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Exit the shell immediately if an error is encountered, treat references to unset variables as errors, disable overwriting existing files, and use the first non-zero exit code of a set of piped commands as the exit code of the full set of commands
set -o errexit -o nounset -o noclobber -o pipefail
set alias "current" for command 'cd $'
alias current='cd $'
Print a sorted list of the extensions of the regular files from the current directory tree matching pattern '*.???'
find . -type f -name "*.???" | awk -F. '{print $NF}' | sort -u
Find all files/directories that are owned by user 'wnj' and are newer than 'ttt' by modification time in the entire filesystem
find / -newer ttt -user wnj -print
Find all files/directories under current directory and sort them
find | sort
Prints file descriptor of executed built-in 'true'.
echo <(true)
Search directory trees /tmp and /var/tmp for "testfile.txt"
find /tmp /var/tmp -iname "testfile.txt"
List files in directory "one" that exist in directory "two"
sort <(ls one) <(ls two) | uniq -d
Remove all files and directories called "test" from the current directory tree
find . -name test -delete
find all the files ending with jpg in current folder and display their count ( case insensitive )
find ./ -type f -regex ".*\.[Jj][Pp][gG]$" | wc -l
Print the last space separated word from "Your string here"
echo "Your string here"| tr ' ' '\n' | tail -n1
Extract tar.gz archive and go into the directory that would normally be created by extracting it.
tar xvf "$myarchive" && cd "${myarchive%.tar.gz}"
Print a welcome message with the current user's user name
echo -ne "Welcome `whoami`!\n"
Finds strings like "texthere" recursively in all files of a current folder regarding all symlinks.
grep -R "texthere" *
find all files in home folder which have been modified after a timestamp
find ~ -newer /tmp/timestamp
find all the files in the current folder which have been modified in the last one minute
find . -type f -mmin 0
find all the files in the current directory and sub-directories, that were edited within the last 1 hour and execute the list command with long listing format
find -mmin -60 -exec ls -l {} \;
Search the current directory tree for files and directories whose names do not end in ".exe" and ".dll"
find . -not -name "*.exe" -not -name "*.dll"
For each line of the sorted output of both file1 and file2, print lines whose first field of file2 does not appear as first field of file1.
join -v1 < <
Change the owner to "hduser" and group to "hadoop" of "{directory path}"
sudo chown hduser:hadoop {directory path}
Find any hidden regular files in the current directory and its sub-directories that were modified after .cshrc was last modified.
find . -type f -name ".*" -newer .cshrc -print
Find files that are writable by both the “other” and the group under the plsql directory
find plsql -type f -perm -ug=rw -exec ls -l {} \; 2>/dev/null
Calculate the md5sum of the executable file of command "gcc"
md5sum $(which gcc)
Finds PIDs of all running processes, gets executable binary of each process, and prints containing folder of each binary.
ps -A -o pid | xargs -I pid readlink "/proc/pid/exe" | xargs -I file dirname "file"
find the oldest normal file in the current directory
find -type f -printf '%T+ %p\n' | sort | head -n 1
Print linux group names on multiple lines instead of single line output
groups | tr \ \\n
Print the time to ping "8.8.8.8" followed by a time stamp if the ping is greater than 58
ping 8.8.8.8 | awk '{split;if print a[2], strftime}'
Display a long list of all the files/directories named ".todo" under $STORAGEFOLDER directory tree
find $STORAGEFOLDER -name .todo -exec ls -l {} \;
find all the files in the current folder which do not have the execute permission
find . -type d ! -perm -111
create directory dirname with permissions 777
mkdir -m 777 dirname
find files having the extension "bam" in current directory
find . -name "*.bam"
Find the file in the current directory tree with inode number $inum and delete it
find . -inum $inum -exec rm {} \;
Display differences between /destination/dir/1 and /destination/dir/2 excluding XML files.
