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Format file "list-of-entries.txt" with no column delimiter
column -t -s '' list-of-entries.txt
Find all files under /somefolder matching the case insensitive regex '\\|\\|\' in their paths
find /somefolder -type f | grep -i '\\|\\|\'
Find all php files whose name is tecmint.php in a current working directory
find . -type f -name tecmint.php
Print which files differ in "dir1" and "dir2" recursively
diff -rq dir1 dir2
display all the files in the home folder except text files
find /home ! -name "*.txt"
display all the files in the folders mydir1, mydir2 which are bigger than 2KB and have not been accessed in the last 30*24 hours
find /mydir1 /mydir2 -size +2000 -atime +30 -print
find all text files in user/directory/ and display the last line
find /user/directory/* -name "*txt" -mtime 0 -type f -exec awk '{s=$0};END{print FILENAME, ": ",s}' {} \;
prints top 10 processes sorted by memory usage
ps aux | awk '{print $2, $4, $11}' | sort -k2rn | head -n 10
Truncate all regular files under the current directory
find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0i sh -c "cat /dev/null > \"{}\""
find all html files in the current directory which have size greater than 100 bytes and display their details and discard all the errors.
find . \ -name '*.html' \ -exec ls -l {} \; 2> /dev/null
Request that the master ssh connection "otherHosttunnel" exits
ssh -O exit otherHosttunnel
Search for files that are at least 100MB
find / -size +100M
Find every file under the directory /var/spool that was modified more than 60 days ago.
find /var/spool -mtime +60
Split "$FILENAME" into files with at most 20 lines each with a prefix "xyz"
split -l 20 $FILENAME xyz
Remove all a.out, *.o, and core files under the current directory
find . \( -name a.out -o -name '*.o' -o -name 'core' \) -exec rm {} \;
Find all files named 'file' in 1 level down the current directory whose status were changed more than 1 hour ago and redirect the ouput to /tmp.$$
find . -maxdepth 1 -cmin +60 -name file >/tmp.$$
list in long format all files from / whose filename ends in "jbd", not descending into directories that are not readable while searching, and not descending into directories on other filesystems
find / -mount \! -readable -prune -o -path /dev -prune -o -name '*.jbd' -ls
Find all files/directories that start with 'screen' (case insensitive) in their names under user's home directory tree and show them by paging through one screenful at a time
find ~ -iname "screen*" | more
find all the hidden files in the temp folder
find /tmp -type f -name ".*"
Archive "./htmlguide" to "~/src/" with resolved symbolic links and delete any extraneous files from "~/src/" not found in "./htmlguide"
rsync -av --copy-dirlinks --delete ../htmlguide ~/src/
Display only first and second dot-separated numbers of kernel version, ie. 4.4
uname -r | sed 's/\\..*/\1/'
search for perl files in the folder /users/tom
find /users/tom -name "*.pl"
find files in root directory that names are game
find / -name game
display all files in current folder using regular expression
find -regex "$rx"
Search for files/directories with the case insensitive pattern anaconda.* in var/log directory
find var/log/ -iname anaconda.*
Find all files/directories under current directory with 'FooBar' in their paths and copy them to ~/foo/bar
find .|grep "FooBar"|xargs -I{} cp "{}" ~/foo/bar
Find all files in the current directory tree except .html, ignoring .svn directories
find . \( -type d -name '.svn' -o -type f -name '*.html' \) -prune -o -print0
Search the /storage/sdcard0/tencent/MicroMsg/ directory tree for JPG files
find /storage/sdcard0/tencent/MicroMsg/ -type f -iname '*.jpg' -print0
Get second line from text contained in variable $data.
