Commands tagged find (410)
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This function will find the modification time in unix_time of the given file, then calculate the number of minutes from now to then and then find all files modified in that range. Show Sample Output
0function findOlderThan () { find . -mmin -$((($(date "+%s") - $(stat -c %Y $1))/60)) -type f ; } -
Caution: distructive overwrite of filenames Useful for concatenating pdfs in date order using pdftk
0find . -name "*.pdf" -print0 | xargs -r0 stat -c %y\ %n | sort|awk '{print $4}'|gawk 'BEGIN{ a=1 }{ printf "mv %s %04d.pdf\n", $0, a++ }' | bash -
rename all dirs with "?" char in name, leave spaces and () in place Show Sample Output
0find . -type d -name "*\?*" | while read f;do mv "$f" "${f//[^0-9A-Za-z.\/\(\)\ ]/_}";done -
Way more easy to understand for naive user. Just returns the biggest file with size.
0find . -printf '%s %p\n'|sort -nr| head -1 -
0du -k . | sort -rn | head -11
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Command to compress logs
0find ./ -name "file.name" -type f -print -exec bzip2 -9 '{}' \; -
"$PWD" (in quotes) accounts for spaces and other characters normally escaped in file or folder names
0mplayer -fs -playlist <(find "$PWD" -type f) -
0find /media/mmc/ -iname "*.JPG" -exec mogrify -quality 75 -resize '800x600' -path ~/Temp/ {} \;
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Warnings and errors will be suppressed Show Sample Output
0grep --include=\*.html -R "some string" . 2>/dev/null -
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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Uses "locate" instead of "find", "sort -u" instead of "sort | uniq" and it's case insensitive. Show Sample Output
0locate -i /pattern/ | xargs -n1 dirname | sort -u -
This command tars/gz all the folders contained in a directory. Only applies to top level directory. Very handy when you have to transfer mny folders containing lots of stuff. Can also work with tar only, zip...
0find . -type d -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -exec tar czf {}.tar.gz {} \; -
Single file archives nested in subdirectories. After extracting them, you'll have the file (e.g. file.ext) and the archive (e.g. file.ext.nco) side by side. Sometimes you'll only have the archive (if you didn't extract them, or if there was an error during extraction). Only delete the archive if the single file is present in the same directory. Show Sample Output
0find . -type f ! -iname "*.nco" -execdir bash -c ' if [ -f "{}.nco" ]; then rm -v "{}.nco"; fi' \; -
This version works on OS X (if you have installed `rename`)
0find <mydir> -type f -exec rename 's/<string1>/<string2>/g' {} \; -
0find <mydir> -type f -exec rename 's/<string1>/<string2>/g' {} \;
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find '.odt' files that contain USAGE: grepodt
0grepodt () { W=$1;P=$2;ls *.odt > /dev/null 2>&1;if [[ $? -ne 0 ]];then exit 1;fi;if [[ ! "$P" ]];then P='*';fi;for i in $P.odt;do unzip -qq "$i" content.xml;grep -l $W content.xml>/dev/null;if [[ $? -eq 0 ]];then echo $i;fi;rm content.xml; done;} -
Only search source files directly related to current project. Everything under the "node_modules" directly are ignored.
0find * -type d -name node_modules -prune -o -type f -name \*.js -exec grep [opts] [pattern] {} \; -
0find / \( -mount -o -prune \) \( -perm -4000 -o -perm -2000 \) -type f -exec ls -l {} \;
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Returns a list, with attributes (think `ls -l`), in reverse chronological order. N is a single numeric parameter. Robust against unfriendly filenames and directory structures. Show Sample Output
0nmf() { find . -type f -printf '%T@ ' -print0 -printf '\n' | sort -rn | head -"$1" | cut -f2- -d" " | tr -d "\0" | tr "\n" "\0" | xargs -0 ls -Ulh; } -
debian kernel 4.4.6 Show Sample Output
0grep "checksum error at logical" /var/log/messages | egrep -o "[^ ]+$" | tr -d ')' | sort | uniq -
0find . -name '*docx' -exec sh -c "unzip -p {} word/document.xml | sed -e 's/<[^>]\{1,\}>//g; s/[^[:print:]]\{1,\}//g' | grep -i SearchTerm -q && echo {} " \;
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It's always a good idea to check the output of find without -delete before hand to make sure the results are as you expect. If you want to see where the broken symlinks point, use
find . -xtype l -exec ls -l {} \+0find . -xtype l -delete -
To allow recursivity :
find -type f -exec md5sum '{}' ';' | sort | uniq -c -w 33 | sort -gr | head -n 5 | cut -c1-7,41-Display only filenames :find -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec md5sum '{}' ';' | sort | uniq -c -w 33 | sort -gr | head -n 5 | cut -c43-Show Sample Output0find -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec md5sum '{}' ';' | sort | uniq -c -w 33 | sort -gr | head -n 5 | cut -c1-7,41- -
-name : base of filename -o : 'or' '*.c' : avoiding "paths must precede expression" error message -type f : only find file type --color: hightlight specific word with color -E : extended regexp Show Sample Output
0find ./$(PATH) -name '*.h' -o -name '*.c' -type f | xargs grep --color -E '*Data*' - ‹ First < 11 12 13 14 15 > Last ›
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