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Recursive remove files by mask
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find . -name ".DS_Store" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

alexanv · 2013-07-08 07:24:01 7
md5sum for files with bad characters

Recursively list all files in the current directory & get their md5sum, even if the filename has bad characters. Show Sample Output
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```
157c3ea9f83eec0e581925c721d6c3e8  ./file1 with bad chars & stuff.txt
1513ce87dbacdb6bde706d93e81202c0  ./file3 and  still more -bad characters*^%$.txt
59d0d19fc45ca69230d858f60a5557f8  ./file2 with more "bad characters" (and 'stuff').txt
```
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find ./ -type f | sed "s:[\ \',\"]:\\\&:g" | xargs md5sum

crazedsanity · 2013-07-17 18:54:14 7
md5sum for files with bad characters
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find ./ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum

d24m · 2013-07-18 07:18:54 6
Find Largest files of mount point
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find /logs -ls -xdev | sort -nrk 7 | head -10

vidya99343 · 2013-07-22 08:34:28 8
Find Largest files of mount point

bash-3.2$ find /logs -ls -xdev | sort -nrk 7 | head -10 1761905 205380 -rwxrwxr-x 1 wsadmin logadmin 210095353 Jul 22 01:33 /logs/intlpymt/Trace.log 652689 187360 -rwxrwxr-x 1 wsadmin logadmin 191663182 Jul 21 23:00 /logs/websphere/wsfpp1lppwa1213omsecureServer/SystemOut_13.07.21_23.00.12.log 2380449 186536 -rwxrwxr-x 1 wsadmin logadmin 190819939 Jul 16 14:03 /logs/omset/traceIntl.log.201307161403.lppwa1213.gz 2119524 183888 -rwxrwxr-x 1 wsadmin logadmin 188110111 Jul 22 01:33 /logs/intlpymt/intlpymtria/Trace.log 652816 160332 -rwxrwxr-x 1 wsadmin logadmin 164011871 Aug 14 2012 /logs/websphere/wsfpp1lppwa1213omsecureServer/SystemOut.log_08142012.gzip 653312 128916 -rwxrwxr-x 1 wsadmin logadmin 131873943 Jul 18 10:49 /logs/websphere/heapdump.20130718.104150.27592.0006.phd.201307181406.lppwa1213.gz 653320 128916 -rwxrwxr-x 1 wsadmin logadmin 131873735 Jul 18 10:40 /logs/websphere/heapdump.20130718.104012.27592.0002.phd.201307181406.lppwa1213.gz 653309 128912 -rwxrwxr-x 1 wsadmin logadmin 131867602 Jul 18 10:46 /logs/websphere/heapdump.20130718.104008.27592.0001.phd.201307181405.lppwa1213.gz 653323 128872 -rwxrwxr-x 1 wsadmin logadmin 131828157 Jul 18 10:41 /logs/websphere/heapdump.20130718.104109.27592.0004.phd.201307181407.lppwa1213.gz 652783 120288 -rwxrwxr-x 1 wsadmin logadmin 123047750 Aug 13 2012 /logs/websphere/wsfpp1lppwa1213omsecureServer/SystemOut.log_0813.2012.gzip bash-3.2$ Show Sample Output
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```
bash-3.2$ find /logs -ls -xdev | sort -nrk 7 | head -10

1761905 205380 -rwxrwxr-x   1 wsadmin  logadmin 210095353 Jul 22 01:33 /logs/intlpymt/Trace.log
652689 187360 -rwxrwxr-x   1 wsadmin  logadmin 191663182 Jul 21 23:00 /logs/websphere/wsfpp1lppwa1213omsecureServer/SystemOut_13.07.21_23.00.12.log
2380449 186536 -rwxrwxr-x   1 wsadmin  logadmin 190819939 Jul 16 14:03 /logs/omset/traceIntl.log.201307161403.lppwa1213.gz
2119524 183888 -rwxrwxr-x   1 wsadmin  logadmin 188110111 Jul 22 01:33 /logs/intlpymt/intlpymtria/Trace.log
652816 160332 -rwxrwxr-x   1 wsadmin  logadmin 164011871 Aug 14  2012 /logs/websphere/wsfpp1lppwa1213omsecureServer/SystemOut.log_08142012.gzip
653312 128916 -rwxrwxr-x   1 wsadmin  logadmin 131873943 Jul 18 10:49 /logs/websphere/heapdump.20130718.104150.27592.0006.phd.201307181406.lppwa1213.gz
653320 128916 -rwxrwxr-x   1 wsadmin  logadmin 131873735 Jul 18 10:40 /logs/websphere/heapdump.20130718.104012.27592.0002.phd.201307181406.lppwa1213.gz
653309 128912 -rwxrwxr-x   1 wsadmin  logadmin 131867602 Jul 18 10:46 /logs/websphere/heapdump.20130718.104008.27592.0001.phd.201307181405.lppwa1213.gz
653323 128872 -rwxrwxr-x   1 wsadmin  logadmin 131828157 Jul 18 10:41 /logs/websphere/heapdump.20130718.104109.27592.0004.phd.201307181407.lppwa1213.gz
652783 120288 -rwxrwxr-x   1 wsadmin  logadmin 123047750 Aug 13  2012 /logs/websphere/wsfpp1lppwa1213omsecureServer/SystemOut.log_0813.2012.gzip
bash-3.2$
```
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find /logs -ls -xdev | sort -nrk 7 | head -10

