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Print the full real path of "/dev/disk/by-uuid/$1" followed by "is not mounted"
echo $(readlink -f /dev/disk/by-uuid/$1) is not mounted
change the permissions of all the files ending with "fits" in the folder "/store/01"
find /store/01 -name "*.fits" -exec chmod -x+r {} \; \
display all the files in the current folder along with the hidden files with the depth
find . — name "*" — print -о -name ".*" — print -depth
Print "#include" statements found in "file2" that are not in "file1"
comm -13 < <
change the ownership of all regular/normal files in the current directory
find . -type f | xargs chown username
Find all directories under ~/code excluding hidden directories and replace all newlines with : in the output then remove the last :
find ~/code -type d -name '[^\.]*' | tr '\n' ':' | sed 's/:$//'
Get domain names from file '1.txt' and request TXT DNS record for each one
cat 1.txt | xargs dig TXT
recursively finds all files newer than a date
find . -type f -newermt "$"
find all the files that have been modified in exactly 7*24 hours ago
find . -mtime 7
display all normal/regular files in current folder
find . -type f -print0
Find all regular files in the /path/to/base/dir tree
find /path/to/base/dir -type f
Unpack all *.gz archives in the current directory tree
find . -name '*.gz' -print0 | xargs -0 gunzip
List all files in the /var directory tree whose size is greater than 10 megabytes
find /var/ -size +10M -exec ls -lh {} \;
display all the files in the home folder which belong to the suer "bruno" and end with ".sxw" and have been accessed in the last 3*24 hours
find /home -type f -name *.sxw -atime -3 -user bruno
Gets IP address of first listed active network interface in system.
ifconfig | grep 'inet addr:' | grep -v '127.0.0.1' | awk -F: '{print $2}' | awk '{print $1}' | head -1
use regex with find command
find . -regextype posix-egrep -regex '\./[a-f0-9\-]{36}\.jpg'
Save standard input to variable 'stdin' until the first character encoded as '\004' is read
read -d "$" stdin
Find all files/directories under current directory and print them with newline as the delimiter
find -print | xargs -d'\n'
Delete all .svn files/directories under current directory
find . -name .svn -exec rm -rf {} +
Find all '*~' files under current directory
find ./ -name '*~'
change the group of all the files which belong to the user edwarda to pubs
find / -user edwarda -exec chgrp pubs "{}" \;
find all the cpp files in current folder
find -name "*.cpp"
Search for "YOURSTRING" in all files under current directory
grep YOURSTRING `find .`
Search for empty files
find . -size 0k
Gets MAC address of en0 network interface.
ifconfig en0 | grep -Eo ..\{5}
Print the text file paths that match 'needle text' in their contents under 'my_folder' recursively
grep -rl "needle text" my_folder | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -r -0 file | grep -e ':[^:]*text[^:]*$' | grep -v -e 'executable'
Search for the regex '[0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9][0-9]*' in all files under /etc
find /etc -exec grep '[0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9][0-9]*' {} \;
show all the regular/normal files in the folder /home/user/demo
find /home/user/demo -type f -print
Move all directories from the `sourceDir' directory tree to the `destDir' directory
find sourceDir -mindepth 1 -type d -print0 | xargs -0 mv --target-directory=destDir
Run the find command with all shell positional arguments
`which find` "$@" -print0;
Find all *.rb files/directories under current directory
find . -name "*.rb"
Enables 'nullglob' shell option.
shopt -s nullglob
Rename all files in the current directory to the md5 sum followed by the extension and print the conversions
md5sum * | sed -e 's/\ \(.*\\)$/mv -v \2 \1\3/e'
search for a shell script in the current folder and display the current folder path but search from the sub directories
find . -name onlyme.sh -execdir pwd \;
Print every found file like '*.cfg' under '/path/to/files/' directory followed by its content, and wait 2 seconds after each printed file
find /path/to/files -type f -name \*.cfg -print -exec cat {} \; -exec sleep 2 \;
Filters only directories including hidden ones from long file listing of a current directory, and prints their names.
ls -Al | grep "^d" | awk -F" " '{print $9}'
find all headers file *.h in /nas/projects directory
find /nas/projects -name "*.h"
Find all files/directories under current directory tree excluding files/directories with name 'query_to_avoid'
find \! -name "query_to_avoid"
Print source of the file system containing $path.
df -P $path | tail -1 | cut -d' ' -f 1
Find all files in $dir directory and count them
find "$dir" -maxdepth 1 -type f | wc -l
Print a null delimited list of all *.emlx files/directories under /path/to/folders/ to filelist
find /path/to/folders/ -name \*.emlx -print0 > filelist
Calculate the md5sum of the executable file of command "cc"
md5sum $(which cc)
Search the /usr/bin directory tree for regular files modified or created less than 10 days ago
find /usr/bin -type f -mtime -10
List all regular files in the current directory tree
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -l
Recursively removes all empty folders under current folder.
find . -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \;
Add a date time stamp to every line of output in "ping host"
ping host | perl -nle 'print scalar, " ", $_'
Count the number of files/directories named file1 under current directory
find -name file1 | wc -l
recursively change owner of the directory ~/.npm to the current user
sudo chown -R $ ~/.npm
Find files in the current directory tree that were accessed within the last 60 minutes
find . -amin -60
Receive pattern to search for on the standard input and print only matching part of lines from file 'f.html'
cat f.html | grep -o \
Find a directory named 'project.images' case insensitively in the entire filesystem and show it in long listing format
find / -type d -iname "project.images" -ls
Find all empty files in the current directory and delete them
find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -empty -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm
Find all files under $1 directory excluding hidden files and append a null character at the end of each of their paths
find "$1" -path "*/.*" -prune -o \( -type f -print0 \)
Print and delete all directories named 'work' under '/usr/ports/' directory tree
find /usr/ports/ -name work -type d -print -exec rm -rf {} \;
Find all directories starting from / that have permissions 777
find / -type d -perm 0777
Send SIGKILL signal to process ID 16085, killing it instantly.
kill -9 16085
Print all files containing "word1" and "word2" in the current directory tree
comm -12 <(grep -rl word1 . | sort) <(grep -rl word2 . | sort)
Look for *.jpg files
find . -name “*.jpg”
Print a count of case insensitive duplicate filenames in the current directory
ls -1 | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]' | sort | uniq -c | grep -v " 1 "
Removes all listed folders with content in sudo mode.
