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Recursively remove all '.java.orig' directories (scalable)
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find . -depth $ -path '*/*.java.orig' -o -path '*/*.java.orig/*' $ -delete

depesz · 2011-05-18 16:40:41 3
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
List by size all of the directories in a given tree.

This command lists all the directories in SEARCHPATH by size, displaying their size in a human readable format. Show Sample Output
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```
257M    /var/
147M    /var/cache
144M    /var/cache/apt
110M    /var/cache/apt/archives
96M     /var/lib
67M     /var/lib/apt
66M     /var/lib/apt/lists
22M     /var/lib/dpkg
20M     /var/lib/dpkg/info
15M     /var/log
```
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SEARCHPATH=/var/; find $SEARCHPATH -type d -print0 | xargs -0 du -s 2> /dev/null | sort -nr | sed 's|^.*'$SEARCHPATH'|'$SEARCHPATH'|' | xargs du -sh 2> /dev/null

moogmusic · 2011-07-06 08:21:58 4
Look for jQuery version script include in files *asp*$, *htm*$ ie. not *.aspx.cs
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find . $ -name "*.as[pc]x" -o -name "*.htm*" $ -exec grep -Hi "jquery-1" {} +

evandrix · 2011-07-14 14:28:55 5
Chmod all files (excluding directories)

Command uses find to find and chmod all files recursively.
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find public_html/ -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;

Nichlas · 2011-07-23 19:26:24 5
Find/Replace in a bunch of files and keep a log of the changes

This is a more concise answer to http://blog.commandlinekungfu.com/2011/09/episode-158-old-switcheroo.html in my opinion.
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find . -type f | xargs grep -n "Old Text" | tee filesChanged.txt | sed 's/:.*$//' | xargs sed -i 's/Old Text/New Text/g

moogmusic · 2011-09-06 10:28:36 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
find files owned by root and make them your own again

be careful where you execute this from do a 'sudo ls' beforehand to prime sudo to not ask for your password
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find . -user root | xargs sudo chown me:me

riansanderson · 2012-04-24 18:29:13 6
shrink firefox database
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find ~/.mozilla -name '*.sqlite' -exec sqlite3 {} VACUUM \;

kev · 2012-04-26 15:09:54 7
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
exec chmod to subfiles

Using xargs is usually much quicker as it does not have to execute chmod for every file
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find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod a-x

jlaunay · 2012-06-11 07:28:30 5
Remove .svn dirs

This is useful when you are uploading svn project files to a new git repo.
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find . -name ".svn" -type d -exec rm -rf {} \;

gigo6000 · 2012-08-16 13:04:47 5
finds all files that contain "some string"
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find . -type f -exec grep -l "some string" {} \;

dckt · 2012-11-15 10:14:21 4
Find all files with setuid bit
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find / -xdev $ -perm -4000 $ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -l

anhpht · 2012-11-16 01:11:53 5
a find and replace within text-based files
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find /path/ -type f -exec grep -l '<string of text>' {} \; | xargs sed -i -e 's%<string of text>%<new text string>%g'

leonteale · 2013-02-07 18:47:01 5
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
Recompress all files in current directory from gzip to bzip2

This solution is similar to [1] except that it does not have any dependency on GNU Parallel. Also, it tries to minimize the impact on the running system (using ionice and nice). [1] http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/7009/recompress-all-.gz-files-in-current-directory-using-bzip2-running-1-job-per-cpu-core-in-parallel
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find . -type f -name '*.gz'|awk '{print "zcat", $1, "| bzip2 -c >", $0.".tmp", "&& rename", "s/.gz.tmp/.bz2/", "*.gz.tmp", "&& rm", $0}'|bash

Ztyx · 2013-04-11 10:17:57 11
Process each item with multiple commands (in while loop)
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find -maxdepth 1 -type d | while read dir; do echo $dir; echo cmd2; done

techie · 2013-04-29 10:15:13 6
Resize images with mogrify with lots of options

First use find to find all the images that end with jpg or JPG in the current dir and all its children. Then pipe that to xargs. The -I{} makes it so spaces in filenames don't matter. The 1024">" makes it so it takes any image greater in dimension than 1024 and resizes them to 1024 width, but keeping aspect ratio on height. Then it sets the image quality to 40. Piping it through xargs means you avoid the file count limit, and you could run this on your entire file system if you wanted.
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find . -name '*.jpg' -o -name '*.JPG' | xargs -I{} mogrify -resize 1024">" -quality 40 {}

topher1kenobe · 2013-06-20 15:20:29 9
Move files older than 30 days in current folder to

Use find's built-in "exec" option to avoid having to do any weirdness with quoting.
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find . -mtime +30 -exec mv {} old/ \;

minnmass · 2014-02-09 23:05:41 9
Find dead symbolic links
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find -type l -xtype l

anarcat · 2014-07-22 18:48:44 8
do mvn clean in subdirs to free disk space

this command is used to locate all pom.xml files, access the dir and do a mvn clean, but I do recommend you to disable network interfaces to not download dependencies packages to be faster. Show Sample Output
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```
...
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
...
```
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find -name pom.xml | while read f; do cd $(dirname "$f"); mvn clean; cd -; done;

