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Find files whose pathnames end in "config" | find . -path '*/*config' |
display the top 20 biggest files in the current folder which are present in the same partition as that of the current folder | find . -xdev -printf ‘%s %p\n’ |sort -nr|head -20 |
find all files that do not have read permission to all | find . -type f ! -perm -444 |
Read a line from standard input with prompt "Enter your choice: ", arrow keys enabled, and "yes" as the default input, and save the response to variable "choice" | read -e -i "yes" -p "Enter your choice: " choice |
Find files/directories under current directory without descending into it | find -prune |
Search the files under and below /directory/containing/files for "text to search" | find /directory/containing/files -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep "text to search" |
Return the files that are newer than file `myfile' | find / -newer myfile |
Send SIGHUP signal to nginx master process, causing it to re-read its configuration and restart child processes if necessary. | kill -HUP $ |
Find files ending in "*macs" | find -name '*macs' |
Make directory "foo" and do not cause an error if it exists | mkdir -p foo |
find all files that have been used more than two days since their status was last changed | find -used +2 |
Find all files under current directory and print them appending a null character at the end of each file paths | find . -type f -print0 |
List root's regular files with permissions 4000 | find / -type f -user root -perm -4000 -exec ls -l {} \; |
Search the current user's home directory and below for all .png files and copy those files in the directory imagesdir. | find ~/ -name *.png -exec cp {} imagesdir \; |
Find all regular files under $DIR directory tree with ".$TYPE" extension where $TYPE expands in the current shell | find $DIR -type f -iname "*.$TYPE" |
display the name and size of all the regular/normal files in the var/log folder which are bigger than 100MB | find /var/log -type f -size +100000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }' |
Display file status for all regular files in the current directory tree | find . -type f -exec stat {} + > /dev/null |
Find all files/directories whose names start with 'readme' under '/usr/share/doc' directory tree | find /usr/share/doc -iname readme\* |
look for the largest 200 files over 1,000,000 bytes in the filesystem mounted at "/usr/pcapps" | find /usr/pcapps/ -mount -type f -size +1000000c | perl -lpe ' s{ }{\\ }g ' | xargs ls -l | sort +4nr | head -200 |
Log in as "middleuser" with key "./middle_id.pem" and forward port 22 on host "middle.example.org" to port 2222 on localhost | ssh -i ./middle_id.pem -R 22:localhost:2222 [email protected] |
Find all symlinks under current directory | find ./ -type l |
Set the environment variable "DISPLAY" to the system host name followed by ":0 skype" | DISPLAY=`hostname`:0 skype |
display all the files in the file system excluding all the ".c" files | find / \! -name "*.c" -print |
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 |
Gets IP addresses of all network interfaces. | ifconfig | grep -E "{3}[0-9]{1,3}" | grep -v 127.0.0.1 | awk '{ print $2 }' | cut -f2 -d: |
Search the current directory tree for regular .mkv files | find . -type f -name "*.mkv" |
Search for files which have read and write permission for their owner and group, and which other users can read, without regard to the presence of any extra permission bits | find . -perm -664 |
Print IP addresses of the host name | hostname -i |
find all the files that have been changed today | find . -ctime 0 -type f |
Print either "one" or "two" randomly three times | yes $'one\ntwo' | head -10 | nl | sort -R | cut -f2- | head -3 |
remove all the permissions for others to all the files in the current folder which have read,write,execute access to users,group and others. | find * -perm 777 -exec chmod 770 {} \; |
find all the core files in the temp folder and force delete them | find /tmp -name core -type f -print | xargs /bin/rm -f |
Find all *.ogg files under the home directory ignoring the case | find $HOME -iname '*.ogg' |
Get the directory with least access time under current directory | find . -type d -printf "%A@ %p\n" | sort -n | tail -n 1 | cut -d " " -f 2- |
