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egrep -r replacement for UNIX systems

Finds a string in files recursively below the current directory on systems without the "egrep" and its "-r" functionality. Show Sample Output
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```
./script-45/parser.db
```
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find . -type f | xargs grep -l "string"

Neo23x0 · 2011-08-30 13:22:42 6
Open a list of files in VIM using separate terminal windows

Not that useful really, more novel. Can open up an awful lot of terminal windows.
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find . -name "*.java" -exec gnome-terminal \-x vim {} \;

root · 2009-02-10 09:38:04 40
"Reset" directories permissions

WARNING! This command may set an invalid permission under your current directory. This command will set the 0755 permissions to all directories under your current directory. An alternative version of this command is: find ~/.ssh -type d -exec chmod 0700 {} \;
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find . -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} \;

osantana · 2009-02-18 14:38:22 7
Find different filetypes in current directory

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```
./script.sh
./file.txt
```
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find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*.sh' -o -name '*.txt'

P17 · 2009-04-20 17:29:13 7
Search for all files that begin with . and delete them.

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```
maggie:~ root# find ~/Desktop/ $ -regex '.*/\..*' $ -print -exec rm -Rf {} \;
~/Desktop/.DS_Store
~/Desktop/.fseventsd
```
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find ~/Desktop/ $ -regex '.*/\..*' $ -print -exec rm -Rf {} \;

unixmonkey4063 · 2009-06-02 19:45:06 8
List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location

Parsing the output of ls is never a good idea for any reason. Using find this way: - works with files that have spaces in their names. - actually lists "sub folders" and not of all files and folders. - does not break if there are a huge number of files in the current directory.
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find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -not -name . -exec du -sh {} +

sorpigal · 2009-12-11 14:37:26 4
sirve para ver la salida de un comando en pantalla y al mismo tiempo guardar la salida en un fichero
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find / -name *.conf | tee salida

dvinchi666 · 2010-01-08 20:53:37 3
Read directory contents recursively

Read all contents from current directory and display to stdout.
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while read f;do echo "$f";done < <(find .)

unixmonkey8504 · 2010-03-02 14:22:22 3
recursively change file name from uppercase to lowercase (or viceversa)
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find . -type d -name '*[A-Z]*' -execdir bash -c '! test -f "$(echo "$0" | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]")"' {} \; -execdir bash -c 'mv "$0" "$(echo "$0" | tr "[:upper:]" "[:lower:]")"' {} \;

ashawley · 2010-04-01 04:35:52 31
replace strings in file names

rename is a great command, but can't get it to work on mac.
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for i in $(find . -name *replaceme*);do mv "$i" "${i//replaceme/withme}"; done

lefnire · 2010-08-19 03:22:15 4
cleaning after python
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find ~ -name "*.pyc" -exec rm {} \;

unixmonkey13217 · 2010-10-22 10:25:30 20
Find only *.doc and *xls files on Windows partition

This command is useful for archiving or extracting Documents and Settings folder, when working in Linux box with Windows partition (dual boot installation). You have to enter into appropriate directory, of course.
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find Documents\ and\ Settings -iregex .+\.doc -or -iregex .+\.xls > office.lst

yababay · 2010-11-04 17:58:52 4
Count a number of files (only files, not dirs) in a directory recursevely

Thanks for the comments Show Sample Output
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```
123
```
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find . -type f | wc -l

moz667 · 2009-03-04 13:18:18 10
renombrar un archivo que inicia con guion

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```
$ ls 
algo.txt -help
$ mv '-help' help.txt
mv: opci?n inv?lida -- h
Pruebe `mv --help' para m?s informaci?n.
$ find . -name "-help" -exec mv {} help.txt \;
$ ls
algo.txt help.txt
```
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find . -name "-help" -exec mv {} help.txt \;

petrohs · 2009-08-06 20:43:30 8
Recursive chmod all files and directories within the current directory

This will handle the case that the filename has spaces or other characters that need to be escaped.
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find . -name "*" -print0 | xargs -0 -I {} chmod 777 {}

aardvark4 · 2010-10-11 19:05:41 3
"Reset" file permissions

WARNING! This command may set an invalid permission under your current directory. This command will set the 0644 permissions to all files under your current directory. An alternative version of this command is: find ~/.ssh -type f -exec chmod 0600 {} \;
This is sample output - yours may be different.
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find . -type f -exec chmod 0644 {} \;

osantana · 2009-02-18 14:36:39 5
Altera texto dentro dos arquivos retornados pelo comando 'find' (find and replacing strings on all files in directory)

Esse comando procura por arquivos php que que iniciem com ' Show Sample Output
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```
$
```
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find ./wp-content/themes/rotce2009/ -name '*.php' -type f | xargs sed -i 's/<? /<?php /g'

anestesya · 2009-12-16 19:01:12 4
Read directory contents recursively

Read all contents from current directory and display it on stdout.
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find . |while read f;do echo "$f";done

unixmonkey8504 · 2010-03-02 14:21:15 7
Execute commands on files found by the find command
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find -iname "MyCProgram.c" -exec md5sum {} \;

techie · 2013-05-09 08:21:18 6
Replace spaces with '_' in filenames

Takes filenames and directory names and replace space to '_'.
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find -depth . | (while read FULLPATH; do BASENAME=`basename "${FULLPATH}"`; DIRNAME=`dirname "${FULLPATH}"`; mv "${DIRNAME}/${BASENAME}" "${DIRNAME}/${BASENAME// /_}"; done)

mohan43u · 2009-03-24 21:04:32 11
Find all files containing a word

Will find all files containing "sample" in the current directory and in the directories below.
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find . -exec grep -l "sample" {} \;

whoami · 2010-01-16 13:12:52 4
Find broken symlinks
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find . -type l | xargs file | grep broken

kineticrick · 2011-04-07 22:58:02 4
Recursive chmod all files and directories within the current directory

sometimes if directories are too deep, chmod -R fails... in those cases, a find comes in most handy :)
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find . -print -exec chmod 777 {} \;

ringlerun · 2009-12-23 13:16:31 7
Recursive chmod all files and directories within the current directory
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find | xargs chmod 777

tsiqueira · 2009-12-23 10:21:58 4
Grep only files matching certain pattern (Advanced)
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find <path> |xargs grep <pattern>

bakhru · 2015-05-30 19:29:25 9
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back ssh from firewalled hosts

host B (you) redirects a modem port (62220) to his local ssh. host A is a remote machine (the ones that issues the ssh cmd). once connected port 5497 is in listening mode on host B. host B just do a ssh 127.0.0.1 -p 5497 -l user and reaches the remote host'ssh. This can be used also for vnc and so on.

DVD ripping with ffmpeg

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Get first Git commit hash

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print text in color red

eg: $printTextInColorRed foo bar foo bar [in red color]

list block devices

Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Installing debian on fedora (chrooted)

Ring the system bell after finishing a long script/compile

This will ring the system bell once if your script exits successfully and twice if it fails. So you can go look at something else and it will alert you when done. Don't forget to use 'xset b [vol [pitch [duration]]]' to get the bell to sound the way you want.

Listing today’s files only

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