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Print URL "http://www.blabla.bla/forum-detail/?ft=72260&fid=34&&pgr=" followed by a number ranging from 1 to 786 | yes 'http://www.blabla.bla/forum-detail/?ft=72260&fid=34&&pgr=' | nl -ba | sed 786q | grep . | awk '{print $2$1}' |
Change permissions to 700 for files and directories deeper than the current directory | find . -mindepth 2 | xargs chmod 700 |
Find all broken symlinks under current directory | find -L . -type l |
Find all files/directories named 'FindCommandExamples.txt' under '/root' directory tree | find /root -name FindCommandExamples.txt |
Find the top 5 big files | find . -type f -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n -r | head -5 |
Print the sorted unique column of usernames of users who are currently logged in without the header | finger | cut -d ' ' -f1 | sort -u | grep -iv login |
Find the unique owners of all the files in the /bin directory | find /bin -type f -follow | xargs ls -al | awk ' NF==9 { print $3 }'|sort -u |
display all the regular/normal files in the current folder which are modified after a file | find . -type f -newer "$FILE" |
locate large files (> 100 MB) in /home/ for 'cleaning' | find /home -type f -size +100M -delete |
Replace all occurrences of "foo_fn" with "bar_fn" in the files named "foo_fn" from the current directory tree | find . -name foo_fn exec sed -i s/foo_fn/bar_fn/g '{}' \; |
Set permissions of all files under "/opt/lampp/htdocs" to 644 | find /opt/lampp/htdocs -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; |
find all the core files in the entire file system and delete them | find / -name core -exec rm -f {} \; |
display all files in current folder excluding text files | find . ! -name "*.txt" |
find all files in the current folder which have not been accessed in the last 30 days in the current folder | find . -atime +30 -print |
Returns unsuccessful exit code on each found file like '*tests*' within current directory. | find . -name '*tests*' -print -exec false \; |
display all the files in the current folder excluding search in the paths containing the folder having the word "mmm" | find . ! -path *mmm* |
Print the current directory tree | tree |
Remove all vmware-*.log files under current directory ensuring white space safety in filename | find . -name vmware-*.log -print0 | xargs -0 rm |
Removes only lowest level subfolders from current directory tree . | find . -type d | xargs rmdir |
Prints full path to files in a current folder. | ls -d -1 $PWD/** |
Print out the contents of all *.txt files in the home directory | find ~/ -name '*.txt' -exec cat {} ; |
Save Maven project version to variable "version" | version=$ |
Find all files modified less than 5 minutes ago, and page interactively through the output. | find -cmin -5 | less -R |
Find regular files under / that contain "stringtofind" | find / -maxdepth 1 -xdev -type f -exec grep -li stringtofind '{}' \; |
Find all .mp3 files starting from the current directory | find . -type f -iname *.mp3 |
Print the 5th space separated fields in "file" as a comma separated list | cut -d' ' -f5 file | paste -d',' -s |
List all available commands in Mac OS | echo $PATH | tr ':' '\n' | xargs -I {} find {} -maxdepth 1 -type f -perm '++x' |
Print the contents of "Little_Commas.TXT" | cat Little_Commas.TXT |
Sends current job to the background. | bg |
List all *.txt files/directories under /etc | find /etc -name "*.txt" | xargs -I {} ls -l {} |
Set variable value to current kernel release name, making this variable visible by subprocesses of current shell. | export value=$ |
List all files from the current directory tree that were modified less than 60 minutes ago | find . -mmin -60 | xargs -r ls -ld |
Change all cron jobs running "anm.sh" to be run every 10 minutes instead of 5 minutes. | crontab -l | sed '/anm\.sh/s,^\*/5,*/10,' | crontab - |
Find all files/directories under current directory and print only 2nd field from output delimited by '/' | find . | awk -F"/" '{ print $2 }' |
Start a VLC process with a dummy interface in the background, immune to SIGHUP signals, to play all media files in mp3_directory from the user's home directory. | nohup vlc -I dummy --quiet ~/mp3_directory/* & |
Archive directory "tata" to directory "tata2", compressing data during copy. | rsync -avz tata/ tata2/ |
display all files in the current folder which are not empty | find . ! -size 0k |
Output all lines that have a common first colon-separated field in files 'selection2.txt' and 'selection1.txt' by displaying the common field of each line, followed by the extra fields in both lines. | join -t: selection2.txt selection1.txt |
Get the sizes (and total size) of all files under dir2 directory | find dir2 ! -type d |xargs wc -c |
Find a file/directory named modules under current directory and exit with the number of files/directories named 'modules' found in this path | find . -name modules -exec sh -c 'exit $' \; |
Find all filenames ending with .c in the current directory tree, case insensitive | find -iname "*.c" |
Search the current directory tree for symbolic links to files matching pattern '*test*' | find . -lname '*test*' |
Get the list of regular files in the current directory | find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -I {} echo "{}" |
Compress "my_large_file" with gzip and split the result into files of size 1024 MiB with prefix "myfile_split.gz_" | gzip -c my_large_file | split -b 1024MiB - myfile_split.gz_ |
gives the chars in line 5 and chars 5 to 8 of line 5, in tst.txt | head -5 tst.txt | tail -1 |cut -c 5-8 |
Write standard output and error to the console and append to file "log" | ./aaa.sh |& tee -a log |
Invoke a trusted X11 forwarding SSH connection with server "192.168.0.14" on port 222 as user "phil" | ssh -v -Y [email protected] -p 222 |
Find all files/directories in all paths expanded by the glob pattern * | find * |
print all files in the current directory and all subdirectories | find . |
Print every 20 bytes of standard input as tab separated groups of bytes 1-3, 4-10, and 11-20 | fold -b -w 20 | cut --output-delimiter $'\t' -b 1-3,4-10,11-20 |
