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Find all files/directories matching the regex pattern ".*\\.rb$" under current directory | find . -regex ".*\\.rb$" |
Print lines in the sorted contents of "file2" that are not in the sorted contents of "file1" | comm -13 < < |
Decompresses each of "*bz2" files under the current folder, redirecting output to the standard out, and prints only fourth of comma-separated fields. | find . -name "*.bz2" -print0 | xargs -I{} -0 bzip2 -dc {} | cut -f, -d4 |
Find all .txt files under the current directory and below | find . -name "*.txt" |
Find all files/directories with 777 permission under current directory tree | find . -perm 777 -print |
Search the current directory tree for *.c and *.asm files, ignoring the case | find . -type f \( -iname "*.c" -or -iname "*.asm" \) |
get the root user access | sudo su |
Create a symbolic lnk named "$1/link" to "$dir" | ln -s "$dir" "$1/link" |
Find all the Sticky Bit files whose permission are 551 | find / -perm 0551 |
display list of all the files in the current directory | find | xargs ls |
Find all the SGID bit files under current directory whose permissions set to 644 and show a few lines of output from the beginning | find . -perm 0644 | head |
run command "$WEB --quiet" in backgrounf as user named as the value of the variable $USER | su $USER -c "$WEB --quiet" & |
Find all *blue* files/directories under /myfiles | find /myfiles -name '*blue*' |
Find all files/directories under current directory and append a null character at the end of each path | find -print0 |
Create a symbolic link named "$1/link" to the existing full and real path of "$2" | ln -s "$" "$1/link" |
Recursively copy all files and directories in current dir except "foo" to location specified by variable "other" | rsync --recursive --exclude 'foo' * "$other" |
Find the files in the current directory that match pattern '*.ISOLATE.quantifier.txt' and move them to folder ISOLATE/ | find -name '*.ISOLATE.quantifier.txt' -maxdepth 1 -exec mv {} ISOLATE/ + |
List in detail all *.txt files in the current directory tree, omitting paths ./Movies/*, ./Downloads/*, and ./Music/* | find . -type f -name "*.txt" ! -path "./Movies/*" ! -path "./Downloads/*" ! -path "./Music/*" -ls |
find all the php files in current folder and search for multiple patterns in these files | find -name '*.php' -exec grep -li "fincken" {} + | xargs grep -l "TODO" |
find all empty files | find / -empty |
Find all top-level files in the current folder but ones with name like '*Music*' to the 'dest/' folder. | find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*Music*' -prune -o -print0 | xargs -0 -i cp {} dest/ |
Connect to host "${HOSTNAME}" as user "${USERNAME}" and execute "${SCRIPT}" non-interactively | ssh -l ${USERNAME} ${HOSTNAME} "${SCRIPT}" |
Delete all regular files named 'FILE-TO-FIND' under current directory tree | find . -type f -name "FILE-TO-FIND" -exec rm -f {} \; |
Merge lines from files "file1", "file2", "file3", "file4", "file5", replace "\t" with " \t", and format the "\t" delimited result as a table | paste file{1,2,3,4} | sed -e 's/\t/ \t/g' | column -t -s$'\t' |
The file "files_to_find.txt" contains a list of filenames, create each file or update its timestamp if it exists. | touch `cat files_to_find.txt` |
force delete all the files that have been modified in the last 3 days | find . -mtime -3 -exec rm -rf {} \; |
searches through the root filesystem for the file named Chapter1, and prints the location | find / -name Chapter1 -type f |
Find all files that are set user ID to root | find . -user 0 -perm -4000 -print |
Search the /usr/bin directory tree for regular files accessed more than 100 days ago | find /usr/bin -type f -atime +100 |
display table of files with their name, owner, and size in bytes. | find . -printf 'Name: %f Owner: %u %s bytes\n' |
Find all files named "something" in the current folder and below and run them through the ls -l command in a one batch. | find . -name something | xargs -0 ls |
Sources script incl.sh in the folder where current running script is located | source "$/incl.sh" |
Move "tobecopied/tobeexcluded" to the current directory | mv tobecopied/tobeexcluded . |
Find .jpg files owned by user daniel in the current directory and its sub-directories. | find . -user daniel -type f -name *.jpg |
Find all files/directories with 777 permission under current directory tree | find . -perm 777 -print |
Find files matching pattern $2 in the $1 directory recursively and search them for text $3, where $1, $2, $3 are the command line arguments to the Bash script | find $1 -name "$2" -exec grep -Hn "$3" {} \; |
create and list contents of the archive | tar cf - $PWD|tar tvf - |
Read a single character from standard input into variable "doit" with prompt "Do that? [y,n]" | read -n1 -p "Do that? [y,n]" doit |
Find all files/directories named orm.properties in entire file system | sudo find / -name "orm.properties" |
replace the word foo to bar in the current folder in all the regular/normal files which have execute permission (does not update the file) | find . -type f -executable -exec sed -i 's/foo/bar/g' {} + |
find all the files which end with ".deb" and display their base name | find . -name '*.deb' | xargs -n1 basename |
Removes all files like '*.bak' in a current folder, and prints messages about what is being done. | rm -v *.bak |
list all processes with its PIDs | jobs -l |
Search the current directory tree for files containing "string" in their path names | find | egrep string |
Save absolute path of java home to variable "JAVA_HOME" | export JAVA_HOME=$ |
find all the files that were modified two days ago | find . -daystart -ctime 1 -type f |
rename all the text files in the current folder to html files | find -name "*.txt" -exec mv {} `basename {} .htm`.html \; |
List all files/directories under current directory matching the posix-egrep type regex ".+\.(c|cpp|h)$" in their names | find . -regextype posix-egrep -regex ".+\.(c|cpp|h)$" -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 ls |
