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Find all .java files starting from the current folder
find . -name "*.java"
all the files that end with .mp3 and end with .jpg
find . -name '*.mp3' -name '*.jpg' -print
search in all the regular/normal files of the current folder for the word "word" and display the matched file name
find . -type f -exec grep -l "word" {} +
find all the directories in the file system which begin with "man"
find / -type d -name 'man*' -print
Print received input to the terminal
tee
Count the number of files named `file1'
find -name file1 | wc -l
Archive the entire file system into tarfile.tar.bz2
find / -print0 | tar -T- --null --no-recursive -cjf tarfile.tar.bz2
replaces the last occurrence of 'a' with 'c'
tac | sed '0,/a/ s/a/c/' | tac
Measure the disk space taken up by all *.txt files in directory tree /home/d
find /home/d -type f -name "*.txt" -printf "%s\n" | awk '{s+=$0}END{print "total: "s" bytes"}'
find all regular/normal files which have cpp folder in their path
find . -type f -path "*/cpp/*"
find all the files in the home folder which have been modified in the last 7 days
find $HOME -mtime -7
Remove the first 7 characters of every line in the output of "history"
history | cut -c 8-
Delete all the .c files present in the current directory and below
find . -name "*.c" | xargs rm -f
Creates temporary directory with name formatted like .daemonXXXXXXX in /tmp/ folder, and saves path to it in 'TMPDIR' variable.
TMPDIR=$(mktemp -p /tmp -d .daemonXXXXXXX)
Gets all IP addresses from host network configuration and prints first one.
ifconfig | grep "inet addr:" | grep -v "127.0.0.1" | grep -Eo '[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}' | head -1
Find all *.cgi files/directories under current directory and change their permission to 755
find . -name '*.cgi' -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 755
Create MD5 message digest of "/path/to/source/file" starting at byte 100 until the 250th byte
dd if=/path/to/source/file bs=1 skip=100 count=250 | md5sum
find all the findme.txt files in the file system
find / -name findme.txt -type f -print
Run 'git pull' in every git repository in the current directory
find . -name ".git" -type d | sed 's/\/.git//' | xargs -P10 -I{} git -C {} pull
display all the files in the current folder
find ./
Create symlinks to all /home/folder2/*.txt files with the same name in current directory
find /home/folder2/*.txt -type f -exec ln -s {} \;
recursively change owner and group of the directory /your/directory/to/fuel/ and all files into it to user and group nginx
chown nginx:nginx /your/directory/to/fuel/ -R
search for all tar.gz compress files in the current folder
find -name *.tar.gz
Create a table containing all information from S43.txt and S44.txt, merging lines where the first field of both files matches, and keeping the line that starts with "Gene" at the start of the file.
join -a1 -a2 < < | column -t | sed s/^00ne/Gene/
Counts non-blank lines (lines with spaces are considered blank) in all *.py files in a current folder.
grep -v '^\s*$' *.py | wc
Set variable GZIP to the full path of command "gzip"
GZIP="$"
Print the names of the directories from the paths expanded by the glob pattern /path/to/directory/*
find /path/to/directory/* -maxdepth 0 -type d -printf '%f\n'
Find ".c" and ".h" files in the current directory tree and print lines containing "#include"
tree -if | grep \\.[ch]\\b | xargs -n 1 grep -H "#include"
Print line number of each line in /etc/passwd file, where current user name is found
cat /etc/passwd -n | grep `whoami` | cut -f1
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 {} \;
Clears the terminal screen.
clear
Replace all occurrences of edx with gurukul in all *.css files under ./cms/djangoapps/contentstore/management/commands/tests directory
find ./cms/djangoapps/contentstore/management/commands/tests -iname *.css | xargs sed -i s/[Ee][Dd][Xx]/gurukul/g
Run an awk program on every TXT file found in the current directory tree
find . -name '*txt' -print -exec awk 'BEGIN {nl=1 ;print FILENAME} $9 !="" {if { print $0 ; nl = nl + 1 }}' {} \;
search the word NEEDLE and substitute it with REPLACEMENT in all the php files of the current folder
find ./ -type f -exec sed -i '' 's#NEEDLE#REPLACEMENT#' *.php {} \;
Find all directories under /path/to/dir and archive them into files with .tar.gz extension
find /path/to/dir -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -execdir sh -c 'd=${1##*/}; sudo tar -zcpvf "$d".tar.gz "$d"' - {} \;
display all the files in the folder /home which do not belong to the group test
find /home ! -group test
split file data.csv into pieces per 100 lines named with additional suffix ".csv"
split --numeric-suffixes=1 --additional-suffix=.csv -l100 data.csv data_
Count line numbers on files and record each count along with individual file name.
