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backup the old files

due to bug can not comment
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tar -zcps <dir> -X <(find <dir> -type f -mtime -<days>) |ssh user@backuphost tar -xzpsC /data/bkup

zb · 2009-02-12 22:31:58 9
rm all files you grep

This command deletes all files in all subfolders if their name or path contains "deleteme". To dry-run the command without actually deleting files run: find . | grep deleteme | while read line; do echo rm $line; done
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find . | grep deleteme | while read line; do rm $line; done

tec · 2009-02-18 00:55:57 8
Copy All mp3 files in iTunes into one folder (Example: Music on Desktop) (Os X)
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find ~/Music/iTunes/ -name *.mp3 -exec cp {} ~/Desktop/Music/ \;

vranx · 2009-02-23 10:43:57 8
Removes Apple "garbage"

This is quite usefull in Unix system share via NFS or AppleTalk with OSX clients that like to populate your filesystem with these pesky files
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find . -name *DS_Store -exec echo rm {} \;

dgomes · 2009-03-11 11:30:55 9
Counts the number of TODOs in files with extension EXT found from the current dir.
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find . -name "*.EXT" | xargs grep -n "TODO" | wc -l

hardest · 2009-03-22 18:43:32 5
Recursive file content search
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find . -name *.php | xargs grep -i -n 'TERM'

crashrox · 2009-03-23 14:27:55 31
Look for a string in one of your codes, excluding the files with svn and ~ (temp/back up files)

Look for a string in one of your codes, excluding the files with svn and ~ (temp/back up files). This can be useful when you're looking for a particular string in one of your source codes for example, inside a directory which is under version control (e.g. svn), removing all the annoying files with ~ (tilde) from the search. you can even change the command after -exec to delete (rm) or view (cat) files found by 'find' for example
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find . -type f -exec grep StringToFind \{\} --with-filename \;|sed -e '/svn/d'|sed -e '/~/d'

f241vc15 · 2009-03-31 18:09:31 7
convert all WAVs from any format (MS ADPCM) to PCM

I needed this for wine.
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for file in $(find -type f -iname "*wav"); do mv $file "$file"_orig.WAV; mplayer -ao pcm "$file"_orig.WAV -ao pcm:file=$file; done

oernii · 2009-04-06 21:36:04 6
Copy all JAR files to folder /tmp

Useful for Maven multimodule projects, where you want to extract all packaged jar files.
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find . -iname "*.jar" -exec cp '{}' /tmp/ \;

unixmonkey6754 · 2010-01-26 12:19:15 3
sorts /dev/random
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find /dev/ -name random -exec bash -c '[ -r $0 -a -w $0 ] && dd if=$0 | sort | dd of=$0' {} \;

winky · 2010-03-19 12:17:21 5
Recursively remove all empty directories
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find . -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir -v {} \;

ZungBang · 2010-03-23 12:15:58 5
Find files and list them with a readable informative output
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find . -type f | sed 's,.*,stat "&" | egrep "File|Modify" | tr "\\n" " " ; echo ,' | sh | sed 's,[^/]*/$.*$. Modify: $....-..-.. ..:..:..$.*,\2 \1,' | sort

pepin · 2010-05-27 22:30:18 3
Remove executable bit from all files in the current directory recursively, excluding other directories, firm permissions
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find . -type f -exec chmod a-x {} \;

bandie91 · 2010-07-19 09:02:59 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
How many lines in your c project?

it recursively searches your project's directories and sum the lines of every source [.c or .h]. Then it gives you the total.
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find -name *.\[c\|h\] | xargs wc -l

pescio · 2011-05-02 21:18:35 11
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
Recursively remove all .svn directories
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find . -name .svn -type d | parallel rm -rf

evandrix · 2011-07-05 00:25:51 9
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
find the 10 largest directories

http://superuser.com/questions/9847/linux-utility-for-finding-the-largest-files-directories
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find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 du -s | sort -n | tail -10 | cut -f2 | xargs -I{} du -sh {} | sort -rn

noah · 2013-06-26 02:08:21 7
rm filenames with spaces

When you do a ls -1 | xargs rm it wouldn't workd because those files have spaces. So you must use find -print0 and xargs -0
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find /Users/jpn/.ievms/ -type f -print0| xargs -0 du -sh

unixmonkey39631 · 2013-10-16 09:54:19 8
Move files older than 30 days in current folder to "old" folder

Will move in that case every file in the current folder older than 30 days to the "old" folder Replace "mv $i old/" by any command such as rm / echo to do something different.
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for i in $(find . -mtime +30); do mv $i old/; done

valferon · 2014-02-05 01:24:45 7
List dot-files and dirs, but not . or ..

find . -maxdepth 1 -iname ".*" | awk 'NR >= 2' Can be used to list only dotfiles without . nor .. Show Sample Output
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```
find . -maxdepth 1 -iname "*" | awk 'NR >= 2'
./.goobook_cache
./.todo
./tmp_img
./.gconfd
./.viminfs.tmp
./.esd_auth
./.bashrc
./.xsession
./violin.mp4
./.aliases
./.asadminpass
```
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find directory -maxdepth 1 -iname "*" | awk 'NR >= 2'

chilicuil · 2014-04-01 00:09:12 6
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
Search all files of type *.php for string 'specialFunction' and output the result in searchResult.txt

Will search recursively and output the searchResult.txt in the same folder you are located.
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find . -name "*.php" | xargs egrep -i -s 'specialFunction' > searchresult.txt

tb323 · 2009-02-23 15:25:49 12
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Get absolut path to your bash-script

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Another Matrix Style Implementation

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Benchmark report generator

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Find usb device in realtime

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Countdown Clock

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Merge bash terminal histories

Copy via tar pipe while preserving file permissions (cp does not!; run this command with root!)

cp options: -p will preserve the file mode, ownership, and timestamps -r will copy files recursively also, if you want to keep symlinks in addition to the above: use the -a/--archive option

beep when a server goes offline

pings a server once per second, and beeps when the server is unreachable. Basically the opposite of: $ ping -a server-or-ip.com which would beep when a server IS reachable. You could also substitute beep with any command, which makes this a powerful alternative to ping -a: $ while true; do [ "$(ping -c1W1w1 server-or-ip.com 2>/dev/null | awk '/received/ {print $4}')" = 1 ] && date || echo 'server is down!'; sleep 1; done which would output the date and time every sec until the ping failed, in which case it would echo. Notes: Requires beep package. May need to run as root (beep uses the system speaker) Tested on Ubuntu which doesn't have beep out of the box... $ sudo apt-get install beep

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

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