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Calculate the md5 sum of "logdir" and print only the hash
echo -n "logdir" | md5sum - | awk '{print $1}'
find all the regular/normal files in the current folder which belong to the user "sedlav"
find . -user sedlav -type f
Delete all broken symbolic links under '/usr/ports/packages' directory tree
find -L /usr/ports/packages -type l -exec rm -- {} +
Print each column in "file" with "-" character removed
fold -w1 file | pr -4t | sed 's/\s*-\s*//g' | tr -d '\n' | sed '$a\'
Saves location of file $1 in 'dir_context' variable.
dir_context=$
change the permissions of al the directories in the current folder
sudo find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} +
Find all files under current directory and show their file information
find . -type f -exec file {} \;
Recursively change the owner and group of "/opt/antoniod/" to "antoniod"
chown -R antoniod:antoniod /opt/antoniod/
Search for "Stock" in all *.java files from the current directory tree
find . -name "*.java" | xargs grep "Stock"
Find all *.txt and *.json files in current directory
find . -type f \
Join columns in "file1" and "file2" if their first field matches and format the output as a table
join file1 file2 | column -t
Force create a symbolic link named "id_rsa" to "$keyname"
ln -sf $keyname id_rsa
search for all the files ending with "fits" in the folder "/store/01"
find /store/01 -name "*.fits"
Find all files/directories in entire file system more than 700 Megabytes
find / -size +700M
Make sure the file ".bash_profile" exists in current directory, update its timestamp to current date/time.
touch .bash_profile
Write output of "ls -lR /" to standard output and to "output.file"
ls -lR / | tee output.file
Split standard input into files of at most 1000 lines each
split
Merge 10 already sorted files and display the result, pausing at each page of output.
sort -m a b c d e f g h i j | more
List all files/directories under current directory and redirect it to /tmp/files.txt
find . -ls > /tmp/files.txt
Search the specified group for the given "filename
find / -group users -iname "filename"
Display kernel release name.
uname -r
Get current directory name without full path, ie. the part after the last /
basename "$"
Gets IP addresses of all active network interfaces.
ifconfig | grep 'inet addr:'| grep -v '127.0.0.1' | cut -d: -f2 | awk '{ print $1}'
List all .c and .h files in the current directory tree that contain "thing"
find . -name '*.[ch]' | xargs grep -l thing
Search the home directory tree for files modified less than a day ago
find $HOME -mtime -1
Print source of the file system containing current working directory.
df . | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}'
find files in home directory which are modified yesterday
find ~/ -daystart -type f -mtime 1
Find all files under current directory
find "`pwd`" -type f
Executes 'echo "$ret"' in a subshell that is opened by command 'true'.
true | echo "$ret"
Delete all files with inode number 804180
find -inum 804180 -exec rm {} \
search for all the files in current folder and display all the file names separated by space
find . | paste -sd " "
list all links from / that point to nothing
find / -type l -print | perl -nle '-e || print';
find all the python files in the current folder and save the list to the file output.txt
find . -name "*.py" -type f > output.txt
Find all directories under htdocs directory and set their permission to 775
find htdocs -type d -exec chmod 775 {} +
Print IP addresses of the host name
hostname --ip-address
Save the date 222 days before today to the variable 'date_222days_before_TodayDay'
date_222days_before_TodayDay=$(date --date="222 days ago" +"%d")
Replace all ocurrences of '<title>' with 'sblmtitle\n<title>' in all the regular files with '.html' extension under current directory tree
find ./ -type f -name '*.html' | xargs sed -i 's/<title>/sblmtitle\n<title>/g'
Save small letter short day name of the week to variable 'DayOfWeek'
DayOfWeek=`date +%a |tr A-Z a-z`
Find all the files in entire file system which are modified more than 50 days back and less than 100 days and show a few lines of output from the beginning
find / -mtime +50 -mtime -100 | head
Find all files whose names end with "~" in the /home/peter directory tree, following symlinks, and delete them
find -L /home/peter -name *~ |xargs rm
Find all directories in the current directory tree that are not accessible by all
find -type d ! -perm -111
search for all the .o files in the current directory which have permisssions 664 and print them.
find . -name *.o -perm 664 -print
remove all the core files in the current directory
/bin/find -name "core" — exec rm {} \;
Find all *.plist files/directories under current directory
find ./ -name "*.plist"
Find all README's in /usr/share
find /usr/share -name README
Search in the current directory and all sub-directories except ./D for the file hi.dat using the extending file-globbing features of the shell.
shopt -s extglob find ! -name hi.dat
delete all the regular files in the temp folder which have not been modified in the last 24 hours
find /tmp/ -type f -mtime +1 -delete
Change the owner and group of "uid_demo" to "root"
sudo chown root:root uid_demo
Test if "file.tar.gz" is corrupt
gunzip -t file.tar.gz
Print specific lines in "File-out" that do not match "File-Reference" to standard output
diff --old-line-format '%L' --new-line-format '' --unchanged-line-format '' < <
Print a list of all duplicate case insensitive filenames in the current directory tree
find . -type f | awk -F/ '{print $NF}' | sort -f | uniq -i -d
Remove all files and directories in the /home directory tree whose names are "Trash"
find /home -name Trash -exec rm {} \;
search for a word in all the files in the current directory
find . -type f -exec grep 'needle' {} \;
Unsets shell option 'extglob'.
