Script to recursively copy and rename files with find and sed
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Move small files to separate directory in one command
Loop files under a set weight to move it to a directory.
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1 for f in `find . -iname "*.JPG" -size -500k`; do mv ${f} small; done
Find: UNIX regexp search down a directory tree
How to make a regexp search with find recursively . If you want to search only in php files, replace file_pattern with “*.php”
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Find and delete
Find files and directories containning your search terms, and delete them witout confirmation and recursively. No matter if they are not empty.
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1 find . -name "search_terms" -exec rm -rf {} \;
Bash: Find all .hidden files but ignore .htaccess file
A bash command to search for all hidden files recursively in the current directory but ignore apache .htaccess files.
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Find and list files containing a string
Recursively search all files matching a regexp in the current directory and then listing them.
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This could also be done like this:
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1 find . -type f -name "*.file" --exec grep -l "STRING" {} \;
Batch recursive permission change with find and chmod
Batch recursive permission change with find and chmod
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1 2 find / -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;3 4 5
Format find and awk output locating large files
Use find to locate files over a criteria size and format output with awk. Changing value of NF variable you change fields separator
find / -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \; Find directories that do not contain a file
Search for directories that don’t contain a file we set in options.樂威壯
In our case are .vmx files.
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1 find / -type f -size +20000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $NF ": " $5 }'2
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Find symbolic links to directory
echo $dir; fi; done;