echo "$data" | cut -f2 -d$'\n'
display long list of all the perl files in the current folder
find . -name "*.pl" -ls
Find all files in $dir directory without going into sub-directories and print only their names preceded by 3 spaces
find "$dir" -maxdepth 1 -type f | sed 's#.*/# #'
delete recursively, without prompting, any files or directories under the current directory that case insensitively match the filename ".svn"
find . -iname .svn -print | xargs rm -rf
find all the perl files in the current folder, print0 is used to handle files with new lines in their names or only spaces
find . -type f -name "*.pl" -print0
Search all regular files in the current directory tree for "string"
find . -type f -exec grep string {} \;
Remove trailing white spaces from all files under dir directory ensuring white space safety in the filename
find dir -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 sed -i 's/ *$//'
Give a long listing of all the *.pl files (Perl files) beneath the current directory.
find . -name "*.pl" -exec ls -ld {} \;
Print joined strings from 'file', using space symbol as separator.
cat file | xargs
display the number of lines in all the ".c" files in the current folder
find . -name "*.c" -print0 | xargs -0 wc -l
Search for regular files of the user bluher in the file system
find / -type f -user bluher -exec ls -ls {} \;
show all files in the current directory and all subdirectories
find . -print
Show IPC information owned by the current user
ipcs -a | grep `whoami`
delete all the ".doc" files in the current folder
find . -name '*.doc' -exec rm "{}" \;
set alias "py" for command "python2.5 -O"
alias py='python2.5 -O'
Find all directories in level 1 down the $queue directory
echo "$queue" | xargs -I'{}' find {} -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d
delete all the trace files which have not been been accessed in the last 30*24 hours
find /dirpath \ -exec rm {} \;
Print a single line of numbers from "001" to "100"
yes | head -n 100 | awk '{printf( "%03d ", NR )}'
Saves folder path where target of symbolic link $file file is located in 'base' variable.
base=$(dirname $)
Save all directories under the current directory as a comma separated list in variable "FOLDERS"
FOLDERS=$
Join columns in "file1" and "file2" if their first field matches and format the output as a table
awk 'NR==FNR{m[$1]=$2" "$3; next} {print $0, m[$1]}' file2 file1 | column -t
Extracts a bz2 file.
bunzip2 file.bz2
Search the given $directory for files with permissions stored in $permissions
find "$directory" -perm "$permissions"
Find all of the character devices on the system
find / -type c
find all files and directories that have been modified in the last seven days
find . -mtime -7
Insert "insert" every 3 lines for the output of "seq 1 10"
seq 1 10 | sed $': loop; n; n; a insert\nn; b loop'
find files in current folder using name patterns and sort the display the file names in the sorted order
find . -name "S1A*1S*SAFE" | awk -F/ '{print $NF"/"$0}' | sort -t_ -k 5,5 | cut -d/ -f 2-
Find all regular files with case insensitive pattern '*$1*' ($1 expands to first positional parameter and falls back to empty string when not given) under current directory tree and execute a command given by $2 (falls back to 'file' command when $2 is not given) with each of those files as arguments
find . -type f -iname '*'"${1:-}"'*' -exec ${2:-file} {} \;
Remove the regular files from the current directory tree that were last modified on November, 21
find -type f -newermt "Nov 21" ! -newermt "Nov 22" -delete
Copy all *.txt files from the current directory tree to /destination
find . -name '*.txt' | while IFS= read -r FILE; do echo "Copying $FILE.."; cp "$FILE" /destination; done
Places current job to background.
bg % so it wont die when you logoff
Search the current directory tree for *.c and *.sh files
find . -type f \
list all javascipts file which whole name does not contain "directory"
find . -name '*.js' -and -not -path directory
Prints full path to files in a current folder.
ls -1 | awk -vpath=$PWD/ '{print path$1}'
Print login name and full name of all users currently logged in
finger -l | awk '/^Login/'
Find all empty files under a certain path
find /tmp -type f -empty
Moves the file that named like file $1 from '/tmp' folder to the folder where $2 file is located.
mv "/tmp/`basename $1`" "`dirname $2`"
Save first one of space separated parts of each line in $LOCKFILE file to the 'CURRENT_PID_FROM_LOCKFILE' variable
CURRENT_PID_FROM_LOCKFILE=`cat $LOCKFILE | cut -f 1 -d " "`
Reports count of characters in the value of ${FOO_NO_TRAIL_SPACE} variable as follows: "length==<counted number of characters>"
echo -e "length==$"
Print canonical filename of "/path/here/.."
readlink -f /path/here/..