shopt -u extglob
Find recursively all files under current directory tree that contain a colon in the filename
find . -name \*\:\*
Remove all libEGL* files from the current directory tree
find . -name libEGL* | xargs rm -f
Find all *.ogg files/directories under your home directory
find $HOME -iname '*.ogg'
Search for line 111 in file "active_record.rb" with 2 lines of context
nl -ba -nln active_record.rb | grep -C 2 '^111 '
Search subdirectory `Linux' in the current directory for file `teste.tex'
find -path './Linux/*' -name teste.tex
Show all running processes with a name matching "postgres"
ps -ef | grep postgres
display all the normal/regular files in the directory FOLDER1
find FOLDER1 -type f -print0
search for a shell script in the current folder and display the current folder path
find . -name onlyme.sh -exec pwd \;
Compress the file 'file' with 'bzip2' and append all output to the file 'logfile' and stdout
bzip2 file | tee -a logfile
Prints top-ten of most used utilities from history.
history | awk '{print $2}' | awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"}{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head
Copies file 'file1' to each of directories 'dir1', 'dir2', 'dir3'.
echo dir1 dir2 dir3 | xargs -n 1 cp file1
Search the /media/shared directory recursively for MP3 and OGG files
find /media/shared \
find all directories in the current directory which have the name foo and do not have the extension "bar"
find . -name '*foo*' ! -name '*.bar' -type d -print
Search for 'string' case insensitively in all files under current directory tree and show the matched lines with their filenames
find . -name * | xargs grep -iH "string"
Find all flies under current directory excluding *.png files and print the file paths (with match count) that match the case insensitive regex 'foo=' in their contents
find . -not -name '*.png' -o -type f -print | xargs grep -icl "foo="
Find all directories under present working directory
find $PWD -type d
search for all perl files in the folder /nas/projects/mgmt/scripts/perl which have been modified yesterday
find /nas/projects/mgmt/scripts/perl -mtime 1 -daystart -iname "*.pl"
Set permissions to ug=rwx,o= for directories inside the ./default/files tree
find ./default/files -type d -exec chmod ug=rwx,o= '{}' \;
Create a hard link named "my-hard-link" to "myfile.txt"
ln myfile.txt my-hard-link
Find all files/directories starting with 'app-' and ending with '.log' in their names and have been modified in the last 5 minutes
find /var/log/crashes -name app-\*\.log -mmin -5
Lists all files in a '/home/dreftymac/' folder and subfolders without recursion.
ls /home/dreftymac/*
Find all *shp* files/directories under current directory
find . -name '*shp*'
Take a file path from standard input and remove it.
xargs -i rm '{}'
Create a symbolic link to "$file" named "/tmp/allfiles"
ln $file /tmp/allfiles
Find files in the current directory tree whose size is less than 24000 bytes
find . -size -24000c
search for all the files ending with ".bak" in current folder which have not been accessed in the last 30 days and delete the file it it exists
find . -name '*.bak' -type f -atime +30 -exec csh -c 'test -s $1:r && rm $1' '{}' ;
Find all *.mp4 files under /working
find /working -type f -name '*.mp4'
Delete all empty directories under test directory
find test -depth -type d -empty -delete
find all the normal/regular files in /etc/sysconfig which have been accesses in the last 30 minutes
find /etc/sysconfig -amin -30 -type f
Make directories "bravo_dir" and "alpha_dir"
mkdir bravo_dir alpha_dir
Count the number of directories in the current directory and below
find . -type f -exec basename {} \; | wc -l
find all the files that have been modified exactly yesterday (from 00:00 to 23:59 yesterday)
find . -type f -daystart -mtime 1
Split the output of "ls" into files of at most 500 lines each with prefix "outputXYZ."
ls | split -l 500 - outputXYZ.
Mount remote "cifs" filesystem "//server/source/" on "/mnt/source-tmp" with username "Username" and password "password"
mount -t cifs //server/source/ /mnt/source-tmp -o username=Username,password=password
Report file systems inodes usage.
df -i
find all files in a directory with default depth size and compress them to lpicpio.2 file
find ~/lpi103-2/ -depth -print0 | cpio --null -o > ../lpicpio.2
Continuously print the seconds since Unix epoch and the ping time to "google.com"
ping google.com | awk -F'[ =]' 'NR>1{print system("echo -n $"), $11}'
Delete the 4th tab separated column from the output of "finger"
finger | awk -F"\t" -v 'OFS=\t' '{ $4=""; print $0}' | sed 's/\t\{2,\}/\t/'
Print content of all files found regarding seach options '[whatever]'
find [whatever] -exec cat {} +
find all the ".c" files in the folder "/home/you" which have been accessed in the last 30*24 hours
find /home/you -iname "*.c" -atime -30 -type -f
Prints processes with 'MDSImporte' in name, cutting off lines longer than screen width, exiting from less after end of output and saving printed lines on terminal after exit.
pstree | grep MDSImporte | less -SEX
Delete all .svn files/directories under current directory
find . -name .svn |xargs rm -rf
Find all files that were last modified less than7 days ago under /home
find /home -mtime -7
Find all *.$input_file_type files/directories under $source_dir
find "$source_dir" -name *.$input_file_type
Recursively find files in the current directory with a modification time more than 7 days ago, save the filenames to "compressedP.list", and compress no more than 10 at a time
find . -type f -mtime +7 | tee compressedP.list | xargs -I{} -P10 compress {} &
Search the current directory and all of its sub-directories for the file 'file1'.
find . -name file1 -print