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Finding sub-directories inside directories with same name using find and xargs [closed]
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Finding subdirectories inside all directories with the same name
I want to run a command line to achieve following 3 steps:
find all directories named "inc" under a ...
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Finding subdirectories inside all directories with the same name
I want to run a command to:
Find all directories named "inc" under a folder "X".
List all the subdirectories under each "X/.../inc/".
Redirect the output to a file named "list"
I tried various ...
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Unix/Linux find and sort by date modified
so I was wondering how I could do a simple find which would order the results by most recently modified. Here is the current fine I am using.
(I am doing a shell escape in php, so that is the ...
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Location of files on Unix whose file names and contents each match a regular expression
I want to search for file names with a regular expression, and grep it using regex. I tried this:
find . -name co_on*eruo* | xargs grep '0LF2C Comdty(.*)20111022(.*)'
But it doesn't work. What am ...
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Only output part after last “/” with find
This command:
find ./ -name "mybinaryrpm-1.0.24-1.1.i586.rpm"
gives the output:
./DirectoryName/SubDirectory/mybinaryrpm-1.0.24-1.1.i586.rpm
but I only want the output:
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grep doesn't produce the correct output when run on find command
My task was to print the number of files in the current directory without using ls and wc commands.
I had typed the following lines in the script:
#!/bin/bash
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f \( ! -iname ...
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Find words in many files
I am looking for this struct messages_sdd_t and I need to search through a lot of *.c files to find it. However, I can't seen to find a match as I want to exclude all the words 'struct' and ...
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How to Combine find and grep for a complex search? ( GNU/linux, find, grep )
I'm trying to do a text search in some files that share a similar directory structure, but are not in the same directory tree, in GNU/Linux.
I have a web server with many sites that share the same ...
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Find and move hidden files from sub-directories with batch file not working
I'm trying to use this batch file to find and move files... but it does not work on hidden files.
What's missing?
@echo off
setlocal
set root=E:\backup
set dest=E:\Tmp
for /f "delims=" %%f in ('dir ...
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How can I clear the contents of every file in a subdirectory without changing ownership / permissions?
I can find the list of files using something like:
find /path/to/files -type f
And I can clear the contents of a single file with any of:
> filename
echo -n > filename
cat /dev/null > ...
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Using find and tar with files with special characters in the name
I want to archive all .ctl files in a folder, recursively.
tar -cf ctlfiles.tar `find /home/db -name "*.ctl" -print`
The error message :
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
tar: ...
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Using `find` for multiple file extensions
I am using the following command for counting the lines of text in JAVA files:
find . -name '*.java' | xargs wc -l
How can I modify the find command parameters to match more than one file ...
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Using find -mmin to find files with modification time in the future
I can use
find . -mmin -5
to find files changed in last 5 minutes. However if I try to find files with modification time in the future by giving negative number find refuses to do it:
find . -mmin ...
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how to limit find command's output used with option -print0
I'd like to limit output of find command. In the past I used to use for this ls command, e.g:
ls *tgz|head -100|xargs -i mv "{}" ../
but I got to know that the result may be unpredictable if name ...
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What `find` command deletes everything in a directory except for CVS folders?
I have a dir:
$ tree
.
|-- CVS
| |-- Entries
| |-- Entries.Log
| |-- Repository
| `-- Root
|-- dirA
| |-- CVS
| | |-- Entries
| | |-- Repository
| | `-- Root
| |-- file1
| ...
