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Silently read a line into variable "passwd" with prompt "Enter your password: " | read -s -p "Enter your password: " passwd |
Find all of jzb's files | find -user jzb |
Recursively finds all files containing text 'OPEN' and prints folder where they are placed. | grep -r OPEN * | awk '{split($1, path, ":"); print path[1]}' | xargs -I{} dirname {} |
Find all *.rb files under current directory and count their line numbers | find . -name "*.rb" -type f -exec wc -l \{\} \; |
Find all files/directories named modules under current directory and list them twice | find . -name modules \! -exec sh -c 'find -name modules' \; |
prints last part of a logfile since timestamp 423 | tac file.log | awk '{ if print; else exit; }' | tac |
Remove files under current directory with inode number $inum | find . -inum $inum -exec rm {} \; |
Find files under [directory] that match 'pattern_to_INCLUDE' in their names without descending into directories that match 'pattern_to_exclude' and 'another_pattern_to_exclude', then search for 'pattern' in those files | find [directory] -name "pattern_to_exclude" -prune -o -name "another_pattern_to_exclude" -prune -o -name "pattern_to_INCLUDE" -print0 | xargs -0 -I FILENAME grep -IR "pattern" FILENAME |
find all regex ".*/[a-f0-9\-]\{36\}\.jpg" files | find . -regextype sed -regex ".*/[a-f0-9\-]\{36\}\.jpg" |
change the permissions of all the regular/normal files to 644 in the folder /home/nobody/public_html | find /home/nobody/public_html -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; |
display the count of total number of empty files in the current folder | find . -type f -empty | wc -l |
Set read, write and execute permission for all for the files/directories in foldername directory tree | sudo find foldername -exec chmod a+rwx {} ";" |
Counts lines in file 'file1' and shows progress bar while doing. | pv file1 | wc -l |
Creates temporary file with name formatted like '.script.XXXXXX' in '/tmp/' folder and saves path to it in 'script2' variable. | script2=`mktemp /tmp/.script.XXXXXX`; |
Compare text "hello" and "goodbye" line by line | diff <(echo hello) <(echo goodbye) |
Print numbered list of all third-level files under the current directory | ls -d -1 $PWD/**/*/* | cat -n |
Remove leading and trailing spaces or tabs from " wordA wordB wordC " | echo " wordA wordB wordC " | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//' | sed -e 's/[ \t]*$//' |
Find all files under current directory and set read-write permission for owner and group and no permission for other for those directories | find . -type f -exec chmod ug=rw,o= {} \; |
Remove files in the current directory tree modified more than 31 days ago recursively | find . -type f -mtime +31 -print0 | xargs -0 -r rm -f |
search for the file job.hostory in the folder "/data/Spoolln" | find /data/SpoolIn -name job.history |
Print lines in the sorted contents of "file1" that are not in the sorted contents of "file2" | comm -23 < < |
download file "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.31.0/install.sh" and execute it | curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.31.0/install.sh | bash |
Synchronize "xxx-files" to "different-stuff/xxx-files" recursively preserving metadata with a bandwidth limit of 2000 KiB/s | rsync -pogtEtvr --progress --bwlimit=2000 xxx-files different-stuff |
Delete all files under $INTRANETDESTINATION/weekly directory tree that were modified more than 32 days ago | find $INTRANETDESTINATION/weekly -mtime +32 -exec rm {} \; |
Print file size with the file name | find . -name '*.ear' -exec du -h {} \; |
find all the files in the current directory which are bigger than 1000MB | find . -size +1000M |
List every symbolic link in every home directory's subdirectory owned by group `staff' | find `pwd` -group staff -exec find {} -type l -print ; |
View gzip's help documentation | gzip --help | less |
Find all directories that start with stat | find . -type d –iname stat* |
find all the files in the current folder that end with the word bar | find -name *bar |
Search for 'It took' in all $srch1* files under current directory | find . -iname "$srch1*" -exec grep "It took" {} \; -print |
Execute /usr/bin/find with $* arguments where current directory is the first argument | /usr/bin/find ./ $* |
