Commands using find (1,252)
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Ever wanted to find the most recently modified files, but couldn't remember exactly where they were in a project directory with many subdirectories? The "find" command, using a combination of "-mtime -N" and "-depth -D" can be used to find those files. If your directory structure isn't very deep, just omit the "-depth -D", but if your directory structure is very deep, then you can limit the depth of the traversal using "-depth -D", where "D" is the maximum number of directory levels to descend. Show Sample Output
-2find . -type f -depth -3 -mtime -5 -
-2find / | xargs ls -l | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f 1,3,4,9
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I used this because I needed to sort the content of a bunch of gzipped log files. Replace sort with something else, or simply remove sort to just rezip everything
-2find . -name "*.gz" | xargs -n 1 -I {} bash -c "gunzip -c {} | sort | gzip -c --best > {}.new ; rm {} ; mv {}.new {}" -
-2find / -name FILENAME
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This script will list all the files in the tarballs present on any folder or subfolder of the provided path. The while loop is for echoing the file name of the tarball before listing the files, so the tarball can be identified
-2find <path> -name "*.tgz" -or -name "*.tar.gz" | while read file; do echo "$file: "; tar -tzf $file; done -
The magic is performed by the parameter -t Show Sample Output
-2for F in $(find ./ -name "*.tgz") ; do tar -tvzf $F ; done -
remove files with access time older than a given date. If you want to remove files with a given modification time replace %A@ with %T@. Use %C@ for the modification time. The time is expressed in epoc but is easy to use any other format. Show Sample Output
-2find <dir> -printf '%p : %A@\n' | awk '{FS=" : " ; if($2 < <time in epoc> ) print $1 ;}' | xargs rm --verbose -fr ; -
-2find ./ -name $1 -exec grep -H -n $2 '{}' ';'
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Execute this in the root of your music library and this recurses through the directories and normalizes each folder containing mp3s as a batch. This assumes those folders hold an album each. The command "normalize-audio" may go by "normalize" on some systems.
-2find . -type d -exec sh -c "normalize-audio -b \"{}\"/*.mp3" \; -
-2find . -type f -exec sed -i 's/gw10./gw17./g' {} \;
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find all files in cur dir add to url and append to file
-2find . type f -exec echo http://exg.com/{} \; > file -
Remove all empty directories below the current directory. If directories become empty as the results of this, remove those too.
-2find . -type d | tac | xargs rmdir 2> /dev/null -
-2find -D rates . -name "*.mp3" -type f
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List all files from the current directory and subdirectories, sorted by modification time, oldest first.
-2find . -type f -exec ls -tr {} + -
If you have a directory with many working copies of various subversion projects and you want to update them all at once, this one may be for you. Show Sample Output
-2for d in $(find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -name '[^.]*'); do cd "$d"; svn up; cd ..; done -
Finds all files below the current directory. Orders the result from smallest to largest. Good for finding the largest files in the tree.
-2find . -type f -exec ls -s \{\} \; | sort -n -
-2find . -type f -exec chmod 640 {} ';'
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-2find . -name '*.txt' | grep -v '\.lzma$' | xargs -n 1 lzma -f -v -3
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If your site is struck with the white screen of death you can find the syntax error quickly with php lint
-2find -name "*.php" -exec php -l {} \; | grep -v "No syntax errors" -
xargs avoids having to remember the "{} \;" (although definitely a useful thing to know. Unfortunately I always forget it). xargs version runs 2x faster on my test fwiw. edit: fixed to handle spaces in filenames correctly.
-2find . -name "*.php" -print0 | xargs -0 grep -i "search phrase" -
-2find . -name "*noticia*" -name "*jhtm*" -name "*.tpl" -exec grep -li "id=\"col-direita\"" '{}' \; | xargs -n1 mate
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-2find / -type f -size +20000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'
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If you keep saved-webpages to read offline, then deleting the .js files will use a third less disk-space, without affecting the readability.
-2find /path/to/webpages -type f -name '*.js' -exec 'rm' '{}' \; -
A simple command to find the total number of subdirectories in current directory starting with specific name. Show Sample Output
-2find . -type d -name "*TestDir*" | wc -l -
The sample command searches for PHP files replacing tabs with spaces.
-u NONE # don't use vimrcInstead ofretab!one may passretab! 4for instance. Look at this http://susepaste.org/69028693 also-2find $DIR -name *.php -exec vim -u NONE -c 'set ft=php' -c 'set shiftwidth=4' -c 'set tabstop=4' -c 'set noexpandtab!' -c 'set noet' -c 'retab!' -c 'bufdo! "execute normal gg=G"' -c wq {} \; - ‹ First < 44 45 46 47 48 > Last ›
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