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How do I make “find” exclude the folder it searches in?

I'm running the following command: find /var/www/html/content/processing -type d -mtime +1 -exec rm -rf {} \; I would like to delete all the folders under the processing folder (the processing ...
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Using find with -exec gzip and grep

I have a bunch of zipped up log files and I want to search them all for a string. I tried this but it's not working: find ./ -name "*.log.zip" -exec gzip -dc {} | grep ERROR \; It's giving me: ...
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Using find, xargs, etc. to output similarly named files

I have a folder full of HTML files: 001.htm 002.htm 003.htm … I want to run Pandoc on them to convert them to similarly named Markdown files: 001.md 002.md 003.md This command works on one of ...
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find -print0 | xargs -0 grep not working as expected on Ubuntu 10.04

I've got a bit of a weird issue. If I run: find . -iname '*.php' -o -iname '*.pl' -o -iname '*.html' | xargs grep -i users I get a load of errors for filenames containing spaces, but also some ...
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using find command to find string that is not at the beggining or end of a line

So I know how to find strings in a filename that are at the end or the beginning of the line using the asterisk character accordingly. Problem is I can't find a way to find a string anywhere in the ...
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Using “find” on mac doesn't locate .so files

For some reason "find" doesn't locate .so files unless they're in the same directory I'm in. For example: r-mbp:~ todd.r$ cd /usr/local/apache/modules/ r-mbp:modules todd.r$ ls httpd.exp libphp5.so ...
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FIND operands and order of arguments

I have a find command that I am unsure if I am placing my arguments correctly. find / -xdev -size -size -262144000c -o -type d \( -name .snapshot -o -name man -o -name Man -o -fstype mvfs \) -prune ...
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How to find files on Linux where only root has read permission

I want to find files in some folder like /home/mike/www/test where only root has read permissions and not any other user. EDIT: I have the sudo and permission but I want to list all files where only ...
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is there an 'upwards' find?

I found I asked this question on the wrong stackexchange site. To find files starting from a certain path, I can use find <path> .... If I want to find 'upwards', i.e. in the parent directory, ...
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How do I create a soft link to all executables in a different directory?

I am trying to create soft links to mingw's binaries in cygwin. So far I have: find /cygdrive/c/MinGW/bin/ -name "*.exe" -exec ln -s {} basename {} \; but I get: ln: target ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Execute command inside first directory of each matched result

I am working at a client who has a project where code is a mixture of different source control systems. So a layout might be like this project/a/.svn /a/subfolder/.svn /b/.hg ...
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Linux: use find to find text files?

Is there a way to specify to find that I only want text files (and not binary files)? Grep has an option to exclude binary files, so I thought find probably has a similar feature, but I've been unable ...
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Linux command to find files changed in last n seconds

Linux command to find files changed in last n seconds. Please suggest shell script,that we can run from cli or command.
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Confusion about using fractional +n, -n or n in find options -amin, -atime, -cmin, -ctime

I am not sure if I understood the way find ignores the fractional part when using one of these predicates to find. For e.g. I used $ find . -ctime .2 # files status changed exactly 4.8 hours ago ? $ ...
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Single quotes and variables inside a bourne shell

I have this command that I'm trying to execute in the bourne shell for Solaris 9. find ${DATADIR} -name "check_*" -type f -exec sh -c '$0 | ${PARSEDATA}' {} \; >> ${TMP_1} My problem is, the ...
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list files in specific directories older than 1 day or 24 hours

I am trying to write a simple back up script in python where I try to list the files that are 24 hours old in specific directories that I would choose. I read the manual of find and used find . ...
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Delete all empty folders, even with .svn folders in it

I'm trying to delete all empty folders within a directory. However, find . -type f -empty does not find anything because every folder contains a hidden .svn folder. How can I work around this?
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Exclude/Include files from unix find command based on program

I'm wondering if there is any way to include or exclude files from the results of find(1) based on the output or exit code of another program. Specifically I'd like to be able to run find(1) such ...
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find files within a specific directory structure but a variable parent directory structure

I want to use the find command in linux to find a specific file nested within a specific directory structure, say dir1/dir2/reqdfile. But this directory structure can itself be nested within any ...
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find with xargs

cat fileNames.txt | xargs find . -name I expect the above command to find the path of every fileName in fileNames.txt, but this command produces no output. Why?
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Bash: Find folders with less than x files

How would I go about finding all the folders in a directory than contain less than x number of .flac files?
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Delete matching files in all subdirectories

How can I remove all .swp files in all of my subdirectories under Linux?
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GNU find with -exec rm removes matches, then complains they don't exist

I have a /domains directory in which I have entries such as theawesomesite.com 0.2.v.theawesomesite.com 0.3.v.theawesomesite.com And after testing 0.3, I'll set the main domain to alias the new ...
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How to chmod 755 all directories but no file (recursively)?

How to chmod 755 all directories but no file (recursively) ? Inversely, how to chmod only files (recursively) but no directory ?
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How can I restrict find to only search specific sub-directories?

I am using find in a Bash script. How can I modify that code to include a specific directory under 'bin' , ie './bin/php/' (while still ignoring all other sub-directories of 'bin')? Current code: ...