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Perform white space safe deletion of files named core under /tmp | find /tmp -name core -type f -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm -f |
Output the specified path removing all containing directories and the .txt suffix, in this case "filename". | basename /path/to/dir/filename.txt .txt |
create directory es if it is not exist and create direcoty LC_MESSAGES | mkdir -p es/LC_MESSAGES |
Split "INPUT_FILE_NAME" into files of at most 500 MiB each with a numeric suffix of length 4 and prefix "input.part." | split -b 500M -d -a 4 INPUT_FILE_NAME input.part. |
Prints current month calendar, without highlighting of a current date. | cal -h |
find all the files in the root folder which have been modified in the last 24 hours and print them | find / -mtime -1 -print |
Find all files/directories named file1 under current directory | find -name file1 |
Save the filename and hash of the md5 sum of "file" to bash array "md5" | md5=($) |
Search file aaa from current direcoty downwards and print it . | find . -name aaa -print |
Find with combine multiple search criterias , in this command serach files that begin with abc in there name and dont have .py extension . | find . -type f -name 'abc*' ! -name '*.py' |
Find all *fstab* files under and below /etc | find /etc -name *fstab* |
Find all directories under $x directory and set read-write-execute permission for owner and group and no permission for other for those directories | find ${x} -type d -exec chmod ug=rwx,o= '{}' \; |
Search the files from the current directory tree for "foo" | find . -exec grep foo {} + |
Change file permissions on all regular files within a directory | find /path/to/directory -type f -exec chmod 644 {} + |
Save all directories under the current directory as a comma separated list in variable "FOLDERS" | FOLDERS=$ |
Recursively and forcibly removes $TMP folder with all content. | rm -fR "${TMP}/"; |
Search for $SEARCH in all regular files under $DIR directory tree and display the number of bytes of the matched output | find $DIR -type f -exec grep $SEARCH /dev/null {} \; | wc --bytes |
find all the regular/normal files in the current folder which belong to the users with the user id's between 500 and 1000 | find . -uid +500 -uid -1000 -type f |
Find *.html files in the current directory tree that were modified less than 7 days ago | find . -mtime -7 -name "*.html" -print |
Output the file name "file.txt' from the path "some/unknown/amount/of/sub/folder/file.txt" | basename "some/unknown/amount/of/sub/folder/file.txt" |
Print 1 byte from "/dev/urandom" as a signed decimal value and no address radix | od -A n -t d -N 1 /dev/urandom |
create a compressed archive "compressFileName.tar.gz" with verbose output | tar -zcvf compressFileName.tar.gz folderToCompress |
List the current directory recursively ignoring the "dir1" subdirectory | find . -path ./dir1 -prune -o -print |
Remove files modified at least five days ago in directory trees /path/to/files* | find /path/to/files* -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \; |
Remove all files containing 'sample' (case insensitive) in their names under '/home/user/Series' directory tree | find /home/user/Series/ -iname '*sample*' -exec rm {} \; |
Read the first line of "$sh_lock_file" into variable "sh_lock_lastPID" | read sh_lock_lastPID < $sh_lock_file |
Find all files/directories under minimum 2 level down the current directory and set their permission to 700 | find . -mindepth 2 | xargs chmod 700 |
Search for the case insensitive regex expanded by $2 in all files named $1 (to be expanded) under current directory | find . -name "$1" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -i "$2" |
display all regular/normal files in the current folder which are accessed in the last 7*24 hours | find . -type f -atime -7 |
display all the files in the current folder which have been modified in one hour ago | find . -newermt "1 hour ago" |
display all files in the folder /usr and its sub directory(do not search beyond the sub directory) | find /usr -maxdepth 1 -print |
Search the /etc/apache-perl directory tree for files newer than /etc/apache-perl/httpd.conf | find /etc/apache-perl -newer /etc/apache-perl/httpd.conf |
