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The find command in Windows systems is used to filter lines of input text, and return those matching the filter. The find command in *nix system is used to locate files or folders that match a certain criteria.

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Using wildcard in unix find command's path

This command with a * in the find path works fine on the local server Svr1$ find /path/*/foo/ -name "*20160208" When I try this remotely from another server it doesn't work Svr2$ echo $Pswd|ssh ...
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Unix find not working with a wildcard in the path when ssh'ing

This command with a * in the find path works fine on the local server Svr1$ find /path/*/foo/ -name "*20160208" When I try this remotely from another server it doesn't work Svr2$ ssh Svr1 find '/...
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Windows 7 - Find all files that are alone in a folder

I need to find a way to select all files that are alone in their folders, so I can cut and paste them someplace else. All respective folders are inside one main root folder. Is there a command prompt, ...
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Looping through wildcard folders and executing multiple commands in Bash

I have a set of commands to change the contents of files called MenuSettings which work fine when directed to a folder. cd /Applications/snowflake/table-updater/Testing/Applications/Salford_100 sed ...
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Is it possible to suspend/restart a 'find' command?

Let's say I have a slow filesystem in which I would like to list all the files: find . -type f -printf "%p\n" Is it possible to launch this command in a way I can interrupt it, save the state and ...
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Quote a command for `find -execdir test [command]` (Bash)

I would like to execute following command to do git fetch in git repos if the have a remote (= git remote is non-empty): find -name .git -execdir test $(git remote) \; -execdir git fetch ...
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Use of the "OR" Regex operator with the find command

There are so many of these questions on the net, but I was unable to solve this simple problem. I have a directory with a lot of images, but I only want to copy a subset of them identified by ranges ...
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is it possible to search case insensitive search using command line [windows 7]

I use grep -f d.txt OB.txt > r.txt to get the result file. But the search is case sensitive. Is there any case insensitive alternative to this?
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windows 8 find files modified in last hour

In windows 8 I am trying to find files modified in the last hour. After reading these two links I thought I could do this. System.DateModified:YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss So I tried System.DateModified:>...
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How do I find directories with a question mark in the name? Escaping not working?

I am try to find directories like services-client?.git using the command find . -name *\?.git but get all directories ending in .git What I'm doing is downloading a file from amazon s3 and in ...
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Delete files if condition is met

I have the following directory tree: /Directories/ /Directories/somedir/somefile.mkv /Directories/somefile.rar I'm trying to find a way to delete the .rar file if the .mkv file exists and is larger ...
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compare and calculate two variables with multiple values in shell script

I have written three hive queries in shell script for calculating debit-credit and target amounts which output below values: debit_amount : BOI 4760545.650000 AXIS 284.49000000 SBI 87.220000000 ...
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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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Use the same "find bar" in all tabs in Firefox

Before, the "find bar" (what you get by pressing ctrl-F) was the same for all tabs. But now it is separate per tab. That is, if I write a word (e.g., "hello") in the bar, I go to another tab and I ...
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find command and support for media metadata

I have a folder with tons of disorganized files of all types with deep levels of subfolders and I want to find every audio file WITH 320kpbs (bitrate) and run something upon each of them without ...
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Find "mystring" in files and return only certain portion of matching lines

I have below command to list out every file in current directory and it's sub-directories containing "mystring" along with the line where search string match is found. @echo off setlocal findstr /s ...
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Excel FIND.VERT with partial text in a keyword table

I need a particular function and I think that it doesn't exists in standard Excel and probably I need a custom VBA function. This function should do something like FIND.VERT but with particlular ...
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Unix find -size -1G ignore files which were returned by find -size -900M? [duplicate]

I need to tar-gzip files below a certain size in a directory. I tried the command suggested from this post and it works, but when I changed the argument for find -size to -1G, it ignores some files ...
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A better way to search for a string within a file?

I am trying to find a particular string of text in a file somewhere on my hard drive. The best I have come up with so far is: find -type f / | xargs cat | grep "string to find" But this just tells ...
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Find | grep doesn't work in Cygwin

I have cygwin installed and when I search for the source code with this command nothing show up, even that I have that string in a file $ echo foo > bar $ find . -name '*' | grep foo Nothing ...
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Linux find files that differ from a given date

i would like to search for file that has not a give date. for example i want to find in my server all file created before 2015-12-01 o after any suggestion ? thanks luca refer also to Command to ...
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How do you search for strings in a file which in turn is in an archive?

I can search through a number of files for a particular string by pipelining 'grep' and 'find' commands. Now, I have some 10 zip files each of which has archived a lot of text files. Is there any ...
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How to purge all tabs for spaces in all C files in a directory?