find /home/my_dir -name '*.txt' | xargs grep -c ^.*
Search for the regex "\$wp_version =" in all the regular files that end with '/wp-includes/version.php' (case insensitive) in their paths in directories/files taken from the glob pattern '/var/www/vhosts/*/httpdocs' and show the matched lines along with the file names
find /var/www/vhosts/*/httpdocs -type f -iwholename "*/wp-includes/version.php" -exec grep -H "\$wp_version =" {} \;
Replace all occurrence of "subdomainA.example.com" with "subdomainB.example.com" in all files under /home/www and below
find /home/www/ -type f|xargs perl -pi -e 's/subdomainA\.example\.com/subdomainB.example.com/g'
Find all files that contain the case insensitive regex 'stringtofind' in maximum 1 level down the / directory without descending into other partitions
find / -maxdepth 1 -xdev -type f -exec grep -li stringtofind '{}' \;
Find files/directories not changed in two weeks under /dev/shm
find /dev/shm /tmp -type f -ctime +14
Find all *.so files under $S directory and run doexe command with minimal invocation for those files
find "${S}" -name '*.so*' -exec doexe '{}' +
Prints string "0 1 * * * /root/test.sh" to the terminal, and append it to file '/var/spool/cron/root'
echo "0 1 * * * /root/test.sh" | tee -a /var/spool/cron/root
Find all regular files under current directory and replace every occurrences of 'subdomainA.example.com' with 'subdomainB.example.com' in those files
find . \ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/subdomainA.example.com/subdomainB.example.com/g'
find all the png files in the current folder which begin with the word image and do not search in the sub directories
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name 'image*png' `
Print unique lines of sorted file "A.txt" compared to sorted file "B.txt"
comm -2 -3 <(sort A.txt) <(sort B.txt)
Prints server name from SOA record for domain yahoo.com
dig +noall +answer soa yahoo.com | awk '{sub;print $5}'
display long listing of all the files in the root folder which are bigger than 3KB
find / -dev -size +3000 -exec ls -l {} ;
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 $c | crontab
find all the configuration files which have been accessed in the last 30 minutes.
find /etc/sysconfig -amin -30
Print out the contents of all files in the current directory tree that contain "spaces" in their names
find -name '*spaces*' | while read text; do cat "$text"; done
List content of 'myfile' in a subshell and returns output to parent shell
$(cat myfile)
Search for line number 111 in file "active_record.rb"
nl -ba -nln active_record.rb | grep '^111 '
create a symbolic link in current directory named "my_db" to file "/media/public/xampp/mysql/data/my_db"
ln /media/public/xampp/mysql/data/my_db -s
Print "test=hello world"
echo "hello world" | echo test=$(cat)
find all the files in the entire file system that have been changed exactly 60 days and display ten files
find / -cmin -60 | head
print all files in the file system excluding those ending with ".c"
find / \! -name "*.c" -print
find all the files in the home folder that have been modified between 24 to 48 hours
find $HOME -mtime -2 -mtime +1
search for *.log files starting from / and only in the current file system
find / -xdev -name "*.log"
Count the number of lines in all ".php" files in the current directory tree
wc -l `tree -if --noreport | grep -e'\.php$'`
Make 3 directories named "~/Labs/lab4a/folder" followed by the number 1, 2, or 3
mkdir ~/Labs/lab4a/folder{1,2,3}
search for a word in all the php files in the current folder and display the count of all matching lines.
find . -name \*.php -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 grep -Hn '$test' | wc -l
Recursively copy "original_dir" to "copy_dir" preserving file/dir timestamps, displaying progress, and skipping files which match in size, keeps partially transferred files.
