Commands using find (1,252)
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Deletes capistrano-style release directories (except that there are dashes between the YYYY-MM-DD) Show Sample Output
-1find . -maxdepth 1 -type d | grep -Pv "^.$" | sort -rn --field-separator="-" | sed -n '3,$p' | xargs rm -rf -
a pretty simple script when running java programs from command line Show Sample Output
-1CLASSPATH=.; export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH$(find "$PWD" -name '*.jar' -type f -printf ':%p\n' | sort -u | tr -d '\n'); echo $CLASSPATH -
(1) don't run twice, or the same folder will occur in $PATH. (2) otherwise you need to start a new terminal Show Sample Output
-1export PATH=$PATH$(find "$PWD" -name '.*' -prune -o -type f -a -perm /u+x -printf ':%h\n' | sort -u | tr -d '\n'); echo $PATH -
Warn: use convmv or detox if you can: they are the right tools. But if you want to do it manually, you can use this command to find the problematic files and transliterate their accented characters to their ascii equivalent. (Useful when doing cd backup: growisofs may fail on files which come from the old iso8859-* days.)
-1LANG=fr_FR.iso8859-1 find . -name '*['$'\xe9'$'\xea'$'\xeb'$'\xc9'']*'|while read f; do a="$(echo $f|iconv -f iso8859-1 -t ascii//TRANSLIT)"; echo "move $f => $a"; done -
-1find . -iname '*TODO*'
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-1find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -mtime +60 -ls
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-1find . -type f -iname '*.java.orig' -delete
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You can replace "." with your folder
-1find . -name '*.txt' -exec mv {} {}.sh \ ; -
You can find every file with png extension and redirect its output to file. Later you can find a string inside the file.
-1find . -name "*.png" | tee images.txt | grep book -
-1find ~ -name '*.sqlite' -exec sqlite3 '{}' 'VACUUM;' \;
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There's nothing particularly novel about this combination of find, grep, and wc, I'm just putting it here in case I want it again. Show Sample Output
-1find . -name '*.java' -o -name '*.xml' | grep -v '\.svn' | xargs wc -l -
Replaces space in a file with a underline
-1find ./ $1 -name "* *" | while read a ; do mv "${a}" "${a//\ /_}" ; done -
It's not better than the former, just another possible way. Found at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/copy-directory-structure-only-208796/ Credits to whansard The command finds all .mp3 files in all subfolders from where it's ran, catches its "relative path" and creates inside /new/path/ with the same "relative path". PS: /new/path/ must exists Use case: folder with flac files with tree structure ../artist/album/number-title.flac 1) convert flac->mp3 in the same folder: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/6341/convert-all-.flac-from-a-folder-subtree-in-192kb-mp3 2) search for mp3 files and recreate tree structure to another path: this command 3) move all mp3 files to that new folder: http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/8854/move-mp3-files-to-another-path-with-existing-subtree-structure Show Sample Output
-1find . -type d -exec mkdir /new/path/{} \; -
-1find . -printf "%T@ %p\n" | sed -e 1d | while read ts fn; do ts=${ts%.*}; if [ $ts -ge ${gts:-0} ]; then gts=$ts; echo `date -d @$gts` $fn; fi; done
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calls grep on all non-binary files returned by find on its current working directory Show Sample Output
-1#!/bin/bash find | grep -P -v "(class)|(zip)|(png)|(gz)|(gif)|(jpeg)|(jpg)" | xargs -I @ grep -H $1 @ -
-1find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0r awk '/^\xEF\xBB\xBF/ {print FILENAME} {nextfile}'
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You must spezify /where folder and / folder If you have another camera you must experiment with Exif data (after -g and after grep) and mask of your photo files IMG_????.JPG I have do it on Knoppix 6.7.0 You must have installed exiv2. Show Sample Output
-1find / -type f -name IMG_????.JPG -print0 |xargs -0 exiv2 -g Exif.Canon.ModelID '{}' |grep A520 |rev |cut --complement -d " " -f1-40 |rev |xargs -I {} cp --parents {} /where -
Very useful for finding all the source code that should be compiled.
-1find . -name unit-test -o -name '*.c' -o -name '*.cpp' | egrep -v "unit-test|android" -
-1find ./ -maxdepth 1 -empty -type d -delete
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These should be a little faster since they don't have to spawn grep.
-1ff() { find -maxdepth 3 -type f -iname "$1"; }; fd() { find -maxdepth 4 -type d -iname "$1"; } -
This command allow you quick find any executable by keyword(s) in your system. NOTE: Sometime this command will output like this: `hello.py.launch': No such file or directory this is normal behaviour Show Sample Output
-1find $(locate hello) -type f -executable -print|grep -E "hello\$" -
Also shows files as they are found. Only works from a tty.
-1echo $(find <directory> -name '*.<extension>' -exec du -s {} \; | tee $(tty) | cut -f1 | tr '\n' '+') 0 | bc -
Assumes you've cd'd to the folder in which all your git repos reside; you could run it from ~ without -maxdepth, although that might make find take quite a while longer. If you have several processor cores, but not that much ram, you might want to run
git config --global pack.threads 1first, since gc-ing can eat lots of ram. Show Sample Output-1find . -maxdepth 2 -type d -name '.git' -print0 | while read -d ''; do (cd "$REPLY"; git gc); done -
Will check if the given module is installed in the @INC. It will print the path and return 0 if found, or 1 otherwise. Based on script from SharpyWarpy in http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/how-to-list-all-installed-perl-modules-216603/ Show Sample Output
-1perl -MFile::Find=find -MFile::Spec::Functions -Tlwe '$found=1; find { wanted => sub { if (/$ARGV[0]\.pm\z/) { print canonpath $_; $found=0; } }, no_chdir => 1 }, @INC; exit $found;' Collectd/Plugins/Graphite -
-1find -type f | xargs ls -1tr
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