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Find all files under /somefolder matching the pattern expanded by $FILE_PATTERN in thier names
find /somefolder -type f -name $FILE_PATTERN
List all *.png files/directories under /home/kibab directory
find /home/kibab -name '*.png' -exec echo '{}' ';'
find the count of all the charcters of the list of regular files present in the current folder
find . -type f | xargs | wc -c
Search the current directory tree for an html file having the text 'Web sites' in it
find . -type f -iname \*.html -exec grep -s "Web sites" {} \;
List the current directory recursively ignoring the "dir1" subdirectory's content
find . -print -name dir -prune
Find files/directories not changed in two weeks under /dev/shm
find /dev/shm /tmp -type f -ctime +14
display all the files in the home folder which are smaller than 500 bytes
find $HOME -size -500b
Find all *.* directories under /home/feeds/data directory
find /home/feeds/data -type d \( -name 'def/incoming' -o -name '456/incoming' -o -name arkona \) -prune -o -name '*.*' -print
exclude vendor and app/cache dir, and search name which suffixed with php
find . -name *.php -or -path "./vendor" -prune -or -path "./app/cache" -prune
Write output of "ls -lR /" to standard output and append to "output.file"
ls -lR / | tee -a output.file
Check if "$FILE_PATH" exists on "$HOST"
ssh -q $HOST [[ -f $FILE_PATH ]] && echo "File exists" || echo "File does not exist";
Search the current directory tree for regular files that were accessed $FTIME days ago
find . -type f -atime $FTIME
change the permissions of all the normal files in a directory
find /path/to/dir/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 644
Look in the current directory and below for all files whose names begin with either "my" or "qu"
find . \( -name "my*" -o -name "qu*" \) -print
Remove lines matching "kpt#" from "data.txt" and add left-justified line numbers
grep -v 'kpt#' data.txt | nl -nln
Find all files under /home/username/public_html/sites/default/files and set their permission to 660
find /home/username/public_html/sites/default/files -type f -exec chmod 660 {} +
Delete all files under current directory tree with '.$1' extension where $1 expands as the first positional parameter
find . -name "*.$1" -exec rm {} \;
Find files in the current directory tree that have one link
find . -links 1
Prints all child processes of a process with id 20238.
pstree -p 20238 | sed 's/(/\n(/g' | grep '(' | sed 's/(\).*/\1/'
Remove empty directories from directory tree /srv/abc
find /srv/abc/ -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \;
Read yesterday's date with format "%a %d/%m/%Y" into variable "dt" in a subshell
date --date yesterday "+%a %d/%m/%Y" | read dt
Insert "|" every 30 characters in file "longline"
fold -w30 longline | tr '\n' '|' | sed 's/|$/\n/'
Print the list of files changed within the last minute
find / -newerct '1 minute ago' -print
Find and the 5 largest regular files in the Downloads folder of tecmint's home directory and output the file sizes in bytes.
find /home/tecmint/Downloads/ -type f -printf "%s %p\n" | sort -rn | head -n 5
convert epoch second timestamp to date
date -d @1278999698 +'%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'
Show the epoch in default date/time format
date -ud@0
Find the current directory and all its subdirectories.
find . -type d
check if the file pointed by the symbolic exists or not and display those which are broken
find . -type l -! -exec test -e {} \; -print
Find all files/directories under current directory that match the case insensitive regex .*/\_.*
find . -iregex '.*/\_.*'
List files larger than 9MB residing in the current directory and below
find . -size +9M
Set shell option 'histverify'.
shopt -s histverify
Replace all instances of "STRING_TO_REPLACE" with "STRING_TO_REPLACE_IT" in "index.html"
sed -i 's/STRING_TO_REPLACE/STRING_TO_REPLACE_IT/g' index.html
List files with C-style escape sequences for non-alphanumeric characters
ls -b
Find x* files/directories under current directory whose status was changed less than 1 day ago and move them to /tmp/other
find . -name "x*" -print0 | strace xargs -0 -I '{}' mv '{}' /tmp/other
If variable "c" is a syntactically correct cron job, erase user's cron jobs and add "c" as the only cron job for user.
echo $c | crontab
Forcefully delete all files in the current directory that begin with spam-
find . -name 'spam-*' | xargs rm
Gets domain name from dig reverse lookup.
dig -x 8.8.8.8 | grep PTR | cut -d ' ' -f 2 | grep google | cut -f 5
Convert the contents of "foo.md" to GitHub style markdown and display with "lynx"
cat foo.md | pandoc -f markdown_github | lynx -stdin
split the file "/path/to/large/file" into pieces per 50000 lines named as /path/to/output/file/prefixNNN
split --lines=50000 /path/to/large/file /path/to/output/file/prefix
Print local SRV record of domain '_etcd-client._tcp.'
dig @"127.0.0.1" _etcd-client._tcp. SRV
Find files bigger than 20 megabytes in the home directory tree
find ~ -size +20M
Print file system disk space usage with a grand total
df --total
Find all files under current directory excluding hidden files
find . -depth -path './.*' -prune -o -print
Continuously send ping requests to broadcast address "10.10.0.255" and print the IP addresses who respond
ping -b 10.10.0.255 | grep 'bytes from' | awk '{ print $4 }'
Replace all newlines from the contents of "file" except the last with spaces
sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/ /g' file
Create an empty file 'last.check' in directory pointed by variable "log_dir", with specified timestamp.
