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collect fullcalib data
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find . -name "fullcalib4.csv" -exec tail -n1 \{\} \; >>all.csv

kaplan2539 · 2012-06-27 16:12:47 3
list all world-writeable Linux files
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sudo find / -perm -2 ! -type l -ls

gwd · 2012-07-13 07:01:42 3
search and replace in multiple files
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find . -name "*.php" -print | xargs sed -i 's/foo/bar/g'

bisio · 2012-07-15 21:55:35 3
List down source files which include another source file
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find . -type f $ -name '*.c' -o -name '*.cpp' -o -name '*.cc' -o -name '*.cxx' $ | xargs grep "#include.*\.c.*" 2>&1 | tee source_inside_source_list.txt

rajendra_s_y · 2012-07-17 09:41:18 3
List all symbolic links in current directory
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find /was61 -type l

djenal · 2012-07-18 18:19:37 3
List all symbolic links in current directory
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find /was61 -type l

djenal · 2012-07-18 18:20:11 3
List all symbolic links in current directory
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find /was61 -type l

djenal · 2012-07-18 18:20:13 3

Find biggest 10 files in current and subdirectories and sort by file size

This requires a version of GNU find that supports the -exec {} + action, but it seems more straightforward than the versions already posted. Show Sample Output

find . -type f -exec ls -shS {} + | head -10

erichamion · 2012-07-28 17:21:46 3

Create a tar archive with cpio containing a set of files
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find path -name '*' -type f | cpio -ov -H ustar -F txtarchive.tar

bugmenot · 2012-07-29 00:44:12 4
Create a tar archive with pax containing a set of files

NOTE that pax goes always recursively, for that reason -d option should be added when you don't want to go recursively into directories.
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find path -name '*' -type f | pax -wd > txtarchive.tar

bugmenot · 2012-07-29 00:44:51 3
Verbosely delete files matching specific name pattern, older than 15 days.

Like the above, but runs a single rm command
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find /backup/directory -name "FILENAME_*" -mtime +15 -exec rm -vf {} +

mrfixit42 · 2012-08-03 04:20:53 3
Find biggest 10 files in current and subdirectories and sort by file size

"-exec" ftw.
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find . -type f -exec du -sh {} + | sort -hr | head

mrfixit42 · 2012-08-03 04:24:36 4
Recursively set the files to ignore in all folders for svn

To use this comment you'll have to create a file entitled 'ignorelist' where you put the file name or pattern of the files you want to ignore. I used it for my maven project which generates the child project files in each folder so I can import them into eclipse. By adding these project files to the ignore list ensure they won't appear each time I run 'svn status'. Show Sample Output
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```
property 'svn:ignore' set on '/home/User/workspace/parentProject'
property 'svn:ignore' set on '/home/User/workspace/parentProject/common'
property 'svn:ignore' set on '/home/User/workspace/parentProject/domain'
property 'svn:ignore' set on '/home/User/workspace/parentProject/integration'
property 'svn:ignore' set on '/home/User/workspace/parentProject/presentation'
property 'svn:ignore' set on '/home/User/workspace/parentProject/services-impl'
property 'svn:ignore' set on '/home/User/workspace/parentProject/services-intf'
property 'svn:ignore' set on '/home/User/workspace/parentProject/webservices
```
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for folder in $( find $( pwd ) -maxdepth 1 -type d | grep -v .svn ); do svn propset svn:ignore -F ignorelist ${folder}; done

Highwayman · 2012-08-03 13:50:45 15
Remove / delete file with ? or special characters in filename

Code to delete file with gremlins/special characters/unicode in file name. Use ls -i to find the INODE number corresponding to the file and then delete it using that find statement. detailed here: http://www.arsc.edu/arsc/support/howtos/nonprintingchars/ Show Sample Output
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```
$ ls
?????D?P?test.txt
$ rm ./
^_?^H^H?D^\P^Ctest.txt  
$ ls -b
\037\213\b\b\240D\034P\003test.txt 
$ rm \037*
rm: cannot remove `037*': No such file or directory
$ ls -il
total 8
86870 -rw-r--r-- 1 mememe mememe   0 2012-08-03 14:38 ?????D?P?test.txt
$ find * $ -type d -prune $ -o -inum 86870 -exec rm -i {} \;
rm: remove regular empty file `\037\213\b\b\240D\034P\003test.txt'? y
```
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ls -il; find * $ -type d -prune $ -o -inum <NUM> -exec rm -i {} \;

yingw · 2012-08-04 00:22:33 10
Parallel copy - Faster copy

Copy files and dir in parallel. It is Faster. Using the gnu-parallel. Has 2 commands: - First - Create dir structure in /BKP find Files/ -type d | parallel 'mkdir -p /BKP/{}' - Second - Copy for structure created find Files/ -type f | parallel 'rsync -a {} /BKP/$(dirname {})' - Great for backups! - Can use "rsync" or "cp". - Compare with a simple "rsync" or "cp"!
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find Files/ -type d | parallel 'mkdir -p /BKP/{}' && find Files/ -type f | parallel 'rsync -a {} MKD/$(dirname {})'

phribbr · 2012-08-08 21:01:37 17
List empty directories only in present level
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find ./ -maxdepth 1 -empty -type d -print

bugmenot · 2012-08-09 12:58:06 3
List recursively only empty folders on present dir
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find ./ -empty -type d -print

bugmenot · 2012-08-09 13:01:04 3
Add executable bit to all shell scripts under current directory recursively.

