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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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Get your outgoing IP address

should be very consistent cause it's google :-)

Display any tcp connections to apache

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Get own public IP address

Returns your external IP address to the command line using only wget

connects to a serial console

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kill all processes using a directory/file/etc

This command will kill all processes using a directory. It's quick and dirty. One may also use a -9 with kill in case regular kill doesn't work. This is useful if one needs to umount a directory.

Get MX records for a domain

command is shorter, output unnecessary longer

Save a file you edited in vim without the needed permissions (no echo)

Write a file you edited in Vim but that you do not have the permissions to write to (unless you use sudo.) Same as #1204 but without the echo to stdout that I find annoying.

Extract audio from Mythtv recording to Rockbox iPod using ffmpeg

There are some pretty good live performances on late night TV. With Mythtv I record David Letterman, Jimmy Fallon, and Conan nightly all in HD from over the air broadcasts. If I find a live performance I like I copy it to my Rockboxed iPod using this command. The Rockbox firmware knows how to downmix 5.1 audio. The command above extracts the audio from the video starting at 58 minutes and 15 seconds. It ends at the end of the file since this was the last performance of the recording. The command creates an ac3 file. I copy the ac3 file to my Rockbox iPod and rock on.

Copy/move a bunch of files to dot files and back

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