vidya99343 · 2013-07-22 08:36:03 6
run all

It eases the way of creating cron jobs of backup scripts. Just put this line as cron job, and all your backups are called sequentially. Allows you to forget, when in time, call this backup, just focus on your scripting. Also maintains the way of calling a single backup script when It's needed.
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find /var/scripts -name 'backup*' -exec {} ';'

piscue · 2013-07-24 21:25:21 8
change file format at one time
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find $(YourPATH) -type f -exec dos2unix '{}' \;

chenhow1985 · 2013-07-26 09:07:35 7
Recursive find and replace in h an cpp files
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find . -name "*.h" -o -name "*.cpp" | xargs sed -i 's/addVertexes/addVertices/g'

egeoffray · 2013-08-07 07:31:45 9
Show sizes and calculate sum of all files found by find
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find -name *.bak -print0 | du -hc --files0-from=-

muffl0n · 2013-08-23 14:15:33 6
IBM AIX: Calculate the SHA256 hashes of a directory without sha256sum

This command is for producing GNU sha256sum-compatible hashes on UNIX systems that don't have sha256sum but do have OpenSSL, such as stock IBM AIX. 1.- Saves a wrapper script for UNIX find that does the following: A.- Feeds a file to openssl on SHA256 hash calculation mode B.- Echoes the output followed by the filename 2.- Makes the file executable 3.- Runs find on a directory, only processing files, and running on each one the wrapper script that calculates SHA256 hashes Pending is figuring out how to verify a sha256sum file on a similar environment. Show Sample Output
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```
6e94b0b7fc2805ad558f8039ed038a6272f61846eaa5f4931abd826193c78b83 cognos-installers/TM1-952-AIX/952_FP2_aix.tar.gz
c9d0f04ad6f86482bf4c41ba7a303e0d8a0e8c96c9c9492bc518d2a2bc0166c7 cognos-installers/TM1-952-AIX/952_FP2_HF6_aix.tar.gz
46ede3255abff4e356b002a9cd12df259275a15910768997bfbbae3c637b7f32 cognos-installers/TM1-952-windows/TM1_9.5.2_Windows_x64.7z
92faf20dd3ff25d2c8d94308f03fd8477d0980d6b740baa96a8e79b30b49456f cognos-installers/TM1-952-windows/TM1_Workflow_9.5.2_Windows_x64.7z
630a66a1f7cc3044f370cec730820d73d66cb284a2a09e197c00f82d6900d932 cognos-installers/cognos-BI-102/cognos-FM/fm_10.2_win_ml.tar.xz
```
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echo '#! /usr/bin/ksh\necho `cat $1 | openssl dgst -sha256` $1' > sslsha256; chmod +x sslsha256; find directory -type f -exec ./sslsha256 \{\} \;

RAKK · 2013-09-18 17:37:50 8
pngcrush all .png files in the directory structure

Find's all png's in the current folder and all of its children pngcrushes all results. Destructive.
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find -f . png | while read line; do pngcrush -ow -brute $line; done

mildfuzz · 2013-09-25 13:40:14 6
Find used fileextensions in a project

When trying to find an error in a hosted project it's interesting to find out how the source is organized: Are there .inc files? Or .php files only? Or .xml files that probably contain translated texts? Show Sample Output
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```
      1 ori
      1 swf
      1 ttf
      1 zip
      2 txt
      4 gz
      8 css
     10 ico
     27 tpl
     28 html
    169 js
    469 php
    590 gif
```
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find . -type f | perl -ne 'chop(); $ext = substr($_, rindex($_, ".") + 1); print "$ext\n";' | sort | uniq --count | sort -n