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find . -type f -name "*.sh" -exec chmod u+x {} \;

djangofan · 2012-08-09 18:10:22 4
Add executable bit to all shell scripts under current directory recursively.

Allows to change 'shell' compatible files execution bit even if their name is not *.sh
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find . -type f -exec file '{}' + | grep shell | awk -F':' '{print $1}' | xargs chmod u+x

llebegue · 2012-08-09 18:53:08 3
Quickly find files and folders in the current directory

My most used bash function without a doubt!
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ff() { find -maxdepth 3 -type f | grep -i "$1"; }; fd() { find -maxdepth 4 -type d | grep -i "$1"; }

expelledboy · 2012-08-12 13:44:39 3
find files between specific date/times and move them to another folder

touch -t 201208211200 first ; touch -t 201208220100 last ; creates 2 files: first & last, with timestamps that the find command should look between: 201208211200 = 2012-08-21 12:00 201208220100 = 2012-08-22 01:00 then we run find command with "-newer" switch, that finds by comparing timestamp against a reference file: find /path/to/files/ -newer first ! -newer last meaning: find any files in /path/to/files that are newer than file "first" and not newer than file "last" pipe the output of this find command through xargs to a move command: | xargs -ifile mv -fv file /path/to/destination/ and finally, remove the reference files we created for this operation: rm first; rm last;
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touch -t 201208211200 first ; touch -t 201208220100 last ; find /path/to/files/ -newer first ! -newer last | xargs -ifile mv -fv file /path/to/destination/ ; rm first; rm last;

ktopaz · 2012-08-22 09:51:40 6
Preview All Files in Directory
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find . -type f | xargs -I% bash -c 'echo -e "\033[31m%\033[0m" && [[ ! `file %` =~ .*binary.* ]] && head "%"'

mx4492 · 2012-08-28 12:52:38 9
Delete all files matching a pattern
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find . -name vmware-*.log -exec rm -i {} \;

defc0n1 · 2012-08-29 11:19:37 4
Delete large amount of files matching pattern

In case you ever got to many arguments using rm to delete multiple files matching a pattern this will help you
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sudo find . -name "*.csv" | xargs /bin/rm

defc0n1 · 2012-08-29 11:38:37 5
find all files in the current directory matching name * and searching for a string "mystring". outputs all the filenames that contain the search string.
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find . -name "*" | xargs grep "mystring"

deepakfrenzy · 2012-08-30 21:41:34 5
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Mount a VMware virtual disk (.vmdk) file on a Linux box

Assumes XP/2000/2003. For Server 2008+ try offset=105,906,176 You can find this number in the System Information utility under Partition Starting Offset. UEFI based boxes you want partition 2 since the first is just the boot files (and FAT). This works with (storage side) snapshots which is handy for single file restores on NFS mounted VMware systems

Recover deleted Binary files

The above command assumes the lost data is on /dev/sda and you previously issued the following command to mount _another_ disk or partition (/dev/sdb1) on /recovery $sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /recovery If you don't do this, the data could be overwrited! foremost is a very powerful carving tool. By default foremost recovers all known file types. If you want to reduce the amount of files that are recovered you can specify the file type you are looking for. Read the man page to know the available file types. i.e to recover JPEG pictures append to foremost the switch -tjpg

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I tried out on my Mac, jot to generate sequence ( 0,25,50,..), you can use 'seq' if it is linux to generate numbers, need curl installed on the machine, then it rocks. @Satya

bulk rename files with sed, one-liner

Renames all files in a directory named foo to bar. foobar1 gets renamed to barbar1 barfoo2 gets renamed to barbar2 fooobarfoo gets renamed to barobarfoo NOTE: Will break for files with spaces AND new lines AND for an empty expansion of the glob '*'

Tell what is encoded in a float, given its HEX bytes

It handles all possible combination of the hex bytes, including NaNs, Infinities, Normalized and Subnormal Numbers... $ This crazy DC stuff spent me a few days to write, optimize, polish and squeeze so that it works within the tight 255 character bound... $ You can modify it easily for other IEEE754 numbers, say, half, double, double-extended, quadruple $ (I hope someone will find this useful and submit more dc code to commandlinefu!)

List your MACs address

Sort specific lines while editing within vi

Sort lines within vi editor. In this example sort lines 33-61 and lines 4-9 asciibetically.

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"

Edit the list of to ignore files in the active directory

Standard command, but I always have to search for it... ;-)

github push-ing behind draconian proxies!

If you are behind a restrictive proxy/firewall that blocks port 22 connections but allows SSL on 443 (like most do) then you can still push changes to your github repository. Your .ssh/config file should contain: Host * ForwardX11 no TCPKeepAlive yes ProtocolKeepAlives 30 ProxyCommand /usr/local/bin/proxytunnel -v -p -d %h:443 Host User git Hostname ssh.github.com ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa IdentitiesOnly yes Basically proxytunnel "tunnels" your ssh connection through port 443. You could also use corkscrew or some other tunneling program that is available in your distro's repository. PS: I generally use "github.com" as the SSH-HOST so that urls of the kind git@github.com:USER/REPO.git work transparently :) You

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