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Find all 0644 permission files/directories under current directory tree and show only the first 10 of them
find . -perm 0644 | head
Make regular files from debian/fglrx-amdcccle/usr/lib/fglrx/bin/ executable for all
find debian/fglrx-amdcccle/usr/lib/fglrx/bin/ -type f | xargs chmod a+x
find all the file that have been modified exactly 3 days ago ( considers day starting not 24 hours )
find ./ -daystart -mtime -3
display all the files in the current folder which are present in the path "./src/emacs"
find . -path './src/emacs' -prune -o -print
Find all files under current directory with their size and paths, reverse sort them numerically, then print the first 4 entries by removing all matches to the regex [0-9]+\s from each line of the output
find -type f -printf "%s %p\n" | sort -nr | head -n 4 | sed -r 's/[0-9]+\s//g'
record the absolute path of a relative path to a variable
SRC_DIR=$
Find all *.txt files/directories under current directory
find -name \*.txt
Forward all connections to client localhost 3309 via the SSH tunnel to "mysql_access_server" and then connect to host "sqlmaster.example.com" on port 3306
ssh -f mysql_access_server -L 3309:sqlmaster.example.com:3306 -N
search for all the directories starting with the word in the current folder and give them as input to the script fixmbox
find . -name 'm?' -type d -exec ./fixmbox {} +
Remove all files that are not newer than Jul 01 by modification time
find /file/path ! -newermt "Jul 01" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm
Find all Read Only files in entire file system and show a few lines of output from the beginning
find / -perm /u=r | head
Find all xml files under current directory
find . -name '*.xml'
Find all files/directories named 'test' under current directory tree
find . -name test
delete all the trace files (".trc") which have not been been accessed in the last 30*24 hours
find /dirpath \( -name \*.trc -a -mtime +30 \) -exec rm {} \;
Check if 'nullglob' shell option is enabled, and if so, saves its status in 'is_nullglob' variable.
is_nullglob=$( shopt -s | egrep -i '*nullglob' )
Find all directories under 'test' directory tree that match the regex '.*/course[0-9.]*' in their paths
find test -type d -regex '.*/course[0-9.]*'
List the directory contents of the current working directory
echo $(ls $)
create a symbolic link with absolute path "/cygdrive/c/Users/Mic/mypics" to file "/cygdrive/c/Users/Mic/Desktop/PENDING - Pics/"
ln -sf '/cygdrive/c/Users/Mic/Desktop/PENDING - Pics/' /cygdrive/c/Users/Mic/mypics
Rename "old" to "tmp"
mv old tmp
Remove all .gz files in the current directory tree
find . -name '*.gz' -type f -printf '"%p"\n' | xargs rm -f
find all files in the home folder that are modified in the last 24 hours
find $HOME -mtime -1
Search /usr/src for filenames not ending in "*,v"
find /usr/src ! \ '{}' \; -print
Print the list of directories that are present in the /mnt/raid directory tree
find /mnt/raid -type d
search for the directory "config" in the current folder and change directory to the first instance of the search
cd $(find . -name config -type d | sed 1q)
recursively change user of the direct /home/test/ and all files into it to user test
sudo chown -R test /home/test
Prints newline, word, and byte count for each *.py in a current folder.
wc *.py
Find all .txt files in current directory and rename with .html .
find . -type f -name "*.txt" -exec mv {} `basename {} .html` .html \;
Remove all regular files from the current directory tree that were modified between August 10th and August 17th
find . -type f -newermt "Aug 10" ! -newermt "Aug 17" -exec rm {} \;
Make directory and parents as needed to "$FINALPATH"
mkdir -p "$FINALPATH"
Remove files erroneously named `-F'
find . -name "-F" -exec rm {} \;
Search the /storage/sdcard0/tencent/MicroMsg/ directory tree for JPG files
find /storage/sdcard0/tencent/MicroMsg/ -type f -iname '*.jpg' -print0
Execute "1" and write standard output and error to standard output and file "${LOG_FILE}"
exec 1 2>&1 | tee ${LOG_FILE}
Find all files owned by group `group2'
find / -group group2
SSH into server "app1" as the current user
ssh app1
Find all files matching "abc*" in the current directory and append "\tok"
find . -name 'abc*' | sed 's/$/\tok/' | column -t
Recursively changes group ownership of everything in 'files' to 'my_group'.
chgrp -R my_group files
Find broken symlinks in current directory
find -L -type l
Find *.c and *.sh files
find . -type f \
Examines the path expanded by variable $FILENAME to see if it is a symlink and if so, sets SOURCE_DIR to the location of the link itself.
ls -l $FILENAME | grep -q ^l && SOURCE_DIR=$;
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'
Print all file/directory names without white space safety under the /proc directory
find /proc | xargs
find all the ".jpg" files in current folder and display their count
find ./ -name '*.jpg' -type f | wc -l
Change to folder where the oracle binary is.
cd $(dirname $)
Read a line from an interactive shell's standard input into variable "message" without backslash escapes and prompt $'Please Enter a Message:\n'
read -rep $'Please Enter a Message:\n' message
find all the files in the entire filesystem which belong to the user root and display the ten files.
find / -user root | head
Remove all \*~ files under dir
find dir -name \\*~ -exec rm {} +
Delete files in /var/tmp/stuff and below that have not been modified in over 90 days
find /var/tmp/stuff -mtime +90 -execdir /bin/rm {} \+
Print file name without the last two extensions assuming the file name doesn't contain any other dots.
echo "$FILE"|rev|cut -d"." -f3-|rev
Create a symolic link in "/usr/local/bin/" to "/Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl"
ln -s /Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl /usr/local/bin/
Find all .gz archives in the current directory tree and check if they are valid
find . -name *.gz -exec gunzip '{}' \;
Take the last slash-separated section of variable "FILE" and copy it to variable "NAME".
