Commands using find (1,252)
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0find <mydir> -type f -exec rename 's/<string1>/<string2>/g' {} \;
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This is helpful when approaching a new codebase and wondering where the bulk of the code is located Show Sample Output
0find . -name '*.c*' -o -name '*.h' -exec wc -l {} \; | sort -n | tail -
If there are less than 10 folders, this script will not delete them
0find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 ! -name 'exclude_folder1' ! -name 'exclude_folder2' -type d -exec ls -tld {} \+ | tail +11 | xargs --no-run-if-empty -L 1 rm -rf -
Only search source files directly related to current project. Everything under the "node_modules" directly are ignored.
0find * -type d -name node_modules -prune -o -type f -name \*.js -exec grep [opts] [pattern] {} \; -
0find . -mtime +1000 -type f
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Music Library Convert Usage lc Old_Directory New_DIrectory Old_Format New_Format lc ~/Music ~/Music_ogg mp3 ogg This will convert all audio files in the old directory to the new directory from the old format to the new format. It will leave the original library alone. The converted library will retain folder structure.
0lc() { od="$1"; nd="$2"; of=$3; nf=$4; cp -rl "$od" "$nd"; find $nd -type f -iname \*$of -print -execdir ffmpeg -i {} -loglevel error -q:a 6 {}.$nf \; -execdir rm {} +; find $nd -type f -iname \*.$of.$nf -execdir rename "s/$of.$nf/$nf/" {} +; } -
0find / \( -mount -o -prune \) \( -perm -4000 -o -perm -2000 \) -type f -exec ls -l {} \;
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0find . -type f -exec cp '{}' /path/to/all/folder \;
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This command will find the file project.txt and delete it.
0find . -name project.txt -exec rm -f {} \; -
This command would find the file secret.txt and change its permissions to 755.
0find . -name secret.txt -exec chmod 755 {} \; -
This oneliner will remove the number which begins a filename.
0find . -type f | sed 's|\(.*/\)[^A-Z]*\([A-Z].*\)|mv \"&\" \"\1\2\"|' | sh -
1. easy to type 2. linear list of recursive structure of files/directories 3. search in list using / 4. filter list by :g!//d 5. view/edit file in list by Vgf 6. count files/directories in list by :set nu and G 7. sort by :sort
0find | vim - -
Returns a list, with attributes (think `ls -l`), in reverse chronological order. N is a single numeric parameter. Robust against unfriendly filenames and directory structures. Show Sample Output
0nmf() { find . -type f -printf '%T@ ' -print0 -printf '\n' | sort -rn | head -"$1" | cut -f2- -d" " | tr -d "\0" | tr "\n" "\0" | xargs -0 ls -Ulh; } -
This command stores data in the following files: files.txt, links.txt Find and read all symbolic links in /path1 and stores list in links.txt
find /path1 -type l -exec readlink -f {} \; > links.txtFind all files in /path2 and stores list in files.txtfind /path2 -type f > files.txt &&Displays lines in files.txt that do not exist in links.txtgrep -Fxv -f links.txt files.txtShow Sample Output0find /path1 -type l -exec readlink -f {} \; > links.txt && find /path2 -type f > files.txt && grep -Fxv -f links.txt files.txt -
I used this to resolve runtime dependencies of an application to create self-contained tar-balls (e.g. PHP for Docker or Rkt) Requirements: - realpath - ldd - find - grep - sort - uniq - xargs
0for f in $(find . -name "*.so"); do ldd -v $(realpath $f) | grep -Eo "(/[a-z0-9\_.+-]+)*" | uniq | xargs -I % cp --parents % /tmp/build; done -
0find . -name "booyah" -exec rename booyah booyah.disabled {} \;
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executes from your current directory down
0find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; -
0find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
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Speed up Google Chrome like speedyfox does for MAC USER. This script will detect all SQLITE DATABASE on the Google directory
0cd "/Users/$USER/Library/Application Support/Google" && find . -print|while read line;do (file "$line"|grep SQLite) && (sqlite3 "$line" "VACUUM;";echo "Compress");done; -
0dir=/rom; a=$(find $dir -name \*.sh -exec cat '{}' \; | egrep -cv '^[[:space:]]*#'); b=$(find $dir -name \*.sh -exec cat '{}' \; | egrep -c '^[[:space:]]*#'); echo $((a+b)) lines = ${a} sloc [$((a*100/(a+b)))%] + ${b} comments [$((b*100/(a+b)))%]
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0find /var -type f -exec du -h {} \; | sort -rh | head -10
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Uses ffmpeg to convert all that annoying .FLAC files to MP3 files keeping all the Artist's information in them. There's not much more to it. Show Sample Output
0find . -name "*.flac" -exec ffmpeg -i {} -ab 160k -map_metadata 0 -id3v2_version 3 {}.mp3 \; -
Using netstat & find together, found this while on stackoverflow s few minutes ago and really like it due to the simplicity and so far it's the most concise. Show Sample Output
0netstat | find "ESTABLISHED" -
List imageSize for files with selected extensions in current directory Requires: exiftool (install from arch base repo: sudo pacman -S perl-image-exiftool) Show Sample Output
0find . -regex '\(.*mp4\|.*mpg\|.*mpeg\|.*mov\|.*wmv\|.*mkv\|.*avi\)' -exec exiftool -directory -fileName -imageSize {} \; -
0find . -name '*docx' -exec sh -c "unzip -p {} word/document.xml | sed -e 's/<[^>]\{1,\}>//g; s/[^[:print:]]\{1,\}//g' | grep -i SearchTerm -q && echo {} " \;
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