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bash function for convenient 'find' in subversion working directories

you can use svn_find just like the regular find command, except that subdirectories named .svn will be ignored. example: svn_find . -mtime -1 -size +200k -ls -> all files modified within last day and bigger then 200 KiB, but ignores subdirectories named .svn
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svn_find () { local a=$1; shift; find $a -not $ -name .svn -prune $ $*; }

pauli · 2011-08-17 09:16:02 3
remove files of a specific size

Removes all files in the current folder that are 1400 bytes in size.
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find . -size 1400c -exec rm {} \;

gef · 2011-08-18 15:19:24 5
Set executable permissions only to executable files

If you make a mess (like I did) and you removed all the executable permissions of a directory (or you set executable permissions to everything) this can help. It supports spaces and other special characters in the file paths, but it will work only in bash, GNU find and GNU egrep. You can complement it with these two commands: 1. add executable permission to directories: find . type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod +x 2. and remove to files: find . type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod -x Or, in the same loop: while IFS= read -r -u3 -d $'\0' file; do case $(file "$file" | cut -f 2- -d :) in :*executable*|*ELF*|*directory*) chmod +x "$file" ;; *) chmod -x "$file" ;; esac || break done 3< <(find . -print0) Ideas stolen from Greg's wiki: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/020
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while IFS= read -r -u3 -d $'\0' file; do file "$file" | egrep -q 'executable|ELF' && chmod +x "$file"; done 3< <(find . -type f -print0)

keymon · 2011-08-18 15:37:23 13
Count files by extension

Change "sort -f" to "sort" and "uniq -ic" to "uniq -c" to make it case sensitive. Show Sample Output
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```
      1 bin
     15 css
      8 gif
      1 html
      1 ico
      6 jpg
     21 js
```
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find . -type f | sed -n 's/..*\.//p' | sort -f | uniq -ic

tyler_l · 2011-08-19 00:19:43 4
Find all e-mails older than 7 days in the queue and delete them

Find all files in /var/spool/mqueue older than 7 days, pass to perl to efficiently delete them (faster than xargs or -exec when you've got millions or hundreds of thousands to delete). Naturally the type, directory, and file age vars can be adjusted to meet your specific needs.
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find /var/spool/mqueue -type f -mtime +7 | perl -lne unlink

mengesb · 2011-08-19 15:22:02 4
Search recursively to find a word in certain file types

-sl : show just file names
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find . -iname '*.conf' | xargs grep "searh string" -sl

mesuutt · 2011-08-26 14:58:51 3
Grep all your PDFs in a row

http://pdfgrep.sourceforge.net/
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find -iname \*.pdf -print0 | xargs -0 pdfgrep -i "my search text"

vlf · 2011-09-05 15:31:35 3
Archive tar.gz archives all files (with extension filter) individually from an location

This command will : -Archive all *.dmp files individually (one file per archive) from current directory . -Delete original file after has been compressed.
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find ./ -iname "*.dmp" -maxdepth 0 -type f -exec tar czvf {}.tar.gz --remove-files {} \; \;

evilinside · 2011-09-07 08:36:29 3
Hunt for the newest file.
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fn=$(find . -type f -printf "%T@\t%p\n"|sort -n|tail -1|cut -f2); echo $(date -r "$fn") "$fn"

tzot · 2011-09-13 14:26:20 3
Find directories with lots of files in them

Find which directories on your system contain a lot of files. Edit: much shorter and betterer with -n switch. Show Sample Output
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```
2958	/var/www/vhosts/example.com/dir1
2259	/usr/share/man/man3
1283	/var/www/vhosts/example.com/dir2
1124	/usr/share/man/man3p
1091	/usr/share/man/man1
861	/var/www/vhosts/example.com/dir3
763	/usr/bin
717	/var/www/vhosts/example.com/dir4
```
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sudo find / -type f | perl -MFile::Basename -ne '$counts{dirname($_)}++; END { foreach $d (sort keys %counts) {printf("%d\t%s\n",$counts{$d},$d);} }'|sort -rn | tee /tmp/sortedfilecount.out | head

tamouse · 2011-09-14 19:41:19 3
Converts all jpg files to 75 quality.

