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Split "/etc/gconf/schemas/gnome-terminal.schemas" into 1000000 files of about equal size
split -n 1000000 /etc/gconf/schemas/gnome-terminal.schemas
find the file "httpd.log" in the entire file system
find / -type f -name httpd.log
search files in the file system excluding those in the paths "10_Recommended" and "/export/repo"
find / -name whatever -not -path "/10_Recommended*" -not -path "/export/repo/*"
list all the files which have size 0 bytes in some directories
find `gen_root_dirs.sh` -type f -size 0 -ls
find all regular files in a folder using regular expressions which do not have a specific name pattern and send these files as input to the script.bash script file
find "$DIRECTORY_TO_PROCESS" -type f -iregex ".*\.$FILES_TO_PROCES" ! -name "$find_excludes" -print0 | xargs -0 -I {} bash script.bash {}
Find all *.html files under current directory and for each file replace the first occurrence of STRING and previous lines with the content of common_header file
find . -type f -name '*.html' -exec sed -i -e '1r common_header' -e '1,/STRING/d' {} \;
Decompress and extract '/usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/source-one.tar.gz'
gzip -dc /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/source-one.tar.gz | tar -xvvf -
Store info about all mounted file systems, printing all sizes in powers of 1000
a=$
Find all Executable files in the file system
find / -perm /a=x
List all nfs mount points on the system
mount -l | grep 'type nfs' | sed 's/.* on \ .*/\1/'
display all the directories in the current folder for the files which have not been accessed in the last 48 hours
find . -type d -atime +2
Search the file system for regular files whose names are shorter than 25 characters
find / -type f -regextype posix-extended -regex '.*/.{1,24}$'
Print a sorted list of *.so files in the bla directory tree
find bla -name *.so -print0 | sort -rz
searches through the root filesystem ("/") for the file named Chapter1.
find / -name Chapter1 -type f -print
extract 'archive.tar.gz' to /destination
tar xzf archive.tar.gz -C /destination
display all the directories in the current folder
find . -type d
Recursively copy all regular files below current directory to directory /tmp on hostname, connecting as ssh user matching current username on local host.
find . -type f -exec scp {} hostname:/tmp/{} \;
Calculate md5 checksum of $line and save to variable 'md5'
md5=$(echo "$line"|md5sum)
show all .cpp, .c, .h, .hpp files in the folder ~/src
find ~/src -type f \ -exec echo {} \;
Change the group of "myfile" to "friends"
chown :friends myfile
Find all directories under current directory and replace all null delimiters with : in the output then remove the last :
find -type d -print0 | sed -e "y/\d0/:/;s/:$//;"
find all the files in the entire file system that start with top
find / -name 'top*'
search for all mp3 files in the folder /home/you which have been accessed exactly 10*24 hours ago
find /home/you -iname "*.mp3" -atime 10 -type -f
Print IP address of the current host
echo $(/usr/sbin/arp $ | awk -F'[]' '{print $2}')
Print sorted list of strings from 'ip_addresses' file, with number of occurrences of each string.
sort ip_addresses | uniq -c
find files in home directory that names are game
find ~ -name game
Rename "blah2" to "blah2-new"
mv blah2 blah2-new
Delete all hidden files under $some_directory
find "$some_directory" -type f -name '.*' -delete
Display "/tmp/file" as a table of width 30 with columns filled before rows
column -x -c 30 /tmp/file
Find all files larger than 20000k
find / -type f -size +20000k
Format "$line" as a table
echo "$line" | column -t
Recursively change owner and group to "$JBOSS_AS_USER" of "$JBOSS_AS_DIR"
chown -R $JBOSS_AS_USER:$JBOSS_AS_USER $JBOSS_AS_DIR
Find all directories under current directory
find -type d
Find all files/directories with user id 120 under current directory tree
find . -uid 120 -print
Remove all files whose names end with "~" in the /home/peter directory tree
find /home/peter -name *~ |xargs rm
Search regular files from the /path/to/dir directory tree for lines that contain "_START" and are enclosed in lines "@GROUP" and "@END_GROUP"
find /path/to/dir -type f -exec sed '/@GROUP/,/@END_GROUP/!d' {} + | grep '_START'
Take first text field from file 'file.txt' as a domain name and get short A record for this one.
