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Find everything installed since server creation
I often seem to be dealing with "almost virgin" Linux installations: VMs that were created for a purpose, used briefly, but after a while we're not sure exactly what's on it.
What I'd like to be able ...
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How can I recursively delete old files and prune resulting empty directories?
We're using an AIX server to house thousands and thousands of little files in a nested directory structure. I'm trying to write a script that will recursively delete old files, and then delete the ...
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How to find any symbolic links that point outside a given folder tree?
I have a bunch of folders/files that are 10+ levels deep.
How can I find any symbolic links that point outside this folder tree?
I tried find -type l but this returns all soft links... even ...
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Remove path from find command output
I have a bash script for deploying code from a beta environment to a production environment but currently I have to add the list of files to a txt file manaully and sometime I miss some. Basically my ...
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Delete old files in large folder
I have a folder which contains many files. I want to delete files older than 30 days, so I use the command:
find cache/ -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;
But my SSH session disconnects before the command ...
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how find datacenter using a ip address related to that datacenter?
I have a vds and it's really good!
I have some problems with my reseller of that server because of their support.
I want to buy a server from that datacenter directly.
How can I find that datacenter ...
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find command + exe status diff from 0 when file not found
how to enable find command to print exe status diff from 0
when find command not find the file?
according to my example when I try to find the test1.txt file , $? set to 0
but I expect to get value ...
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What is the correct find -exec syntax
I wanted to delete files that were greater than 2MB within a specific folder. So I ran:
find . -size +2M
And I got a list of two files
./a/b/c/file1
./a/f/g/file2
So I then run:
find . ...
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Linux find command - show progress
I was wondering if there's any way to display some kind of progress info when searching for files in linux using find. I often find myself searching for files on a big disk and some kind of progress ...
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Find, and sort results by date created
How can I sort the results of find? I want to sort by date created asc?
find /docs -type f | sort
Sorts by filename not date created. Thanks.
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Issue with rsync -R wrapped in a find command
I'm trying to copy all the files named 'specials.xml' in the current and all subdirs, and also
create the name of each sub-directory. I'm using -R to rsync so it creates the relative paths for each ...
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How do I find this string?
I'm trying to match these file names with the find command:
4702011-10-21CR719557-R85262-ALPHA.jar
4702011-10-21CR719557-R85262-BETA.jar
I'm reasonable familiar with Java-Perl regex syntax. ...
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Reverse and modify copy file to all subfolders command, xargs
i found this online it copy file to every sub folder on the current dir for full tree depth
find -maxdepth 1 -type d -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 cp -v .htaccess
now would be nice if it could ask if ...
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Can find show directories with contained directories' time stamps?
I have a script to clean out old files and directories in a log area like:
find . -mtime +${NUM_DAYS} -type d -exec rm -rf '{}' \;
However if I run this 2 levels up from the files that have changed ...
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Find the location of libmysqlclient.so.X file in Linux environments
I'm putting together a script that has a requirement of knowing libmysqlclient.so.[15|16|18] .so file. It's usually located in /usr/lib/ , /usr/lib64/ or a mysql/ subdirectory of the aforementioned ...
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How do I search by multiple keywords when using awk or grep?
I have a collection of files. I want to search through them all with grep to find all and only those which contain anywhere within them both the strings keyword1 and keyword2.
I would also like to ...
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Bash find command verbose output
Good time of the day,
Is there way to tell the bash "find" command to output what it is doing (verbose mode) ?
For example for the command:
find /media/1Tb/videos -maxdepth 1 -type d -mtime +7 -exec ...
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find all directories having less than x files inside
Assume starting at some directory in the filesystem. This base directory has lots of subdirectories (not nested!). Each of the subdirectories has an arbitrary number of files withing.
How can I find ...
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search files based on text file containing list of files
I have a text file containing file names only (it does not contain their paths). I need to find these files which may lie in any of the subfolders and then copy or move them to other location. To find ...
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Find and delete all but N largest files in 100s of directories
I have 100s of sibling directories on a BSD/Unix system, each with a collection of files in it. I'd like to delete all but the N largest files in each directory. (N is 5 for me.)
Assuming that I can ...
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How to use sed, perl to rename files and its contents with a particular pattern in a given directory?
Given a directory "Centos1" which has few files named Centos1.x, Centos1.y, Centos1.z and these files also has "Centos1" in their contents. Using a single command ( using find, sed, perl -pie ) how ...
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How to find .h,.c and .cc files under current directory in linux?
find . -name "*.[hc]|*.cc"
The above doesn't work,why?
UPDATE
How do I find these 3 kinds of files with a single pattern?
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Running expand on a set of files
I'm trying to run the expand shell command on all files found by a find command. I've tried -exec and xargs but both failed. Can anyone explain me why? I'm on a mac for the record.
find . -name ...
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find files and search for within tail
The following is working as expected.
find /opt/ -name "somefile.out" -exec grep 'Connection refused' {} \; | more
But if I want to search only in the tail of the found files, I can not add tail or ...
