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find and rename base directory and files under each basedir, add a prefix
I would like to recursively rename all matching directories and files under a path with a prefix that depend from the current directory.
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├── G1_BIN_REFINEMENT
│ └── marker_genes
│ └── ...
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How to tell which files are new or have been modified between calls of a script
I want to call a shell script regularly, and in it I need to process the files present in a directory tree that are new or that have been modified since the previous call of the script.
My 1st thought ...
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List only bottom level directories using find
So, let's say I use find to search a directory for folders.
find "/home/user/Documents" -type d -print
While this does list all the directories in said location, I only want to get the ...
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Cygwin find returns "missing argument to `-exec'"
I have backups script that removes backups older than x days.
On Linux machine this is working well:
find /backups/dummy-prod-db -name "*_D_dummy-prod-db*" -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm -v {} \;...
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In bash, how to find all copies of a given file in particular directories?
Let's say we have a file /a_long_path_1/foo.doc of size, say, 12345 bytes, and we would like to find all copies of this file in directories /a_long_path_2 and /a_long_path_3 including all their ...
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Bash find using regex fails with digit matching
I'm using find (GNU findutils) 4.7.0 with GNU bash, version 5.0.17.
touch hello.32.world.txt
find . # works, output is: ./hello.32.world.txt
find . -regextype posix-extended -regex '.*hello\.32\.world\...
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Move and rename files based on their parent folders
I'm trying to write a Bash function that will find files in a given directory tree and move them to the current folder while renaming them based on their parent folder, but I'm still stuck on the ...
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How to do a recursive filename `find` from the shell using a glob pattern with "set braces"
From the shell, I'd like to recursively search a directory for a given glob pattern. But I want to use set-braces-syntax in my pattern:
find ~/path/to/dir -name '*.{h,m}'
Here I'd like to recursively ...
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Can I use regex in find path?
env = bash, centos7
My goal is to delete jenkins workspace cache files under specific path, except for today's.
Successful command :
cd /jenkins/jenkins/workspace/CMSvc_Build/caches/modules-2/files-2....
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Calling exiftool on a huge number of recovered images from photorec
I am trying to recover images of the last 20 years from a friend.
She moved all recent files to trash, then emptied the trash.
Those images were lying on the system partition, so photorec found a huge ...
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List all sub-directories with a specific pattern in bash and execute a command
I have a directory like this:
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./foo/.bar/bar/file.jpg
./foo/.bar/xyw/dummy.fil
./foo3/.bar/file.jpg
./foo3/.bar/bar/file.jpg
./fo/bar/file.jpg
I'm trying to list all subdirectories that contain the ...
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search over all drives in git bash crashes - "failed to read file names from file system at or below '/': No such file or directory"
I am using the git-bash for windows (what is internal msys2).
I needed to search over all of my harddrives.
When I try to run find / -type d (and my search patterns), the search runs over the system ...
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regex in find doesn't accept the or operator in group
I'm trying to delete all files and directories in a parent directory, with the exclusion of some directories and their content. For this I use find in a bash script on MacOS. It works if I exclude ...
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How to delete any files that have not been used (access, change or modify) in X years
i run this command
find BAR -type f -mtime +1095 # older than 3 years
and find this file:
BAR/foo.pdf
So i run this:
stat BAR/foo.pdf
Access: 2020-01-03 01:32:05.584393000 -0500
Modification: 2017-...
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Find the most recent file of a type in terminal and then open it (mac os)
I found part of this question in 2 other posted questions, but I cant seem to get the last step working which is just "opening" the file:
How do I get files found by command-line 'find&#...
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using find in bash to operate of filles based on their extension patterns
I am using "find" command to delete some useless filles of the given extensions from all subfolders located in the directory from which I am executing the command.
find -type f -name *.txt -...
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Subshell won't work as indented
I have some files like this:
├── abc.conf
├── def.conf
├── xyz.conf
├── 10-abc.conf.postix
├── 10-def.conf.postix
and I want to remove the .postfix from all files which starts with 10-.
