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Search for all the directories in directories taken from the glob pattern '/path/to/folders/*' and add the extension ".mbox" to all and create directories named 'Messages' inside them | find /path/to/folders/* -type d -exec mv {} {}.mbox \; -exec mkdir {}.mbox/Messages \; |
Search for all the directories named 'm?' under current directory tree, add the extension ".mbox" to all, create a 'Messages' directories inside them and move all files with .emlx extension to 'Messages' directory | find . -name 'm?' -type d -exec mv '{}' '{}.mbox' ';' -exec mkdir '{}.mbox/Messages' ';' -exec sh -c 'mv {}.mbox/*.emlx {}.mbox/Messages' ';' |
Search for all directories named foo, FOO, or any other combination of uppercase and lowercase characters beneath the current directory. | find . -iname foo -type d |
search for all empty directories in the folder /home | find /home -type d -empty |
Search for all files and directories named foo, FOO, or any other combination of uppercase and lowercase characters beneath the current directory. | find . -iname foo |
search for all files ending with ".mkv" in current folder | find /volume1/uploads -name "*.mkv" |
search for all the files ending with "fits" in the folder "/store/01" | find /store/01 -name "*.fits" |
search for all the files having spaces in the current folder and save the output to the variable founddata | founddata=`find . -name "filename including space" -print0` |
Search for all files in the /home directory tree that have the same inode number | find /home -xdev -inum 2655341 |
Search for all files in the current directory recursively whose names begin with "Linkin Park" | find . -name "Linkin Park*" |
Search for all files in the current directory recursively whose names contain "linkin", ignoring the case | find . -iname *linkin* |
Search for all files in the current directory recursively whose names end with "Linkin Park" | find . -name "*Linkin Park" |
search for all the files in the current directory which have been modified in the last 24 hours. | find . -mtime -1 |
search for all the files in the current directory which belong to the user "xuser1" and change the owner ship of them to "user2" | find . -user xuser1 -exec chown -R user2 {} \; |
search for all the files in the current directory which have the group staff and have write permission enabled to the user and display them. | find . -group staff -perm -2000 -print |
search for all the files in the current directory which have the name a.out or core or which end with .o and delete them. | find . \( -name a.out -o -name '*.o' -o -name 'core' \) -exec rm {} \; |
search for all the files in the current directory which have size greater than 10KB (approx) and less than 32KB(approx). | find . -size +10000c -size -32000c -print |
search for all the files in current folder and display all the file names separated by space | find . | paste -sd " " |
search for all the files in the current folder and sort them in the order of their depth and display the file names | find -type d -printf '%d\t%P\n' | sort -r -nk1 | cut -f2- |
search for all the files in the current folder which are bigger than 10KB and display them biggest file | find . -size +10k -exec ls -ls {} \+ | sort -n | tail -1 |
search for all the files in the current folder which have spaces and force delete them | find . -name "filename including space" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rdf |
search for all the files in current folder which start with "file2015-0" and move them to another folder | find . -name "file2015-0*" -exec mv {} .. \; |
search for all the files in current folder which start with "file2015-0" and move them to frst 400 fiiles to another folder | find . -name "file2015-0*" | head -400 | xargs -I filename mv filename |
search for all the files in the current folder which start with gen and end with bt2 and assign the output list to the variable var. | var="$(find . -name 'gen*.bt2')" |
search for all the files in the folder /data/images which are modified after /tmp/foo | find /data/images -newer /tmp/foo |
search for all the files in the folder /home which have sticky bit set and have the permissions 553 | find /home -perm 1553 |
search for all the files in the folder /home/user1 which end with ".bin" | find /home/user1 -name "*.bin" |
search for all the files in the folder /usr/bin which have not been accessed in the last 100*24 hours | find /usr/bin -type f -atime +100 |
Search for all the files in man pages and return the manual page for grep | find /usr/share/man/ -regex .*/grep* |
Search for all files named foo, FOO, or any other combination of uppercase and lowercase characters beneath the current directory. | find . -iname foo -type f |