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can not find a directory with find command
I tried using the command
sudo find / -type d -iname firefox
It gave me the following output
/usr/share/doc/firefox
/usr/lib/firefox
/home/ashu/.mozilla/firefox
/etc/firefox
But i have a ...
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Using Find, Grep, Awk, or Sed To Rename Server After Cloning
My client tells me they have cloned a VM in VMWare of an Ubuntu Linux server. Now it's my job to get into all the files and find out what still has the old server name of "bishop" and change it to ...
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MySQL can't write to tmp folder, how do I find this tmp folder
MySQL (using MAMP) says it can't write to Can't create/write to file '/private/var/folders/AO/AOyal7b0GU844L1VJDb3Bk+++TI/-Tmp-/#sqld035_6_0.MYI
But using finder I can't find this location. How can I ...
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find command to find php files but exclude a certain directory
How do I run a find command to find php files but I exclude a folder i.e. /usr/local/bin?
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How do I find all files of a specific type in RHEL on the command line?
I am looking for files of type .flv, .avi, etc
I would like to see a list of all the files (on my server) of those file types (I don't mind doing it one by one, i.e. seeing all the files of .flv, ...
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Non-recursive find on linux
I am trying to find all directories that are directly inside the current directory and older than a specific age. The trick is, I only want to consider the age of the immediate descendants of the ...
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How to find mail on shared linux hosting and delete after forwarding
I'm forwarding mail from a shared hosting account to a gmail address. The mail forwarder does not delete the mail after forwarding so the directory is getting full.
I tried the following in a cron ...
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How can I handle spaces in file names when using xargs on find results?
One of my common practices is to perform greps on all files of a certain type, e.g., find all the HTML files that have the word "rumpus" in them. To do it, I use
find /path/to -name "*.html" | xargs ...
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How do I find circular symbolic links?
I'm working on a HP-UX system and I want to find if there are any circular symbolic links.
So far I'm using the command:
ls -lrt `find ./ -follow -type l`
But it's only doing ls -lrt on current ...
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How does find command sort results?
I have an old messy shell script. One of the steps executes find command with some parameters and expects the results to be sorted by creation time. It works well on old machines (find version is ...
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How to bulk rename files to remove an extraneous space from before the extension
I have a bunch of files who's filename follows the pattern 'filename.ext'. eg:
filename .ext
I would like to rename all of these to remove the space before the .ext. eg:
filename.ext
I can find ...
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How to find files with trailing slash in linux
I have some files in the filesystem that end with a trailing slash like so:
my_text_file_1.txt\
some_other_file_2.pl\
I usually use find for these cases, but the following did not work:
find . ...
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How to restrict Linux find by prefix?
I have a directory A with a large number of sub directories and files and want to get a list of all files named foo that are inside of a directory in A that matches *bar. E.g.:
Yes: ...
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Looping in a directory to find a folder and delete
I use Dreamweaver to upload the web page to my site, it bring a folder called _note to everywhere in my site. I would like to ask how can I loop in the directory(/home/user/htdocs) to find the folder ...
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Difficult to Delete Files in Linux
There's a lot of stuff about this on the Internet, but most of the examples there are contrived. How does one delete files that are really stubborn? e.g.,
$ find ./ -inum 167794
./àKÈÿÿÿÿ@
$ find ...
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List all files added/modified on date
How can I use the find command to list all files for example modified on april 9 2011.
Thank you,
Chris
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Find all files recursively by a certain date
My site is compromised by an FTP brute attack and the cracker modified / created some files in my home directory.
Let's say the date of the malicious creation / modification is 2011-4-5 21:38:09. ...
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Dos find command? [closed]
Are there any utility find commands that you can download and use in DOS which match the UNIX find command?
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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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finding a file which was modified in last 10 minutes
I am running this command to find out the files which were modified in last 10 minutes
find / -fstype local -mtime -10m
but it is giving following error each time
find: missing argument to ...
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how to find out mac addresses of all machines on network
Is there some easy way to find out mac address of all machines on my network rather than doing an SSH into each and ifconfig | grep HWaddr if there are 300 machines on network I really need some easy ...
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find files their name is smaller or greater than a given parameter
Say that in a given directory I got
tzury@x200:~/Desktop/sandbox$ ls -l
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 2 tzury tzury 4096 2011-03-09 10:19 N00.P000
drwxr-xr-x 2 tzury tzury 4096 2011-03-09 10:19 N00.P001
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How to list directories that aren't being symbolic linked to in a directory?
I'm trying to do some cleanup similar to this question. In a UNIX OS, I want to delete the directories that aren't being symbolic linked to in a given directory.
e.g. I have a deployment script that ...
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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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finding a group of string common in two files
I have used diff command in past.I faced a situation to which I did not had a clue
here are some text strings (which can be stored in a file)
CONFIG_XEN=y
CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM=y
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