To do this ...
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find -exec with wildcard
I am trying to use bash 'find' to process all folders that contain a .log file and get their sizes. However the wildcard is not working as expected. This returns nothing:
find . -type d -exec test -e ...
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Generalized chmod function differentiating between directories and files (i.e.: with find)
Is there a generalized bash function available that mimics chmod in every aspect, except that it also let's me differentiate between files and directories?
I know there's already numerous examples ...
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How to start fzf from another directory than the current working directory?
I often use fzf to navigate the filesystem, especially the Alt-c key binding.
When invoked, fzf generates a list from the current working directory.
Is it possible to make fzf generate a list from a ...
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move folders recursively using find
Please see the below issue. Actually I wanted to move only 20022021 folder (which cotains subdir and files) to the destination, But its moving both the directories.
nasa:/# find /tmp/source -mindepth ...
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(short form to) Ignore multiple filename patterns using “find”?
It seems I can ignore a certain filename pattern (*.dll) on find search by doing
find ! -name '*.dll'
And ignore multiple patterns by doing
$ find . ! -name '*.h' ! -name '*.cpp' ! -name '*.dll'
Is ...
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Find hidden files in non-hidden directories
Consider following directory structure:
$ find m
m
m/f.sh
m/.a
I want to find hidden files in non-hidden directories with:
find . -not -path "*/.*" -and -name "*.*"
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./m/f.sh
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Understanding Operators in find command
[kony@HOSTNAME testing]$ pwd
/apps/kony/fmw/testing
[kony@HOSTNAME testing]$ touch SCCS
[kony@HOSTNAME testing]$ touch NOT_SCCS
[kony@HOSTNAME testing]$
[kony@HOSTNAME testing]$ find . -name SCCS -...
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Find number of files that contain certain String
I have a directory containing a vast amount of xml files. I would now like to find the number of files (and optionally the names of said files) that contain a certain string. XML tags do not really ...
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Need to find in all system files that are less than 7 days old, starts with "L" and are .txt, then generate an output file based on that
I’m working with Ubuntu and need to find in all system files that are less than 7 days old, starts with L and are .txt, then generate an output file based on that.
This is what I have so far:
nohup ...
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How to recursively rename, sort and move incoming PDF files from subdirectories
I have a program that periodically downloads certain publications in PDF format as they become available, along with additional files (e.g. *.nfo), which I don't need. The program places the incoming ...
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Recursively search files with exclusions and inclusions
I would like to use find to recursively search files and print them to a file. I imagine a command like this:
find /local/data/ --exclude 'database/session*' --include='database/session_*.db' > ...
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one-liner to put two commands on same line, from the multiline output of `find... | sort... | cut ...`
This is a continuation of recursively sort files with string "SENT_" somewhere in filename by the substring immediately after SENT_, and then display them. Linux as I thought it was better ...
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recursively sort files with string "SENT_" somewhere in filename by the substring immediately after SENT_, and then display them. Linux
So I wish to run this from any directory, say ~/ and have it work for subdirectories. Example would be;
ls ~/:
/home/me/FILES/DIR_1/DIR_a/SENT_2222_....
/home/me/FILES/DIR2/SENT_3333....
/home/me/...
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How to chain/connect multiple -exec commands with find * and ls?
Problem
I use find -exec curl in ubuntu console to list all files in directory and send them to FTP server:
find * -type f -exec curl -u ***:*** --ftp-pasv --ftp-create-dirs -T {} $PATHDEST/{} \; -...
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How to delete any archives older than W weeks, but still keep up to N archives?
I have a CentOS 7 directory that gets filled with tar.gz archives for different packages, where each package can create multiple archive versions.
I'm trying to find a way to delete any archives ...
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Find a file with parts of name in an arbitrary order
I've got a file hidden somewhere, it's either named file.foo.bar.txt or file.bar.foo.txt, but I'm not sure which it is.
