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finding directories that consume a lot of the AFS volume quota
The AFS volume quota is almost exceeded for one of our computer users. Running fs listquota or fs lq gives him a warning:
olifri@ubuntu:~$ fs listquota ~
Volume Name Quota ...
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How to compare to text files using command line tools, under windows [closed]
I have to sorted files, say A.md5 and B.md5. I would like to write a small windows batch file, which returns the lines (in my case a list of files), which are present in A but not in B (not case ...
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Creating an MD5 file for a directory tree for only a given extension
I would like to create an MD5 file of a directory tree, containing only the bare names of the files. md5deep exactly does that, but it cannot filter for files when in recursive mode.
md5deep -rb . ...
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Cygwin find integration
I would like to find all NON read-only files in my directory using cygwin's find command.
Is it possible ?
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rsync only files created or modified after a date and time
The goal is to rsync (or using any other tools that give the desired result) only files that are created or modified after a date. It should work with filenames containing spaces (and/or other ...
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Linux: exclude specific file types when running “locate”
I'd like to configure locate to always exclude specific file types.
For example, I would like to exclude ".pyc" ".class" "~" etc.
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find only files in directory with permissions not set to 644 on linux
This is my first question although I've been lurking for a while.
Question:
I would like to use find to get only the files in a directory with permissions not set to 644 (or another permission ...
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How do I find the total number of lines in a set of found files (using Linux command-line tools)?
I can find the number of lines of each file matching a particular pattern using (for example):
$ find . -name "test.save*" -exec wc -l {} \;
673000 ./test.save8.txt
24000 ./from/test1/test.save3.txt
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Why does FIND on Windows 7 give an “Access Denied” error?
I have an administrator account on a Windows 7 x64 machine. It is not THE administrator account, the account is simply a member of the administrators group.
The install is default. When the user ...
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How to view hidden files using Linux `find` command
On a Linux server, I need to find all files with a certain file extension in the current directory and all sub-directories.
Previously, I have always using the following command:
find . -type f | ...
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What's a simple way to list the immediate subdirectories of a given location?
Is there a built-in command or a less verbose way of achieving this?
find /var/foo -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d
Or should I just make a tiny shell script or function if I'm doing this sort of ...
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Find directories that do not contain a directory?
I'm trying to figure out how to use the linux "find" command (or another command that will get the job done) to return a list of file paths/directories that do not contain a directory of a certain ...
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Find only top directories matching search
I'm trying to find all the web folders that are 777. But I only want a list of the top folders.
So if there is an img dir that has folders in it that are also 777 I don't want them returned.
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How do I master the UNIX find command?
I think I am fairly advanced in my use of find but EVERY time I use it I cannot for the life of me remember the method to close the -exec option. I spend a good deal of time reading every time I use ...