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/npm /usr/local/share/man/man1/node* /usr/local/lib/dtrace/node.d ~/.npm ~/.node-gyp /opt/local/bin/node opt/local/include/node /opt/local/lib/node_modules
Find SGID files
find / -perm +g=s
Filter /path/to/logfile for any lines containing the specified date, paging interactively through the output.
grep 'Nov 12 2012' /path/to/logfile | less
extract /path/to/my_archive.tar.xz to /path/to/extract and preserve permissions.
tar xpvf /path/to/my_archive.tar.xz -C /path/to/extract
Search the current directory tree for files whose names do not end in ".exe" and ".dll"
find . -not -name "*.exe" -not -name "*.dll" -not -type d
Search for 'js' in all files under current directory that match 'some string' in their names
find . | grep 'some string' | grep js
Opens gcc info manual and selects "option index" menu entry.
info gcc "option index"
find all directories that names are 'project.images'
find / -type d -name "project.images"
Search the directory tree given as variable $root_dir for regular files
find $root_dir -type f
Find all *.jpg files under maximum 2 levels down the temp/medium/* paths and run `mogrify -resize 428x270">" -quality 80 -compress JPEG -monitor -strip` with the file paths as arguments
find temp/medium/* -maxdepth 2 -iname "*.jpg" -print0 | xargs -0 mogrify -resize 428x270">" -quality 80 -compress JPEG -monitor -strip
Write standard input to standard output and to "foobar.txt"
tee foobar.txt
find all files and directories under the current directory and display the inode of each one, using printf
find . -printf "%i \n"
remove all core files in the file system
find / -name "*.core" -print -exec rm {} \;
Search the current directory recursively for regular files last changed more than 2 days ago
find . type -f -ctime +2
List all *.txt files/directories under current directory
find . -name "*.txt" -print
Unsets all environment variables.
unset `env | awk -F= '/^\w/ {print $1}' | xargs`
kill group leader
kill `jobs -lp`
Find all directories in the current directory tree excluding hidden directories and create them in "../demo_bkp"
find . -not -path \*/.\* -type d -exec mkdir -p -- ../demo_bkp/{} \;
display a long listing of all the normal/regular files in the current folder and do not search in the sub folders
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec ls -l {} \; | less
Save a nginx link to "/path/to/file" with the current user and system FQDN host name in variable "path"
path="http://$.$/path/to/file"
Find all .core files on the system starting from / and delete them
find / -name "*.core" -print -exec rm {} \;
Add executable permission to "pretty-print"
chmod +x pretty-print
Change the ownership of "/home/bob" to "root"
sudo chown root /home/bob
Compress all *.img files using bzip2
find ./ -name "*.img" -exec bzip2 -v {} \;
Invoke a trusted X11 forwarding SSH connection with the server $ssh_server as user $ssh_user
ssh -Y $ssh_user@$ssh_server
Find all files under current directory matching either of the patterns 'error.[0-9]*', 'access.[0-9]*', 'error_log.[0-9]*', 'access_log.[0-9]*', 'mod_jk.log.[0-9]*' in their names
find -type f -name 'error.[0-9]*' -o -name 'access.[0-9]*' -o -name 'error_log.[0-9]*' -o -name 'access_log.[0-9]*' -o -name 'mod_jk.log.[0-9]*'
Search the current directory tree for filenames matching the pattern '[mM][yY][fF][iI][lL][eE]*'
find . -name '[mM][yY][fF][iI][lL][eE]*'
Set variable value to current kernel release name.
value=$
Find all *.axvw files/directories under current directory
find . -name '*.axvw'
Search the home directory tree for files owned by sam
find /home -user sam
Rename files from the current directory tree to the ASCII standard
find . -type f -exec bash -c 'for f do d=${f%/*} b=${f##*/} nb=${b//[^A-Za-z0-9._-]/_}; [[ $b = "$nb" ]] || echo mv "$f" "$d/$nb"; done' _ {} +
Find all files that have the SUID bit set
find / -perm -u+s -print
Display the host's ECDSA fingerprint using the sha256 hasing algorithm.
ssh-keygen -l -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key.pub
Find all files under /path and below writable by `group' and `other'
find /path -perm -go+w
Find files/directories that have not been modified in the last one day in directories or files taken from the glob pattern '/tmp/test/*'
find /tmp/test/* -daystart -mtime +1
Display all symlinks and their targets in the current directory
find -P . -maxdepth 1 -type l -exec echo -n "{} -> " \; -exec readlink {} \;
Search the current directory tree for regular files changed less than 1 day ago
find . -type f -ctime -1
Search for 'string-to-find' in all HTML files under current directory tree and show the matched lines with their filenames
find . -name \*.html -exec grep -H string-to-find {} \;
find all files in current folder having the name pattern "some_pattern" and move them to folder target_location (GNU VERSION)
find . -name some_pattern -print0 | xargs -0 -I % mv % target_location
Create a symbolic link named "~/bin/subl" to "/Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl"
ln -s "/Applications/Sublime Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl" ~/bin/subl
Find all files name passwd in the root directory and all its sub-directories.
find / -name passwd