I'm trying to fix the style in a directory of about 60 .c and .h files. This can be taken in steps (e.g. I don't have to figure out find and vim script syntax at the same time), but ultimately I want ...
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Using find or grep to locate filenames with accented characters from a different encoding system (Windows to Linux)

I tried to tag late onto a question similar to mine on stackoverflow (Find Non-UTF8 Filenames on Linux File System) to elicit further replies, with no luck so far, so here goes again... I have the ...
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remove pattern with random numbers (digits) from php files

I am trying to remove or replace the digits ((random numbers)) in big numbers of php files using find & xargs and grep with sed etc .. the numbers looks like that inside the php file /web/...
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Use rsync to copy all files except for certain filenames with a certain extension

I have two same-size flash cards, and I want to copy contents of one to the other based on the following rules: I want all directories and subdirectories in place I want to exclude files of type .FOO,...
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Discrepancy finding and counting all files on the system

I have been researching the different methods of counting up all files on my system. In my case, I want all the files starting at / and going into subfolders. Here is what I have come up with so far: ...
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how to move files that contain string using find, xargs, grep, in linux

i have many php files maybe over Three million.. how can i use grep with xargs and find with mv to find contain the string in files and move them to directory if they match. I try like that find . -...
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Why the find cmd is not working inside /sys/class?

I was looking for this file: /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness So I tried searching for it using this cmd: sudo find /sys -name "brightness" But it doesn't find it. I can go in the ...
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Powershell to find value and create file

I am new to powershell, was hoping for some help. I am looking for a powershell command that will search through a file and find a string and create a file based on that string value that is found. ...
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Renaming files fetched via “wget --mirror” in Bash before uploading to an Amazon S3 statically hosted area

I’m trying to archive and upload an old website to statically hosted Amazon S3 area. I was able to get the contents with wget, using the following command: wget --mirror --no-parent --html-extension ...
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How to remove files using find's multiple -name parameter?

How to remove files, containing tilde in the filename or extension, recursively? For example, files of the vim, with the names like .my_file.c.un~? I'm using this find sequence for that: find . -...
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How to use the find command such that it matches from the innermost directory?

Say that I have the following file this/is/my/file.txt Can I search this file given that I only know the file is in /my/ directory ?
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Regular Expression notepad++ deleate comments in ( )

I am currently working with notepad++ and would like to deleate text between brackets togeather with the brackets themselves! I would like to use a regular expression. Example: (thisIsAnExample) ...
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Pruning the Find command

I have the following command I run to grab all users in /Users minus any admin account, guest, shared or beginning with a "." find /Users -type d -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 ! -name admin ! -name Shared ...
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understanding some flags in find-command in linux

I wanted to move only files in Linux and I found the answer here as the following: find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec mv {} destination_path \; which worked for me perfectly. But my questions are: ...
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linux find command to keep only .h files

I have a source tree have lots files with different file types. The source tree has many sub folders. How do i keep the folder structure of the source tree and delete all files besides .h files?
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confuse about find - print and prune option (unix)

compa> find . -type d . ./2015_08_30 ./2015_08_25 ./2015_08_27 ./2015_08_31 ./2015_08_24 ./2015_08_26 compa> find . -type d -print . ./2015_08_30 ./2015_08_25 ./2015_08_27 ./2015_08_31 ./...
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Copy matches of recursive search to a new location

I want to search a directory recursively and copy all XML files to a new location. I can identify the files with: ls -R | grep .xml$ or with full paths with: find . -name \*.xml Results of normal ...
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copy files to other folder - find

I have to copy files to folder with name with their type using command 'find'. There are a lot of files with a lot of folders. I tried command: find ./find -type f -exec bash -c ' file -b "$1"|cut -d ...
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The correct way to use find prune

Facing the same problem as Why doesn't 'find' prune the way I think it should?, but that accepted answer doesn't work for me: Here are my files: $ find . . ./resources ./resources/...
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Trying to create a shell script to move all files with a certain year in their name to a year based directory

Here is the block of code that I have so far. No matter what I do with the find command, I can't seem to get it to function as I want. Trying to move all files with these long year names into their ...
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How to grep in Windows for for eval code?

I have written this code in Linux, How can I achieve the same in Windows server ? find "dirname" -name "*.php" -exec grep -PHl "(eval\(.*\);)" {} \; Basically I want to find out this pattern ...
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How can I find a particular named file within a particular named directory that could be anywhere in file system?

I am trying to find a file within a directory where both the name of the file and the name of the directory are known. For example, say I want to find "...don't know this part of file path stem).../...
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Finding php files that have numbers in the filename

Can someone help me with a command line to find all .php files on a server with a number in the filename? I have searched, as best I can, for other answers, but they typically show for a specific ...
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Start text search from focus point in chrome

In chrome, when I start typing for a text search, it searches from the beginning of the document rather than from where I am looking in the document. Is there a way to do the latter? (currently I have ...
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Why does the behaviour of find(1) differ when explicitly adding -print?

The man page for find(1) says: If the expression contains no actions other than -prune, -print is performed on all files for which the expression is true. However, there seems to be a ...
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Find files to find multiple instances of the same code with Notepad++

I might have inserted <meta charset="UTF-8"> twice in some HTML files, and there are too many of them to check manually. Is there a regular expression I can use with Notepad++ to search for ...
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How can I use sed to alter the results of find and pass the results to cp?

In solaris, I'd like to copy all files found by the find command to a slightly different path. The following script basically executes cp for each file found by find. For example: cp ./content/...
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find certain item of a file by using command line tool in windows 7

recently I used findstr "ItemThatIsBeeingSearchedFor" C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts > J:\documents\HostsFile\ResultOfSearch.txt in order to output a certain entry of the hosts file into ...

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