diff /destination/dir/1 /destination/dir/2 -r -x *.xml
Calculate the md5sum of the executable file of command "gcc"
md5sum $
Find all executable upvoter-* files/symlinks under maximum 1 level down the {} directory
find {} -name 'upvoter-*' \( -type f -or -type l \) -maxdepth 1 -perm +111
Execute "myfile" on all .ogv files from the current directory tree
find ./ -name *.ogv -exec bash -c 'myfile {}' \;
search for the directory "config" in the current folder and change directory to it
cd `find . -name "config"`
Make directory "/etc/cron.15sec"
mkdir /etc/cron.15sec
List detailed information about all Jar files in the current directory tree
find . -name "*.jar" -exec zipinfo {} \;
Read a line from standard input into the first argument ("$1") using an interactive shell with prompt "> "
read -e -p '> ' $1
Find all regular *.css files
find . -type f -name "*.css"
Find all files/directories under current directory tree with inode number 211028 and move them to 'newname.dir'
find . -inum 211028 -exec mv {} newname.dir \;
find all the cpp files in the current folder and move them to another folder
find . -type f -iname '*.cpp' -exec mv {} ./test/ \;
Display the number of sub-directories for all directories under current directory tree, sort them according to the decreasing order of the number and show only the first 10 of them
find . -type d -ls | awk '{print $4 - 2, $NF}' | sort -rn | head
Replace the occurrences of "HOGE" with "MOGA" once per each line of the .yaml files from the current directory tree
find . -type f -name "*.yaml" -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i -e "s/HOGE/MOGA/"
Delete current cron job list, and use those in yourFile.text
crontab yourFile.text
Find regular files readable by the world
find . -perm -g=r -type f -exec ls -l {} \;
Recursively finds all '*.pdf' files in a current folder and removes them without prompting.
find . -name '*.pdf' -exec rm -f {} \;
Find files/directories under current directory without descending into it
find -prune
Find all directories under current directory and set read-write-execute permission for owner, read-execute permission for group and execute permission for other for those directories
find . -type d -exec chmod u=rwx,g=rx,o=x {} \;
List .html files in the current directory tree that contain string "base\-maps" but do NOT contain string "base\-maps\-bot"
find . -name "*.html" -exec grep -lR 'base\-maps' {} \; | xargs grep -L 'base\-maps\-bot'
find all the files in the current folder with the name "test-a" and move them to the folder test-10
find ~ -type f -name test-a -exec mv {} test-10 \;
Print the list of files and directories of the /etc directory
find /etc/. ! -name /etc/.
Print the /proc directory tree, ignoring the PID-process things
find /proc -type d | egrep -v '/proc/[0-9]*' | less
Find files/directories with exactly read,write and execute permission for all under /path
find /path -perm 777
Find a single file called FindCommandExamples.txt under current directory and remove it
find . -type f -name "FindCommandExamples.txt" -exec rm -f {} \;
get the root user access
sudo su
Find the passwd file under root and one level down.
find -maxdepth 2 -name passwd
find all directories with the name test in a directory
find /home/john -type d -name test -print
Find recursively the latest modified .zip file in the current directory
find . -name "*zip" -type f | xargs ls -ltr | tail -1
find all the files in the current folder which have execute permission to all the users
find . -perm /u=x,g=x,o=x
Find all files with name "file.ext" under the current working directory tree and print each full path directory name
find `pwd` -name file.ext |xargs -l1 dirname
Remove all directories called "test" from the current directory tree
find . -name test -type d -print0|xargs -0 rm -r --
find all text files in user/directory/ which have been modified today and display the last line of these files
find /user/directory/ -name "*txt" -mtime 0 -type f -printf '%p: ' -exec tail -1 {} \;
search for al cpp files in current folder and replace all expect the parent directory name of these files and display it them sorted order
find . -name '*.cpp' | sed -e 's/\/[^/]*$//' | sort | uniq
find all the files that have been modified exactly 24 hours ago
find . -type f -mtime 1
display all the files in the folder "$ORIG_DIR"
find "$ORIG_DIR"
Search the current directory recursively for regular files that have been changed less than 3 days ago and print 5 of them.
