search for files in a directory hierarchy
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Unable to change the font in bold to yellow font in Less
Problem: to change the bolding which affects the word "expression" to the color yellow in Less:
My commands which affects Less
export LESS_TERMCAP_mb=$'\E[01;31m' # begin blinking
export ...
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9answers
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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 ...
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5answers
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How do I find (or exclude) all directories and sub-directories matching a certain pattern (in Linux)?
I'm trying to use the Linux find command to find all directories and sub-directories that do not have .svn (Subversion hidden folders) in their path. I can only get it to exclude the actual .svn ...
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1answer
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Get all extensions and their respective file count in a directory
Getting all extensions for a directory: easy. Getting file counts for a particular extension: easy.
But getting all file extensions and their respective file counts is alluding me.
eg.
+ dir
+ ...
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10answers
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Find Sniffer on LAN
HI,
What tools or techniques are available for *nix and Windows that help in finding if someone else on the LAN is using a sniffer?
Having said that and strongly considering that there are tools out ...
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2answers
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find command default sorting order
what is the default sorting order for entries returned by the linux find command?
For example, if I issue
find . -type f -name '*mp3'
and the output consists of multiple files across multiple ...
2
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2answers
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How do i use the {} operator in find execution inside exec
I tried this bash command:
find /var/www/ -path '*wp-admin/index.php' -exec mv {} $(dirname {})/index_disabled
But the second {} is not executed.
It results in just ./index_disabled instead.
How ...
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2answers
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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 ...
2
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3answers
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List all symbolic links on a directory
a short question: is it possible to list all symbolic links onto a directory other than running a find over the whole filesystem?
Background: I have a directory containing a lot of different versions ...