Remove regular files changed more than 15 days ago from the /tmp directory tree | find /tmp/ -ctime +15 -type f -exec rm {} \; |
Find all files on the system that have been modified in the last 10 minutes | find / -mmin -10 |
Format the filename and modification time of files starting with t as a table on OSX | stat -f 'File: %N Modified: %t%Sm' t* |column -t |
Find all files matching pattern '.#*' in the current directory tree and execute "foobar" for each of them with the file name as an argument | find . -iname '.#*' -print | while read -r i; do foobar "$i"; done |
Reverse the space separated words in "35 53 102 342" | echo 35 53 102 342|tr ' ' '\n'|tac|tr '\n' ' ' |
Prints long listing of directories '/tmp', '/tnt' themselves bordered with '<--' and '--->'. | ls -ld /tmp /tnt | sed 's/^.*$/<-- & --->/' |
search for all the files which have not been modified in the last 6 months (180 days) in current folder and display the disk usage of them | find . -mtime +180 -exec du -sh {} \; |
sort and display top 11 files along with the last access date for all the files in the file system ( sort based on the timestamp ) | find / -type f -printf "\n%AD %AT %p" | head -n 11 | sort -k1.8n -k1.1nr -k1 |
Return the list of files named "filename" that are 50 megabytes or larger | find / -size +50M -iname "filename" |
Find all Subscription.java files/directories under current directory and enter into the parent directory of the first one found | cd $(find . -name Subscription.java -printf '%h\n') |
Apply script 'script.ksh' to all files matching pattern 'image\*.jpg' under the directory tree 'dir' | find dir -name image\*.jpg -exec /bin/ksh script.ksh {} \; |
Force create a symbolic link without dereferencing named "mylink" to "dir2" | ln -nsf dir2 mylink |
Create script filesPermissions.sh that restores the original permissions of the regular files in the current directory tree | find . -type f |xargs ls -la| awk '{print "chmod "$1" "$NF}'>./filesPermissions.sh |
Print the file system disk space usage for "/dev/disk0s2" if exists | df | grep /dev/disk0s2 |
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 |
Find all files named 'foo' under current directory tree without descending into directories named 'foo' | find . -name foo -type d -prune -o -name foo -print |
Change permissions to 644 for all files in the current directory tree | find . -type f | xargs chmod -v 644 |
Find all regular files under current directory tree that were accessed $FTIME days ago | find . -type f -atime $FTIME |
Search the current directory recursively for files last modified within the past 24 hours ignoring .swp files and paths ./es* and ./en* | find . -mtime 0 -not \ |
Find all .sh files in the current directory tree and remove them | find . -name "*.sh" -exec rm -rf '{}' \ |
Print numbers from 1 to 10 with 2 values per line | seq 10 | awk 'NR%2{printf; next}1' |
Remove all *.mp3 files in tmp directory but not in it's subdirectories | rm `find tmp -maxdepth 1 -name '*.mp3'` |
Print and split the output of "my_program" into files of at most 100000 bytes each and use numeric suffixes | my_program | tee > |
Recursively changes group ownership of everything in 'files' to 'my_group'. | chgrp -R my_group files |
Count all the lines of all '*.c' files in current directory recursively | find . -name "*.c" -print0 | xargs -0 cat | wc -l |
Mount the "vboxsf" filesystem "D:\share_folder_vm" on "\share_folder" | sudo mount -t vboxsf D:\share_folder_vm \share_folder |
search for directories in the folder "test" which end have 5 digits as their name | find ./test -type d -name '[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]' |
Print the first line of output after alphabetically sorting the file "set" | head -1 < |
Remove all empty regular files under the current directory and below | find ./ -type f -size 0c -print | xargs rm |
Fetch 'stackoverflow.com' domain IP addresses from dig DNS lookup | dig stackoverflow.com | grep -e "^[^;]" | tr -s " \t" " " | cut -d" " -f5 |
List all *.jpg files/directories in entire file system | find / -name "*.jpg" -print |
Find all *.txt files/directories under your home directory | find ~/ -name '*.txt' |
display the number of lines in all the ".c" files in the current folder | find . -name "*.c" -exec wc -l {} \; |
Search the .VER files from the current directory tree for string "Test_Version=' | find . -name "*.VER" -exec grep 'Test_Version=' '{}' ';' -print; |
