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remove all CVS directories
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find . -type d -name 'CVS' | xargs rm -r

kev · 2011-08-10 07:38:51 3
Search for all files that begin with . and delete them.

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```
maggie:~ root# find ~/Desktop/ $ -regex '.*/\..*' $ -print -exec rm -Rf {} \;
~/Desktop/.DS_Store
~/Desktop/.fseventsd
```
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find ~/Desktop/ $ -regex '.*/\..*' $ -print -exec rm -Rf {} \;

unixmonkey4063 · 2009-06-02 19:45:06 8
recursively change file name from uppercase to lowercase (or viceversa)
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find . -type d -name '*[A-Z]*' -execdir bash -c '! test -f "$(echo "$0" | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]")"' {} \; -execdir bash -c 'mv "$0" "$(echo "$0" | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]")"' {} \;

ashawley · 2010-04-01 04:35:52 31
recursive remove all htm files
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rm -rf `find . -type f -name *.htm`

miccaman · 2010-11-25 12:46:33 4
Search for the file and open in vi editor.
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vifind() { vi `find . -name "$1"` }

deepanaidu · 2009-03-06 05:52:48 7
Move all files with common extension to current directory

This is useful if you have a collection of files in folders (for example, a bunch of .zip files that are contained in folders) and you want to move them all to a common folder.
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mv `find .zip ./` .

smcpherson · 2009-03-27 04:42:48 14
Replace spaces with '_' in filenames

Takes filenames and directory names and replace space to '_'.
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find -depth . | (while read FULLPATH; do BASENAME=`basename "${FULLPATH}"`; DIRNAME=`dirname "${FULLPATH}"`; mv "${DIRNAME}/${BASENAME}" "${DIRNAME}/${BASENAME// /_}"; done)

mohan43u · 2009-03-24 21:04:32 11

find all active ip?s in a subnet

documents all active ips on a subnet and saves to txt file. Show Sample Output

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FOR /L %i IN (1,1,254) DO ping -n 1 10.254.254.%i | FIND /i "Reply">> c:\ipaddresses.txt

barrytrujillo · 2010-06-29 21:02:21 3

Find broken symlinks
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find . -type l | xargs file | grep broken

kineticrick · 2011-04-07 22:58:02 4
recursive remove all htm files
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rm -rf *.htm

unixmonkey2363 · 2010-11-25 14:37:22 5
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Fill the screen with randomly colored lines

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Print a list of all hardlinks in the working directory, recursively

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Safe Russian Roulette (only echo, don't delete files)

Shows "Bang!" in a chance of 1 out of 6, like in the original game with the gun (spin every round). Otherwise, echoes "Click...". If feeling brave you can also do: $[ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && echo 'Bang!' && a really killer command || echo 'Click...'

quickly rename a file

Find the package that installed a command

Tells which group you DON'T belong to (opposite of command "groups") --- uses sed

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Print current runlevel

Prints current runlevel and system start time. On older systems it also shows the last init state. Pretty useful on remote systems, pretty useless on local ones :)

Backup files older than 1 day on /home/dir, gzip them, moving old file to a dated file.

Useful for backing up old files, custom logs, etc. via a cronjob.

Make a file not writable / immutable by root

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grep for tabs without using Ctrl-V trick

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