cut -d' ' -f1 file.txt | xargs dig +short
Find all "G*.html" files modified more than 7 days ago in the current directory tree
find . -mtime +7 -name "G*.html"
Print lines in the sorted contents of "a.txt" that are not in the sorted contents of "b.txt"
comm -23 <(sort a.txt) <(sort b.txt)
Read a line from standard input with prompt "Continue ?" and save response in variable "choice"
read -p "Continue ?" choice
Find all files/directores that are newer than /etc/motd and conain the string 'top' at the beginning of their names under user's home directory tree
find ~ -name 'top*' -newer /etc/motd
display list of all the C files ( fuiles with ".c" extension ) in current folder
find . -name '*.c' -ls
find all regular files in current folder which are atleast 1 level deep and search in the alphabetical order of the directory names
find -s . -mindepth 1 -type f -print0; printf '\0';
Format time string @1267619929 according to default time format
date -d @1267619929
SSH in server 'server' as user 'user' with X11 forwarding disabled
ssh -x user@server
Find the "erl" executable in $PATH and read the "RELEASES" file to extract the erlang release number
awk -F, 'NR==1 {gsub;print $3}' "$(dirname $(readlink -f $))/../releases/RELEASES"
Find users whose names begin with "ab" and ends with "1"
who | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | grep -e '^ab' -e '1$'
Recursively change the owner and group of all files in the current directory to "andrewr"
chown -R andrewr:andrewr *
Find all files in the current directory tree, except GIT files
find -type f -name .git -prune -o -print
Compare sorted files 'f1.txt' and 'f2.txt' and print in three columns strings unique for first file, second file, and common ones
comm <(sort f1.txt) <(sort f2.txt)
Search the current directory tree for PHP files changed less than 14 days ago
find . -name *.php -ctime -14
change the permissions of mp3 files in the folder /var/ftp/mp3 to 644
find /var/ftp/mp3 -name '*.mp3' -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
List the last modified file under "$DIR"
find $DIR -type f -printf "%T@ %p\n" | sort -n | cut -d' ' -f 2 | tail -n 1
Calculate md5 sums for each files matching 'main.cpp*'
md5sum main.cpp*
Recursively change the owner and group of "/opt/antoniod/" to "antoniod"
chown -R antoniod:antoniod /opt/antoniod/
display all the files in the current folder.
find .
Find all files under /home/username/public_html/modules and set their permission to 640
find /home/username/public_html/modules -type f -exec chmod 640 {} +
find all the files in the current folder which have executable permission to all the users and display the ten files
find . -perm /a=x | head
Remove the "^M" characters from all *.ext files under /home directory
find /home -type f -name "*.ext" -exec perl -pi -e 's/\r//g' {} \;
display long listing of all regular/normal files whose size is less than 50 bytes.
find /usr/bin -type f -size -50c -exec ls -l '{}' ';'
Prints dates of $m month in $y year, preceded by month number and slash like ' 10/1'.
cal $m $y | sed -e '1,2d' -e 's/^/ /' -e "s/ \([0-9]\)/ $m\/\1/g"
Grab the output of "basename" and echo it to stdout, which basename would do by default anyway.
echo `basename "$filename"`
list names of bind functions containing "/"
bind -l | grep /
search all the files in the current folder using regex
find . -regex ".*/my.*p.$"
find all the png files in the current folder which are present in the pattern list search .txt
find . -name '*.png' | grep -f search.txt
Recursively finds all files and prints all strings with 'text-to-find-here' from that files.