t3o · 2013-09-26 07:45:19 7
Show me all of my Mac App Store apps

Shows the OS X applications downloaded from App Store. Doesn't include manually added apps. Show Sample Output
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```
Xcode.app
```
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find /Applications -path '*Contents/_MASReceipt/receipt' -maxdepth 4 -print |sed 's#.app/Contents/_MASReceipt/receipt#.app#g; s#/Applications/##'

bugmenot · 2013-09-28 15:44:32 25
Display a numbered list of files bigger than 500K, sorted by size (human readable)

"find ./ ..." could be replaced with "find $PWD ..." to display absolute path instead of relative path. Show Sample Output
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```
     1  4.1M ./ydownloads/youtube-dl.exe
     2  3.1M ./docs/Learn-Linux-and-get-certified_20120711.pdf
     3  1.4M ./docs/building-NAS-Server.doc
     4  772K ./docs/port-numbers.txt
     5  748K ./docs/building-NAS-Server.pdf
     6  592K ./docs/VIM_UG.txt
     7  548K ./docs/navodila-upn.pdf
```
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find ./ -type f -size +500k -exec ls -1Ash {} \; | sort -hr | cat -n

rgregor · 2013-10-01 10:32:28 5
Display a list of local shell scripts soft-linked to /usr/local/bin

Display a list of local shell scripts soft-linked to /usr/local/bin Put local shell scripts to local ~/bin/ directory and soft-link them to /usr/local/bin/ which is in the $PATH variable to run them from anywhere. Show Sample Output
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```
lrwxrwxrwx 1 30 Jan  6  2012 /usr/local/bin/ddbak -> /home/username/bin/ddbak.sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 30 Jan  6  2012 /usr/local/bin/ddlog -> /home/username/bin/ddlog.sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 31 Jan  6  2012 /usr/local/bin/delbak -> /home/username/bin/delbak.sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 31 Jan  6  2012 /usr/local/bin/dellog -> /home/username/bin/dellog.sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 34 Aug 24  2012 /usr/local/bin/last-disp -> /home/username/bin/last-disp.sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 34 Sep 27 08:33 /usr/local/bin/listulbcb -> /home/username/bin/listulbcb.sh
```
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for AAA in $(find /usr/local/bin -type l); do ls -gG "${AAA}"; done

rgregor · 2013-10-01 10:49:12 9
Print out the contents of a Git repository (useful for broken repositories)
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find .git/objects -type f -printf "%P\n" | sed s,/,, | while read object; do echo "=== $obj $(git cat-file -t $object) ==="; git cat-file -p $object; done

hamador · 2013-10-02 09:09:00 10
Compile all .less files to .css
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find *.less | xargs -I {} lessc {} {}.css && ls *.less.css | sed -e 'p;s/less.css/css/' | xargs -n2 mv

ckrotcov · 2013-10-21 23:53:31 7
Find Duplicate Files (based on size first, then MD5 hash)

* Find all file sizes and file names from the current directory down (replace "." with a target directory as needed). * sort the file sizes in numeric order * List only the duplicated file sizes * drop the file sizes so there are simply a list of files (retain order) * calculate md5sums on all of the files * replace the first instance of two spaces (md5sum output) with a \0 * drop the unique md5sums so only duplicate files remain listed * Use AWK to aggregate identical files on one line. * Remove the blank line from the beginning (This was done more efficiently by putting another "IF" into the AWK command, but then the whole line exceeded the 255 char limit). >>>> Each output line contains the md5sum and then all of the files that have that identical md5sum. All fields are \0 delimited. All records are \n delimited.
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find . -type f -not -empty -printf "%-25s%p\n"|sort -n|uniq -D -w25|cut -b26-|xargs -d"\n" -n1 md5sum|sed "s/ /\x0/"|uniq -D -w32|awk -F"\0" 'BEGIN{l="";}{if(l!=$1||l==""){printf "\n%s\0",$1}printf "\0%s",$2;l=$1}END{printf "\n"}'|sed "/^$/d"

alafrosty · 2013-10-22 13:34:19 7
List cassandra snapshots by date
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find /var/lib/cassandra/data -depth -type d -iwholename "*/snapshots/*" -printf "%Ty-%Tm-%Td %p\n" | sort

mrwulf · 2013-11-08 15:18:11 7
A command to find and replace text within conf files in a single directory.

note that sed -i is non-standard (although both GNU and current BSD systems support it) Can also be accomplished with find . -name "*.txt" | xargs perl -pi -e 's/old/new/g' as shown here - http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/223/a-find-and-replace-within-text-based-files-to-locate-and-rewrite-text-en-mass.
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find -type f -name '*.conf' -exec sed -Ei 's/foo/bar/' '{}' \;

siliconmeadow · 2013-11-21 16:07:06 7
Tar (stripped paths) found files by regexp from <PATH>, then remove
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find <PATH> -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "server.log*" -exec tar czPf '{}'.tar.gz --transform='s|.*/||' '{}' --remove-files \;

marianbonczek · 2013-12-10 19:56:05 8
find css or js files, minifiy with in-path-yuicompressor, gzip output, and save into <static-file>.gz
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find -regextype posix-egrep -regex '.*\.(css|js)$' | xargs -I{} sh -c "echo '{}' && yuicompressor '{}' | gzip -c > '{}.gz'"

frankowp · 2013-12-14 20:27:47 8
Count music files in each directory

This lists the number of ogg/mp3/wav/flac files in each subdirectory of the current directory. The output can be sorted by piping it into "sort -n". Show Sample Output
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```
9955 .
82 ./16 Horsepower
17 ./17 Hippies
11 ./Abney Park
44 ./AC DC
10 ./Accept
1 ./Acceptance
9 ./Adiemus
6 ./Bran? Ketern?
10 ./Budapest Gypsy Symphony Orchestra
20 ./Budapester Klezmer Band
35 ./Buena Vista Social Club
12 ./Burlap To Cashmere
```
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find . -type d -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0 -I{} sh -c 'find "{}" -type f | grep "ogg\|mp3\|wav\|flac$" | wc -l | tr -d "\n"; echo " {}"'

