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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Grep, find line with minimum x words
Is there a way to find all lines with grep, that contains at least x words?
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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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If an Excel row contains particular words, return that row, highlight that row, or give Y/N for that row
I have a sheet containing thousands of cells in a column. These cell contains names of different securities.
Some names of these securities contains a particular string such as "C/O".
How can I use ...
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count files in a list of directories
I have file with a list of directories that I would like to know how many files are in each directory.
.../images/idsuffix/userids/
This will give me the count of files and directories for ...
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how do I write find expression (atime = ctime) (access time = change time).
I want to find a set of files to remove that have not been access since their last inode change. Files in which the last activity happened when they were moved into the directory they are currently ...
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Find vs Findstr results
Per this answer I was attempting to use findstr to locate a string (a name) inside some HL7 log files in a directory. Findstr was getting 0 results, but Find returned plenty. I played around with ...
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Using find and sed to rename several subfolders
What I am trying to do is rename folders that are anywhere in the current tree, not neccessarily directly in the working directory. What I need to do is:
"A 1" becomes "A 01"
"A 2" becomes "A 02"
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Compare lists in excel [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Extract values from a range that are missing from another
I have two vertical lists. I need to compare the two with each other and get the names that are NOT included in ...
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How to search for ? (question mark) in Excel
When I try to find the question mark character (?) in an Excel sheet, Excel cannot locate the cells containing them. How can I search for ? in Excel?
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'find' is not recognized as an internal or external command operable program or batch file
I am getting this error when I use the FIND function in a nested FOR loop and IF statements in a batch file.
'find' is not recognized as an internal or external command operable program or batch ...
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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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find command behaviour when matching names without quotes
I was looking for differences in the find command with double quotes and without quotes.
I found something odd. I have two files:
xWrapper.java
YWrapper.java
and some in the pattern ...
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Unix/Linux: recursively search for files containing a string [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to Combine find and grep for a complex search? ( GNU/linux, find, grep )
I have a directory hierarchy of files (some of which are plaintext and others are binary).
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Show files from terminal command results in Finder
I can find original files in a directory (as opposed to hard links) in Terminal with
find ./ -type f -links 1 -name file2find
How can I view the results in a single Finder window?
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“find” command weird behavior, return different result on same command
I encountered a strange thing with linux find command today.
/path/to/folder/ is a network mount with about 900 subdirectories.
Each time I run find . -type d while in that directory I get a ...
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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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Find out where $PATH is defined
I recently installed an Arch-Linux System. If I type
echo $PATH
it points (among others) to a directory inside my /home/user/dir I can remember I set up somewhere. I have it as root user also, so ...
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Exclude all hidden directories in UNIX find
I'm doing a word search using the following command:
find . -exec grep -q [some_word] '{}' \; -print -o -name .svn -prune -o -name .ssh -prune -o -name .boneyard -o -name log -prune -prune -o -name ...
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Find directories with all files inside older than X?
Is it possible on linux to find directories where all contained files and directories (and sub-directories' files etc.) are older than a given age? In other words, if a directory has one or more files ...
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Grep all files in a directory and print matches with filename
I have a list of log files that I create as part of a video encoding script that I wrote.
I would like to search all of them and print out certain statistics from the encode - how fast they were ...
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UNIX “find” command, match literal “dot”
I need files ending with ".pdf" or ".png"; here's my attempt:
find /Users/robottinosino/Desktop/_PublishMe_ -type f -regex '.*[pdf|png]'
this incorrectly includes files ending with "Apdf", "Zpdf", ...
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find files where group permissions equal user permissions
Is it possible to do something like find -perm g=u? I say "like" because -perm mode requires mode to specify all the bits, not just g, and because I can't put u on the right side of the =, like I can ...
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How can I repair a corrupted “find” binary on CentOS?
When I try using "find" on my system, here's what I get:
$ find
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
I assume the binary got corrupted somehow. How can I repair it? I don't have any other installation ...
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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 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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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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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 ...