Find files larger than 100MB in /var/www and exclude files with /download/ in their path from the output | find /var/www/ -type f -name "*" -size +100M -exec du -h '{}' \;|grep -v /download/ |
find regular file named foo.txt under root / directory. | find / -name foo.txt -type f |
Read a line from standard input into variable "REPLY" with prompt "$1 ([y]es or [N]o): " | read -p "$1 ([y]es or [N]o): " |
Search directory $CURR_DIR for regular files that were changed, accessed, or modified $FTIME days ago | find ${CURR_DIR} -type f \( -ctime ${FTIME} -o -atime ${FTIME} -o -mtime ${FTIME} \) -printf "./%P\n" |
Find all files/directories under current directory with null character as the delimiter and then replace the null characters with : | find -print0 | tr "\0" ":" |
search all undo files(ending with .undo) in the current folder and calculate the total size of them | find -name '*.undo' -exec wc -c {} + | tail -n 1 | cut -d' ' -f 1 |
Search for all files newer than file /tmp/t | find / -newer /tmp/t |
Filters only directories from long file listing of the current directory | ls -l --color=always "$@" | grep --color=never '^d' |
Prints information about user $euids currently on machine and its processes, without printing header. | w -h $euids |
Replace spaces in file names with underscores for all files in the current directory tree | find -name "* *" -type f | rename 's/ /_/g' |
Export variable "PS1" as the current username "@" the hostname | export PS1='$@$:' |
find all the css files | find -name '*.css' |
Find all files in the /home/ directory tree that were last modified less than 7 days ago | find /home -mtime -7 |
download contents from "http://www.example.com" using a proxy server | curl http://www.example.com --proxy http://125.119.175.48:8909 |
Find any file that has "disc" somewhere in its name in the current directory and all of its sub-directories. | find . -name *disc* |
Recursively removes all files and folders named '.svn' in a current folder. | find . -name .svn | xargs rm -fr |
Replace each newline in input "1\n2\n3\n4\n5" with a comma | echo "1\n2\n3\n4\n5" | paste -s -d, /dev/stdin |
Delete and count files in $DIR_TO_CLEAN that are older than $DAYS_TO_SAVE days | find "$DIR_TO_CLEAN" -type f -mtime +$DAYS_TO_SAVE -print0 | awk -v RS='\0' -v ORS='\0' '{ print } END { print NR }' | xargs -0 rm |
Find all files in the current directory tree whose names are ".DS_STORE" | find . -name ".DS_STORE" |
SSH into user@server and run command ${SSH_COMMAND} | ssh user@server "${SSH_COMMAND}" |
search for a word in all the files in the current directory | find . -type f -exec grep 'needle' {} \; |
display all the normal/regular files in the directory FOLDER1 | find FOLDER1 -type f -print0 |
Search my_folder recursively for text files containing "needle text" | find my_folder -type f -exec grep -l "needle text" {} \; -exec file {} \; | grep text |
Print "yes" 4 times followed by 1 "no" | yes yes | sed -e 5s/yes/no/ -e 5q |
find all the files in the current folder which have been modified after the file disk.log | find . -newer disk.log -print |
Replace all spaces with underscores in file paths under current directory. | find -name "* *" -type f | rename 's/ /_/g' |
Find all image.pdf files under ./polkadots | find ./polkadots -type f -name "image.pdf" |
Print NS record for domain 'domain.' from 8.8.8.8 nameserver | dig @8.8.8.8 domain. ns |
Copy the owner and group of "originalfile" to "newfile" | chown `stat -c %U originalfile`:`stat -c %G originalfile` newfile |
Find all *.tar.gz files/directories under /directory/whatever which were modified more than $DAYS ago | find /directory/whatever -name '*.tar.gz' -mtime +$DAYS |
run command "cd /home/$USERNAME/$PROJECT ; svn update" as user named as value of the variable $USERNAME | su -c "cd /home/$USERNAME/$PROJECT ; svn update" -m "$USERNAME" |
Forcefully delete all files in the current directory | find . -name '*' | xargs rm |
display the count of number html files in the current folder | find . -name "*.html" -print | xargs -l -i wc {} |
find all the regular/normal files in the /path folder and delete them | find /path -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm |
display list of all the regular/normal files in the home folder which are bigger than 512 kb | find /home/ -type f -size +512k -exec ls -lh {} \; |
