find is a command line utility to search for files in a directory hierarchy
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Why don't find and locate search /bin?
What gives? Normal find and locate commands don't turn up the verify program that lives at /bin/verify. In fact, it seems they don't turn up anything that lives in /bin
[jake@jace]/bin% "find" /bin/ ...
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find is missing a result — how is that possible?
What conditions explain this output:
root@ip:/# find / -name "server.xml" -print
/etc/tomcat7/server.xml
root@ip:/# ls /var/lib/tomcat7/conf/server.xml
/var/lib/tomcat7/conf/server.xml
I am ...
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Passing multiple directories to the -prune option in find
I am using find to locate and delete backup files but wish to exclude certain directories from the search. The backup filenames could terminate in .bck, bak, ~, or backup.
The Minimal Working Example ...
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chmod allowing write when I am not setting it
I've got a perl script which systematically changes permissions. The first thing the script does is remove all permissions. It does this by calling chmod(from perl). I did this as I found the set guid ...
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file mass deletion
I would like to delete all the txt, xls,pdf files in a directory as well as its sub directories. I would like to save everything else.
find . -type f ! -iname '*.xml$,.png$,.jpeg$,.gif$,' -delete
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Find command incorrect results with days filter
I am trying to find all files modified before march 6 in a directory with thousands of files.
I executed the following commands in the PWD where I want to find files.
find -mtime +47 > ...
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How to move the files based on Year
I need to move files based on a year. I used the find command
find /media/WD/backup/osool/olddata/ -mtime +470 -exec ls -lrth {} \;|sort -k6
but for this command to successfully execute i need to ...
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Execute multiple bash commands on the output of find
I want to execute some commands using the find -exec option, but I'm not sure what' wrong with this code. Currently, it's only processing the first find result, then getting stuck. I'm using bash in ...
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Delete n minutes old file in solaris
Can some one please tell me how to delete n minutes old files in Solaris? My find does not -mmin option.
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find . .[^.]* -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sudo chmod 664; does not work
I am using this command to set permissions for files recursively
clime@vm6879 /srv/www-php/steeltrading $ find . .[^.]* -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sudo chmod 664
But after executing that command ...
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Use find result without ./
I'm trying to use find to create a bunch of symlinks but using the result with {} includes ./ before each filename. How can I avoid that?
find . -type l -name '*.h' -exec ln -s /sourcedir/{} ...
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Is there a command to list files, exclude sub-directories and display size and date?
Before I begin please assume I have only basic knowledge in UNIX. Basic meaning I have only started reading about it since last week for a work related purpose.
I have been experimenting with the ls ...
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remove duplicate files
On my Mac OS X 10.6.7, iTunes duplicated every single file in my music library. Now I have 3,840 files instead of 1,920. The problem is that iTunes didn't simply duplicate the whole folder, but each ...
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Why is this Bash command using regex not replacing my brackets?
I have this command to go through all my files in my Music directory, and all subdirectories, and replace any square brackets in the file name with rounded brackets:
find /home/Music/ -depth -name "* ...
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How to find files ending with ~ and pyc? [duplicate]
I want to find all files (in current and all subdirectory) which end in'~' or 'pyc'. To do so I have tried the following find pattern:
find . -name '*{~,pyc}'
find . -name '{*~,*.pyc}'
but neither ...
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What is a sure fire way to find all files and/or path that contains 2 keywords?
I was doing a
find . -iname '*sitesearch*' | grep demo
because I know the file should be some/path/SiteSearch/demo/SiteSearch.html, but it turned out a person put the file in as ...
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How to use find to remove *.py~ and *.pyc files at once?
I want to cleanup a directory (and subdirectories) from each occurrance of the .py and .pyc files. I tried the following
find . -name '*pyc' -o -name '*py~' -exec rm -f {} \;
which left out all pyc ...
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Howto find duplicate files on disk
Is it possible to find duplicate files on my disk which are bit to bit identical but have different file-names?
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Wrong behavior of xargs
I was trying to solve this issue using find + xargs but I stuck with another issue
I am try to increasing a count using ((a++)) but not working . I have tried couple of combination of counting a ...
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How to count recursively for the number of files in several directories?
I have a directory, containing a lot of files and directories.
I am trying to get the number of files (and directories) contained recursively in every directory.
I tried the following approach:
for ...
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Find executable files recursively
I have got the directory called Test and a few directories inside it. Both Test and the directories inside it have executable files. I'd like to print them with ls. I'd use this command.
ls -l `find ...
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Copy modified files from one server to other
Scenario:
2 Servers (*.12 and *.13)
CakePHP "application" on both of them.
*.12 is "Production" Server
*.13 is "Development" Server
Now i want to copy all files modified the last 2 days from test ...
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Find all directories, in which user has access to search and echo this directories in shell
I need to find all directories, in which user has access to search(command find) and echo this directories in shell. USER is read from ksh.
for example:
read user
I know, if user want to use find ...
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Script to remove spaces and lowercase in file names
I am trying to write a script that will replace spaces with "-" and make all letters lower case for all files in the current directory.
for x in 'ls'
do
if [ ! -f $x ]; then
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How to run "find -exec <script> {}\;
I have a script that changes the properties of the files for a folder.