Print content of /etc/passwd and /etc/group files | cat /etc/passwd /etc/group |
Find files under '/travelphotos' directory tree which are bigger than 200KB and do not have 2015 in their names | find /travelphotos -type f -size +200k -not -iname "*2015*" |
Execute "tail file | grep pattern" every 2 seconds | watch "tail file | grep pattern" |
Search the current directory tree for *bash* files printing them on a single line | find . -name "*bash*" | xargs |
Format the date represented by time string @1267619929 according to default format and print it | date -ud @1267619929 |
List all screen sessions | screen -ls |
Prints first found folder that contains 'ssh' file and has 'bin' in path. | dirname `find / -name ssh | grep bin | head -1` |
Find all directories under /directory-path and change their permission to 2755 | find /directory-path -type d -exec sudo chmod 2775 {} + |
Change permissions to 644 for all regular files in and below the current directory | find . -type f -print | sed -e 's/^/"/' -e 's/$/"/' | xargs chmod 644 |
display a long listing of all the java files in the current folder in sorted order | find . -type f -name '*.java' -ls | sort -k +7 -r |
Gets all man entries beginning with std and sends them to vi. | apropos -r '^std' | vi - |
Find all test.txt files/directories under current directory | find . -name test.txt |
remove all the ".core" files in the file system | find / -name "*.core" -print -exec rm {} \; |
Archive all files beginning with .env or .bash in current directory to user's home directory on host "app1", preserving timestamps and skipping files that are newer on "app1" | rsync -vaut ~/.env* ~/.bash* app1: |
Unzip all files matching "file_*" and pipe into "agrep -dEOE 'grep'" | find . -name "file_*" -follow -type f -print0 | xargs -0 zcat | agrep -dEOE 'grep' |
Find all empty files under /tmp and below | find /tmp -type f -empty |
display list of all the hidden regular/normal files in the directory "/dir/to/search/" | find /dir/to/search/ -type f -iname ".*" -ls |
Delete all empty directories in the /some/parrent/dir directory tree | find /some/parrent/dir -type d | while read d ; do ls "$d"/* &>/dev/null || rm -r "$d"; done |
List files in directory "one" and "two" that do not exist in the other | sort <(ls one) <(ls two) | uniq -u |
Compresses with compression level 9 all files under the current folder but already compressed '*.bz2' files, performing in background. | find "$1" -type f | egrep -v '\.bz2' | xargs bzip2 -9 & |
display all the header files and cpp files in the current folder | find . -regex '.*\.\(cpp\|h\)' |
Check if "~/mnt/sdc1" is mounted | mount | grep -q ~/mnt/sdc1 |
Find files whose name starts with "MyFile", ignoring the case | find . -iname 'MyFile*' |
List files in the current directory | find . \( -path './*' -prune \) |
print top 10 largest files and directories | du -a . | sort -nr | head |
search for files starting with memo and which belong to the user ann in the folder /work | find /work -name 'memo*' -user ann -print |
Print only the line "foo///" given two empty directories foo and bar | find foo/// bar/// -name foo -o -name 'bar?*' |
search normal files called ' banckup ' from /usr directory downward and print them. | find /usr -type f -name backup -print |
Save the full path of command "oracle" to variable "path" | path=`which oracle` |
Add the .abc suffix to the names of all *.txt regular files in the current directory tree | find . -type f -iname '*.txt' -print0 | xargs -0 mv {} {}.abc |
Get current host's IPv6 address. | host $ | grep "IPv6 address" | head -n 1 | awk '{print $5}' |
create a tar of all png & jpg images in the current folder | find . \( -iname "*.png" -o -iname "*.jpg" \) -print -exec tar -rf images.tar {} \; |
create a compressed archive with files newer than 1st of January 2014, 18:00:00. | tar -N '2014-02-01 18:00:00' -jcvf archive.tar.bz2 files |
Count the number of the regular files residing under and below ./randfiles/ | find ./randfiles/ -type f | wc -l |
find all the "jpg" file in a folder. | find /win/C -iname *JPG |
Print "*Checking Partition Permission* Hostname=$ LastChecked=" followed by the current date | echo -n *Checking Partition Permission* Hostname=$ LastChecked=$ |
Remove the "123_" prefix from all filenames of .txt files in current directory. | find -name "123*.txt" -exec rename 's/^123_//' {} ";" |
find all the directories in the current folder | find . -type d -print |
find all the html files in the current folder which have been modified excatly 7 days before | find . -mtime 7 -name "*.html" -print |
find all the files in the current directory which have been modified after a file | find . -newer file |
Find all *FooBar* files/directories under current directory and copy them to ~/foo/bar | find . -name '*FooBar*' -exec cp -t ~/foobar -- {} + |
List all file paths under the current directory with case insensitive name ".note" in reverse alphabetic order | find . -iname '.note' | sort -r |
Display the number of regular files under current directory tree | find . -type f -print0 | tr -dc '\0' | wc -c |
Create a symbolic link in the current directory for each hidden file or directory in "git-stuff/home/" excluding "." and ".." | ln -s git-stuff/home/.[!.]* . |
display the number of lines in all the files in the current folder | find . -name '*' | xargs wc -l |
Create a symbolic link named "temp" to "newtarget" | ln -s newtarget temp |
Find all files starting from the current directory which are exactly 100MB in size | find . -size 100M |
Find all files whose permission are 777 | find / -type f -perm 777 |
Print the full path of command "cc" | which cc |
view the manual page of find | man find |
Find all files named "test2" in the current directory | find -name test2 -prune |
Find all files/directories with inode number 16187430 and move them to 'new-test-file-name' | find -inum 16187430 -exec mv {} new-test-file-name \ |
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