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Copy local file "$1" to host "$2" into host directory "$3"
cat $1 | ssh $2 "mkdir $3;cat >> $3/$1"
set alias "lvim" for command "vim -c \"normal '0\""
alias lvim="vim -c \"normal '0\""
Find all the files which are greater than 50MB but less than 100MB in size
find / -size +50M -size -100M
change the permissions of all regular/normal files in the current directory
find . -type f | xargs chmod 664
find all the png files in the current folder which begin with the word image
find . -name "image*.png"
find all files in the current folder which are bigger than 10MB and less than 50 MB
find . -size +10M -size -50M -print
delete all the regular files in the temp folder which have not been modified in the last 24 hours
find /tmp/ -type f -mtime +1 -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 rm
Display all lines contained in 'dax-weekly.csv' in reverse order.
cat dax-weekly.csv | awk '{a[i++]=$0} END {for (j=i-1; j>=0;) print a[j--] }'
Print variable "$OPTARG" "$opt" times
yes "$OPTARG" | head -$opt
Search for files/directories named 'fileName.txt' under current directory tree without traversing into './ignored_directory'
find . -path ./ignored_directory -prune -o -name fileName.txt -print
Print the byte count of all regular files found in the current directory tree
find . -type f | xargs | wc -c
find all the files that have been modified exactly 2 days ago
find -mtime 2
display all the trace files from the folder $DBA/$ORACLE_SID/bdump/ which have not been accessed in the last 7*24 hours
find $DBA/$ORACLE_SID/bdump/*.trc -mtime +7
Find all files/directories under /home/feeds/data directory
find /home/feeds/data
Make directory "dir1"
mkdir dir1
List the files from the current directory tree that contain lines matching regular expression '^Subject:.*unique subject'
find . -type f -print | xargs grep -il '^Subject:.*unique subject'
find all the files in the folder "/mp3-collection" which are bigger than 10MB excluding those that start with the word Metallica
find /mp3-collection -size +10000k ! -name "Metallica*"
Print content of 'filename' file, showing all non-printing characters and displaying $ at the end of each line.
cat -v -e filename
Finds recursively all files not having extension .o in '/path/' that contain 'pattern', and prints matched strings with string number and file name.
grep --exclude=*.o -rnw '/path/to/somewhere/' -e "pattern"
Find all directories under /fss/fin
find /fss/fin -type d
Search for 'some string' in all *js files under current directory and show the matched lines with line numbers
find . -name '*js' -exec grep -n 'some string' {} \;
Takes folder name of file $0, changes backslashes to forward ones and saves result in $basedir variable.
basedir=$(cygpath -am "$")
Find all .php files starting from the root directory /
find / -name "*.php"
Echo each command before running
set -x
Print all the banned IPs from your server along with their origin using the geoip-bin package
zcat /var/log/fail2ban.log* | gawk '/.*Ban.*/ {print $7};' | sort | uniq -c | sort | gawk '{ "geoiplookup " $2 "| cut -f2 -d: " | getline geoip; print $2 "\t\t" $1 " " geoip}'
Read a line of standard input with prompt "Enter the path to the file: " and suggestion "/usr/local/etc/" and save the response to variable "FILEPATH"
read -e -p "Enter the path to the file: " -i "/usr/local/etc/" FILEPATH
Search the current directory tree for files containing "bash" in their names
find . -name "*bash*" | xargs
find all the text files in the current folder starting with "somefiles-" and prepend the first line
find . -name "somefiles-*-.txt" -type f -exec sed -i 'iText that gets prepended ' -- '{}' \;
Show mv commands to move all *.pdf.marker files and their corresponding *.pdf files under ${INPUT_LOCATION} to ${OUTPUT_LOCATION}
find ${INPUT_LOCATION} -name '*.pdf.marker' -exec sh -c 'echo mv $0 `dirname $0`/`basename $0 .marker` $1' {} ${OUTPUT_LOCATION} \;
List files ending in .html and residing in the current directory tree
find . -name "*.html"
Set permission of "file" to read only for the owner
chmod 600 file
display all the files in the home folder
find $HOME -print
find all the regular files in the current directory which do not have a read permission
find -type f ! -perm -444
