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Sort by size all hardlinked files in the current directory (and subdirectories)

The listing will be nice separated with dashes in chunks of identical files. Output format: Size Inode Mode Count_of_identical_files UID GID Date Time Path/Filename Show Sample Output
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```
157 10840 644 2 1000 1000 04/09/12 02:23:44 PM ./bookmarks.xml
157 10840 644 2 1000 1000 04/09/12 02:23:44 PM ./mydir/bookmarks.xml
---
1987 10845 644 3 1000 1000 04/09/12 02:23:44 PM ./kst.gif
1987 10845 644 3 1000 1000 04/09/12 02:23:44 PM ./mydir/neki.gif~
1987 10845 644 3 1000 1000 04/09/12 02:23:44 PM ./mydir/text.gif
---
1988 10846 644 2 1000 1000 04/09/12 02:23:44 PM ./mydir/neki1.gif
1988 10846 644 2 1000 1000 04/09/12 02:23:44 PM ./mydir/neki.gif
```
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for a in $(find . -xdev -type f -printf '%i\n'|sort|uniq -d);do find . -xdev -inum $a -printf '%s %i %m %n %U %G %AD %Ar %p\n';done|sort -n|awk '{if(x!=$2){print "---"};x=$2;print $0}'

knoppix5 · 2012-04-09 12:52:07 5
Listing all your bundles Entities files to issue a doctrine:generate:entities

When I do a major change in my entities, I want to find a way to find all my Entities names and create the commande for me. So instead of doing ls src/Your/OwnBundle... and then do it manually, this helps a lot. Show Sample Output
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```
app/console doctrine:generate:entities YourOwnBundleName:Catalog
app/console doctrine:generate:entities YourOwnBundleName:Site
app/console doctrine:generate:entities YourOwnBundleName:User
app/console doctrine:generate:entities YourOwnBundleName:Software
app/console doctrine:generate:entities YourOwnBundleName:Template
...
```
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find ./src -type d -name "Entity" | xargs ls -A | cut -d . -f1 | sed 's_^_app/console doctrine:generate:entities YourOwnBundleName:_'

renoirb · 2012-04-11 21:28:02 3
Graphical tree of sub-directories

shorter version. I believe find is faster than ls as well.
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find . -type d |sed 's:[^-][^/]*/:--:g; s:^-: |:'

adamhotep · 2012-04-14 00:51:09 5
Recreate md5 checksum files for files in folder and subfolders
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find . -type f \! -name "*.md5" -exec sh -c 'md5sum "$1" > $1.md5' -- {} \;

k2s · 2012-04-14 09:29:15 3
Find directory by name
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find . -type d -name '.svn' -ls

k2s · 2012-04-14 09:36:16 3
Display directory hierarchy listing as a tree

Provides a much cleaner, easier to read output than the closest alternative, ls -1R. This alternative makes it easier to differentiate directories from files: find . -printf '%y %p\n' | perl -ne 'if( m/(\w) (.*)\/(.*)/ ) { $t = $1; $p = $2; $f = $3; $t =~ s/[^d]/ /; $p =~ s/[^\/]/ /g; $p =~ s/\//|/g; print "$t $p/$f\n"; } elsif( m/(\w) (.*)/ ) { print "$1 $2\n"; } else { print "error interpreting: \"$_\"\n"; }' Show Sample Output
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```
 /file1
 /file2
 /folder3
 |       /folder4
 |       |       /somefile
 |       /file6
 |       /file5
 /directory1
 |          /file7
 |          /file5
 /directory2
```
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find . -printf '%p\n' | perl -ne 'if( m/(.*)\/(.*)/ ) { $p = $1; $f = $2; $p =~ s/[^\/]/ /g; $p =~ s/\//|/g; print "$p/$f\n"; } elsif( m/(.*)/ ) { print "$1\n"; } else { print "error interpreting: \"$_\"\n"; }'

cbetti · 2012-04-24 19:51:00 3
find all c and cpp files except the ones in the unit-test and android subdirectories

Find files matching multiple descriptions (*.c and *.cpp) excluding multiple directories (unit-test and android).
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find . ! -regex '.*/$unit-test\|android$/.*' $ -name '*.c' -o -name '*.cpp' $

flatcap · 2012-04-26 17:53:45 3
Convert uppercase to lowercase extensions

Using a for loop, rename all files with .MP3 extension to .mp3. Show Sample Output
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```
All *.MP3 in $PWD will be turned to .mp3
```
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find . -type f -name *.MP3 -print0 | xargs -0 -i rename .MP3 .mp3 {}

pibarnas · 2012-04-29 02:44:44 5
Backup hidden files and folders in home directory

This will make a backup of all hidden files and folders in the home folder.
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tar zcpvf backup.tgz $(find $HOME -maxdepth 1 -name '.*' -and -not -name '.')

