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Compare directories via diff

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diff -rq dirA dirB

mariusbutuc · 2011-08-24 21:33:24 7
Recursively unrar into dir containing archive

From the cwd, recursively find all rar files, extracting each rar into the directory where it was found, rather than cwd. A nice time saver if you've used wget or similar to mirror something, where each sub dir contains an rar archive. Its likely this can be tuned to work with multi-part archives where all parts use ambiguous .rar extensions but I didn't test this. Perhaps unrar would handle this gracefully anyway?
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find . -name '*.rar' -execdir unrar e {} \;

kyle0r · 2012-09-27 02:27:03 5
Convert all .flac from a folder subtree in 192Kb mp3

find . -type f -iname '*.flac' # searches from the current folder recursively for .flac audio files | # the output (a .flac audio files with relative path from ./ ) is piped to while read FILE; do FILENAME="${FILE%.*}"; flac -cd "$FILE" | lame -b 192 - "${FILENAME}.mp3"; done # for each line on the list: # FILE gets the file with .flac extension and relative path # FILENAME gets FILE without the .flac extension # run flac for that FILE with output piped to lame conversion to mp3 using 192Kb bitrate Show Sample Output
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```
#For each audio file, it prints

audio.flac: done         
LAME 3.98.2 64bits (http://www.mp3dev.org/)
Using polyphase lowpass filter, transition band: 18671 Hz - 19205 Hz
Encoding <stdin>
      to ./path/with/folders/audio.mp3
Encoding as 44.1 kHz j-stereo MPEG-1 Layer III (7.3x) 192 kbps qval=3

flac 1.2.1, Copyright (C) 2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007  Josh Coalson
flac comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and you are
welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  Type `flac' for details.
```
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find . -type f -iname '*.flac' | while read FILE; do FILENAME="${FILE%.*}"; flac -cd "$FILE" | lame -b 192 - "${FILENAME}.mp3"; done

paulochf · 2010-08-15 19:02:19 4
Find all files of a type and copy them elsewhere while keeping intact their full directory structure using find and cpio

.flac is the filetype. /Volumes/Music/FLAC is the destination. Show Sample Output
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```
#Any folders containing .flac files will be copied to the destination.

/Volumes/Music/FLAC/Music $ ls

Albert King The Best of Albert King(flac)/
Cloud Kicker/
St Germain/
Astor Piazzolla(flac)/
```
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find . -iname "*.flac" | cpio -pdm /Volumes/Music/FLAC

sammcj · 2011-08-02 08:25:21 71
Calculate md5 sums for every file in a directory tree
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find . -type f -exec md5sum {} \; > sum.md5

Tungmar · 2010-08-24 09:37:31 8
Recursive chmod all files and directories within the current directory
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chmod -R 774 .

cfajohnson · 2009-12-23 18:42:26 7
tree command limit depth for recusive directory list

sometimes I need list from path with max limit for recursive depth directory listing
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tree -L 2 -u -g -p -d

aysadk · 2020-11-04 10:45:39 578
A function to find the newest file in a directory
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newest () { find ${1:-\.} -type f |xargs ls -lrt ; }

mobidyc · 2010-02-04 14:52:17 9
Compare two directories

Output of this command is the difference of recursive file lists in two directories (very quick!). To view differences in content of files too, use the command submitted by mariusbutuc (very slow!): diff -rq path_to_dir1 path_to_dir2 Show Sample Output
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```
./.htaccess                                   | ./DEADJOE
                                              > ./about.php
                                              > ./ad-aware.php
                                              > ./config.php
```
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diff --suppress-common-lines -y <(cd path_to_dir1; find .|sort) <(cd path_to_dir2; find .|sort)

knoppix5 · 2012-02-13 12:49:33 9
A function to find the newest file in a directory
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find /path/to/dir -type f -printf "%T@|%p\n" 2>/dev/null | sort -n | tail -n 1| awk -F\| '{print $2}'

glennie · 2010-02-04 15:13:27 5
A function to find the newest file in a directory

Works recusivley in the specified dir or '.' if none given. Repeatedly calls 'find' to find a newer file, when no newer files exist you have the newest. In this case 'newest' means most recently modified. To find the most recently created change -newer to -cnewer. Show Sample Output
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```
[user@localhost ~]$ newest /var/www/html/
/var/www/html/manual/createCustomColumn.png
[user@localhost ~]$
```
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newest () { DIR=${1:-'.'}; CANDIDATE=`find $DIR -type f|head -n1`; while [[ ! -z $CANDIDATE ]]; do BEST=$CANDIDATE; CANDIDATE=`find $DIR -newer "$BEST" -type f|head -n1`; done; echo "$BEST"; }

shadycraig · 2010-02-04 12:40:44 6
Recursively execute command on directories (.svn, permissions, etc)

The above command will set the GID bit on all directories named .svn in the current directory recursively. This makes the group ownership of all .svn folders be the group ownership for all files created in that folder, no matter the user. This is useful for me as the subversion working directory on my server is also the live website and needs to be auto committed to subversion every so often via cron as well as worked on by multiple users. Setting the GID bit on the .svn folders makes sure we don't have a mix of .svn metadata created by a slew of different users.
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find . -type d -name .svn -exec chmod g+s "{}" \;

mitzip · 2010-04-27 16:51:00 22
calculate md5 sums for every file in a directory tree

an alternative
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find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum

potatoface · 2010-08-24 19:57:24 5
list files recursively by size
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stat -c'%s %n' **/* | sort -n

ysangkok · 2015-08-25 18:23:55 56
Recursively replace a string in files with lines matching string