Find all directories under current directory and set their permission to 755
find -type d exec chmod 755 {} +
Find all 100MB files in file system and delete them using rm command
find / -size +100M -exec rm -rf {} \;
Find all *.txt files/directories under current directory discarding 'Permission denied' errors
find . -name "*.txt" -print | grep -v 'Permission denied'
Set permissions of all directories under "/path/to/base/dir" to 755
chmod 755 $(find /path/to/base/dir -type d)
Delete all files under /path/to/files that are not newer than dummyfile
find /path/to/files -type f ! -newer dummyfile -delete
Delete files containing whitespaces without recursion
find . -name '*[+{;"\\=?~()<>&*|$ ]*' -maxdepth 0 -exec rm -f '{}' \;
find all regular/normal files in current folder which have been modified in the last 60 minutes
find -type f -mtime -60
Print source directory of bash script
dirname "$"
Find all files/directories with '.txt' extension under '/home' directory tree that are exactly 100KB in size
find /home -name "*.txt" -size 100k
Execute awk script "script.awk" on "File2" and "File1" and format output as a table
awk -f script.awk File2 File1 | rev | column -t | rev
Delete all files under $INTRANETDESTINATION/monthly directory tree that were modified more than 366 days ago
find $INTRANETDESTINATION/monthly -mtime +366 -exec rm {} \;
Find all files, folders, symlinks, etc matching pattern "*.php" in the current directory recursively
find . -name \*.php
Find all files/directories named orm.properties under /eserver6/share/system/config/cluster directory
find /eserver6/share/system/config/cluster -name "orm.properties"
Display list of files ending with '.txt' in the current folder to the terminal twice and output it to the text file "txtlist.txt"
ls *.txt | tee /dev/tty txtlist.txt
Renames all *.html files in a current directory to *.txt files.
ls *.html | xargs -I {} sh -c 'mv $1 `basename $1 .html`.txt' - {}
Find all files accessed on the 29th of September, 2008, starting from the current directory
find . -type f -newerat 2008-09-29 ! -newerat 2008-09-30
Remove all white space from "infile.txt" and wrap each line to 80 characters
cat infile.txt | tr -d "[:space:]" | fold -80
sort based on size and display top ten small normal/regular files in the current folder
find . -type f -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n | head -10
display all regular/normal files in current folder
find . -type f
Write "Some console and log file message" to standard output and "/dev/fd/3"
echo "Some console and log file message" | tee /dev/fd/3
Find all files named "test2" in the current directory
find -name test2 -prune
locate large files in /home/ for 'cleaning'
find /home -type f -size +100M -print0 |xargs -0 rm
Gets MAC addresses of all IP4 network interfaces.
ifconfig -a | awk '/^[a-z]/ { iface=$1; mac=$NF; next } /inet addr:/ { print mac }' | grep -o -E '([[:xdigit:]]{1,2}:){5}[[:xdigit:]]{1,2}'
search in the current folder for all the directories with the name "test"
find . -type d -name test
Finds file 'Subscription.java' and changes to containing folder.
cd $
Finds shell options like 'checkjobs' with their state.
shopt -p | grep checkjobs
Prints the file path composed from the path where symlink target file is located, and name of the symbolic link itself.
echo "$(dirname $(readlink -e $F))/$(basename $F)"
Remove all *.swp files/directories under current directory
find . -name "*.swp"-exec rm -rf {} \;
Search the /var/www/ tree for files not owned by user `apache'
find /var/www ! -user apache -print0 | xargs -0
Prints total count of lines of all *.py files in a current folder and subfolders.
find . -name "*.py" -exec wc -l {} \; | awk '{ SUM += $0} END { print SUM }'
find the file arrow.jpg in the entire file system
find / -name arrow.jpg
Delete all .svn directories under current directory
find . -type d -name .svn -print0|xargs -0 rm -rf
Find all .php files in all directory trees matching pattern `/srv/www/*/htdocs/system/application/' and search those files for string "debug ("
find /srv/www/*/htdocs/system/application/ -name "*.php" -exec grep -H "debug (" {} +
display all the regular/normal files in the entire file system
find / -type f -exec echo {} \;
Opens gcc info manual and selects "option index" menu entry.
