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find all the files that are modified in the last 1 day
find -mtime +0 -mtime -1
Find and remove all .mp3 regular files under the current directory and below
find . -type f -name "*.mp3" -exec rm -f {} \;
Change to the directory pointed by variable TAG
cd "$TAG"
Print a colon-separated list of all directories from the ~/code directory tree, except hidden ones and those below them
find ~/code -name '.*' -prune -o -type f -a -perm /u+x -printf ':%h\n' | sort | uniq | tr -d '\n'
Delete all files in directory $DIR that have not been accessed in at least 5 days
find "$DIR" -type f -atime +5 -exec rm {} \;
Save the list of .log files in the current directory tree to sas_log_list.txt
find `pwd` -name "*.log" > sas_log_list.txt
find all files in current folder which are bigger than 1 MB and move them to another folder after user confirmation
find . -size +1M -ok mv {} files \+
display a long list of all the jpg files in the home folder
find ~ -iname '*.jpg' -exec ls {} +
Save the absolute path of the directory of the current script to variable "DIR"
DIR=$(dirname "$")
List all environment variables containing 'USER' in their name or value that would result in running a command with 'sudo env'.
sudo env |grep USER
Find all files in the directory $directory or below with the permissions specificed by $permissions.
find "$directory" -perm "$permissions"
Remove all *.bak files under current directory
find . -type f -name \*.bak -print0 | xargs -0 rm -v
Print difference between two strings "$s" and "$r"
diff < < | awk '/[<>]/{printf $2}'
Search the current directory and its sub-directories for any file that has "bsd" somewhere in its name.
find . -name "*bsd*" -print
Find all *.ext regular files under /path and execute my_cool_script for each of them with the file path as argument
find /path -type f -name '*.ext' -exec my_cool_script \{\} \;
Find all *.m4a files/directories under /home/family/Music directory
find /home/family/Music -name '*.m4a' -print0
Remove all files with a txt extension under current directory
find . -type f -name "*.txt" -print|xargs rm
find all files ending with "js.compiled" in current folder and rename them.
find . -name "*.js.compiled" -exec rename -v 's/\.compiled$//' {} +
Search the /Path directory tree for files whose pathnames match "/Path/bar*" or "/Path/foo*" and whose names match pattern "file_name*"
find /Path \ -name "file_name*"
Search for filenames matching "android" in the current directory and number the output
ls | grep android | nl
Run command 'su whoami' on host 'remotehost'
echo "su whoami" |ssh remotehost
login as user username
su - username
Show a long listing of files not modified in over 20 days or not accessed in over 40 days
find /mydir \ -exec ls -l {} \;
Creates random file name formatted like expression in variable ${str// /X} and saves it in 'rand_str' variable.
rand_str=$
list jobs including its PIDs
jobs -l
Find directories that are directly under $workspace_ts directory and were modified more than 30 days ago
find $workspace_ts -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d -mtime +30 -print
Finds IP address of default network interface.
netstat -rn | gawk '/UG/ {print $NF}' | xargs ifconfig | gawk 'match($0,/inet addr: B/,a) {print a[1]}'
Search directories /path/to/directory/folder{1..50} for .txt files, outputting only the names of the matched files
find /path/to/directory/folder{1..50} -name '*.txt' -exec basename {} \; 2>/dev/null
Run the PHP script "newEmptyPHP" redirecting the output to "nohup.out" in the current directory, or in the home directory if that is not possible. The process will not receive or respond to SIGHUP which are sent to it.
nohup php newEmptyPHP.php &
ssh into "hostname" as user "buck"
ssh buck@hostname
find all the files which have been accessed after modifying the file /etc/hosts
find -anewer /etc/hosts
Make directory "dirname" with permissions set to 777
mkdir -m 777 dirname
Unzip "file.gz" and print each line with the 2nd | separated field greater than 5
zcat a.csv.gz | gawk '$2>5' FPAT='[^"|]+'
find all the jpg files in current folder and sort them
find . -type f|grep -i "\.jpg$" |sort
Add executable permission to "rr.sh"
chmod +x rr.sh
Find all files/directories under current directory and count the number of lines for the output
find |wc -l
Print second section of space-separated data from text file "a".