NAME=`basename "$FILE"`
Print the IP addresses for the current host name
hostname -i
List recursively all files and directories in /var/www and pass the result to the `more' pager
find /var/www | more
Search for the system host name in "/etc/hosts" and print the IP address in the first awk field
more /etc/hosts | grep `hostname` | awk '{print $1}'
Count the number of non localhost users
who | grep -v localhost | wc -l
Find all regular files that were modified $FTIME days ago under current directory tree
find . -type f -mtime $FTIME
Grab "variable = value" pairs from a windows style .ini file into the current shell.
source <(grep = file.ini | sed 's/ *= */=/g')
Save the first two letters of the system host name to variable "DC"
DC=`hostname | cut -b1,2`
Check if the $somedir directory is empty
find "$somedir" -maxdepth 0 -empty -exec echo {} is empty. \;
Finds all logged in users.
w | awk '{print $1}'
search for all the regular/normal mp3 files in the file system and move them to the folder /mnt/mp3
find / -iname "*.mp3" -type f -exec /bin/mv {} /mnt/mp3 \;
search for the directory "mysql" in the entire file system
find / -name mysql -type d
Find all files in the current directory tree whose names begin with '-'
find . -name '[-]*'
Add execute permission to "ComputeDate", "col", and "printdirections" for all users
chmod a+x ComputeDate col printdirections
Show all variables whose name or value contains "PATH", sorted in reverse alphabetical order.
env | uniq | sort -r | grep PATH
Extract protocol and host name from URL.
echo "$url" | cut -d'/' -f1-3
Prints long listing of a last modified file in a current folder.
find . -type f -printf '%T@ %p\n' | sort -n | tail -1 | cut -f2- -d" " | sed 's/.*/"&"/' | xargs ls -l
search for the word "foo" in all the regular/normal files in the directory "/path/to/dir"
find /path/to/dir -type f | xargs grep -l "foo"
find all the files in the file system which have been changed 1 minute ago.
find / -newerct '1 minute ago' -print
Set environment variables using assignments are listed in '.env' file and run 'rails' command with defined environment
env $ rails
Prints what year it was 222 days ago
date --date="222 days ago" +"%Y"
find all the files that have been modified today
find . -type f -daystart -mtime 0
List all files and directories residing in the current directory and below
find | xargs ls
Get only the latest version of the file 'filename' under current directory
find . -name 'filename' | xargs -r ls -tc | head -n1
Recursively finds all files in root folder and prints all strings with 'text-to-find-here' from that files, ignoring binary files.
find / -type f -exec grep -l "text-to-find-here" {} \;
Find all directories with space in their names under current directory and rename them by replacing all spaces with _
find -name "* *" -type d | rename 's/ /_/g'
display all the files in the current folder along with their timestamps and sort them and save them in the file1
find -printf '%p %T@\n' | sort > file1
List all environment variables whose name contains 'ipo', showing only the names of the variables and not their values.
env | grep ipo | awk 'BEGIN {FS="="} ; { print $1 } '
Overwrite a file 'my-existing-file' with random data to hide its content
shred my-existing-file
search for all the php files in the folder "/home/mywebsite" which have been changed in the last 30*24 hours
find /home/mywebsite -type f -name "*.php" -ctime -30
delete all the empty in the current folder and all its sub directories
find . -depth -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \;
find all files in the current folder and search for a word in them.
find . -type f -exec grep "applicationX" {} \;
Print a list of unique users who are logged in
who | cut -d' ' -f1 | sort | uniq
display all php,xml and phtml files in current folder
find . -name '*.php' -o -name '*.xml' -o -name '*.phtml'
Find regular files that have SUID or SGID set
find / -perm +6000 -type f
Find all files/directories under current directory and set their permission to 775
find . -type f -exec chmod 775 {} \;
Search for files/directories named 'fileName.txt' under current directory tree without traversing into './ignored_directory'
find . -path ./ignored_directory -prune -o -name fileName.txt -print
Make directory "mybuild"
mkdir mybuild
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]*'
Find all files/directories that start with 'test' in their names under current directory tree
find . -name 'test*'
Search for $GROUP at the beginning of each line in /etc/group and print the last colon (':') separated entry with comma replaced with newlines
grep ^$GROUP /etc/group | grep -o '[^:]*$' | tr ',' '\n'
Find all *.rb (regular) files under current directory and count their line numbers ensuring white space safety on file name/path.
find . -name "*.rb" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 wc -l
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#.*/# #'
Mathematically sum all lines in "filename"
cat filname | lua -e "sum = 0;for i in io.lines do sum=sum+i end print"
Decompresses each of "*bz2" files under the current folder, redirecting output to the standard out, and prints only fourth of comma-separated fields.
find . -name "*.bz2" -print0 | xargs -I{} -0 bzip2 -dc {} | cut -f, -d4
Uncompress and unarchive "data.tar.gz"
gzip -dc data.tar.gz | tar -xvf -
Print the mount point of the last mounted drive
mount | tail -1 | sed -e "s/^[^/]*\(.*\) type .*$/\1/g"
Execute "2" and write output to standard output and file "${LOG_FILE}"
exec 2 | tee ${LOG_FILE}
Execute "utility" for each file in the current directory tree passing the pathname as a command line argument
find . -exec utility \;
Print a list of all regular files residing in the current directory
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -print0