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Search for a string inside all files below current directory
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find . -type f -exec grep -Hn <pattern> {} \;

funkjedi · 2012-09-08 19:43:08 4
find and delete files smaller than specific size

Probably neither faster nor better than -delete in find. It's just that I generally dislike teaching find builtin actions.
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find . -type f -size -80k -print0|xargs -0 rm

DeepThought · 2012-09-19 12:15:32 4
Count the number of lines of code, returns total

Searches for *.cpp and *.h in directory structure, counts the number of lines for each matching file and adds the counts together. Show Sample Output
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```
27586
```
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find . $ -iname '*.cpp' -o -iname '*.h' $ -exec wc -l {} \; | sort -n | cut --delimiter=. -f 1 | awk '{s+=$1} END {print s}'

jecxjoopenid · 2012-09-19 15:21:01 5
Change permissions for all files in the current directory
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find ./ -type f | xargs sudo chmod 644

unixmonkey39631 · 2012-09-26 00:11:14 10
Change permission for all directories inside the current one
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find site/ -type d | xargs sudo chmod 755

unixmonkey39631 · 2012-09-26 00:12:37 4
Size for all directories inside the current one
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find . -type d -maxdepth 1 | xargs du -sh

unixmonkey39631 · 2012-09-26 14:58:27 4
Recursively sort files by modification time through multiple directories.
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find /test -type f -printf "%AY%Aj%AH%AM%AS---%h/%f\n" | sort -n

omatictost · 2012-10-25 16:22:48 4
List all the unique extensions in a folder and print their count
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find . -type f -print | awk -F'.' '{print $NF}' | sort | uniq -c

vishnu81 · 2012-10-31 12:03:10 5
list uniq extensions of files from the current directory

find files recursively from the current directory, and list the extensions of files uniquely Show Sample Output
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```
bak
bat
cfg
conf
csv
doc
exe
exe_back
pyc
sql
txt
xls
```
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find . -type f |egrep '^./.*\.' |sed -e "s/$^.*\.$$.*$$/\2/" |sort |uniq

dvst · 2012-11-12 17:17:55 8
Play a random avi file in the current directory tree
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mplayer $(find . -iname '*.avi' | shuf -n1)

fooacad · 2012-11-13 09:00:12 4
If a directory contains softlinks, grep will give lot of warnings. So better use it along with find command so that softlinks are excluded. "Hn" operator will take care that both line number and filename is shown in grep output
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find /path/to/search/directory -exec grep -Hn "pattern" {} \;

user1234 · 2012-11-16 03:26:38 4
Remove UTF-8 Byte Order Mark BOM
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find . -type f -regex '.*html$' -exec sed -i 's/\xEF\xBB\xBF//' '{}' \;

olekhy · 2012-11-26 09:56:00 4
Deleting directory recurcive. Directories will be deleled when empty or contains only .svn subdirectory

svn must be 1.7
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for I in $(find . -depth -type d -not -path "*/.svn*" -print) ; do N="$(ls -1A ${I} | wc -l)"; if [[ "${N}" -eq 0 || "${N}" -eq 1 && -n $(ls -1A | grep .svn) ]] ; then svn rm --force "${I}"; fi ; done

olekhy · 2012-11-26 23:53:45 4
find . -name "*" -print | xargs grep -s pattern
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find . -name "*" -print | xargs grep -s pattern

RedFox · 2012-11-28 13:09:35 4
find . -type f -exec grep -ils stringtofind {} +
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find . -type f -exec grep -ils stringtofind {} +

RedFox · 2012-11-28 13:10:07 4
find . $ -name \*.cgi -o -name \*.txt -o -name \*.htm -o -name \*.html -o -name \*.shtml $ -print | xargs grep -s pattern
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find . $ -name \*.cgi -o -name \*.txt -o -name \*.htm -o -name \*.html -o -name \*.shtml $ -print | xargs grep -s pattern

RedFox · 2012-11-28 17:01:37 4
Delete Empty Files
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find . -size 0c -print -exec rm -f {} \;

RedFox · 2012-11-28 17:03:07 5
Find and replace text within all files within a directory

find . = will set up your recursive search. You can narrow your search to certain file by adding -name "*.ext" or limit buy using the same but add prune like -name "*.ext" -prune xargs =sets it up like a command line for each file find finds and will invoke the next command which is perl. perl = invoke perl -p sets up a while loop -i in place and the .bak will create a backup file like filename.ext.bak -e execute the following.... 's/ / /;' your basic substitute and replace.
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find . | xargs perl -p -i.bak -e 's/oldString/newString/;'

RedFox · 2012-11-28 17:11:18 4
show 20 last modified files in current directory including subdirectories
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find . -type f -printf "%T@ %Tc %p\n" |sort -n |cut -d' ' -f2- |tail -n20

guziec · 2012-12-04 14:23:55 4
Search recursively to find a word or phrase in certain file types, such as C code

Old Sys5 system and SUN computers don't have the -H option. Adding /dev/null forces grep to use the multi-file output and report the file name.
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find . -name "*.[ch]" -exec grep -i /dev/null "search pharse" {} \;

MikeGoerling · 2012-12-04 20:51:04 4
Returns top ten (sub)directories with the highest number of files

A lot of files in one dir is not so cool for filesystem.
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find . -type d | while read dir ; do num=`ls -l $dir | grep '^-' | wc -l` ; echo "$num $dir" ; done | sort -rnk1 | head

stderr · 2012-12-13 13:13:16 9
List all text files (exclude binary files)
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find -type f | xargs file | grep ".*: .* text" | sed "s;$.*$: .* text.*;\1;"

phunehehe · 2012-12-24 07:53:52 5
List all symbolic links in current directory

Just added maxdepth
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find . -maxdepth 1 -type l

Fidelix · 2012-12-30 20:49:28 4
Change owner ship of files from 1003 to android under current directory recursively. 1003/android could be customized.
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find . | while read line; do test `stat -c %u $line` -eq 1003 && chown android:android $line && echo $line; done

changyuheng · 2013-01-12 10:47:25 7
To remove all *.swp files underneath the current directory

Removes all *.swp files underneath the current directory. Replace "*.swp" with your file pattern(s).
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find . -name \*.swp -type f -delete

ashwinkumark · 2013-01-19 07:38:03 6
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Calculate days on which Friday the 13th occurs (inspired from the work of the user justsomeguy)

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Day of the week of your birthday over the years.

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Print one . instead of each line

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Use md5sum to check your music and movie files. Also use diff.

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Quick syntax highlighting with multiple output formats

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Make redirects to localhost via /etc/hosts more interesting

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cd into another dir to run a one-liner, but implicitly drop back to your $OLD_PWD after

Obviously the example given is necessarily simple, but this command not only saves time on the command line (saves you using "cd -" or, worse, having to type a fully qualified path if your command cd's more than once), but is vital in scripts, where I've found the behaviour of "cd -" to be a little broken at times.

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"

World Cup Live Score

World Cup Live Score of the ongoing match. Alternative to have the live score with the match statistics: $ watch -n10 --no-title "w3m http://www.livescore.com/ |awk '/live [0-9H]+[^ ]/,/red cards/'"

Simplest way to get size (in bytes) of a file

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