Recursively replace a string in files with lines matching string. Lines with the string "group name" will have the first > character replaced while other > characters on other lines will be ignored. Show Sample Output
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```
Before:  <group name="HTTP Service Group" type="compat" resourceType="HTTP">
    <resourceType name="HTTP">
      <resource name="regex:^.*SERVERGROUP[^D]$"/>
    </resourceType>
  </group>

After:  <group name="HTTP Service Group - SERVERGROUP" type="compat" resourceType="HTTP" deleteMissing="true">
    <resourceType name="HTTP">
      <resource name="regex:^.*SERVERGROUP[^D]$"/>
    </resourceType>
  </group>
```
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for i in `find . -type f`; do sed -i '/group name/s/>/ deleteMissing="true">/' $i; done

allrightname · 2010-02-01 17:16:37 5
Recursively replace a string in files with lines matching string

Changed out the for loop for an xargs. It's a tad shorter, and a tad cleaner.
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find . -type f |xargs -I% sed -i '/group name/s/>/ deleteMissing="true">/' %

4fthawaiian · 2010-02-01 21:09:57 4
remove script from infected html files

recursive find and replace. important stuff are grep -Z and zargs -0 which add zero byte after file name so sed can work even with file names with spaces.
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grep -ZlRr -e BAD_SCRIPT_LINE * |xargs -0 sed -i 's/BAD_SCRIPT_LINE//g'

homoludens · 2010-08-30 22:12:57 6
Delete all files in a folder that don't match a certain file extension

This command is recursive and will delete in all directories in ".". It will find and delete all files not specified with ! -name "pattern". In this case it's file extensions. -type f means it will only find files and not directories. Finally the -delete flag ask find to delete what it matches. You can test the command by running it first without delete and it will list the files it will delete when you run it. Show Sample Output
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```
enki 13:09:08 /tmp/foo/bar $ find . ! -name "*.xml" ! -name "*.js" -type f -delete
enki 13:12:23 /tmp/foo/bar $
```
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find . -type f ! -name "*.foo" -name "*.bar" -delete

sh1mmer · 2010-10-07 20:17:38 6
Recursive script to find all epubs in the current dir and subs, then convert to mobi using calibre's ebook-convert utility

finds all epub files in the current directory and all child directories and converts them to .mobi format. all of the ebook-convert -options are optional; the only parameters you are required to pass are the incoming file and the outgoing file, with the extension. Has been tested on Ubuntu 10.10
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find $PWD -type d | while read "D"; do cd "$D"; for filename in *.epub;do ebook-convert "$filename" "${filename%.epub}.mobi" --prefer-author-sort --output-profile=kindle --linearize-tables --smarten-punctuation --asciiize;done ;done

rsimpson · 2011-04-19 15:51:50 10
Recursive script to find all epubs in the current dir and subs, then convert to mobi using calibre's ebook-convert utility

-exec sh -c 'var={}; do something with var' lets you do things in a sub-shell while it's faster to type, I'm not sure if dozens of subshells execute quicker than the while loops.
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find . -name '*.epub' -exec sh -c 'a={}; ebook-convert $a ${a%.epub}.mobi --still --more --options' \;

joedhon · 2011-04-21 22:03:01 4
use md5sum -c recursively through subdirectory tree when every directory has its own checksum file

extracts path to each md5 checksum file, then, for each path, cd to it, check the md5sum, then cd - to toggle back to the starting directory. greps at the end to remove cd chattering on about the current directory.
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for i in $(find . -name *md5checksum_file* | sed 's/$\.\/.*$md5checksum_file.txt/\1/'); do cd "$i"; md5sum -c "md5checksum_file.txt"; cd -; done | tee ~/checksum_results.txt | grep -v "<current directory>"

gocoogs · 2011-05-17 01:08:44 4
Rekursive Grep on Solaris or AIX Systems without GNU egrep -r funcionality
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find . -type f -exec awk '/linux/ { printf "%s %s: %s\n",FILENAME,NR,$0; }' {} \;

Neo23x0 · 2011-11-29 12:32:06 9
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 6
Wipe a directory recursively & safely

wipes directory/ "recursively" "w/o confirming" deletion in "quick" mode for "10" passes.
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wipe -rfqQ 10 directory/

slashbang · 2012-09-20 01:12:33 6
Recursively unrar in different folders

In order to unrar several files in different subfolders, you just need to launch this command in your parent folder in order to have your files ready for manipulation and already extracted; I did not put anything to delete the original rar files
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for i in `ls` ; do cd $i ; pwd; for f in `ls *.rar` ; do unrar e $f ; done ; cd .. ; done

Avelinux · 2013-03-06 19:23:58 8
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Open a manpage in the default (graphical) web browser

An easy alias for opening a manpage, nicely HTML formatted, in your set internet browser. If you get a "command exited with status 3" error you need to install groff.

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Dump audio from video without re-encoding.

This removes the video and subsequent file size and directly copies the audio.

Clean all .pyc files from current project. It cleans all the files recursively.

check for write/read permissions

su www-apache/ftp user and then check readable: find ~/ -type d $ -wholename '/dev/*' -o -wholename '/sys/*' -o -wholename '/proc/*' $ -prune -o -exec test -r {} \; -exec echo {} readable \; 2>/dev/null check writable: find ~/ -type d $ -wholename '/dev/*' -o -wholename '/sys/*' -o -wholename '/proc/*' $ -prune -o -exec test -w {} \; -exec echo {} writable \; 2>/dev/null

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"

tar exclude files or directories

If you want to exclude only one file or directory you should use as --exclude=file_or_directory

Terrorist threat level text

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS

Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

Count items in JSON array

Pipe any JSON to jq, then count with the appropiate expression and use the | length on the array

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