Find all files/directories under current directory without descending into './bookshop/mediaimg', '*/CVS*', './files', './images/cms', './internal', './limesurvey171plus_build5638' and './gallery2' paths, then run cvs command with 'status' and each path as arguments and redirect the output to output.txt fle | for i in `find . -not \ -path './bookshop/mediaimg' -prune -o -path '*/CVS*' -prune -o -path './files' -prune -o -path './images/cms' -prune -o -path './internal' -prune -o -path './limesurvey171plus_build5638' -prune -o -path './gallery2' -prune -o -print `; do cvs status "$i" |grep Status ; done &>~/output.txt |
List all the file links | find . -type l |
Continuously send "y" as input to "cat" which outputs to "more" | yes | cat | more |
Page through the output of 'some_command' positioning the view at the first occurrence of regular expression 'regex'. | some_command | less -p regex |
Find all the files/directories in '/path/to/files' directory tree which have not been modified in the last 2 hours | find "/path/to/files" -mmin +120 |
Recursively finds strings with the whole word 'word-1' or 'word-2' in any file under 'directory-path', following symlinks, and prints found strings. | egrep -w -R "word-1|word-2” directory-path |
Duplicate directory tree under /mnt/usr/lib to /usr but creating symlinks to files instead of copying them. | cp -rs /mnt/usr/lib /usr/ |
Find all files in /home/user/ that were created or changed 10 minutes ago | find /home/user/ -cmin 10 -print |
Creates temporary folder in TMPDIR or in '/tmp/', and stores path to created folder in 'tmpdir' variable. | tmpdir=$ |
Print all user names and terminals of users who are logged in | who | cut -d " " -f1,2 |
Recursively remove all "*.txt" files and answer "n" to any prompt | yes n | rm -r *.txt |
Cut all remote paths from HTTP URLs received from standard input (one per line) keeping only the protocol identifier, host name, and trailing slash, of the form http://example.com/ | sed -n 's;\(http://[^/]*/\).*;\1;p' |
Find all *.plist files/directories under current directory | find . -name \*.plist |
Search the current directory recursively for regular files last modified more than 2 days ago | find . type -f -mtime +2 |
Find all *.txt files/directories under current directory and execute process for each of them | find . -name \*.txt -print0 | xargs -0 -I{} process {} argument |
Print the list of the current directory's subdirectories | find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -printf '%f\n' |
Format "$line" as a table | echo "$line" | column -t |
change owner of the files into directory dir_to_start except directory dir_to_exclude to user owner | find dir_to_start -name dir_to_exclude -prune -o -print0 | xargs -0 chown owner |
print the names of all of the unstripped binaries in the /usr/local directory tree. Builtin tests avoid running file on files that are not regular files or are not executable | find /usr/local -type f -perm /a=x | xargs file | grep 'not stripped' | cut -d: -f1 |
Use 'less' to nicely display control characters from the outupt of 'grep'. | grep -b -o $'\x0c' filename | less |
Search for files/directories with the case insensitive pattern anaconda.* in var/log directory and create an archive of the last file found | find var/log/ -iname anaconda.* -exec tar -cvf file.tar {} \; |
Find all the files in file system which are modified more than 50 days back and less than 100 days | find / -mtime +50 –mtime -100 |
Search for all files that end in ".conf" | find / -type f -name "*.conf" |
Split "foo.txt" into files with 1 line each and use a suffix length of 5 | split --suffix-length=5 --lines=1 foo.txt |
Find files readable only by the group | find . -perm g=r -type f -exec ls -l {} \; |
display all the files in current folder which start with "file2015-0" | find . -name "file2015-0*" |
Search the current user's home directory and its sub-directories for any file that was modified less than 2 days ago or was modified after filename was last modified. | find ~/ -mtime -2 -o -newer filename |
Sort lines in "FILE" to standard output preserving only unique lines | sort -u FILE |
Print 3 space separated '%' | echo $ |
Make directory "foo" and do not cause an error if it exists | mkdir -p foo |
Find all .java files starting from the current folder | find * -name "*.java" |
display all the configuration files in the current folder which are in the current tree structure | find . -path '*/*config' |
