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Find in all files in the current directory, just a find shorthand
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find ./ -name $1 -exec grep -H -n $2 '{}' ';'

packetloss · 2009-11-24 07:25:27 4
Normalize volume in your mp3 library

Execute this in the root of your music library and this recurses through the directories and normalizes each folder containing mp3s as a batch. This assumes those folders hold an album each. The command "normalize-audio" may go by "normalize" on some systems.
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find . -type d -exec sh -c "normalize-audio -b \"{}\"/*.mp3" \;

Mikelifeguard · 2009-12-08 03:13:13 7
Recompress all text files in a subdirectory with lzma
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find . -name '*.txt' | grep -v '\.lzma$' | xargs -n 1 lzma -f -v -3

cout · 2010-07-21 16:58:41 4
find files containing specifc pattern on filename and specific patternts in its content, open all in textmate
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find . -name "*noticia*" -name "*jhtm*" -name "*.tpl" -exec grep -li "id=\"col-direita\"" '{}' \; | xargs -n1 mate

irae · 2010-09-18 02:55:40 4
recursive remove all htm files

expands through shell and not find but may hits the limit of max argument size for rm (thus: for f in **/*.htm;do rm $f;done but then I prefer the find command ;)
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rm **/*.htm

unixmonkey13930 · 2010-11-25 17:28:55 4
Sum file sizes

pipe into | sed "s/$/\/(1024\*1024\*1024)/" | bc to get size in GB
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find . -type f -printf %s\\n | numsum

Strawp · 2011-06-27 12:39:16 3
build cscope.out from all *.{h,cpp}, but ignore hidden files

cd / find `pwd` -name '.*' -prune -o $ -name *.h -o -name *.cpp $ -print | cscope -bi- export CSCOPE_DB=/cscope.out vim +'set cst'
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find `pwd` -name '.*' -prune -o $ -name *.h -o -name *.cpp $ -print | cscope -bi-

kev · 2011-11-02 08:43:40 6
find the biggest files recursively, no matter how many

A different approach to the problem - maintain a small sorted list, print the largest as we go, then the top 10 at the end. I often find that the find and sort take a long time, and the large file might appear near the start of the find. By printing as we go, I get better feedback. The sort used in this will be much slower on perls older than 5.8. Show Sample Output
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```
4833673216 ./Downloads/gnome-2.29.20091103-x86/gnome-2.29.20091103-x86.vmdk
```
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find . -type f|perl -lne '@x=sort {$b->[0]<=>$a->[0]}[(stat($_))[7],$_],@x;splice(@x,11);print "@{$x[0]}";END{for(@x){print "@$_"}'

bazzargh · 2012-01-08 14:43:43 3
Remove the Apple quarantine

When downloading files on a Mac, Apple adds the x-attribute: com.apple.quarantine. Often, this makes it so you can't even run a ./configure. This command gets rid of the quarantine for all files in the current directory.
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find . | xargs xattr -d com.apple.quarantine

brockangelo · 2012-05-09 23:06:51 8
Find today created files

Finds files modified today since 00:00, removes ugly dotslash characters in front of every filename, and sorts them. *EDITED* with the advices coming from flatcap (thanks!)
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find -maxdepth 1 -type f -newermt "00:00" -printf "%f\n" | sort

TetsuyO · 2013-03-23 12:50:01 8
unzip all zip files under a current directory in the directory those files were in

unzips all zip files in any subdirectory under the current directory. The zip files are unzipped in their respective subdirs
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for f in `find ./ -name "*.zip"` ; do p=`pwd`; d=`dirname $f`; cd $d; b=`basename $f`; unzip $b; cd $p; done

packetloss · 2009-05-30 03:42:53 10
Alternative size (human readable) of directories (biggest first)

Taken from http://www.earthinfo.org/linux-disk-usage-sorted-by-size-and-human-readable/
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function duf { du -k $@ | sort -rn | perl -ne '($s,$f)=split(/\t/,$_,2);for(qw(K M G T)){if($s<1024){$x=($s<10?"%.1f":"%3d");printf("$x$_\t%s",$s,$f);last};$s/=1024}' }

illicium · 2009-06-30 19:20:30 15
Open files of the same name in TextMate
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mate - `find . -name 'filename'`

chuyeow · 2009-09-16 03:04:54 3
list all file extensions in a directory

All with only one pipe. Should be much faster as well (sort is slow). Use find instead of ls for recursion or reliability. Edit: case insensitive Show Sample Output
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```
$ ls | perl -lne '++$x{lc $1} if /[.](.+)$/ }{ print for keys %x'
bash
py
txt
tar.gz

$ find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*.*" | perl -lne '++$x{lc $1} if /[.](.+)$/ }{ print for keys %x'
bash
py
txt
tar.gz
```
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ls | perl -lne '++$x{lc $1} if /[.](.+)$/ }{ print for keys %x'

recursiverse · 2010-08-13 20:05:15 4
Remove lines with matched string

Search in all html files and remove the lines that 'String' is found.
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for i in $(find . -iname '*.html'); do sed '/String/d' $i > $i-tmp; mv $i-tmp $i; done

cadu · 2010-09-21 14:35:18 9
Search recursively to find a word or phrase in certain file types, such as C code

Original submitter's command spawns a "grep" process for every file found. Mine spawns one grep with a long list of all matching files to search in. Learn xargs, everyone! It's a very powerful and always available tool.
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find . -name "*.[ch]" -print | xargs grep -i -H "search phrase"

jblaine · 2011-06-05 23:27:30 3
Look for timthumb.php or thumb.php and get its version.