cut "-d " -f2 a
Go to directory /cygdrive/c/Program Files using quotes to escape special characters
cd "/cygdrive/c/Program Files "
Find all the files in the current directory
find * -type f -print -o -type d -prune
Search the current directory for files whose names start with "messages." ignoring SVN and CVS files
find \( -name 'messages.*' ! -path "*/.svn/*" ! -path "*/CVS/*" \) -exec grep -Iw uint {} +
Find all IP addresses in /etc directory files
find /etc -exec grep '[0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9][0-9]*' {} \;
Find *.c and *.h files under the current directory tree skipping hidden directories and files
find . \ -a -name '*.[ch]'
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
Find all files with the SUID bit set beginning with the root directory
find / -perm -u+s
Find all *.php (case insensitive) and *.js files (case insensitive) under /home/jul/here excluding /home/jul/here/exclude/* paths
find /home/jul/here -type f \( -iname "*.php" -o -iname "*.js" \) ! -path "/home/jul/here/exclude/*"
Sets prompt to "username@host:pwd"
export PS1="\[\033]0;\u $(host $)\007\]\u@\h:\w\$ "
Print a list of differing files
diff -q /dir1 /dir2|cut -f2 -d' '
Search the file system for regular files whose names are shorter than 25 characters
find / -type f | egrep '.*/.{1,24}$'
Print nothing because 'MYVAR' string doesn`t match with '/[^/]+:' pattern
echo MYVAR | grep -oE '/[^/]+:' | cut -c2- | rev | cut -c2- | rev
Copies all files under current directory like '*FooBar*' to the '~/foo/bar' directory.
find -name '*FooBar*' -print0 | xargs -0 cp -t ~/foo/bar
Look for any files that were modified 2-5 days ago
find -mtime +2 -mtime -5
Find all *foo files/directories under current directory
find . -name '*foo'
display all files in the current folder along with their last accessed timestamps
find . -printf "%h/%f : dernier accès le %AA %Ad %AB %AY à %AH:%AM:%AS\n"
Enables shell option 'progcomp'.
shopt -s progcomp
Print lines in "file1" that exist in "file2"
join -t " " -j 1 <(sort file1) <(sort file2)
Read a line from standard input into variable "message" with escaped prompt "Please Enter a Message: \n\b"
read -p "$(echo -e 'Please Enter a Message: \n\b')" message
Replace all occurrence of "subdomainA.example.com" with "subdomainB.example.com" in all files under the current directory and below
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 perl -i.bak -pe 's/subdomainA\.example\.com/subdomainB.example.com/g'
Move all directories in the current directory that match "some-dir" to "x/"
find ./ -maxdepth 1 -name "some-dir" -type d -print0 | xargs -0r mv -t x/
Find the largest files in a particular location
find /home/tecmint/Downloads/ -type f -exec du -Sh {} + | sort -rh | head -n 5
Puts the job 1 in the background.
bg %1 [puts the job in the background]
Display the content of file "f" in home directory if it exists and is executable
cat `which ~/f`
Find all the files/directories in the current directory tree which have been modified between 2014-08-25 and 2014-08-26
find ./ -newermt 2014-08-25 ! -newermt 2014-08-26 -print
find all the files under '/usr/local' directory tree which have been modified exactly 24 hours ago
find /usr/local -mtime 1
Check that the master ssh connection "officefirewall" is running
ssh -O check officefirewall
Write the output of "false" to standard output and to "/dev/null"
false | tee /dev/null
Find files named tecmint.txt of owner root in the entire file system
find / -user root -name tecmint.txt
Find all *fink* files/directories in entire file system
find / \ -name \*fink\* -print
Display differences between file1 and file2 side-by-side.