Requires ImageMagick to be installed. This command was stolen from @climagic on Twitter. Probably a duplicate of command below, but this command uses slightly higher quality. http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/707/compress-images-using-convert-imagemagick-in-a-bulk
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find . -type f -name '*.jpg' -exec convert -quality 75 {} {} \;

bobby_tables · 2011-09-23 13:51:18 4
Fixing maven POM messed up by a broken release.

When a large maven release goes wrong, by deploying just some of the artifacts letting others behind, some projects got wrong SNAPSHOT versions. This command comes to help! Tip: replace sed's regex by your version numbers
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find . -iname pom.xml -type f -exec bash -c "cat {} | sed s/1\.0\.46\-SNAPSHOT/1\.0\.48\-SNAPSHOT/g > {}.tmp " \; -exec mv {}.tmp {} \;

miguelbaldi · 2011-10-05 18:57:12 3
Makes you look busy

Enhancement for the 'busy' command originally posted by busybee : less chars, no escape issue, and most important it exclude small files ( opening a 5 lines file isn't that persuasive I think ;) ) This makes an alias for a command named 'busy'. The 'busy' command opens a random file in /usr/include to a random line with vim.
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alias busy='rnd_file=$(find /usr/include -type f -size +5k | sort -R | head -n 1) && vim +$((RANDOM%$(wc -l $rnd_file | cut -f1 -d" "))) $rnd_file'

frntn · 2011-10-16 00:05:59 3
find something
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find $SDIR -name '${f}.*' -mtime +$n -maxdepth 1 | xargs -n 10 rm -vf

seker4869 · 2011-11-01 05:35:03 3
Copy files from one tree to another (say, project to project) while preserving their directory structure.

Let's say you have a set of files in tree A that you want duplicated to tree B while preserving their directory structure / hierarchy. (For example, you might want to copy your 'profile' model/views/controller from one Rails application to another.) The "pax" command will copy all matching files to the destination while creating any necessary directories.
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cd ~/ruby/project_a ; find . -name "*profile*" -exec pax -rw {} ~/ruby/project_b/ \;

cbpowell · 2011-11-10 21:18:15 3
Rekursive Grep on Solaris or AIX Systems without GNU egrep -r funcionality
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find . -type f -exec awk '/linux/ { printf "%s %s: %s\n",FILENAME,NR,$0; }' {} \;

Neo23x0 · 2011-11-29 12:32:06 8
Counting the source code's line numbers C/C++ Java
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find /usr/include/ -name '*.[c|h]pp' -o -name '*.[ch]' -print0 | xargs -0 wc -l | tail -1

f4m8 · 2011-12-02 07:20:09 4
Converts Character Set of Files in a Folder
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find . -iregex ".+\.$c\|cpp\|h$" | xargs -I{} perl -e "system(\"iconv -f SHIFT_JIS -t UTF-8 {} > temp; mv temp {} \");" ;

inomas · 2011-12-02 18:03:27 3
Count the number of pages of all PDFs in current directory and all subdirs, recursively

This sums up the page count of multiple pdf files without the useless use of grep and sed which other commandlinefus use. Show Sample Output
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```
78
```
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find -iname "*.pdf" -exec pdfinfo -meta {} \;|awk '{if($1=="Pages:"){s+=$2}}END{print s}'

Barabbas · 2011-12-13 15:02:11 3
Fix MP3 tags encoding (to UTF-8). Batch fixes all MP3s in one directory.

Fixes MP3 tags encoding (to UTF-8). Batch fixes all MP3s in one directory.
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find . -iname "*.mp3" -execdir mid3iconv -e <encoding> {} \;

sxiii · 2011-12-14 18:10:27 5
Modify all files newer than another file and touch them to a specific date.

Modify all files newer than another file and touch them to a specific date. Show Sample Output
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```
None.  Check it with 'ls -al'
```
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find . -newer /tmp/foo -exec touch --date "2011-12-12" {} \;

