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Linux “find -regex” doesn't handle binding
I have the following files, and need to match them like:
./foo.bar1.sh -match
./qux/foo.bar2.sh -match
./foo.sh -match
./baz.sh -no match
./foo.bar3 -no ...
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How can I retain grep's match highlighting when piping find into grep?
If I run grep foo bar.txt, grep highlights each occurrence of "foo" in bar.txt. But sometimes I want to use find to determine which files grep searches. So I do something like this:
find . -iname ...
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How can I avoid descending certain directories with 'find'?
Currently I have this find command which avoids descending particular directories:
find . \! \( -name ".hg" -prune \) \! \( -name "localhost" -prune \) \! \( -name "logs" -prune \) -type f
The ...
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Why does Find in Excel give unexpected results?
I would like to find all cells containing the number 18 in an Excel 2007 worksheet where the numbers are in a column with entries in General format (both numbers and strings).
When I use the Find ...
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Can't find the path to proxy.pac file in OS X
I need to control my proxy.pac file in OS X, but I couldn't find it anywhere.
I used
whereis proxy.pac
from terminal too — the whole story short: I want to find the path to a file in Mac OSX.
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Finding sub-directories inside directories with same name using find and xargs [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Finding subdirectories inside all directories with the same name
I want to run a command line to achieve following 3 steps:
find all directories named "inc" under a ...
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Finding subdirectories inside all directories with the same name
I want to run a command to:
Find all directories named "inc" under a folder "X".
List all the subdirectories under each "X/.../inc/".
Redirect the output to a file named "list"
I tried various ...
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Find and move hidden files from sub-directories with batch file not working
I'm trying to use this batch file to find and move files... but it does not work on hidden files.
What's missing?
@echo off
setlocal
set root=E:\backup
set dest=E:\Tmp
for /f "delims=" %%f in ('dir ...
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Only output part after last “/” with find
This command:
find ./ -name "mybinaryrpm-1.0.24-1.1.i586.rpm"
gives the output:
./DirectoryName/SubDirectory/mybinaryrpm-1.0.24-1.1.i586.rpm
but I only want the output:
...
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How can I clear the contents of every file in a subdirectory without changing ownership / permissions?
I can find the list of files using something like:
find /path/to/files -type f
And I can clear the contents of a single file with any of:
> filename
echo -n > filename
cat /dev/null > ...
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Using `find` for multiple file extensions
I am using the following command for counting the lines of text in JAVA files:
find . -name '*.java' | xargs wc -l
How can I modify the find command parameters to match more than one file ...
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Using find -mmin to find files with modification time in the future
I can use
find . -mmin -5
to find files changed in last 5 minutes. However if I try to find files with modification time in the future by giving negative number find refuses to do it:
find . -mmin ...
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recursively delete but keep .gitignore file
I've been trying out several methods from SU but I have been unable to do this:
I got a folder (example: /var/www/tmp/) which contains several files and directories. I'd like to delete all the files ...
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Find and replace Notepad++
I have some URL like the following
http://www.SOMEURL.com/first-category/1343381-example-text-text-text-text-2000-a.html
What i want is to simple delete all of the text before and after the number ...
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Generate a files list and truncate it in 2 list of X Mb of files each
I need to generate a list of all files in a certain dir, and truncate it in X lists containing each one a fixed amount of data of files.
E.g.
I have 95 Gb of data.
generate the file list ...
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grep doesn't produce the correct output when run on find command
My task was to print the number of files in the current directory without using ls and wc commands.
I had typed the following lines in the script:
#!/bin/bash
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f \( ! -iname ...
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Search all files containing text
With Busybox, how do you search for an expression within a bunch of files recursively through a bunch of directories, but only look through text files?
We don't know what the file's suffix is going ...
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How to use command “find” to list files with specific filename length?
In my folder I got files like
/data/filename.log
/data/filename.log.1
/data/filename.log.2
/data/filenamefilenamefilename.log
/data/filenamefilenamefilename.log.2
I wish to use "find" command to ...
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Subshell arguments in -exec parameter for find(1)
Why doesn't
find . -type f -exec echo $(file={}; echo ${file:0:5}) \;
give the first five characters of the file, while this works:
find . -type f -exec bash -c 'echo ${1:0:5}' funcname {} \;
...
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escape file and directory names from find
How can I escape spaces and other symbols from the results of a find command? For example, this doesn't work if there are spaces and other symbols in the results:
find -maxdepth 5 -type d -print | ...
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How do I parse the output of the find command when filenames have spaces in them?
Using a loop such as
for i in `find . -name \*.txt`
will break if some filenames have spaces in them.
What technique can I use to avoid this problem?
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Using find command to list top 5 image files by size
All,
I want to list the top 5 image files (png,jpg) in a given folder.What's the best approach?
I'm using the following currently but it doesn't give the right output:
find . \( -iname \*.png -o ...
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BASH: Adding existing filecontent to an existing file
I've to add the content of a file to the end of every prefs.js file.