Right now, I'm just running find file*foo*txt because I know the file will be ...
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Symlinking with (i.e.) find | sed | xargs without xargs: argument line too long
I got stuck at symlinking using find, xargs and sed.
Given folder structure:
/abc
/def
/*/def
/builds
on my local machine the following statement works.
find ./abc \
-type d \
-...
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Accessing parent and grandparent directory from linux find and passing to xargs
I'm trying to do a batch imagemagick conversion on all tiffs in directories.
The structure of the directories looks like:
test
123
456
image.tif
256
857
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Display dirs tree based on a file content
$ find ./ | tac
./dir1/file -> "abc"
./dir1
./dir2/file - > "abc"
./dir2
./dir3/file -> "xyz"
./dir3/dir3_1/file - > "abc"
./dir3/dir3_1
./dir3
or
$ tree
├── dir1
│ └── file -> "...
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`find` equivalent which supports .ignore files?
I frequently need to find files matching a certain name or type within a bundle of git repositories on my workstation. Some subdirectories within that bundle are only readable by root, though, so any ...
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Perform operations on the output of find command with -exec options
I want to perform operations on the files found by the find command which already has a -exec option.
find . -type f -exec zgrep -li "4168781103" {} +
Output:
./results/...
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Removing lines from files with a specific extension
The task is as follows: From all *.h and *.cpp files, delete lines beginning with /.
Removing from the current directory (or from the specified one) works well, and if there is a subdirectory in the ...
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How to ignore FIND errors in bash script?
I'm using a script to cleanup logfiles from a tomcat webserver.
Problem:
find $file_pattern will return an error if a filepattern did not match any results.
The following is run by crontab:
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Get the total size of all files of a given extension
I'm trying to get the total size of all the JPEGs in a particular folder, but no amount of combinations of options while piping to du seems to make this work:
find -type f -iname "*.jpg" | du -sch
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Detecting corrupted JPEGs: using find -exec with || logical operator
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec identify -regard-warnings -verbose {} > /dev/null 2>&1 + || mv "$1" --backup=numbered {} -t "./Corrupted"
I'm trying to use the above to check for the ...
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Efficiently Fixing Ownership, Group Membership, and Mode Problems on an Extremely Large NFS Share
I am fixing ownership, group membership, and mode problems in an entire directory tree (except for two particular subdirectories) accessible to me only via NFS. This directory tree contains tens of TB ...
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ImageMagick failing to match images lower than given dimensions
This is a follow-up question to this one.
So far, I've cobbled together the following find command, which is intended to print (and once properly tested, -delete) all JPGs that are 200 x 200px or ...
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Use find to delete all images under given dimensions
I just used Recuva and Photorec to recover some data off an accidentally-formatted drive. Naturally, the result is every intact file that ever existed on the drive during its lifetime. This means tens ...
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Using regex groups with find
Given a list of files, I want to find all the ones ending with either .pem or .cer. This command works to find the PEMs.
find . -d 1 -regex ".*\.pem"
But this command finds nothing:
find . -d 1 -...
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In bash: How to find and delete directories containing a specific file, only if the file is older than X minutes
In bash, how can I find and delete the directories that contain a specific file, only if the file is older than X minutes.
There is
this answer which finds the directories that contain a specific ...
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Check if file exists
I have a folder with thousands (70G folder/to/check/) images that I, for each file want check if its already existing in another directory with thousands of thousands images (414G folder/to/search/).
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How to copy grepped files using Find, Grep and Exec in Git Bash
I've looked everywhere for an answer and nothing seems to be working out. In Git Bash, I need to figure out how to take files found with grep and copy them elsewhere. The instructions were to use the ...
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Use find and do command on filename without "./" prefix
Performing a cp on filenames in multiple subdirectories and prefix them with foo- leads to an error:
$ find my-dir -path "*/*" -execdir sh -c 'cp {} foo-{}' \;
cannot create regular file ‘foo-./...
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