Questions tagged [find]
search for files in a directory hierarchy
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Find directories not containing subdirectories with today file date
Can you please help me with a bash string for finding and listing only parent directories NOT containing subdirectories with today file date, so i can delete them recursively?
My Env is CentOS and dir ...
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$'\r': command not found error when executing find in a bash script
I wrote the following script; it's modified for simplicity and privacy reasons:
FILES_ROOT='/data/FILES'
BACK_B2B_RETURNS_S="$FILES_ROOT"'/wms-m-company/w2z/b2breturns/backup'
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RHEL 9 server with cloned disk unable to find logical volume after boot
We have an RHEL 9 server. We cloned it's disk drive to a new disk. (dd if=/dev/olddrive of=/dev/newdrive bs=4096)
It has a couple LVM partitions (as shown on /etc/fstab on the cloned disk):
However ...
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extract full path FIND with special character handling
Executing a comand like:
find /some_path -mtime -3 -type f -name "*.txt"
the out is something like:
/some_path/file 1.txt
/some_path/file2.txt
If I include this output in rsync with ...
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searching for multiple files, but if one file is missing I want to know from the output + find
$ find ./ -name "AABE*" ## this returns nothing
$ echo $?
0
$ find ./ -name "AWGT*" ## this returns locations of were files matching the criteria
./Atempt3A/AWGT-modified.txt
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Linux find command to return files AND owner of files NOT owned by specified user
I have the following terminal command:
find /home/not_this/ \! -user not_this_user_account
The goal is to find all the files and directories not owned by the specified user and this version of the ...
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how to exclude folders by date with find?
This is "myfolder":
tree -a 'myfolder'
myfolder
├── 20220902
│ ├── filefoo
│ └── filebar
├── 20221001
│ ├── filefoo
│ └── filebar
└── 20221015
├── filefoo
├── filebar
└── ...
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how to extract values from files, compare it with a variable and send to out file
I have myfolder with this files:
ls myfolder
filefoo filebar filefoobar
For example, the content of filefoo is:
total: 379400041
cache_object://localhost/active_requests 379400041 6778 0-...
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How to rsync files/folder from some days ago?
I would like to run cron job that run rsync command to copy files from 3-4 days ago, I've already try some rsync command like this:
rsync -arogzv --ignore-existing --files-from=<(find . -type f,d -...
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Failing string replacement in xargs command
I am trying to automatically create symlinks to directories and to replace a certain text string (foo) of the original name in the link name (bar). The name of the target directories may contain ...
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Where to find the website folder in ubuntu server?
So someone gave me the task to find where is the website code exist on ubuntu server
when I look at the the index.html file path it is
/var/www/example.com/html
but when I go to /var/www directory I ...
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locate all nested war/jar files inside jboss/wildfly - log4j [duplicate]
I want to detect all nested wars and jars containing the log4j library. I have jboss/wildfly services. I started to find out with 'locate | grep', but it shows me only tmp directories, not exactly war/...
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Removing old files from home directories
I need to find and remove files older than 2 weeks from the home directories of my cluster.
I do not want to let people just "touch" the file to change the modification date and keep it for ...
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How can I search for symlinks that point to other symlinks? [closed]
I have morass of chained symlinks like this scattered around:
A (symlink) -> B (symlink) -> C (file)
Some may even involve longer chains, I'm not sure yet.
When manually examining a single file ...
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How to search for a file when 'find' is not an option
Is there a good way to search for a file if you are for ex. stuck in dracut/initrd?
The only thing that I was able to do was:
ls /**/**/**/**/* | grep "file name"
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Linux Delete Files Older Than and the Same Time Smaller Than
I use this command to delete MP3 files older than 90 days.
find MP3/ -type f -name "*.mp3" -mtime +90 -delete
I want to make it delete those older than 3 days but with file size less than ...
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Copy User and Group Ids for all files of a directory tree
I am looking for a way to copy uids and gids for all files of a directory tree from one machine to another. The directory tree is believed to be identical on both machines except that uids and gids ...
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Cron to find multiple file types and automatically delete them
I am trying to put together a command that will find multiple file types and automatically delete them. I want to run this in a cron every 10 minutes on my server.
I would like to find files of type: ....
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find: invalid argument `2s' to `-mtime'
This works: find /home/example -mtime 2
This doesn't: find /home/example -mtime 2s
Read the man page but looks like I'm doing it right AFAICT.
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Move files older than day
I am looking for some solution, where I have to move all the directories and files under the source directory to the destination a day before. I want to move the directories till yesterday but not ...
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Using find -exec in systemd ExecStartPre
I think it's fairly obvious what I'm trying to do here
# Rename Log File
ExecStartPre=/bin/find /data/db/log/*.log -type f -exec mv {} {}.`date +"%Y%m%d-%H%M"` \;
# gzip past log files (is ...
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Find and Replace using Regular Expression
I try to find a way to find and replace using EMEditor and a Regular Expression. I try to applu this for the item below:
<?php
/*f04b8*/
@include "\057mn\164/r\141id\057ho\155e/\164ap\151om\...
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rsync remote find prefixes home directory?
I am attempting to pull everything from a remote directory which is more then ten minutes old, and then remove the source files.
My remote find seems to be working (tested independently on the remote ...
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I want to run a command every 10 minutes in crontab on a certain directory [duplicate]
Running a server with Ubuntu 18.04
I am attempting to run this command every 10 minutes in crontab on the directory /var/www/html:
find . -type f -name "*.maintenance" -delete
Is this the ...
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Find with regex not working on CentOS 7 [closed]
I have problem with find and regular expression. I would like to find files in /etc, which name begin of a or b. I tried this commands:
find /etc -type f -regex '^a'
find /etc -regextype sed -regex &...
