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Removes the .svn entries from a project

simple find and exec example
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find -name ".svn" -exec rm -rf {} \;

ugiflezet · 2009-03-08 15:53:24 6
zip all files in a directory, one file per zip

Note that this will not work with files with spaces or characters that need to be escaped. Feel free to leave any comments to improve upon this command, and I'll add it in. Thanks! Show Sample Output
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```
zip error: Nothing to do! (..zip)
zipping file: ./stuff
  adding: stuff (stored 0%)
zipping file: ./stuff2
  adding: stuff2 (stored 0%)
zipping file: ./stuff3
  adding: stuff3 (stored 0%)
zipping file: ./zipscript.sh
  adding: zipscript.sh (deflated 16%)
```
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for i in $( find . ); do echo zipping file: $i zip $i.zip $i done

archlich · 2009-04-07 20:37:49 12
Remove executable bit from all files in the current directory recursively, excluding other directories

I hate -exec with find, and this pattern quickly expands to other tasks.
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find . -type f | while read f; do chmod -x "$f"; done

alesplin · 2009-11-09 04:30:44 3
/bin/rm: Argument list too long.

root@wow/var/spool/clientmqueue # rm spam-* /bin/rm: Argument list too long.
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find . -name 'spam-*' |xargs rm;find . -name 'spam-*' -print0 | xargs -0 rm

mancipar · 2011-01-22 06:46:21 3
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
Show the single most recently modified file in a directory

Takes a directory name as an argument (defaults to current directory if no arguments are given). Prints the newest file in the directory. Show Sample Output
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```
$ ls -lart /tmp | tail -3
-rw-rw-rw-  1 bchittenden bchittenden    25919 Oct 17 10:37 image.txt
drwx------  2 bchittenden bchittenden     4096 Oct 17 11:30 orbit-bchittenden
drwxrwxrwt 22 root        root           12288 Oct 17 11:30 .

$ lastfile /tmp
/tmp/image.txt
```
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lastfile () { find ${1:-.} -maxdepth 1 -type f -printf "%T+ %p\n" | sort -n | tail -n1 | sed 's/[^[:space:]]\+ //'; }

bartonski · 2011-10-17 16:08:02 3
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
Find all IP's in /etc directory
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find /etc -exec grep '[0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9][0-9]*' {} \;

techie · 2013-04-29 10:10:11 8
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
md5sum for files with bad characters
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find . -type f -exec md5sum {} \;

qistoph · 2013-07-30 08:56:07 8
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 all pyc files
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find . -name \*.pyc -delete

zluyuer · 2016-09-07 01:49:59 17
Searching files

"*" is important if you don't know exact name of file. Check it out and you'll see
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find /dir/ -name *name*

cinan · 2009-02-09 20:24:10 16
delete files except some file
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find . |more |grep -v filename |xargs rm

shannan · 2009-03-01 03:21:18 7
Truncate logs in unix

This find files of name like *.log and truncates them.
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logs=$(find . -name *.log);for log in $logs; do cat /dev/null > $log;done

unixmonkey2006 · 2009-03-04 10:05:48 13
Delete all files in current directory that have been modified less than 5 days ago.
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find ./ -mtime -5 | xargs rm -f

skye · 2009-03-23 21:00:45 13
exec option in find

This example uses the -exec option to move all matching files into a backup directory
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find ~ -mtime +365 -exec mv {} /tmp/mybackup \;

kayowas · 2009-04-11 12:16:48 7
Recursively grep thorugh directory for string in file.

Recursive grep through directory for file.
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find directory/ |xargs grep -i "phrase"

tuxtutorials · 2010-01-26 14:56:56 3
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
bat add copyright info
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find . -name "*.c" -exec sed -i "/\/sh/a\####################################\n#Date:2010-05-18\n#Company:XXXXX tech Co.\n#Author:Wangjunling\n#Copyright:gpl\n####################################" {} \;

yogoloth · 2010-05-18 03:08:47 5
Recursive chmod all files and directories within the current directory

Corrected.
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find . -exec chmod 777 {} \;

craverii · 2010-10-11 21:00:26 3
Move files matching a certain pattern to another folder
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find . | grep ".*\[[Church|CPYAF].*" | while read f; do mv "$f" ../emails;done

evandrix · 2011-06-12 15:37:28 3
Chmod all directories (excluding files)
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chmod 755 $(find public_html -type d)

flxndn · 2011-07-25 14:50:17 10
remove all CVS directories
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find . -type d -name 'CVS' | xargs rm -r

kev · 2011-08-10 07:38:51 3
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Get the beats per minute from an audio track

Requires bpm-tools https://www.pogo.org.uk/~mark/bpm-tools/

get time in other timezones

On Ubuntu, if tzwatch is installed, then you can call up in terminal the output for every time zone configured in gWorldClock.

Job Control

background and disown, but with a proper one-line syntax

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"

Write comments to your history.

A null operation with the name 'comment', allowing comments to be written to HISTFILE. Prepending '#' to a command will *not* write the command to the history file, although it will be available for the current session, thus '#' is not useful for keeping track of comments past the current session.

stop windows update

Windows only: stops windows update and the nagging restart window. You need your admin password for this one.

mplayer webcam window for screencasts

When recording screencast some people like to have the image from their webcam, so the can show something, that can't be seen on the desktop. So starting mplayer with these parameters you will have a window with no frames, borders whatsoever, and selecting the window a hitting the "F" key you will bring it in fullscreen. if you want to position the frame somewhere else, you could play with the --geomeptry option where 100%:100% mean bottom right corner. The HEIGHT and WIDTH can't be changed as you like, since the most webcams support specified dimensions, so you would have to play with it to see what is supported

Setting reserved blocks percentage to 1%

According to tune2fs manual, reserved blocks are designed to keep your system from failing when you run out of space. Its reserves space for privileged processes such as daemons (like syslogd, for ex.) and other root level processes; also the reserved space can prevent the filesystem from fragmenting as it fills up. By default this is 5% regardless of the size of the partition. http://www.ducea.com/2008/03/04/ext3-reserved-blocks-percentage/

sleep for 1/10s or 1/100s or even 1/1000000s

sleep in microseconds instead of seconds Alternatively to usleep, which is not defined in POSIX 2008 (though it was defined up to POSIX 2004, and it is evidently available on Linux and other platforms with a history of POSIX compliance), the POSIX 2008 standard defines nanosleep

Compress files in a directory

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