Here is the example tree:
dir 1
--file 1
--file 2
--file 3
dir 2
--file 1
--file 2
dir 3
--file 1
...
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What does a question mark in a filename matching pattern mean?
What does the question mark in this command mean?
find . –type d –name "?d*" –print
I tried to to run it without it but didn't notice any change.
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Why is the output of find sorted in Cygwin but not in Solaris?
I wonder why find does not behave in the same way in Solaris as in Cygwin or Linux.
I have a bunch of directories that have files called CS##########. Each # is a digits but there are always 10 ...
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Can this find command be made more compact?
Please look at these two commands:
find ~/{Documents,Desktop,Downloads,Music,Videos} -mmin -120 -type f
and
find . ! -path "*opera*" ! -path "*mozilla*" ! -path "*google-chrome*" -mmin -120 -type f
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How to Calculate the Total size of file searched using Find command
Actually there are tow questions.
First I have to search the files using FIND command that will show only the files for December 2012
And Secondly I need to see the Total size of files searched
I ...
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removing folders with find - strange message
mkdir foodir
find . -iname foodir -exec rm -fr {} \;
It does the job, but barfs message:
find: `./foodir': No such file or directory
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rsync timed out
I need to sync a directory to a directory on a remote server.
at the moment i use rsync -ca to do this but the directory is quite large and the whole process fails with a timeout error.
Now i'm ...
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Quoting curly braces in the shell [duplicate]
I found examples of different quoting for curly braces for find, but I could not find an explanation. The possible choices are:
1. {}
2. '{}'
3. "{}"
And they all seem to work fine. Is ...
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Find directories that do not contain subdirectories
I'm writing script is ksh. Need to find all directory names directly under the current directory which contain only files, not subdirectories.
I know that I could use ls -alR and recursively parse ...
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Only find first few matched files using find?
Say there may be hundreds of *.txt files in a directory. I only want to find the first three *.txt files and then exit the searching process.
How to achieve this using the find utility? I had a quick ...
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find in /sys/class does not show everything, why?
Like every other person I am from time to time compelled to list the directory structure from a certain point int the filesystem. I do so with find /path/in/fs/ and this yields something like:
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A bunch of files have 777 permissions
I have been learning Python and Bash scripting, and I up to now I have given my scripts 777 permissions. Having learned more about how to set permissions, and knowing this is a bad idea, I ran the ...
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Rename files and directories with a special characters on solaris machines
The target of the following code ( commands ) is to rename files/directories and also support files/directories with a special characters as "@" or "." etc
those commands are run fine on Linux ...
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Move all files with a certain extension from multiple subdirectories into one directory
Suppose I have a bunch of zip files in several directories:
Fol1/Fol2
Fol3
Fol4/Fol5
And I want to move them all to a common base folder. How would I do this?
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Exclude directory in find
How can I find every file and directory matching a pattern, excluding one directory using find?
Say I have the following file structure;
.
foo-exclude-me/
foo.txt
foo-exclude-me-not/
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Use a parameter in a command argument
I run a find command to search files with a name containing perl:
find /tmp -name '*perl*'
/tmp/perl.pl
/tmp/run-perl-stage.pl
But when I set the perl name in a variable PARAMETER and run the find ...
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solaris + xargs command for solaris
the command
find /tmp -name 'core*' -type f -print0 | xargs -0
works fine on linux
but "xargs -0" option isnt illegal on solaris
what the equivalent option ( xargs ? ) for solaris 10
second ...
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find command with regex {1,2}
I have been trying to create a find command string that will find all files that end with a number 1-99 but exclude all others.
e.g. I want to find myfile1 myfile99 but not myfile456 and not ...
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How to check Today's Day and Search Files
Problem: I need to find out today's date and search a file which contain's today's date in the name. Also another file which contains Yesterday's date.
I was able to do so by something like:
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Select greatest numbered filename
Simple requirement but can't find anything online which can achieve it.
I have a list of dated files as below...
filename_20120101.dat
filename_20120102.dat
filename_20120103.dat
I ...
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find all cpp files and list only those files with names that match a pattern (regex) does not work
I have a whole repository of files and I am trying to get a list of files that match a certain criteria.
For example, let us say that I want to take all the files that have the string foo1 and ...
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How to print find match as well as run an -exec
I was wanting to run a find and then execute a script on each match; however, I was wanting to print the name of the matched file above the output from each exec. How can I produce the following ...
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Find Directory and copy another directory to found directory?
I'm attempting to find a directory A that could be in a variable location and copy another directory B into the found directory. So, I'd like to find directory A, and copy Directory B into Directory ...
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Remove all Vim undo files in all but one directory
I just realized that I have tons of Vim undo (.un~) files sprinkled around my file system. I'd like to delete all of these files except in one directory—~/.tmp. My first problem is that I can't seem ...
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How to copy a list of files and adjust destination filenames on the fly?
When I don't need to adjust destination filenames I can do something like this:
$ find -type f -name '*.pat' -print0 | xargs -O cp -t /path/to/dest
It is safe because the filenames may even ...
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find flags: -exec rm -rf vs -delete
I thought the flags I mentioned in the question are the same, but I get the following message with the former, but nothing with the latter:
$ find . -mindepth 1 -type d -exec rm -rf {} \;
find: ...