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Making a copy of all .acignore->.gitignore in place, recursively
I have the following file structure as an example
c
-Git
-GitBranchTest
.acignore
[lots more files]
-subfolder
.acignore
[lots more files]
I am ...
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List all files with corrupt filenames recursively
I've got a Linux server with some directories and files structure on it. Apparently somehow someone uploaded a bunch of filenames, which got corrupted. Consider the following example:
└── parent
├─...
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I need bash find behaviour explained when using -newermt and -exec ls {}
I have this command:
find /var/cache/pkg -newermt 2020-01-30 | grep 'kdeaccessibility-4.14.3_1'
Which returns nothing. I change it to this:
find /var/cache/pkg -newermt 2020-01-30 -exec ls -D '%...
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Prune does not ignore top level directory of what I specified
When I do this
mkdir -p a/b/c
mkdir -p a/d/e
find ./a -path ./a/d -prune -o -type d
I get this:
./a
./a/d
./a/b
./a/b/c
I must be using the prune flag wrong. How do I ignore the directory ./a/d as ...
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Can you cache the 'find' command?
I wrote a simple shell script which uses the 'find' command so non-technical users can do a search on the file server through a web browser on the LAN. It works, but sometimes it has a long execution ...
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crontab not working for deleting a old files from log folder
I have this line in my crontab to delete old files:
1 * * * * find /var/log/abc/ -mtime +7 -type f -delete
Unfortunately, it does not work.
I have attempted to give all users permission to clear ...
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BAT script to return server licenses at shutdown?
My office uses program licenses that have to be manually activated and returned, and people tend to forget to do this when they go home for the day, resulting in most licenses tending to be ...
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using find, exec and cp to copy specific files while preserving directory path
I set up the following folders with empty text files:
1/a.txt
2/b.txt
I want to copy only txt files to another directory while maintaining their directory structure. So I tried the following ...
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Best strategy for daily back up of terabytes of data with millions of files
Currently I create an NFS and mount it on a special server that does the actual backups and uploads it to s3. My main concern is I feel like overcomplicated this simple task. I schedule cron job to ...
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Dropping the -print0 and -0 flags from find and xargs
Almost 10 years ago, I asked this question
use SED recursively in linux?
and got this useful command find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/regex_search_term/replace_term/g'
I decided to learn ...
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Ansible find and delete JDK folders
we have path and different folders inside
adobe_tools_path: "/apps/cq5/tools/"
is it possible to delete only *JDK pattern folders via loop?
my playbook is not matching JDK folders as a pattern
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How to `find` files not being open by any process
I have several cron tasks, each of which leaves a separate log file. Successful tasks generate no output, so I'm getting a lot of empty logs.
I'd like to clean it up automatically every day. ...
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find: `var/cache/django/...': No such file or directory
This cron job:
@daily find var/cache -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 2 -mtime +14 -exec rm -rf {} +
Creates sometimes error messages like this:
find: `var/cache/django/bfcfd153d35a27eb78823.djcache': No such ...
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Sudoer with permission denied
I have a user in sudoers which has entry like
user ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/find
then that user will try to do
/usr/bin/find /var/mailboxes -iname [email protected]
but results will be ...
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How to add the filename as prefix to each line of the text file? (batch processing; subdirectories)
I have many .txt files with their filenames being different dates:
01.01.2010.txt
02.01.2010.txt
...
Currently each file (e.g.: 01.01.2010.txt) looks like this:
0.351 XXX XXX XXX XXX
0.292 ...
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Why can't unix find enumerate everything beneath /sys?
I'd like to be locate every device that has a rescan option/file beneath /sys/devices (so that I can resize disks on the fly), but UNIX find doesn't seem to find them. For example:
# file /sys/class/...
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Update all Python files via Linux command
In my original Python files I have the following:
from official.utils.flags import _base
I need to change it to:
from utils.flags import _base
My file structure looks like this:
.
├── README.md
├─...
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Windows search cannot find files in current directory
We have a windows server 2012 r2 that has the file server role and windows search installed.
The drives with the shared folders are indexed and the shares folders are mapped on all clients.
I can ...
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find: equal file size limit but different unit returns different result
I noticed that the these two commands to list files below 5 GiB produce different results:
find . -type f -size -5368709120c
find . -type f -size -5G
Specifically the one that uses kilobyte unit (...
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access SpamAssassin SpamBox from command line
I am trying to create a CRONjob to delete spam older than x days. I can do this from the command line with non-spam emails by using the following script:
find "/home/account/mail/example.com/username/...
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Solaris 11 find empty folders (-empty not work)
How to find empty dir and delete in Solaris 11.
I try this:
find . -type d -empty
Output:
find: bad option -empty
find: [-H | -L] path-list predicate-list
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How can I make find return non-0 if -exec command fails?
When I run the find command with an -exec subcommand that fails, find returns a 0 exit code:
$ find . -iname '*.txt' -exec ls foo \;
ls: foo: No such file or directory
ls: foo: No such file or ...
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Can I reduce CPU usage on a large recursive find + chmod command?
I'm using the following command to perform permissions fixes:
sudo find . -type f -exec chmod 470 {} \;
There are many thousands of files to update the permissions on. It also spikes the CPU usage ...
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Cron job not deleting files in cifs mount
I have a cron job that runs a shell script. The contents of the shell script is as follows:
#!/bin/bash
cd
sudo service confluence stop
NOW=$(date +"%Y%m%d-%H%M%S")
mkdir Backup/db
mkdir Backup/...
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Find files created within a time frame with Linux find command
This command runs fine
find /eqtynas/ -type f -mtime -1 -print0 | du -ch --files0-from=- --total -s > /tmp/24hourUsage.20171101 &
however it takes in a 24 hour block of time since I run the ...
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