touch -m 201111301200.00 $log_dir/last.check
Find recursively all Python files in the current directory and search them for the word ‘import’
find . -name '*.py' | xargs grep 'import'
Archive the directory structure under backup directory into directory-structure.tar
find backup/ -type d -print0 | xargs -0 tar cf directory-structure.tar --no-recursion
List all users logged into the current tty
who | grep "$"
Remove duplicate lines in "file_name" and print the output on stdout
awk '{print(NR"\t"$0)}' file_name | sort -t$'\t' -k2,2 | uniq -u --skip-fields 1 | sort -k1,1 -t$'\t' | cut -f2 -d$'\t'
Delete all hidden files/directories under $some_directory
find "$some_directory" -name '.*' ! -name '.' ! -name '..' -delete
Reverse the text in $input by taking each 4 characters as each units and save the result in variable 'output'
output=$(echo $input | fold -w4 | tac | tr -d \\n)
Find all file paths under current directory, perform a reverse numerical sort and show first 10 file paths with their status change time
find . -type f -printf "%C@ %p\n" | sort -rn | head -n 10
Find all the regular files in $DIR directory tree which have not been modified in the last 15 days and delete them
find "$DIR" -type f -mtime +15 -exec rm {} \;
Save small letter short day name of the week to variable 'DayOfWeek'
DayOfWeek=`date +%a |tr A-Z a-z`
Find files/directories under current directory and force xargs to print them one by one
find . | xargs -n 1 echo
Recursively change the group ownership to "laravel" in "./bootstrap/cache"
sudo chown -R :laravel ./bootstrap/cache
print all lines after the last match of 'string match'
tac infile | sed '/string match/,$d' | tac
Save full path of command "cat" to variable "CAT"
CAT=`which cat`
List all files/directories under /data1/Marcel with their file information which are greater than 524288 bytes and were modified or accessed more than 1 year ago
find /data1/Marcel -size +1024 \( -mtime +365 -o -atime +365 \) -ls -exec file {} \;
Find all directories in the /data1/realtime directory tree that were last modified more than 5 minutes ago but less than 60 minutes ago
find /data1/realtime -mmin -60 -mmin +5 -type d
Write "ee" to standard output and "/dev/stderr" as input to "foo"
echo 'ee' | tee /dev/stderr | foo
find file named foo.txt under root / directory.
find / -name foo.txt
Print the IP addresses for the current host name
hostname -I
Copy files printed by "any_command_what_produces_relative_path_names" to "/new/parent/dir" preserving the directory hierarchy
any_command_what_produces_relative_path_names | cpio -pamVd /new/parent/dir
Determine if the kernel is 32 bit or 64 bit
lshw -class cpu|grep "^ width"|uniq|awk '{print $2}'
Create the directory '.npm-global' in the user's home directory(~).
mkdir ~/.npm-global
Unzip "file.gz" to standard output and execute in bash with arguments "arguments"
gzip -d --stdout file.gz | bash /dev/stdin "arguments"
Find all 1US* files/directories under current directory
find . -name '1US*'
Display file type information for all instances of "file" in the current PATH.
which file | xargs file
Set variable OS to the name of the operating system, ie. "Linux"
OS=$
Remove files under current directory with inode number $inum
find . -inum $inum -exec rm {} \;
Search the /path directory tree for files lacking the group writable bit
find /path ! -perm /020
Save the FQDN host name of the system in variable "fhost"
fhost=`hostname -f`
Search the current directory recursively for files last modified within the past 24 hours ignoring paths ./es* and ./en*
find . -mtime 0 | grep -v '^\./en' | grep -v '^\./es'
Display the first 32 bytes in "foo" as printable characters with 16 characters per line
od -c foo |head -2
Gives the primary group of $USERNAME.
groups $USERNAME | cut -d\ -f 1
Look for any instance of "HIGHMEM" in the current kernel's compile-time config file.
grep “HIGHMEM” /boot/config-`uname -r`
find files under the current directory ending in "txt" and list them, or ending in "html" but do nothing.
find . -name '*.txt' -print -o -name '*.html'
Counts lines in file $FILE.
wc -l < $FILE
Print last 10 commands in history with the first 7 characters removed
history 10 | cut -c 8-
Find all files/directories named 'Waldo' under 'Books' directory tree that is located in user's home directory
find ~/Books -name Waldo
set alias "no" for command "ls -f"
alias no=ls -f
Count the *.html files residing in the /usr/src directory tree and containing string "foo"
find /usr/src -name "*.html" -exec grep -l foo '{}' ';' | wc -l
Remove ESC key bind
bind -r '\e'
find all the html files in the current folder and replace the end of each line with a pattern
find ./ -type f -name '*.html' | xargs sed -i '$s/$/<\/description>/'
Find all files that are less than 50 bytes
find / -size -50c
Make directorie(s) 'es_MX.utf8/LC_MESSAGES' as needed in the current directory
mkdir --parents ./es_MX.utf8/LC_MESSAGES
Create a symbolic link in directory "~/newlinks" for each file listed in "results2.txt"
cat results2.txt | xargs -I{} ln -s {} ~/newlinks
Find all files/directories in entire file system with 644 permission
find / -perm 644
Find all files/directories starting with 'onlyme' in their names under current directory tree in minimum 1 level deep
find . -mindepth 1 -name 'onlyme*'
Find all executable symlinks or upvoter-* files under maximum 1 level down the {} directory
find {} -name 'upvoter-*' -type f -or -type l -maxdepth 1 -perm +111
Prints line count of each file within current directory.
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0L1 wc -l
find regular file named foo.txt under root / directory.
find / -name foo.txt -type f
find all the files in current directory of size greater than 10MB and less than 20 MB.
find . -size +10M -size -20M
Find all files under current directory and replace the match of the regex '^.*/S' with 'S' in every line of the output
find . -type f -print | sed 's|^.*/S|S|'
Make directory and parents as needed for the directory name of file "$f"
mkdir -p -- "$"
Calculate the md5 sum of "a"
echo "a" | md5sum
find the type of all the regular/normal files in the current folder
find . -type f | xargs file
Updates openssl package.
sudo yum update openssl