info gcc "option index"
Print the entire saved command history
history
Rename "new" to "old" and make a backup if "old" exists
mv new old -b
Search the current directory recursively for regular files, skipping hidden files in the current directory
find * -type f -print
Find all directories under /var/www/some/subset and set their SGID bit
sudo find /var/www/some/subset -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod g+s
Find all 15MB files in entire file system
find / -size 15M
change the permissions of all the files ending with "fits" in the folder "/store/01" and save the output file names to a log file
find /store/01 -name "*.fits" -exec chmod -x+r {} \; -exec ls -l {} \; | tee ALL_FILES.LOG
Search the /Path directory tree for files whose pathnames match pattern "/Path/bar*" and whose names match pattern "file_name*"
find /Path -path "/Path/bar*" -name "file_name*"
Print the list of .txt files under and below the current directory
find . -name '*.txt' -print0|xargs -0 -n 1 echo
Decompress "file2.txt" and "file1.txt" and print lines in "file1.txt" that match the 5th tab separated field in "file2.txt"
awk -F'\t' 'NR==FNR{a[$5];next} $5 in a' <(zcat file2.txt) <(zcat file1.txt)
Make directory "/tmp/googleTestMock"
mkdir /tmp/googleTestMock
Count the number of lines in every regular .rb file in the current directory tree
find . -name "*.rb" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 wc -l
delete all the empty directories in the current folder
find . -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \;
Find empty files in the test directory
find test -empty
Search the current directory tree for regular files whose names end in "log"
find `pwd` -name "*log" -type f
Find all files and directories last modified less than a day ago and copy to "../changeset" creating directories as needed
find * -mtime -1 -daystart -print0 | cpio -pd0 ../changeset
Print which files differ in "dir1" and "dir2" recursively
diff -qr dir1/ dir2/
Print each logged in user's username and full name
finger -l | grep "Name:" | tr -s ' ' | cut -d " " -f 2,4- | sort | uniq
Display a count of regular files in each directory at the current level.
find -P . -type f | rev | cut -d/ -f2- | rev | cut -d/ -f1-2 | cut -d/ -f2- | sort | uniq -c
find all the files in the folder "myfiles" which have not been accessed in the last 30 days
find /myfiles -atime +30
Find all files under /mnt/naspath directory without descending into .snapshot directory that were modified in last 24 hours with null character as the delimiter
find /mnt/naspath \! \ -type f -mtime 0 -print0
display long listing of all the text files in the current folder (plus at the end executes quickly by sending bulk data as input to the command in exec)
find . -name "*.txt" -exec ls -la {} +
Displays a tree of all process alongside their command line arguments.
pstree -a
display all regular files in the folder image-folder
find image-folder/ -type f
change the permissions of all regular/normal files in the current directory, print0 is used for handling files with newlines in their file name
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 664
delete all the text files starting with the name "oldStuff" in the file system
find / -name "oldStuff*.txt" -delete
Make directories "Labs/lab4a/folder1", "Labs/lab4a/myfolder", and "Labs/lab4a/foofolder"
mkdir Labs/lab4a/{folder1,myfolder,foofolder}
Change permissions of ".git/hooks/pre-commit" to 777
sudo chmod 755 .git/hooks/pre-commit
find all the files in the current directory and search for the word "pw0" in them.
find . -exec grep -i "pw0" {} \;
Find all files/directories under directory '.cache/chromium/Default/Cache/' which are bigger than 100MB and which are atleast 1 level deep and delete them
find .cache/chromium/Default/Cache/ -mindepth 1 -size +100M -delete
Delete all regular files under current directory
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm
Search the current directory tree for files matching regular expression '^myfile[0-9][0-9]?$'
find . -\
Recursively lists all files in a current folder and prints full path along with modification time.
stat --printf="%y %n\n" $(ls -tr $)