rsync -Prt --size-only original_dir copy_dir
create a backup of all the files in the current folder excluding those that are present in the .snapshot sub directory and excluding the swap files (files ending with ~)
find . -name .snapshot -prune -o \( \! -name *~ -print0 \) | cpio -pmd0 /dest-dir
Search for " 000" in the hex dump of "file-with-nulls"
od file-with-nulls | grep ' 000'
List all files except for those in directory SCCS
find . -print -o -name SCCS -prune
Format bash array "${arr}" in columns
echo " ${arr[@]/%/$'\n'}" | column
display all the html files in the current folder that have not been modified in the last 7*24 horus
find . -mtime +7 -name "*.html" -print
display all the files in the current folder which are present in the path "./src/emacs"
find . -path './src/emacs' -prune -o -print
Use the first non-zero exit code (if any) of a set of piped commands as the exit code of the full set of commands
set -o pipefail
Find all files/directories with '.txt' extension under '/home' directory tree that are greater than 100KB in size
find /home -name "*.txt" -size +100k
Changes group ownership of 'shared' to 'Workers'.
chgrp Workers shared
Search for 'sometext' in all the files with '.txt' extension under current directory tree and also print the filenames
find . -name '*.txt' -exec grep 'sometext' '{}' \; -print
Finds recursively all folders named 'a' within current folder and removes only ones without files and another folders within.
find . -name "a" -type d | xargs rmdir
Remove all vmware-*.log files/directories under current directory
find . -name vmware-*.log | xargs -i rm -rf {}
Find all files under current directory with their size and paths, reverse sort them numerically, then print the 2nd field of the first 4 entries
find -type f -printf "%s %p\n" | sort -nr | head -n 4 | cut -d ' ' -f 2
Print the path composed of the current working directory and the directory containing "$0"
echo `pwd`/`dirname $0`
find all the files with the name "datainame" in the file system which are bigger than 50MB
find / -size +50M -iname "Dateiname"
Lists all paths to all subfolders in a current folder.
ls -mR * | sed -n 's/://p'
Replace spaces in directory names with underscores for all directories in the current directory tree
find -name "* *" -type d | rename 's/ /_/g'
Extract any line in "set1" which does not appear in "set2"
comm -23 < <
Read a line from standard input with prompt "Enter your age:\n"
read -p $'Enter your age:\n'
Move all regular files under current directory to ./newdir
find ./ -type f -print | xargs -l56 -I {} mv -f {} ./newdir
Find all files beneath the current directory that end with the extension .java and contain the characters StringBuffer. Print the name of the file where a match is found.
find . -type f -name "*.java" -exec grep -l StringBuffer {} \;
Search the current directory tree for files whose names match regular expression '.*packet.*', ignoring the case
find . -iregex ".*packet.*"
Search directory tree `MyApp.app' for directories whose name is 'Headers' and delete them in an optimized way
find -d MyApp.app -name Headers -type d -exec rm -rf {} +
Unsets shell variable 'latest'.
unset -v latest
display all the files in the home folder which have not been modified in the last 365*24 hours
find $HOME -mtime +365
Recursively bind "/dev" to "/var/snmp3/dev"
mount --rbind /dev /var/snmp3/dev
Find all level 1 subdirectories of the current directory
find . -maxdepth 1 -type d
Save a comma separated list of all directories under current directory tree to variable 'FOLDER'
FOLDERS=$(find . -type d -print0 | tr '\0' ',')
Prints full process tree with id number of each process.
pstree -p
Find all CSS files
find . -name "*.css"
Counts number of processors and saves in variable NUMCPU.
NUMCPU=$(grep $'^processor\t*:' /proc/cpuinfo |wc -l)
create a symbolic link named "bar" to file that named is a result of the command `canonical.bash foo`
ln -s `canonical.bash foo` bar
split processed content of the file temp into pieces per 1 line named "tempNNN" with numeric suffix
sed 's/3d3d/\n&/2g' temp | split -dl1 - temp
Find all directories in maximum 1 level down the current directory and remove the . entry from the output
find . -maxdepth 1 -type d | sed '/^\.$/d'
Remove all Thumbs.db files from the current directory tree
find . -name Thumbs.db -exec rm {} \;
Format bash array "${arr}" in columns
echo " ${arr[@]/%/$'\n'}" | sed 's/^ //' | column