Remove empty directories from the current directory tree | find . -depth -empty -type d -delete |
Find all files/directories startring with 'onlyme' in their names under current directory without going into sub-directories | find . -maxdepth 1 -name 'onlyme*' |
Find & replace broken symbolic links | find -L . -type l -delete -exec ln -s new_target {} \; |
Run "./configure" with a new environment variable CC set to the full path of the command 'cc' | CC=$(which cc) ./configure |
Find files/directories under '/dir' directory tree that are newer than 'yesterday.ref' file and older than 'today.ref' file by modification time | find /dir -newer yesterday.ref -a \! -newer today.ref -print |
Find all files/directories with '.c' or '.h' extension under current directory tree and search for the regex provided by first positional argument and show the output by paging through one screenful at a time | find . -name '*.[ch]' | xargs grep $1 | less |
Executes command 'cd ~/server' in an opened tmux session 'cf'. | tmux send-keys -t cf 'cd ~/server' C-m |
search for all the files in the folder /data/images which are modified after /tmp/foo | find /data/images -newer /tmp/foo |
Kills all child process and process itself having id 24901. | kill `pstree -p 24901 | sed 's/(/\n(/g' | grep '(' | sed 's/(\).*/\1/' | tr "\n" " "` |
View manual page of find utility | man find |
See what files are executable by the file's owner and group | find -type f -perm -110 |
find all the ".jpg" files in current folder and display their count | find ./ -name '*.jpg' -type f | wc -l |
Find all .sh files in or below the current directory and move them to folder ~/back.scripts | find . -name "*.sh" -print0 | xargs -0 -I file mv file ~/back.scripts |
Resolve any symlinks in working directory, and go to resulting pathname. | cd "`pwd -P`" |
Search the file system for regular files whose names are shorter than 25 characters | find / -type f | egrep '.*/.{1,24}$' |
Change directory to the directory containing the executable file of command "oracle" | cd $(which oracle | xargs dirname) |
download contents from "https://raw.github.com/creationix/nvm/master/install.sh" and execute | curl https://raw.github.com/creationix/nvm/master/install.sh | sh |
Set the variable "me" to the name of the running script, or shell, login shells have a hyphen appended to the beginning of the name, such as "-bash". | me=`basename -- "$0"` |
Search for the regex \s1$ in all files under current directory | find . -type f -exec perl -wnl -e '/\s1$/ and print' {} + |
Print name of the block device containing the file system containing $path. | df -P "$path" | awk 'BEGIN {FS="[ ]*[0-9]+%?[ ]+"}; NR==2 {print $1}' |
run command 'ls -hal /root/ > /root/test.out' as user root | sudo su -c 'ls -hal /root/ > /root/test.out' |
Find all files in ~/clang+llvm-3.3/bin/ and print 'basename /file/path' for each file | find ~/clang+llvm-3.3/bin/ -type f -exec echo basename {} \; |
display list of all the hidden files in the home folder | find $HOME -name ".*" -ls |
Counts lines of /dir/file.txt file. | wc -l /dir/file.txt |
Display unique names of logged in users | finger | sed 's/\t/ /' | sed 's/pts\/[0-9]* *[0-9]*//' | awk '{print $2"\t\t"$3" "$4" "$5}' | sort | uniq |
Search the /Applications directory tree for *.app directories | find /Applications -type d -name "*.app" |
Show manual for the find command | man find |
display all the files in the file system which belong to the user "user1" | find / -user user1 |
Put the absolute directory path to the current script to MY_DIR variable | MY_DIR=$(dirname $) |
Recursively change the user and group of all files in "/var/cache/jenkins" to "root" | chown -R root:root /var/cache/jenkins |
Report all files starting in the directories /mydir1 and /mydir2 larger than 2,000 blocks that have not been accessed in over 30 days | find /mydir1 /mydir2 -size +2000 -atime +30 -print |
Find all files that aren't owned by user www-data | find -not -user www-data |
Show the current UTC date in '%Y-%m-%dT%k:%M:%S%z' format | date -u '+%Y-%m-%dT%k:%M:%S%z' |
Move "/usr/bin/openssl" to directory "/root/" | mv /usr/bin/openssl /root/ |
Find all files starting from the current directory which are owned by the user tommye | find . -user tommye |
Find all directories in current directory excluding . and print a sorted list in the file a | find . -maxdepth 1 -type d ! -name . | sort > a |
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