Commands using find (1,252)
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this command can be added to crontab so as to execute a nightly backup of directories and store only the 10 last backup files.
0for file in $(find /var/backup -name "backup*" -type f |sort -r | tail -n +10); do rm -f $file; done ; tar czf /var/backup/backup-system-$(date "+\%Y\%m\%d\%H\%M-\%N").tgz --exclude /home/dummy /etc /home /opt 2>&- && echo "system backup ok" -
This commands compresses the "tmp" directory into an initrd file.
0cd tmp ; find . |cpio -o -H newc| gzip > ../initrd.gz -
0find . -name *.png | xargs optipng -nc -nb -o7 -full
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0find -type f -exec ffmpeg -i "{}" "{}".mp3 \;
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This will add a perl POD stub above each method in all modules found recursively in your current directory. The stub will look like: =head2 method_name =cut sub method_name { ...
0find . -type file -name '*.pm' | xargs perl -p -i -e 'BEGIN{undef $/;} s/([;}])\s*\nsub (\w+)/$1\n\n=head2 $2\n\n=cut\n\nsub $2/g' -
This command takes all `.po` files inside `i18n` directory and compiles them to `.mo` files with same basename
0find ./i18n -name "*.po" | while read f; do msgfmt $f -o ${f%.po}.mo; done -
using awk, changed the line given by sucotronic in command #11733 to print the first and second columns Show Sample Output
0find . -name "*.pdf" -exec pdftk {} dump_data output \; | grep NumberOfPages | awk '{print $1,$2}' -
0find <directory> -print -iname "*.jar" -exec jar -ftv '{}' \;|grep -E "jar|<classname>"
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0find -type f ! -name "*.gz" ! -exec fuser -s {} ';' -exec gzip {} \;
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rename all dirs with "?" char in name, leave spaces and () in place Show Sample Output
0find . -type d -name "*\?*" | while read f;do mv "$f" "${f//[^0-9A-Za-z.\/\(\)\ ]/_}";done -
List all dependencies manifests so you can install them. In a scenario where you want to deploy a number of web applications and run their dependency managers, how could you run all of them in a systematic order. One of the complexity is to ensure you get only your own top level dependencies. That way, you don recursively call development dependencies of your own dependencies. Otherwise you might end up discovering dependency management manifests that are already been pulled by your own projects. # Using this command This command helps me find them and I can then run what?s required to pull them from their respective sources. This command assumes the following: 1. Your code checkouts are in a flat repository layout (i.e. not nested). 2. Finds manifests for: - NPM (nodejs), - Composer (php), - bower, - requirements.txt (Python), and - git submodules Show Sample Output
0find /srv/code -maxdepth 4 -type f -regex ".*\(\(package\|composer|npm\\|bower\)\.json\|Gemfile\|requirements\.txt\\|\.gitmodules\)" -
Way more easy to understand for naive user. Just returns the biggest file with size.
0find . -printf '%s %p\n'|sort -nr| head -1 -
0netstat -anop tcp | find ":8010"
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count all the lines of code in specific directory recursively in this case only *.php can be *.*
0find . -name '*.php' | xargs wc -l -
Command to compress logs
0find ./ -name "file.name" -type f -print -exec bzip2 -9 '{}' \; -
Works on AIX, HP-UX, Linux
0find . -name "*.py" -exec wc -l {} \; -
Find and delete files over 15 days Show Sample Output
0find ./ -type f -name *.file -mtime +15 | xargs rm -f -
0find . -type f -exec echo -n "touch -t \`echo " \; -exec echo -n {} \; -exec echo -n " | sed -E 's/.*([[:digit:]]{8})_([[:digit:]]{4})([[:digit:]]{2}).*/\1\2.\3/g'\` " \; -exec echo {} \; | sh
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"$PWD" (in quotes) accounts for spaces and other characters normally escaped in file or folder names
0mplayer -fs -playlist <(find "$PWD" -type f) -
I was looking for an easy solution where I could list all of the directories that had a specific file, not to replace it, but more of providing a list to a third-party or for my own reference. Show Sample Output
0find $(pwd) | grep README.txt -
0find /media/mmc/ -iname "*.JPG" -exec mogrify -quality 75 -resize '800x600' -path ~/Temp/ {} \;
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0find / -xdev -printf '%h\n' | sort | uniq -c | sort -k 1 -n
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0find . -maxdepth 1 -type l -ls
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0find . -size +10M -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -Sshl1
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0find . -mtime +7 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -Sshl1
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