2017-09-06 05:02:28 18
Search for MP3s from current directory and play them in random order.

This uses bash's Process Substitution. It is necessary to give the full path of the file, thus why the filenames are filtered through realpath. In theory, this command should also work with mplayer and mplayer2 (using -playlist instead of --playlist). Modifications: - You can search specific directories by inserting them between "find" and "-type". - Edit the parameter of "-iname" to change the type of file searched for. - Remove everything after "realpath" to play the files in order.
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mpv --playlist <(find -type f -iname '*.mp3' -print0 | xargs -0 realpath | sort -R)

hololeap · 2017-09-28 23:28:40 18
Busca archivos por el tipo de extension y los elimina.
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find / -iname *.jpg exec rm -rf {} \;

yalthon · 2017-11-04 11:31:55 20
Find files and play them as a playing list in mpv

Find music types on your current location and will play them randomly with mpv/mplayer.
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find . -type f $ -name "*.mp3" -o -name "*.ogg" $ | mpv --shuffle --audio-display=no --playlist -

Manifest0 · 2017-11-25 10:08:51 20
File count into directories

So simple
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find . -type f | xargs wc -l

AdvancedThreat · 2017-11-26 17:30:12 18
Find & remove files that are duplicates but with different extensions recursively

Very useful to get rid of backup files or wrong extension files that lure in your folders In this example first I do two searches for all filenames of the two extensions .jpg and .png, then delete the extension and only output the now duplicate files. I loop with these results and print a log and delete the file with the extension I dislike. Show Sample Output
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```
deleted: contrib/image/4legs/cat.png
deleted: contrib/image/4legs/dog.png
deleted: contrib/image/withwings/fly.png
```
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for f in `comm -1 -2 <(sort <(find contrib/image/ -name *.png | sed 's/\.[^.]*$//')) <(sort <(find contrib/image/ -name *.jpg | sed 's/\.[^.]*$//'))`;do rm "$f.png" && echo "deleted: $f.png";done

TheoNaciri · 2017-11-28 15:48:15 24
can look for large files taking up disk spaces using the cmd
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find / -type f -size +500M 2>/dev/null | xargs du -h | sort -nr

calicowboy54 · 2017-12-06 16:40:54 21
Count number of javascript files in subdirectories

I wanted to count and display the top directories containing JavaScript files in some of my project. Here it is. Maybe it can be written to more simply syntax by using find -exec...
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for f in `find . -type d`; do pushd . > /dev/null ; echo -e `cd $f ; find . -name \*\.js | wc -l` "\t" $f | grep -v ^0 ; popd >/dev/null; done | sort -n -k 1 -r | less

tobi · 2017-12-19 09:08:04 21
remove files that were modified 30 days ago
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find . -mtime +30 -type f -exec rm -rf {} \;

zluyuer · 2018-01-08 01:43:40 23
Count number of javascript files in subdirectories
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find . -mindepth 2 -name "*.js" -type f |wc -l

tsypa · 2018-01-08 20:43:18 21

Print bitrate of each audio file

This useful command will help to detect bitrate of each audio file in folder where it will run for. Show Sample Output

find . -print0 | xargs -0 -I{} ffmpeg -i "{}" 2>&1 | grep "kb\/s\|Input"

Zeben · 2018-01-19 03:45:04 22

mv argument list too long
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find $_SOURCE -type f -name '*' -exec mv {} $_DESTINATION \;

jtypical · 2018-01-24 18:49:11 26
Finds javascript lodash/underscore methods in source code

Finds javascript lodash/underscore methods in source code. It's not perfect as can be ascertained from the last entry in the output. Would be interested if somebody improves this. Show Sample Output
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```
_.assign
_.chain
_.chunk
_.clone
_.debounce
_.dep.depend
_.dep.id;
_.filter
_.find
_.findIndex
_.get
_.identity);
```
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find . -name "*.js" | xargs grep -oh '_\.[^(]*' | sort | uniq

jemptymethod · 2018-01-30 13:55:32 33
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%s across multiple files with Vim

src: http://www.ibrahim-ahmed.com/2008/01/find-and-replace-in-multiple-files-in.html

Convert PNG to GIF

(relies on 'imagemagick') Convert all .png files to .gif. This can also go the other way if you reverse the file extensions in the command, e.g.: $ for file in *.gif; do convert "$file" "$(basename $file .gif).png"; done If the file is named 'example1.png' it will be named 'example1.gif' when it is complete.

convert plain .avi movies to .mpeg

works "out of the box" on ubuntu 8.10

Transfer Entire recursive from one host to another. Only copies files that are newer or do not exist

From opposite host To copy remote to local rsync -aE -e "ssh -pPortnumber" user@hostA:directory target_dir

Migrate Server with rsync

Copies the complete root-dir of a linux server to another one, where the new harddisks formated and mountet. Very useful to migrate a root-server to another one.

back ssh from firewalled hosts

host B (you) redirects a modem port (62220) to his local ssh. host A is a remote machine (the ones that issues the ssh cmd). once connected port 5497 is in listening mode on host B. host B just do a ssh 127.0.0.1 -p 5497 -l user and reaches the remote host'ssh. This can be used also for vnc and so on.

Buffer in order to avoir mistakes with redirections that empty your files

A common mistake in Bash is to write command-line where there's command a reading a file and whose result is redirected to that file. It can be easily avoided because of : 1) warnings "-bash: file.txt: cannot overwrite existing file" 2) options (often "-i") that let the command directly modify the file but I like to have that small function that does the trick by waiting for the first command to end before trying to write into the file. Lots of things could probably done in a better way, if you know one...

du with colored bar graph

i'm using gawk, you may get varying mileage with other varieties. You might want to change the / after du to say, /home/ or /var or something, otherwise this command might take quite some time to complete. Sorry it's so obsfucated, I had to turn a script into a one-liner under 255 characters for commandlinefu. Note: the bar ratio is relative, so the highest ratio of the total disk, "anchors" the rest of the graph. EDIT: the math was slightly wrong, fixed it. Also, made it compliant with older versions of df.

Debian: Mark all dependent packages as manualy installed.

Debian: Mark all dependent packages as manually installed. So they are not automatically removed if you remove some meta package - like gnome-desktop-environment for example.

Create the oauth token required for a Twitter stream feed

This is the THIRD in a set of five commands. See my other commands for the previous two. This step creates the oauth 1.0 token as explained in http://oauth.net/core/1.0/ The token is required for a Twitter filtered stream feed (and almost all Twitter API calls) This token is simply an encrypted version of your base string. The encryption key used is your hmac. The last part of the command scans the Base64 token string for '+', '/', and '=' characters and converts them to percentage-hex escape codes. (URI-escapeing). This is also a good example of where the $() syntax of Bash command substitution fails, while the backtick form ` works - the right parenthesis in the case statement causes a syntax error if you try to use the $() syntax here. See my previous two commands step1 and step2 to see how the base string variable $b and hmac variable $hmac are generated.

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