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egrep -r replacement for UNIX systems

Finds a string in files recursively below the current directory on systems without the "egrep" and its "-r" functionality. Show Sample Output
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```
./script-45/parser.db
```
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find . -type f | xargs grep -l "string"

Neo23x0 · 2011-08-30 13:22:42 6
Open a list of files in VIM using separate terminal windows

Not that useful really, more novel. Can open up an awful lot of terminal windows.
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find . -name "*.java" -exec gnome-terminal \-x vim {} \;

root · 2009-02-10 09:38:04 40
"Reset" directories permissions

WARNING! This command may set an invalid permission under your current directory. This command will set the 0755 permissions to all directories under your current directory. An alternative version of this command is: find ~/.ssh -type d -exec chmod 0700 {} \;
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find . -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} \;

osantana · 2009-02-18 14:38:22 7
Find different filetypes in current directory

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```
./script.sh
./file.txt
```
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find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*.sh' -o -name '*.txt'

P17 · 2009-04-20 17:29:13 7
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
List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location

Parsing the output of ls is never a good idea for any reason. Using find this way: - works with files that have spaces in their names. - actually lists "sub folders" and not of all files and folders. - does not break if there are a huge number of files in the current directory.
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find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -not -name . -exec du -sh {} +

sorpigal · 2009-12-11 14:37:26 4
sirve para ver la salida de un comando en pantalla y al mismo tiempo guardar la salida en un fichero
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find / -name *.conf | tee salida

dvinchi666 · 2010-01-08 20:53:37 3
Read directory contents recursively

Read all contents from current directory and display to stdout.
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while read f;do echo "$f";done < <(find .)

unixmonkey8504 · 2010-03-02 14:22:22 3
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
replace strings in file names

rename is a great command, but can't get it to work on mac.
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for i in $(find . -name *replaceme*);do mv "$i" "${i//replaceme/withme}"; done

lefnire · 2010-08-19 03:22:15 4
cleaning after python
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find ~ -name "*.pyc" -exec rm {} \;

unixmonkey13217 · 2010-10-22 10:25:30 20
Find only *.doc and *xls files on Windows partition

This command is useful for archiving or extracting Documents and Settings folder, when working in Linux box with Windows partition (dual boot installation). You have to enter into appropriate directory, of course.
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find Documents\ and\ Settings -iregex .+\.doc -or -iregex .+\.xls > office.lst

yababay · 2010-11-04 17:58:52 4
Count a number of files (only files, not dirs) in a directory recursevely

Thanks for the comments Show Sample Output
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```
123
```
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find . -type f | wc -l

moz667 · 2009-03-04 13:18:18 10
renombrar un archivo que inicia con guion

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```
$ ls 
algo.txt -help
$ mv '-help' help.txt
mv: opci?n inv?lida -- h
Pruebe `mv --help' para m?s informaci?n.
$ find . -name "-help" -exec mv {} help.txt \;
$ ls
algo.txt help.txt
```
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find . -name "-help" -exec mv {} help.txt \;

petrohs · 2009-08-06 20:43:30 8
Recursive chmod all files and directories within the current directory

This will handle the case that the filename has spaces or other characters that need to be escaped.
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find . -name "*" -print0 | xargs -0 -I {} chmod 777 {}

aardvark4 · 2010-10-11 19:05:41 3
"Reset" file permissions

WARNING! This command may set an invalid permission under your current directory. This command will set the 0644 permissions to all files under your current directory. An alternative version of this command is: find ~/.ssh -type f -exec chmod 0600 {} \;
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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find . -type f -exec chmod 0644 {} \;

osantana · 2009-02-18 14:36:39 5
Altera texto dentro dos arquivos retornados pelo comando 'find' (find and replacing strings on all files in directory)

Esse comando procura por arquivos php que que iniciem com ' Show Sample Output
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```
$
```
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find ./wp-content/themes/rotce2009/ -name '*.php' -type f | xargs sed -i 's/<? /<?php /g'

anestesya · 2009-12-16 19:01:12 4
Read directory contents recursively

Read all contents from current directory and display it on stdout.
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find . |while read f;do echo "$f";done

unixmonkey8504 · 2010-03-02 14:21:15 7
Execute commands on files found by the find command
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find -iname "MyCProgram.c" -exec md5sum {} \;

techie · 2013-05-09 08:21:18 6
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 files containing a word

Will find all files containing "sample" in the current directory and in the directories below.
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find . -exec grep -l "sample" {} \;

whoami · 2010-01-16 13:12:52 4
Find broken symlinks
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find . -type l | xargs file | grep broken

kineticrick · 2011-04-07 22:58:02 4
Recursive chmod all files and directories within the current directory

sometimes if directories are too deep, chmod -R fails... in those cases, a find comes in most handy :)
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find . -print -exec chmod 777 {} \;

ringlerun · 2009-12-23 13:16:31 7
Recursive chmod all files and directories within the current directory
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find | xargs chmod 777

tsiqueira · 2009-12-23 10:21:58 4
Grep only files matching certain pattern (Advanced)
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find <path> |xargs grep <pattern>

bakhru · 2015-05-30 19:29:25 9
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ssh autocomplete

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Continually monitor things

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Resolve a list of domain names to IP addresses

Given a file of FQDN, this simple command resolves the IP addresses of those Useful for log files or anything else that outputs domain names.

Mount a partition from within a complete disk dump

Suppose you made a backup of your hard disk with dd: dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/disk/backup.img This command enables you to mount a partition from inside this image, so you can access your files directly. Substitute PARTITION=1 with the number of the partition you want to mount (returned from sfdisk -d yourfile.img).

Prepend a text to a file.

Using the sed -i (inline), you can replace the beginning of the first line of a file without redirecting the output to a temporary location.

list block devices

Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Determine whether a CPU has 64 bit capability or not

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)

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