Find all directories under current directory and set their permission to 775
find -type d | xargs chmod 775
Wrap each line in "file.txt" to fit in 80 characters
cat file.txt | fold
Split "file.txt" excluding the first line into files with at most 20 lines each and a prefix "split_"
tail -n +2 file.txt | split -l 20 - split_
Find all .java files whose name contains "Message"
find . -print | grep '.*Message.*\.java'
Find all MP3s in the /home directory tree
find /home -type f -name '*.mp3'
Get domain name of $ip and save it to the variable 'reverse'
reverse=$
List all functions or variables containing " ()" defined in the shell
set | grep " ()"
Print the byte count of all regular files found in the current directory tree
find . -type f | xargs | wc -c
Write "hey hey, we're the monkees" to standard output and as input to "gzip --stdout > my_log.gz"
echo "hey hey, we're the monkees" | tee >
Send SIGTERM to all processes using TCP port 6000 on the system.
kill -15 $
List all empty files under the current directory
find . -maxdepth 1 -empty
Display a count of regular files in each directory at the current level.
find -P . -type f | rev | cut -d/ -f2- | rev | cut -d/ -f1-2 | cut -d/ -f2- | sort | uniq -c
Find all files under dir and calculate their md5sum and save the output to dir.md5
find dir -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum > dir.md5
Search the current directory recursively for regular files last modified more than 2 days ago
find . type -f -mtime +2
find dirctory files which modification time is 7 days ago
find . -mtime -7 -type d
Find all the files/directories under '/usr/local' directory tree which have been modified within the last day
find /usr/local -mtime -1
Recursively copies "$appname.app", preserving symlinks as symlinks to the 'Payload' directory.
cp -Rp "$appname.app" Payload/
Copy the directory structure in "src/" to "dest/" with empty files
find src/ -type d -exec mkdir -p dest/{} \; -o -type f -exec touch dest/{} \;
Find all files/directories under current /export/home/someone directory and upload them to ftp://somehost/tmp/
find /export/home/someone -exec curl -u someone:password -vT {} ftp://somehost/tmp/
Find all *.sql file that are not newer than $oldest_to_keep excluding the $oldest_to_keep file
find . -name \*.sql -not -samefile $oldest_to_keep -not -newer $oldest_to_keep
Send SIGHUP signal to all SSH server processes, causing them to re-read the SSH server configuration.
kill -HUP $
Move "tobecopied/tobeexclude" to "tobeexclude"
mv tobecopied/tobeexclude tobeexclude;
Print a list of all *.code files from the current directory tree
find . -name *.code
Print each logged in user's full name
finger -l | grep "Name:" | cut -d ":" -f 3 | cut -c 2- | sort | uniq
Installs package group "Development Tools" answering 'yes' on all questions.
yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools"
Print and delete all directories named 'work' under '/usr/ports/' directory tree
find /usr/ports/ -name work -type d -print -exec rm -rf {} \;
On host "server_b", connect as ssh user "user" and copy "/my_folder/my_file.xml" to directory "/my_new_folder/".
scp user@server_b:/my_folder/my_file.xml user@server_b:/my_new_folder/
Find all regular files with 400 permission under '/data' directory tree
find /data -type f -perm 400 -print
get the git user access
su git
Print only common strings in sorted content of files 'file1' and 'file2'
comm -1 -2 <(sort file1) <(sort file2)
Find all regular files under current directory tree containing 'some text' in their names without descending into hidden directories and excluding hidden files
find . -type d -path '*/\.*' -prune -o -not -name '.*' -type f -name '*some text*' -print
Remove regular files in the current directory tree
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 echo rm | sh -x