djangofan · 2011-12-15 04:55:57 3
list with full path
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find `pwd` -maxdepth 1 -exec ls --color -d {} \;

kev · 2011-12-16 06:18:35 5
CPIO better than TAR

Archive all .sh files in a directory into a gzip archive.
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find . -type f -name '*.sh' -print | cpio -o | gzip >sh.cpio.gz

djangofan · 2011-12-21 21:13:29 9
Count total amount of code lines in a PHP Project (short version)
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find . -type f -name "*.php" -exec wc -l {} +;

KoXa · 2011-12-25 12:01:48 4
list with full path
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find $(pwd) -maxdepth 1 -name "*" -printf "%p\n"

Jubal · 2012-01-06 18:04:14 3
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Clear your history saved into .bash_history file!

Note the space before the command; that prevents your history eliminating command from being recorded. ' history -c && rm -f ~/.bash_history' Both steps are needed. 'history -c' clears what you see in the history command. 'rm -f ~/.bash_history' deletes the history file in your home directory.

Convert GoogleCL gmail contacts to cone adress book

Full Command: $ google contacts list name,name,email|perl -pne 's%^((?!N\/A)(.+?)),((?!N\/A)(.+?)),([a-z0-9\._-]+\@([a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9]\.)+([a-z]+\.)?([a-z]+))%${1}:${3} %imx'|grep -oP '^((?!N\/A)(.+?)) ' | sort You'll need googlecl and python-gdata. First setup google cl via: $ google Then give your PC access $ google contacts list name,email Then do the command, save it or use this one to dump it in the cone-address.txt file in your home dir: $ google contacts list name,name,email | perl -p -n -e 's%^((?!N\/A)(.+?)),((?!N\/A)(.+?)),([a-z0-9\._-]+\@([a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9]\.)+([a-z]+\.)?([a-z]+))%${1}:${3} %imx' | grep -o -P '^((?!N\/A)(.+?)) ' | sort > ~/cone-adress.txt Then import into cone. It filters out multiple emails, and contacts with no email that have N/A. (Picasa photo persons without email for example...)

Recover tmp flash videos (deleted immediately by the browser plugin)

Newer versions of the flashplayer browser plugin delete the tmp flash video immediately after opening a filehandle to prevent the user from "exporting" the video by simply copying the /tmp/FlashXYZ file. This command searches such deleted flash videos and creates symbolic links to the opened filehandle with the same name as the deleted file. This allows you to play your flash-videos (from e.g. youtube) with e.g. mplayer or copy the buffered video if you want to keep it.

List out classes in of all htmls in directory

Lists out all classes used in all *.html files in the currect directory. usefull for checking if you have left out any style definitions, or accidentally given a different name than you intended. ( I have an ugly habit of accidentally substituting camelCase instead of using under_scores: i would name soemthing counterBox instead of counter_box) WARNING: assumes you give classnames in between double quotes, and that you apply only one class per element.

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" }

Use colordiff in side-by-side mode, and with automatic column widths.

Barely worth posting because it is so simple, but I use it literally all the time. I was always frustrated by the limitations that a non-gui environment imposes on diff'ing files. This fixes some of those limitations by colourising the output (you'll have to install colordiff, but it is just a wrapper for diff itself), using side-by-side mode for clearer presentation, and of course, the -W parameter, using tput to automatically insert you terminal width. Note that the double quotes aren't necessary if typed into terminal as-is. I included them for safety sake,

Project your desktop using xrandr

HDMI-1 is the interface in the example, which can be obtained just by typing xrandr and surfing through the output. There are a hell lot of configurations that can be done but I prefer auto because it works in most cases. $ Lifesaver

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"

Run command from another user and return to current

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

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