Search for all files newer than file /tmp/t | find / -newer /tmp/t |
Search for all files newer than file /tmp/t1 but not newer than file /tmp/t2 | find / -newer /tmp/t1 -and -not -newer /tmp/t2 |
Search for all files not newer than file /tmp/t | find / -not -newer /tmp/t |
Search for all files owned by user www-data that are not larger than 100kb | find -user www-data -not -size +100k |
search for all the file sin the current folder which are bigger than 10KB and display them smallest file | find . -size +10k -exec ls -lS {} \+ | head -1 |
Search for all files that end in ".conf" | find / -type f -name "*.conf" |
search for all the files which have not been modified in the last 6 months (180 days) in current folder and display the disk usage of them | find . -mtime +180 -exec du -sh {} \; |
Search for all files with either "sitesearch" or "demo" in their path names | find . -ipath '*sitesearch*' -ipath '*demo*' |
Search for all files with either "sitesearch" or "demo" in their path names | find . -iregex '.*sitesearch.*' -iregex '.*demo.*' |
Search for all files with either "sitesearch" or "demo" in their path names | find . | grep -i demo | grep -i sitesearch |
searching for all files with the extension mp3 | find / -name *.mp3 |
Search for all files with same inode NUM | find . -inum NUM |
Search for all files with the same inode number 41525360 | find . -follow -inum 41525360 |
search for all the foo.txt files in the current folder and move them to another location | find . -name foo.txt -print0 | xargs -0 -I{} mv {} /some/new/location/{} |
search for all the jpg files in the folder "/mnt/hda1/zdjecia/test1/" and copy these files to the folder /mnt/hda1/test/<same name as the found file> | find /mnt/hda1/zdjecia/test1/ -iname “*.jpg” -type f -exec cp {} -rv /mnt/hda1/test{} ‘;’ |
Search for all jpg images on the system and archive them | find / -name *.jpg -type f -print | xargs tar -cvzf images.tar.gz |
search for all the mp3 files in the file system and move them to the folder /mnt/mp3 | find / -iname "*.mp3" -exec mv {} /mnt/mp3 \; |
search for all the mp3 files in the folder /home/you which have been accessed 24 ago | find /home/you -iname “*.mp3” -atime 01 -type -f |
search for all mp3 files in the folder /home/you which have been accessed exactly 10*24 hours ago | find /home/you -iname "*.mp3" -atime 10 -type -f |
search for all non empty regular/normal files in the current folder and empty them ie., delete the content not the file | find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -not -empty -print0 | xargs -0i cp /dev/null {} |
Search for all non-hidden files | find . -name '*' |
search for all the non-hidden files in the current directory and do not search in the subfolders and dispaly their name and size. | find . -maxdepth 1 -name '[!.]*' -printf 'Name: %16f Size: %6s\n' |
search for all pdf files in the folder "/home/pdf" which have been accessed in the last 60*24 hours | find /home/you -iname "*.pdf" -atime -60 -type -f |
search for all perl files in the folder /nas/projects/mgmt/scripts/perl which have been modified yesterday | find /nas/projects/mgmt/scripts/perl -mtime 1 -daystart -iname "*.pl" |
search for all the php files in the folder "/home/mywebsite" which have been changed in the last 30*24 hours | find /home/mywebsite -type f -name "*.php" -ctime -30 |
search for all the regular/normal files in the /etc folder which have been modified in the last 24 hours | find /etc/ -type f -mtime -1 |
search for all regular files in the current directory which have the extension "c" or "asm" | find . -type f \( -iname "*.c" -or -iname "*.asm" \) |
search for all regular/normal files in current folder and display all the files which contain 16 lines | find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -cH '.' | grep ':16$' |
search for all the regular files in the current folder and display the contents | find . -type f -exec cat {} \; |
search for all regular/normal files in the current folder and display the number of lines in the file | find . -type f -print | xargs -L1 wc -l |
search for all regular/normal files in the current folder and display the number of lines in the file | find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0L1 wc -l |
search for all the regular files that have been changed in the last 48 hours and sync these to another folder | find /my/source/directory -ctime -2 -type f -printf "%P\n" | xargs -IFILE rsync -avR /my/./source/directory/FILE /my/dest/directory/ |
search for all the regular/normal files with the name "access.log" in the folder /var/www which are bigger than 100MB | find /var/www -type f -name «access.log*» -size +100M |
search for all the regular/normal mp3 files in the file system and move them to the folder /mnt/mp3 | find / -iname "*.mp3" -type f -exec /bin/mv {} /mnt/mp3 \; |