Find all files under /home/mywebsite/public_html/sites/all/modules and set their permission to 640 | find /home/mywebsite/public_html/sites/all/modules -type f -exec chmod 640 {} + |
Counts the number of lines in each file in a git repository. | wc -l --files0-from=< |
Make DNS lookup requests for domain list in file '/path/to/host-list.txt' | dig -f /path/to/host-list.txt |
Dynamically defines tmux session name to attach to. | tmux attach -t "$" |
Counts lines in each *.php file. | wc -l $(find . -name "*.php") |
Force create a symbolic link without dereferencing named "$SYMLINK_PATH" to "$lastModified" | ln -nsf $lastModified $SYMLINK_PATH |
Delete characters in columns 36 through 40 from the output of "finger" | finger | cut --complement -c36-40 |
Search for a pattern "can't" in all the files with the name "file-containing-can't" in the current directory tree | find . -name "file-containing-can't" -exec grep "can't" '{}' \; -print |
Back up all *.txt files/directories in new files/directories with a .bak extension in their names under /etc directory | find /etc -name "*.txt" | xargs -I {} mv {} {}.bak |
Replace "_" with newlines in "Testing\r\nTested_Hello_World" and display the named characters | echo -e "Testing\r\nTested_Hello_World" | awk -v RS="_" '{ print $0; }' | od -a |
Search all files in the current directory tree that are named "whatever" for "you_search_for_it" | find -name whatever -exec grep --with-filename you_search_for_it {} \; |
find all files in the current folder and search for a word in them. | find . -type f -exec grep "applicationX" {} \; |
Print unique lines of "second-file-sorted.txt" compared to "first-file-sorted.txt" | comm -23 second-file-sorted.txt first-file-sorted.txt |
Measure the disk space taken up by all *.txt files in the current directory tree | find . -name "*.txt" -print0 |xargs -0 du -ch | tail -n1 |
Find all files under current directory | find "`pwd`" -type f |
Search the current directory tree for regular files omitting directory `omit-directory' | find . \( -name omit-directory -prune \) -o \( -type f -print \) |
Find all files/directories that contain the string literal '$VERSION' in their names under current directory tree | find . -name '*$VERSION*' |
list the files with a name ending with '.mp3' or '.jpg' and beginning with 'foo' | find . \ -name 'foo*' -print |
Find files/directories under current directory that matches './projects/insanewebproject' in their paths | find -ipath './projects/insanewebproject' |
Find all files under /mountpoint and below which have hard links | find /mountpoint -type f -links +1 |
Find all files in the current directory tree ignoring the ".git" directory | find . -type d -name '.git*' -prune -o -type f -print |
Join columns in "file1" and "file2" if their first field matches and format the output as a table | join file1 file2 | column -t |
Find all files under directory tree /path/to/dir whose permissions are not 644 | find /path/to/dir ! -perm 0644 |
Gets domain name from dig reverse lookup. | $dig -x 8.8.8.8 | grep PTR | grep -o google.* |
Search all files under and below /etc for IP addresses | find /etc -exec grep '[0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9][0-9]*' {} \; |
change the permissions of all the directories in the current folder | find . -type d -exec chmod 2775 {} \; |
Search for files/directories with the case insensitive pattern anaconda.* in /var/log directory and create an archive (file.tar) of the last file found | find /var/log/ -iname anaconda.* -exec tar -cvf file.tar {} \; |
Rename all "thumbs" directories to "thumb" in the current directory and 1 level below | find . -maxdepth 2 -type d | sed 'p;s/thumbs/thumb/' | xargs -n2 mv |
remove all the log files which have not been modified in the last 5 days | find /logs -type f -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \; |
Change owner to "root" and group to "www-data" of "/foobar/test_file" | sudo chown root:www-data /foobar/test_file |
display all the files in the kat folder | find kat -printf "%f\n" |
Find files in the current directory whose names begin with "file" and remove them | find . -name file* -maxdepth 1 -exec rm {} \; |
Find all files under $dir | find "$dir" -type f |
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