Tried it with find -name 'prefs.js' -exec more filecontent >> '{}' \; but it didn't work.
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What `find` command deletes everything in a directory except for CVS folders?
I have a dir:
$ tree
.
|-- CVS
| |-- Entries
| |-- Entries.Log
| |-- Repository
| `-- Root
|-- dirA
| |-- CVS
| | |-- Entries
| | |-- Repository
| | `-- Root
| |-- file1
| ...
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ls link count seems incorrect - how do I ensure I'm not deleting the inode contents?
ls -lai on a file gives me a link count of 2:
16508 -rw-rw-rw- 2 ...
Then looking for all the filenames returns only one:
find "$dir" -inum 16508
This lists only the original file, not two. ...
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How to find files, print some standard info about those files, plus print the alpha char count of each filename?
I want something like this:
find "$dir" -type f -printf '%i:<alpha_char_count_of_base_filename>:%d:%p\n'
Then I want to sort first on inode number, then on alpha_char_count_of_base_filename. ...
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Speeding up file search with a shell
Do you know any way to speed up file searching with a shell?
There is a lot of possibilities: find, which, whereis, ...
find seems to be the most useful, but it's very slow. Perhaps, I don't know ...
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Equivalent of unix find command on windows
What is the equivalent of unix find command on windows? I see that the "find" on windows is more like a grep. I am especially interested in the equivalent of "find . -name [filename]".
Many thanks in ...
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How can I search a file by its name and partial path?
Often I have a file name and it's partial path, e.g. "content/docs/file.xml".
Is there a simple way to search for that file, without manually cutting into parts its name to provide directory name ...
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How to use *nix find command to search for specific files with regular expression
In my centOS there is a lot of log files in my folder /log
/log/log.20120308
/log/log.20120308.1
/log/log.20120308.2
/log/log.20120308.3
/log/log.20120308.error
/log/log.20120308.error.1
Apparently ...
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find files with ACLs set
How can I find all files with some extended ACLs set, i.e. those with a little + at the end of the permission flags shown by ls -l.
I could not find a corresponding flag for find. My naive approach ...
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Is there a browser extension for any browser that allows two “finds” in the page with different highlighting colours?
With most apps including browsers there is a "Find" function for searching for text in the current document. All instances of matching text are highlighted to make them easy to see.
But sometimes you ...
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How to ignore certain filenames using “find”?
One of my favorite BASH commands is:
find . -name '*.*' -exec grep 'SearchString' {} /dev/null \;
which searches the contents of all of the files at and below the current directory for the ...
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how to limit find command's output used with option -print0
I'd like to limit output of find command. In the past I used to use for this ls command, e.g:
ls *tgz|head -100|xargs -i mv "{}" ../
but I got to know that the result may be unpredictable if name ...
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Flatten a folder structure to a file name in Bash
I'm trying to convert files from this structure:
foldera/folderb/filec.png
to:
foldera_folderb_filec.png
I'm halfway there:
find . -type f -name "*.png" | sed 's@^./@@g;s@/@-@g'
which ...
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How to find candidates of file duplicates based on a similarity of their names?
I am not searching similar images or photos (imagedupe) nor audio files!
I have a lot of media data here and I want to spot duplicates based on their file name. I know that there is fdupes, etc. but ...
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How to filter files with specific permissions or attributes while running ls?
For example, if I only want the files that have the permission g+s while running ls, how could I do this?
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How to find all files recursively except those in a certain directory
How can I find all files in a directory recursively, except those in the .git directory?
I tried the folowing: find . \! -name ".*" but that didn't work.
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'find' in linux supress the 'no such file or directory'
i'm new to linux.
I did RTMP. I am trying to find a directory with this command
find /users/dan/ -name 'Prams' -type d
I see a huge amount of 'No such file or directory' outputs. Is there a way ...
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Find/SED keeps ignoring some hidden files
Is there a way to ensure find/sed include hidden files during processing?
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Why is find exec grep > file an Infinite Loop?
I was trying to collect all of the Message-ID: headers (lines) in a directory with 200K .eml (plain text) files. A bit naively, I said:
find -type f -exec grep -Fi "message-id:" {} \; > ...
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How do I make “find” only match files in specific sub-directories
I'm using bash for Mac OS X 10.6.8.
Using the find command, I would like to search for files that match *.XML. However, I would like to match only those files in the 16xxxx sub-directory and not ...
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How can I use the find command to remove directories without eliminating certain subdirectories?
I am trying to modify the following command in a script that removes directories based on age.
Example directories would be the following:
/a/b/c/2011/11/11
/a/b/c/2011/11/11/12-ACD-1234
...
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List all files in a directory matching a string and copy output
I'm trying to create a series of playlists on my MP3 player, running Rockbox, by finding a file matching a string, using find /cygdrive/g/MUSIC -type f -name "Search Criteria" | ...
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Why does $ find -delete not work sometimes?
I think what I'm talking about is this part of the manpage, which is just barely too indecipherable for me:
-delete
... It will not attempt to delete a filename with a ``/'' character in its
...
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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
...