dbrgn · 2013-12-22 13:40:29 11
Count music files in each directory
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for i in */; do echo $(find $i -type f -regextype posix-extended -regex ".*\.(mp3|ogg|wav|flac)" | wc -l) $i ; done

mindfuckup · 2013-12-22 14:33:56 7
Find files and calculate size of result in shell
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find . -name "pattern" -type f -exec du -ch {} + | tail -n1

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remove the last of all html files in a directory

sed can be used deleting the last line and with -i option, there's no need to for temp files, the change is made on the actual file

Display a Lissajous curve in text

Use Ruby's standard Curses module to display a Lissajous curve in the console. Replace the "0.2" with different numbers for different curves.

Insert the last command without the last argument (bash)

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Analyse an Apache access log for the most common IP addresses

This uses awk to grab the IP address from each request and then sorts and summarises the top 10.

List all information about all files (in current dir)

This is a funny usage of the traditional command ls. It could be basically simplified as: $ ls -a -l Duplicating arguments is permitted: $ ls -a -l -l And this markup could be shortened as: $ ls -al Extra note: To view filesizes like a pro, pray for your God: $ ls -allah

Hide the name of a process listed in the `ps` output

$ exec -a $NAME $COMMAND $ARGS `your_cmd -erase_all_files` is the real process, but harmless-looking getty appears in the process table. Never actually had a need to do this, but interesting nonetheless... Tested in bash, dash. $ -a $NAME "pass NAME as the zeroth argument to COMMAND", i.e. customise the name of the process (as commonly seen with `ps`)

Exclude inserting a table from a sql import

Starting with a large MySQL dump file (*.sql) remove any lines that have inserts for the specified table. Sometimes one or two tables are very large and uneeded, eg. log tables. To exclude multiple tables you can get fancy with sed, or just run the command again on subsequently generated files.

Check if x509 certificate file and rsa private key match

A x509 certificate and a rsa key file have in common a parameter called modulus, it is a very long hexadecimal number. That value is unique for each certficate / key pair. The command allows to do the check of this pair of values in a script using a great feature of bash. "

stop windows update

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

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" }

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