search for all the regular/normal mp3 files in the file system and move them to the folder /mnt/mp3 | find / -iname "*.mp3" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -I '{}' /bin/mv "{}" /mnt/mp3/ |
search for all the regular/normal mp3 files in the file system and move them to the folder /mnt/mp3 | find / -iname "*.mp3" -type f | xargs -I '{}' mv {} /mnt/mp3 |
search for all the rpm files in the file system which reside in the same partition as that of the root | find / -xdev -name "*.rpm" |
search for all Scala files under the current directory that contain the string null | find . -type f -name "*.scala" -exec grep -B5 -A10 'null' {} \; |
search for all tar.gz compress files in the current folder | find -name *.tar.gz |
search for all the text files and display the long listing of these files from that directory | find . -name "*.txt" -execdir ls -la {} ";" |
search for all the text files in the folder /foo and delete them | find /foo/ -name "*.txt" -exec rm -v {} \; |
search for all text files in the folder /home | find /home -name *.txt |
search for all xml files in current folder and display them | find . -name "*.xml" -exec echo {} \; |
Search for all zero-byte files and move them to the /tmp/zerobyte folder | find test -type f -size 0 -exec mv {} /tmp/zerobyte \; |
Search for broken symlinks | find -L -type l |
Search for the case insensitive pattern 'PATTERN' in all files under current directory tree and display the matched files | find . -print | xargs grep -l -i "PATTERN" |
Search for case insensitive pattern 'search for me' in all files that match the name pattern '*.[!r]*' under current directory tree | find . -name "*.[!r]*" -exec grep -i -l "search for me" {} \; |
Search for the case insensitive pattern 'search for me' in all files with '.p', '.w' and '.i' extension under current directory tree without descending into '.svn' and 'pdv' directories | find . \( \( -name .svn -o -name pdv \) -type d -prune \) -o \( -name '*.[pwi]' -type f -exec grep -i -l "search for me" {} + \) |
Search for the case insensitive regex expanded by $2 in all files named $1 (to be expanded) under current directory | find . -name "$1" -type f -exec grep -i "$2" '{}' \; |
Search for the case insensitive regex expanded by $2 in all files named $1 (to be expanded) under current directory | find . -name "$1" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -i "$2" |
Search for the case insensitive regex expanded by $2 in all files named $1 (to be expanded) under current directory | find . -name $1 -type f -exec grep -i $2 '{}' \; |
Search for case-insensitive "string" in "log.tar.gz" | zcat log.tar.gz | grep -a -i "string" |
(Linux specific) Search for command "tail" in the maps of the process with PID 2671 | cat /proc/2671/maps | grep `which tail` |
search for dbmsspool.sql file in the current folder | find . -print|grep ?i dbmspool.sql |
search for the directory "config" in the current folder | find . -name config -type d |
search for the directory "config" in the current folder and change directory to it | cd `find . -name "config"` |
search for the directory "mysql" in the /etc folder | find /etc -name mysql -type d |
search for the directory "mysql" in the entire file system | find / -name mysql -type d |
search for the directory "ora10" in the entire file system | find / -type d -name "ora10" |
search for the directory "uploads" in current folder and change the permission of the folder and all the files to 755 | find . -type d -name 'uploads' -print0 | xargs -0 chmod -R 755 |
Search for directory foo ignoring case | find . -iname foo -type d |
search for directories in the folder "test" which end have 5 digits as their name | find ./test -type d -name '[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]' |
search for directories in the folder "test" which end with 5 digits using regular expressions | find ./test -regextype posix-egrep -type d -regex '.*/[0-9]{5}$' |
search for the directory starting with "ora10" in the entire file system | find / -type d -name "ora10*" |
search for the directory testdir in the folder /home | find /home -type d -name testdir |
Search for directories that contain the phrase "foo" but do not end in ".bar" | find . -name '*foo*' ! -name '*.bar' -type d -print |
Search for empty files | find . -size 0k |
Search for ERROR in all btree*.c files under current directory | grep ERROR $(find . -type f -name 'btree*.c') |
Search for the extended grep regex 'expr' in all files with '.c' and '.h' extension under current directory tree | find . -name '*.[ch]' | xargs grep -E 'expr' |
Search for the extened regex 'expr' in all files with '.c' and '.h' extension under current directory tree | find . -name '*.[ch]' | xargs grep -E 'expr' |
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