find / -type f | xargs grep 'text-to-find-here'
Run 'git pull' in every git repository in the current directory
find . -type d -name .git -exec sh -c "cd \"{}\"/../ && pwd && git pull" \;
Copy file linked to by "file" to "file"
cp --remove-destination `readlink file` file
Find all php files that belong to user 'takuya' and have been modified in the last 1 day
find -user takuya -name '*.php' -daystart -mtime -1
list *.pdf files under the /home/user/Desktop directory.
find /home/user/Desktop -name '*.pdf'
Print the sorted unique column of usernames of users who are currently logged in without the header
finger | tail -n +2 | awk '{ print $1 }' | sort | uniq
Find all files that have additional permissions
find / -perm -644
Dump the character output of 'echo `echo "Ho ho ho"`'
echo `echo "Ho ho ho"` | od -c
View line 500 to line 500 + 501 in gzipped file "bigfile.z"
zcat bigfile.z | tail -n +500 | head -501
Change owner to "$1" and group to "httpd" of ".htaccess"
chown $1:httpd .htaccess
Delete all .svn files/directories under current directory
find . -name .svn -exec rm -rf {} \;
Print unique lines of sorted "File 1" compared with sorted "File 2"
comm -23 "File 1" "File 2"
Look for files with wide open permissions
find . -type f -perm a=rwx -exec ls -l {} \;
Find all *.* files not within .git directory and run $SED_CMD -i "s/$1/$2/g" on each of them
find . -type f -name "*.*" -not -path "*/.git/*" -print0 | xargs -0 $SED_CMD -i "s/$1/$2/g"
change the ownership of all regular/normal files in the current directory after users confirmation
find . -type f -ok chown username {} \;
Print relative path of device of disk with UUID "b928a862-6b3c-45a8-82fe-8f1db2863be3"
readlink /dev/disk/by-uuid/b928a862-6b3c-45a8-82fe-8f1db2863be3
Search case insensitively for 'foo' in all the files with '.java' extension under current directory tree and show only the file names
find . -type f -name "*.java" -exec grep -il 'foo' {} \;
Count all the lines of code in all php files in current directory recursively
find . -name "*.php" | xargs grep -v -c '^$' | awk 'BEGIN {FS=":"} { $cnt = $cnt + $2} END {print $cnt}'
change owner of the file file.sh to user root
$sudo chown root file.sh
Move all hidden files in "wordpress" to the current directory
mv wordpress/.* .
Print list of file systems currently mounted.
df -h | awk '{print $1}'
Read a line from standard input and save each word in the bash array variable "first"
read -a first
Print file information of command "bash"
echo $(ls -l $(which bash))
Make directory "/tmp/googleTestMock"
mkdir /tmp/googleTestMock
Find all regular files with '.what_to_find' extension in the entire filesystem and move them to directory '/new_directory'
find / -iname "*.what_to_find" -type f -exec mv {} /new_directory \;
Find all files under minimum 1 level down the current directory
find . -mindepth 1 -type f
Number each non-blank line of standard input
nl
Find all *.c files under and below the current directory that contain "wait_event_interruptible"
find . -name \*.c -print | xargs grep wait_event_interruptible /dev/null
Set the setgid bit on all directories in the repository "/git/our_repos"
find /git/our_repos -type d -exec chmod g+s {} +
Set prompt to the system host name and history number
PS1="`hostname`:\!>"
Search core files in current direcory and delete .
find . -name core -exec rm {} \;
Split "biglogfile.gz" into chunks of 500000 line gzipped compressed files
zcat biglogfile.gz | split -l500000 --filter='gzip > $FILE.gz'
Find all *.rb and *.py files/directories under current directory
find . -name "*.rb" -or -name "*.py"
Change permissions to 755 for all directories in the current directory tree
find . -type d | xargs chmod -v 755
Copy directory tree preserving UID and GID and leaving user files alone
find . -depth -print | cpio -o -O /target/directory