Good for finding outdated timthumb.php scripts which need to be updated, anything over 2.0 should be secure, below that timthimb is vulnerable and can be used to compromise your website. Show Sample Output
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```
root@server [/home/user/public_html]# find `pwd` -type f $ -iname thumb.php -or -iname timthumb.php $ -exec grep -HP 'define ?$.VERSION' {} \;
 
/home/user/public_html/domain1/wp-content/themes/arras/library/timthumb.php:define ('VERSION', '1.12');        // version number (to force a cache refresh
/home/user/public_html/domain/wp-content/themes/arras/library/timthumb.php:define ('VERSION', '1.12');        // version number (to force a cache refresh
```
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find `pwd` -type f \( -iname thumb.php -or -iname timthumb.php $ -exec grep -HP 'define ?\(.VERSION' {} \;

djkee · 2011-12-27 11:33:54 4
Find top 5 big files

Find top 5 big files
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find . -type f -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n -r | head -5

opexxx · 2013-03-19 12:16:24 5
Write a shell script that removes files that contain a string

After this command you can review doit.sh file before executing it. If it looks good, execute: `. doit.sh`
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find . | xargs grep -l "FOOBAR" | awk '{print "rm -f "$1}' > doit.sh

sergeylukin · 2014-04-06 15:48:41 8
Replace spaces with tabs & format file source recursively within a directory

Recursively find php files and replace tab characters with spaces. Options: "\*.php" -- replace this with the files you wish to find "expand" -- replace tabs with spaces (use "unexpand" to replace spaces with tabs) "-t4" -- tabs represent 4 spaces Note: The IFS="" in the middle is to prevent 'read' from eating leading/trailing whitespace in filenames.
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find . -type f -name \*.php | while IFS="" read i; do expand -t4 "$i" > "$i-"; mv "$i-" "$i"; done

flatcap · 2011-04-08 12:53:14 50
Counting the source code's line numbers C/C++ Java

Count your source and header file's line numbers For example for java change the command like this find . -name '*.java' -exec cat {} \;|wc -l Show Sample Output
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```
855476
```
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find /usr/include/ -name '*.[c|h]pp' -o -name '*.[ch]' -exec cat {} \;|wc -l

kerim · 2011-12-01 19:58:52 7
Find top 5 big files

This command is more robust because it handles spaces, newlines and control characters in filenames. It uses printf, not ls, to determine file size.
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count=0;while IFS= read -r -d '' line; do echo "${line#* }"; ((++count==5)) && break; done < <(find . -type f -printf '%s %p\0' | sort -znr)

sharfah · 2013-03-19 17:19:26 4
show directory three

show directory three
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find . -type d | sed -e "s/[^-][^\/]*\// |/g" -e "s/|$[^ ]$/|-\1/"

opexxx · 2013-07-16 10:08:34 7
Shortcut to find files with ease.

Actually your func will find both files and directorys that contain ${1}. This one only find files. ..and to look only for dirs: finddir() { find . -type d -iname "*${*}*" ; }
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findfile() { find . -type f -iname "*${*}*" ; }

Xk2c · 2015-01-01 03:15:51 8
Remove VIM temp files

Assuming only VIM has *~ files in your current dir. If you have usefull data in a file named in the *~ pattern, DO NOT RUN this command!
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find . -name "*~" -exec rm {} \;

ivanatora · 2010-02-26 10:54:02 7
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add this alias in .bashrc to fast check the ip address of your modem router alias myip="curl -s http://myip.dk | grep '' | sed -e 's/]*>//g'"

Create a mirror of a local folder, on a remote server

Create a exact mirror of the local folder "/root/files", on remote server 'remote_server' using SSH command (listening on port 22) (all files & folders on destination server/folder will be deleted)

When was your OS installed?

Show time and date when you installed your OS.

Look for English words in /dev/urandom

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Convert from octal format to umask

Umask is obtained subtracting 7 from each cypher of octal format. I store octal perm format in an array,then for each element of array I subtract 7. The result is the umask.

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"

Emptying a text file in one shot

% = buffer d = delete

Efficient count files in directory (no recursion)

$ time perl -e 'if(opendir D,"."){@a=readdir D;print $#a - 1,"\n"}' 205413 real 0m0.497s user 0m0.220s sys 0m0.268s $ time { ls |wc -l; } 205413 real 0m3.776s user 0m3.340s sys 0m0.424s ********* ** EDIT: turns out this perl liner is mostly masturbation. this is slightly faster: $ find . -maxdepth 1 | wc -l sh-3.2$ time { find . -maxdepth 1|wc -l; } 205414 real 0m0.456s user 0m0.116s sys 0m0.328s ** EDIT: now a slightly faster perl version $ perl -e 'if(opendir D,"."){++$c foreach readdir D}print $c-1,"\n"' sh-3.2$ time perl -e 'if(opendir D,"."){++$c foreach readdir D}print $c-1,"\n"' 205414 real 0m0.415s user 0m0.176s sys 0m0.232s

Find all folder in /var that contains log in their path and have more than 10 files inside them, print the folder and the count

-L is for following symbolic links, it can be omitted and then you can find in your whole / dir

Find name of package which installed a given shell command

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