DavidAlfonso · 2012-05-01 17:48:24 19
Recursively remove .svn directories
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find . -iname ".svn" | xargs rm -r $1

rwunsch · 2012-05-07 08:18:12 3
remove OSX resource forks ._ files

This command won't delete resource forks from an HFS file system, only from file systems that don't natively support resource forks.
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find . -name ._\* -exec rm -f {} \;

silicontrip · 2012-05-14 22:25:42 3

List all files in current dir and subdirs sorted by size

for those without the tree command. Show Sample Output

find . -ls | sort -k 7 -n

silicontrip · 2012-05-14 22:35:47 4

List all symlinks and see where they link to
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find -type l | xargs ls -l

samer · 2012-05-15 22:34:51 3
List all files in current dir and subdirs sorted by size

This doesn't require any non-standard programs.
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find . -printf "%s %p\n" | sort -n

ClashTheBunny · 2012-05-17 11:39:26 3
Remove all .svn directories recursively from a directory

This simple command removes all the .svn directories recursively. Useful when you want to get a clean code excluding .svn files. Check what is getting delete through this command " find . -name '.svn' -type d | xargs echo "
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find . -name '.svn' -type d | xargs rm -rf

luckymurari · 2012-05-18 10:26:55 7
List files under current directory, ignoring repository copies.

Ever done a find to get content and been messed up by .git, .svn, .hg or the like spamming your results? Did you really want to grep over every copy of the file that existed in your git history? Replace: grep -r PATTERN . with: grep PATTERN -- $(have_here) or if you really have too many files to put in one argv: have_here | xargs grep PATTERN --
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function have_here { find "${@:-.}" -type d $ -name .git -o -name .svn -o -name .bzr -o -name CVS -o -name .hg -o -name __pycache__ $ -prune -o -type f -print; }

syscomet · 2012-05-20 05:31:26 3
Recursively remove all empty directories

This will check if there are any empty directories, or newly emptied directories, in a list of directories. It will then delete all of those directories. It works with gnu find and OSX/BSD find.
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for foo in <list of directories>; do while find $foo -type d -empty 2>/dev/null| grep -q "."; do find $foo -type d -empty -print0 | xargs -0 rmdir; done; done

ClashTheBunny · 2012-05-23 08:09:16 6

Pretty print all of the Linux vm sysctls for your viewing pleasure

Sometimes you want to see all of the systcls for a given $thing. I happened to need to easily look at all of the vm sysctls between two boxes and compare them. This is what I came up with. Show Sample Output

find /proc/sys/vm -maxdepth 1 -type f | while read i ; do printf "%-35s\t%s\n" "$i" "$(<$i)" ; done | sort -t/ -k4

SEJeff · 2012-05-25 16:34:16 7

Copy the most recent wav file from /media/ to the current folder

Watch out if you have several USB drives plugged in: it scans the whole /media/ folder !!! You can replace /media/ by the path of a specific USB drive (something like /media/F77A-530B/) I use a sound recorder and I want to plug the recorder and grab the most recent sound. That's what this command does. Use mv instead of cp to move instead of copy. Change *.wav to the required file type.
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cp $(find /media/ -type f -name "*.wav" -printf "%T@ %h/%f\n" | sort | tail -1 | awk '{ print $2 }') .

hamoid · 2012-06-01 12:45:43 3
exec chmod to subfiles
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find . -type f -exec chmod a-x {} \;

hpyhacking · 2012-06-11 02:41:47 4
recursively change file name from uppercase to lowercase (or viceversa)

Handles spaces in file names and directories. Optionally change directories as well by pipe to tr from dirname.
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find ./ -type f -exec sh -c 'echo "{}" "$(dirname "{}")/$(basename "{}" | tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]")"' \;

jelloir · 2012-06-14 07:13:42 3
remove a directory filled with too many files

rm /SOME/PATH/*, when you hit "argument list too long".
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find /SOME/PATH -type f -execdir rm -f {} \+

kiiwii · 2012-06-15 05:32:31 6
search in all cpp / hpp files using egrep
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find . $ -name "*cpp" -o -name "*hpp" $ -exec grep -Hn -E "043[eE]|70[Dd]7" \{\} \;

kaplan2539 · 2012-06-15 12:55:23 3
List files containing given search string recursively
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find /path/to/dir -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l "foo"

apotheos · 2012-06-19 16:27:30 5
Find files and list them sorted by modification time

here's a version which works on OS X.
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find . -type f -exec stat -f '%m %N' {} \; | sort -n

cellularmitosis · 2012-06-20 00:13:52 4
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list folders containing less than 2 MB of data

Just shortened the awk a bit and removed sed. Edit: I'm assuming there are no spaces in the path. To support white space in pathname try: $ awk '($1 < 2048) {sub(/^[0-9]+[ \t]+/,""); print $0}'

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 Files That Exceed a Specified Size Limit

encode a text to url_encoded format

usefull for posts via wget

Convert epoch date to human readable date format in a log file.

Find broken symlinks

To understand why this is the equivalent of "find -L /path/to/search -type l, see http://ynform.org/w/Pub/FindBrokenSymbolicLinks or look at http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/manual/html_mono/find.html

Hide or show Desktop Icons on MacOS

Hides all Files and Folders on the MacOS Desktop. To show files and folders, type "true" instead of "false". "Finder" at the end is case sensitive, "finder" doesn’t work

Perl One Liner to Generate a Random IP Address

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Recursivly search current directory for files larger than 100MB

Move all files in subdirectories to current dir

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