diff -y file1 file2
View history using "more"
history | more
find all files with pattern` '*song*abc2009*.jpg' and replace "abc2009" with "def2010"
find . -name '*song*abc2009*.jpg' | sed 's/\abc2009\$/mv "&" "\1def2010\2"/' | sh
Print numbers from 1 to 10 with 2 values per line
seq 10 | sed 'N;s/\n/ /'
create a symbolic link named "$ORACLE_HOME/include" to file "/usr/include/oracle/11.2/client"
sudo ln -s /usr/include/oracle/11.2/client $ORACLE_HOME/include
display all the files in the current folder which have been modified in the last 24 hours
find . -mtime -1 -print
display a long listing of all the java files in the current folder in sorted order
find . -type f -name '*.java' -ls | sort -k +7 -r
Find files and directories that are at least seven levels of nesting in the directory /usr/src
find /usr/src -name CVS -prune -o -mindepth 7 -print
find all the configuration files in the files system and donot display any errors.
find / -name "*.conf" 2>>/dev/null
Find all *~ files/directories under dir and print an rm command for each of them for deletion
find dir -name \*~ | xargs echo rm
search for a word in all the .C files in the current directory
find . -name "*.c" -exec grep -ir "keyword" {} ";"
Print the user name of the current user
whoami
Find all files whose names begin with 'Makefile' at the /usr/ports directory tree's level 3 and count the number of lines with NOPORTDOCS or NOPORTEXAMPLES in them.
find /usr/ports/ -name Makefile\* -mindepth 3 -maxdepth 3 -exec egrep "NOPORTDOCS|NOPORTEXAMPLES" '{}' '+' | wc -l
Generate the obsolete 29 character Spanish alphabet and number each character
echo -e {{a..c},ch,{d..l},ll,{m,n},ñ,{o..z}}"\n" | nl
Print 4th white space separated field in file "file"
tr -s ' ' < file | cut -d' ' -f4
Search the /myfiles directory tree for files last modified 2 days ago
find /myfiles -mtime 2
use regex with find command
find . -regextype sed -regex ".*/[a-f0-9\-]\{36\}\.jpg"
Print a count of duplicate lines in "filename" sorted by most frequent
sort filename | uniq -c | sort -nr
Search the current directory tree for the files with extension "trc" and list them if they are more than three days old
find . -name "*.trc" -ctime +3 -exec ls -l {} \;
Print each line in "file1.txt" that is not found in "file2.txt"
sort file1.txt file2.txt file2.txt | uniq -u
Find recursively the latest modified file in the current directory
find . -type f -print0|xargs -0 ls -drt|tail -n 1
Find and show all files in the current directory tree that are exactly 2000 kB
find . -size 2000k
Find all *.old files and move them to directory oldfiles
find . -name "*.old" -exec mv {} oldfiles \;
SSH into host "$1" using key file "/path/to/ssh/secret/key" and execute command "$2"
ssh -i /path/to/ssh/secret/key $1 $2
Set the shell option 'errexit' causing bash to exit immediately if one of the commands in a multi-command statement fails.
set -e
Redirect stderr to stdout and write to the console and "/dev/null"
xxx |& tee /dev/null
Search only for regular files
find -type f
Report file system containing /tmp disk usage in kilobytes.
df -k /tmp
Copy all files below the current directory whose names contain "foobar" (case-insensitive) to directory foo/bar/ in user's home directory.
find . -iname "*foobar*" -exec cp "{}" ~/foo/bar \;
Save the number of matching executables for "$cmd" in $PATH to variable "candidates"
candidates=$
Find all 2*.data files/directories under jcho directory
find jcho -name 2*.data
Remove adjascent duplicate lines from file 'input' comparing all but last space-separated fields
rev input | uniq -f1 | rev
Filters only directories from long file listing of a current directory, and prints their names.
ls -l | grep "^d" | awk -F" " '{print $9}'