find . -type f -ctime -3 | tail -n 5
Use "$BYTES" amount of RAM with no output
yes | tr \\n x | head -c $BYTES | grep n
Set variable PacketLoss to first digit of percentage of packet loss occurring when pinging host specified by TestIP
PacketLoss=$
display all the text files in the current folder and do not search in the bin directory
find . -name bin -prune -o -name "*.txt" -print
View the bash manpage, starting with the view positioned at the first occurrence of the expression "BASH_SOURCE".
man bash | less -p BASH_SOURCE
Print A record for domain 'domain.' from 'ns2.newnameserver' nameserver
dig @ns2.newnameserver domain. a
Print a colon-separated list of all directories from the $root directory tree
find $root -type d | tr '\n' ':'
Modify and rewrite 'file' replacing the first instance of "foo" on each line with "bar"
sed -i 's/foo/bar/' file
delete all the normal/regular files in the current folder
find . -type f -print -delete
Copy all files under director 'foo' whose name doesn't contain 'Music' to directory 'bar'.
find foo -type f ! -name '*Music*' -exec cp {} bar \;
Finds if environment variable like 'DUALCASE' exists in environment.
env | grep DUALCASE
Change ownership of "/data/db" to the current user
sudo chown `whoami` /data/db
Change the owner of all ".txt" files in directory tree "/mydir" to "root"
find /mydir -type f -name "*.txt" -execdir chown root {} ';'
Print out all files with their paths that have identical content and the same filename in different cases
find * -type f | xargs md5sum | sort | uniq -Dw32 | awk -F'[ /]' '{ print $NF }' | sort -f | uniq -Di
Print the $N'th line from file by replacing commas (',') with newlines
head -$N file | tail -1 | tr ',' '\n'
Print a top 20 histogram of characters used from standard input showing backslash escapes for non-displayables
od -cvAnone -w1 | sort -b | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 20
Remove Mac OS X Desktop Services Store files
find . -name ".DS_Store" -exec rm {} \;
recursively change owner of the directory /usr/lib/node_modules/ to the current user
sudo chown -R $ /usr/lib/node_modules/
Remove all text files in the home directory with confirmation
find $HOME/. -name *.txt -ok rm {} \;
Print the names of all hidden regular files from the current directory
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '.*' -exec basename {} \;
Find all files in and below the home directory that have been modified in the last 90 minutes
find ~ -mmin -90
Find all directories in entire file system which are larger than 50KB
find / -type d -size +50k
Move all files from the current directory to "targetdirectory"
find . ! -name . -prune -exec sh -c 'mv "$@" targetdirectory/' sh {} +
Show the number of regular files in the current directory tree
find . -type f | wc -l
Print the absolute path of third-level files under the current directory tree and number the output
ls -d -1 $PWD/**/*/* | nl
Find all Lemon*.mp3 files under current directory and run mplayer with these files
find . -name 'Lemon*.mp3' -print0 | xargs -­0 -i mplayer '{}'
Find all the files which are accessed in last 1 hour in entire file system
find / -amin -60
Print the current directory tree
tree
create directories mnt and point
mkdir mnt point
List each unique case insensitive character in "file" prefixed by number of occurrences and sorted from most frequent to least frequent
grep -o . filename | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr
Print and save the ping results of 25 requests to "google.com" in "/home/user/myLogFile.log" containing at most 100000 bytes
ping -c 25 google.com | tee >
Print out ln commands for each file in /home/folder1/*.txt that can be run to create symlinks appending '_CUSTOM_TEXT.txt' in their names
find /home/folder1/*.txt -type f | awk -F '.txt' '{printf "ln -s %s %s_CUSTOM_TEXT.txt\n", $0, $1}'
update the permissions of the directories in the folder folder_name to 775
find folder_name -type d -exec chmod 775 ‘{}’ \;