search for the directory starting with "ora10" in the entire file system | find / -type d -name "ora10*" |
Find all files under and below /dir that were accessed less than 60 minutes ago | find /dir -amin -60 |
Remove the regular files from the current directory tree that are newer than /tmp/date.start but not newer than /tmp/date.end | find ./ -type f -newer /tmp/date.start ! -newer /tmp/date.end -exec rm {} \; |
Determine DISPLAY variable for the session when logged in via SSH | who am i | awk '{print $5}' | sed 's/[()]//g' | cut -f1 -d "." | sed 's/-/./g' |
display all text files in the folder /tmp/1 excluding those which do not have spaces in their names | find /tmp/1 -iname '*.txt' -not -iname '[0-9A-Za-z]*.txt' |
Find directories in the current directory recursively that are not "executable" by all | find -type d ! -perm -111 |
Lists all directories in '/home/alice/Documents/'. | ls -d /home/alice/Documents/*/ |
Rename all files in the current directory to the md5 sum followed by the extension and print the conversions | md5sum * | sed -e 's/\([^ ]*\) \(.*\(\..*\)\)$/mv -v \2 \1\3/e' |
Find all *.c files on the system and feed the output to wc | find / -name *.c | wc |
Change to the directory containing the "oracle" executable | cd "$(dirname "$(which oracle)")" |
Display the sizes and filepaths of all files/directories sorted in ascending order of size | du -a --max-depth=1 | sort -n |
Page through the disassembler output of objdump on executable file 'my-crashing-program'. | objdump --disassemble my-crashing-program | less |
List all files in /var/www and below that have changed in the last 10 minutes | find /var/www -cmin -10 -printf "%c %pn" |
Removes all empty folders under path '/foo/bar' and the path itself. | find /foo/bar -type d -depth -exec rmdir -p {} + |
Perform syntax check on all PHP files in the current directory tree | find . -name \*.php -type f -exec php -l {} \; |
Find all btree*.c files under current directory | find . -type f -name 'btree*.c' |
display the contents of all the text files in the current directory | find . -name '*.txt' -exec cat {} \; |
Search the /path directory tree for files missing g+w and o+w bits | find /path ! -perm /022 |
List all files and directories in the /home directory tree whose names are "Trash" | find /home -name Trash -exec ls -al {} \; |
Find all files under current directory and show their file information | find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 file |
Display differences between a and b side-by-side | diff -y a b |
Search the home directory tree for files modified less than 7 days ago | find $HOME -mtime -7 |
Locates 'gcc' executable file, strips last two parts of the full path, adds '/lib' to the end and saves result in 'libdir' variable. | libdir=$(dirname $(dirname $))/lib |
Monitor all processes whose command includes 'java'. | top -p "$" |
Run 'command', pausing and waiting for user interaction after each page of output. | command | more |
Finds PIDs of ssh sessions of all logged in users. | pgrep -u w | grep ssh| awk '{print $1}' ssh |
Remove duplicates in variable "variable" and preserve the order | variable=$ |
Find all regular files newer than '/tmp/$$' (where $$ expands to current process id) under '/tmefndr/oravl01' directory tree | find /tmefndr/oravl01 -type f -newer /tmp/$$ |
display all file in the folder /dir/to/search except ".c" files | find /dir/to/search/ \! -name "*.c" print |
Search the current directory for files whose names start with "messages." ignoring SVN, GIT, and .anythingElseIwannaIgnore files | find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 egrep messages. | grep -Ev '.svn|.git|.anythingElseIwannaIgnore' |
find md5sum of an empty string | echo -n '' | md5 |
Change permissions of "/usr/bin/wget" to 777 | chmod 777 /usr/bin/wget |
Find files ending in "config" | find . -path '*/*config' |
Find all files/directories named 'query' (case insensitive) under current directory | find -iname "query" |
Find all files/directories under current directory tree | find | xargs |
Find all files/directories under current directory tree that belong to user 'john' | find . -user john |
List the number of occurrences of each unique character in "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" sorted from most frequent to least frequent | echo "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" | grep -o . | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr |
For each item in array "alpha", display the basename, that is the part following the last slash, or the whole item if no slash is present. | basename -a "${alpha[@]}" |
change owner and group of the file script.sh to user root | chown root:root script.sh |
find all the configuration files which have been accessed in the last 30 minutes. | find /etc/sysconfig -amin -30 |
split all files in directory "/dev/shm/split/" into pieces per 1000 lines | find /dev/shm/split/ -type f -exec split -l 1000 {} {} \; |
List the z* links in the /usr/bin directory with inode information and the file to which it points to | find /usr/bin -type l -name "z*" -ls |
Remove all files and directories called "test" from the current directory tree | find . -name test -exec rm -R "{}" \; |
Locate all *.mov files in the current directory tree | find . -name '*.mov' |
Test if a file named 'file' in the current directory is more than 1 hour old | find file -prune -cmin +60 -print | grep -q . |
Write the common third space separated fields in "file1.sorted" and "file2.sorted" to "common_values.field" | comm -12 <(cut -d " " -f 3 file1.sorted | uniq) <(cut -d " " -f 3 file2.sorted | uniq) > common_values.field |
find all the files which are of size 0 bytes. | find . -type f -empty |
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 the regular/normal files ending with ".mod" in a folder and send them as input to the remodup command | find $DIR -name "*.mod" -type f -exec remodup {} \; |
Look for SGID files and directories | find / -perm /g=s |
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