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find command giving different outputs with/without -print
find src/ -name "*.cc" -o -name "*.cpp" -print
find src/ -name "*.cc" -o -name "*.cpp"
The intended behavior is to find all C++ files in a directory and all its subdirectories. As I understood it, ...
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find all files older than 1 minute
How can I use find to select files that have been written and not modified in the last minute?
I know I can do the other way around, find files modified in the last 60 seconds with -mtime -60s but I ...
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Ubuntu grep, find etc: “Permission denied” and “No such file or directory” output
When I grep or find something I always get annoyed by the "Permission denied" and "No such file or directory" notice, smth like that:
johndoe@johndoe-desktop:/$ grep -rnP 'YII_CORE_PATH' ./ | grep -v ...
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Shell script error using command find
My script is supposed to: recursively look for files and directories whose names contain given strings, using find, starting in the current directory. If no arguments are given the message Missing ...
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How to physically reorder files `03.mp3 01.mp3 02.mp3` (`ls -f`) in a directory?
The physical order of the files matters when I copy them onto my USB stick and listen in car mp3 player. Most of my music album folders are unsorted, e.g. ls -f may produce:
03.song3.mp3
01.song1.mp3
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Auto rename symbolic link
I have a folder which contains many sub-folders which contains many images. I find it tedious to go into each folder to browse the images so I decided to create an empty folder and create symbolic ...
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system-independent find following symbolic links?
I want to use the 'find' command and have it follow symbolic links. However, I need to call the command from other code (IDL, which doesn't have very nice built-in file searching) on both a RedHat ...
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How to compress all directories that weren't used in the last month?
How can I compress all the directories that do not contain at least one file used in the last month?
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Excel find and replace from three columns [closed]
Please consider the following three columns:
OLD-REP OLD NEW
1 1 2
2 2 3
2 3 4
2 4 5
2 5 6
2 ...
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Unix pipe: find | ln -s
I'm trying to symlink some php files using the following command:
find `pwd` -name "*.php" | ln -s * /home/frankv/www/bietroboter.de/symlinks
However, all the symlinks are broken because the little ...
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How to delete a file after processing
I am using mp3splt to split all the .mp3 files under a directory, including subdirectories, into 30 minute slices.
find -name *.mp3 -print0 | xargs -0 mp3splt -t 30.00 -o @f_@m@s
What is the best ...
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Bash Find Files with zero size and delete files with different extensions
This command will find files of zero size:
find . -size 0
A filename returned might be
filename.001
I am looking for a one liner that will delete files found with this, plus any that have the ...
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why don't ls -lrt `find .` and find . -exec ls -lrt {} \+ produce the same output?
I'm trying to sort files by date, including those that reside in subdirectories. I got it to work by using:
find . -exec ls -lrt {} \+
which I found somewhere on StackOverflow. My initial try was ...
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How can I find a particular file without extension in Linux?
I've wondered recently if there is any way to look for archives|pics|media in Linux dirs?
I can do it using the find command like this:
find ./ -iname "*.tar"
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find ./ -regex ...
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Search text in list of files
I'm trying to execute double search within files and return file names.
I'm using
find ./ -iname '*txt' | xargs grep "searchtext" -sl
to find file names with 'searchtext' in them.
Command is ...
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Is the 'find' utility on Windows 7 different than the one on Windows XP?
I have a batch script that I created which works fine on Windows XP but faults on Windows 7.
The script basically finds out what the OS is.
wmic os get | find "Windows XP">nul
if %ERRORLEVEL% ...
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Create symlinks recursively for a whole tree
I am seeking for a command that would re-create a whole tree of files in a different directory. I would prefer to have all symlinks absolute. Can I do that with a find and xargs? ;-)
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Textmate: regular expression to replace matches preserving case?
How can I use a single search / replace to replace all words town with village preserving the case of the first letter in this sentence:
Towns are small cities. I live in a town.
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Mounting a binary/shell file that returns files modified in the past x days
I know that you can find files in a path and sub directories modified in the past week with:
find -L /somepath -mtime -5 -type f
I could assign that to a job and have it run every night to create ...
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How to find faster in linux
I have some directory with funny character such as ^M at their back. They were created accidentally and I want to delete them.
I list the directories by ls -iql and wrote down their inode number, ...
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Linux find and grep for files not match pattern
I'm trying to search the entire file system for specific text. This command does that but it gets hung up in certain directories like '/proc':
find / -print0|xargs -0 grep whatever
What I'd like ...
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How do I find a directory when I'm connected through SSH?
I am inside the home directory of a Linux machine (which I logged into using Putty).
From there on I need to find a folder named my-web1.0.
Is there any way to go know the path of that directory ...
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unix find command regex
I want to search file name with regex, and the grep it using regex. I tried this:
find . -name co_on*eruo* | xargs grep '0LF2C Comdty(.*)20111022(.*)'
But it doesn't work. What am I doing ...
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File name with spaces piped to two xargs commands
I have a directory and many more subdirectories like the following -
file with spaces.txt
filewithsuperlonglines.txt
ordinaryfile.txt
binaryfile.bin
The command -
find . -type f -print0 | ...
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Chrome extension for highlight+find prepopulate?
I switched from Firefox to Chrome as my go-to browser some months ago and there is one piece of functionality that still pesters me. Seems trivial/ignorable but this one is driving me nuts little by ...