list files in the directory "$directory" with permissions "$permissions" | find "$directory" -perm "$permissions" |
Delete all the files found in the current directory tree whose names begin with "heapdump" | find . -name heapdump* -exec rm {} \ ; |
Recursively removes all files and folders named '.svn' in a current folder, handling content of removed folder before folder inself. | find . -depth -name .svn -exec rm -fr {} \; |
Find all the files/directories in the current directory tree which have been modified between 2014-08-25 and 2014-08-26 | find ./ -newermt 2014-08-25 ! -newermt 2014-08-26 -print |
Search for the case insensitive pattern 'search for me' in all files with '.p', '.w' and '.i' extension under current directory tree without descending into '.svn' and 'pdv' directories | find . \( \ -type d -prune \) -o \ |
find all regular/normal files in the current folder | find -type f |
Gets IP address of 'eth0' network interface. | ifconfig eth0 | grep inet | cut -d: -f2 | cut -d' ' -f1 |
Prints top ten of most memory using processes in system. | ps aux | awk '{print $2, $4, $11}' | sort -k2rn | head -n 10 |
List all .jpg files in the home directory tree in a fast way | find . -name "*.jpg" -exec ls {} + |
Close the master SSH control socket "my-ctrl-socket" to "[email protected]" | ssh -S my-ctrl-socket -O exit [email protected] |
Unzip every ".gz" file in the current directory tree | find . -name '*.gz' -exec gunzip '{}' \; |
Show directory sizes in KB and sort to give the largest at the end | find . -type d -exec du -sk {} \; | sort -n -k 1 |
find all the normal files in the home directory which have been accesed in the last 30 days with the size greater than or equal to 100k. | find $HOME -type f -atime +30 -size 100k |
Look for "testfile.txt" in the "/" directory and 1 level below | find / -maxdepth 2 -name testfile.txt |
Write output and error of "command" to standard output and to "/path/to/logfile" | command 2>&1 | tee /path/to/logfile |
search for pattern matched files in the current folder and subfolders exclude "excluded path" | find ./ -type f -name "pattern" ! -path "excluded path" ! -path "excluded path" |
Determine if /full/path exists on a mounted file system. | df /full/path | grep -q /full/path |
Find all regular files named 'Waldo' under 'Books' directory tree that is located in user's home directory | find ~/Books -type f -name Waldo |
Find all $2 files in $1 path excluding /proc and search for the regex expanded by $3 in those files | find $1 -path /proc -prune -o -name "$2" -print -exec grep -Hn "$3" {} \; |
Find all directories in maximum 1 level down the $front_element directory, sort them according to modification time and list them excluding the $front_element path from the list | find "$front_element" -maxdepth 1 -type d -not -path "$front_element" -printf '%T@ %p\n' | sort | awk '{print $2}' |
List all files that are between 10000 and 32000 bytes in size | find . -size +10000c -size -32000c -print |
Remount "/dev/shm" with a maximum size of "40G" | mount -o remount,size=40G /dev/shm |
Use the output of "ping google.com" as input to awk script "packet_loss.awk" | ping google.com | awk -f packet_loss.awk |
Append *.java files from the current directory tree to tar archive `myfile.tar' | find . -type f -name "*.java" | xargs tar rvf myfile.tar |
Enables shell options 'extglob' and 'progcomp' | shopt -s extglob progcomp |
Find all files with the SUID bit set, starting from / | find / -perm -u+s |
Search for "whatever" in all files under /dir directory ensuring white space safety in filenames | find /dir -type f -print0 | xargs -0i cat {} | grep whatever |
find all the files in the present directory which have the group staff and check if is a symbolic link and display it. | find `pwd` -group staff -exec find {} -type l -print ; |
display list of all the hidden regular/normal files in the directory "/dir/to/search/" | find /dir/to/search/ -type f -iname ".*" -ls |
Starts new detached tmux session and runs command $CMD within. | tmux new -d "bash -c \"$CMD\"" |
find md5sum of 'string to be hashed' | echo 'string to be hashed' | md5 |
Extract the second-to-last slash-separated path component, ie. "90_2a5" in this case. | echo 'test/90_2a5/Windows' | xargs dirname | xargs basename |
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