glaudiston · 2015-04-15 21:24:49 13
Recursively calculate and dump md5 sums of all files within a directory
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find . -type f -name '*' -exec md5sum '{}' + > hashes.txt

phatpat · 2015-04-27 14:01:35 10
Convert indentation to tabs
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find . -type f -regex '.*\.$cpp\|h$' -exec bash -c 'unexpand -t 4 --first-only "$0" | sponge "$0"' {} \;

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Turns hidden applications transparent in the Mac OS X dock.

In Mac OS X, pressing Command+H will hide an application. While that application's windows vanish, there is no other visual feedback, meaning there is no immediate distinction between an application running with no windows open and a hidden application. This command turns hidden applications' icons transparent, providing a clear and obvious distinction. Change YES to NO to restore the previous functionality.

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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" }

View the newest xkcd comic.

This function displays the latest comic from xkcd.com. One of the best things about xkcd is the title text when you hover over the comic, so this function also displays that after you close the comic. To get a random xkcd comic, I also use the following: $xkcdrandom(){ wget -qO- dynamic.xkcd.com/comic/random|tee >(feh $(grep -Po '(?

Poor man's nmap for a class C network from rfc1918

What do you do when nmap is not available and you want to see the hosts responding to an icmp echo request ? This one-liner will print all hosts responding with their ipv4 address.

Get AWS temporary credentials ready to export based on a MFA virtual appliance

You might want to secure your AWS operations requiring to use a MFA token. But then to use API or tools, you need to pass credentials generated with a MFA token. This commands asks you for the MFA code and retrieves these credentials using AWS Cli. To print the exports, you can use: `awk '{ print "export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=\"" $1 "\"\n" "export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=\"" $2 "\"\n" "export AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=\"" $3 "\"" }'` You must adapt the command line to include: * $MFA_IDis ARN of the virtual MFA or serial number of the physical one * TTL for the credentials

Resets your MAC to a random MAC address to make you harder to find.

Next time you are leaching off of someone else's wifi use this command before you start your bittorrent ...for legitimate files only of course. It creates a hexidecimal string using md5sum from the first few lines of /dev/urandom and splices it into the proper MAC address format. Then it changes your MAC and resets your wireless (wlan0:0).

recursive search and replace old with new string, inside files

xargs deals badly with special characters (such as space, ' and "). To see the problem try this: touch important_file touch 'not important_file' ls not* | xargs rm Parallel https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/parallel/ does not have this problem.

Find out the starting directory of a script

Invoked from within a shell script, this will print the directory in which the script resides. Doesn't depend on external tools, /proc/self/*, etc.. (`echo` is a shell builtin.) To see the *current working* directory of a script, use `pwd`.

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