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Find files in Mac OS X by permissions setting?
I recently needed to restore my Mac (10.6.8 v1.1) from a backup and while the machine is stable and intact, a scattering of files have incorrect permissions in my user account which is interfering ...
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“find | grep | awk” fails miserabily
I'm scanning for all shell scripts on my server, and are doing this by the following command:
find / -type f -exec file --mime-type {} \; | grep "text/x-shellscript"
This is working fine, and here ...
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Use “find” command to list files IN specified directory
I'm putting together a perl script, and I'm using the following command to list all files and directories under a specified directory
`find $dir -print`
This lists all files and directories UNDER ...
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How to find files that don't belong to a given user
How do I recursively search for all files or directories that do not belong to given user?
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How can I speed up a selective deep copy command in unix?
I am (ab?)using the unix 'find' command to recursively export files from a directory tree that is littered with .svn directories. This command takes a long time to run. Is there a faster way to ...
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How do I check which recovered files are valid?
I have a lot of recovered files of which many are invalid even though they appear to be ok by name and extension. This is expected.
Now I to need filter out those which are probably ok. I see to ...
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Alias find to ignore “permission denied” errors
When you run the find command on files you don't have permissions for, you get annoying "Permission denied" errors which clutter the output.
Wikipedia suggests the following fix:
If you're doing ...
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Searching for *.graphml files with the find utility
I am trying to find all my GRAPHML files under the current directory in bash. So I ran the following command:
find . -name *.graphml
And I get the error message:
find: paths must precede ...
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find with exec : how to perform multistep conditional action on each file
I have bunch of php files in directory structure say /mylibs
I want to run a simple php -l $file on each php file which checks for syntax errors
find /mylibs -type f -iname "*.php" -exec php -l {} ...
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Faster alternatives to “find” and “locate”?
I will like to use "find" and locate" to search for source files in my project, but they take a long time to run. Are there faster alternatives to these programs I don't know about, or ways to speed ...
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Why is it so hard to find a file in Ubuntu?
It's very hard to find files in Ubuntu. In Windows you could just go to C:\Program Files and you would find what you need. In Ubuntu you must use search to find something you need. Maybe I am ...
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find xargs and curl give an error with -C- option
This command works fine
find ~/mypath -name *.fstq -print|xargs curl -u sdd:dsdsd ftp://ftp.dsdd.nsdh.com/sdsds/ -T
but when I add
find ~/mypath -name *.fstq -print|xargs curl -C- -u sdd:dsdsd ...
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find specific files using “find” command only in top directory
I got one probably silly question:
I'm working on remote server under Solaris using ssh and my task is to find specific files in directories matching shell pattern but not go recursively deeper.
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Invoking vi through find | xargs breaks my terminal. Why?
When invoking vim through find | xargs, like this:
find . -name "*.txt" | xargs vim
you get a warning about
Input is not from a terminal
and a terminal with pretty much broken behaviour ...
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Linux: How can I edit all the files returned by find in vi?
Something I find myself doing a lot is running a find command and then editing all of them in vi, which looks something like this:
> find . "*.txt"
./file1.txt
./file2.txt
./path/to/file3.txt
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How do I run this `find` command, but only on non-binary files?
I want to remove trailing whitespace from all the files in a recursive directory hierarchy. I use this:
find * -type f -exec sed 's/[ \t]*$//' -i {} \;
This works, but will also remove trailing ...
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Find all files that are NOT of a specific type/extension in folder?
Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit:
I'm looking for a way to find all the files in a directory that are NOT of a specific file type or extension.
Example: I'd like to find every file that isn't an .mp3 in my ...
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How do you search for specific text in specific file types? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I grep in source files for some text?
What's the command to search for specific text in specific file types, recursively, under the current directory?
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Can I simulate ack by using grep with the right combination of options?
I have ack-grep installed on my local machine, and find it indispensable for quickly 'acking' through a codebase when debugging.
However, on my cheap shared hosting, there is no ack-grep. One of the ...
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Is it possible to find a printer's physical location in a building by its IP adress?
I am in a school with probably 200+ computers and I did an IP scan among a certain range and found three or four printers. I was wondering if it would be possible to find these printers in the school, ...
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DOS Batch file to find “new” files by date
My PC has entered an infinite BSOD loop - but I do have access to a safe-mode command prompt.
I'm trying to get an idea of "what changed" that might have triggered this. e.g. I might have gotten a ...
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GNU find: Disable the error when 'find' finds no matches
I've got a setup where I need to use 'find' to find 0 or more files in a certain directory, however, 'find' always produces an error when there are no files that match a certain check. Is it possible ...
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How can I determine whether different commands using grep, find and xargs do the same thing?
Do these three commands do the same thing?
A command that uses grep.
grep "a" -r .
A command that uses find.
find . -exec grep "a" {} \;
A command that uses a grep on a find through xargs.
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find and replace text in multiple files (windows 7)
I’m hoping someone might lend their time in helping me create a batch file or similar for finding and replacing text in several files.
I have tried many “search and replace” utilities but have not ...
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Finding files based on date, without using `find`
I know find can do what I am looking for, but I am wondering if there is an alternative way to find files on the filesystem either created before/after a certain point, or at a certain time.
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