A program to find files and directories.
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Ubuntu cant find an Input Device [closed]
I've Ubuntu 12.04 installed.
If you know a possible solution, feel free to reply.
Thanks
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Did I just delete everything with find -exec mv?
Tried to figure this out on my own. Here's the command I used in the terminal:
find . -name "*.jpg" -exec mv {} pictures \;
I did not create a directory named pictures first. What happened was a ...
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CTRL+F Find/Search not active after clean install of Ubuntu 13.04
2 days after a completely clean install of 13.04 and no relevant changes to the system (keybd shortcuts etc.), CTRL+F does not work anywhere, with the exception of Chrome, where it opens the ...
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Where are flex libraries located?
I find myself with a very weird problem in my hands. I wanted to install both flex (the fast lexical analyzer) and bison, and that's why I ran:
sudo apt-get install bison flex
The installation goes ...
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How to find the location of a device
I have a programmer to program AVR micro-controllers, and to upload a HEX file to the micro-controller I have to know where it is, something like this: /dev/ttyUSB003.
I tried dmesg but I couldn't ...
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JPG batch compression & rename (find -exec, xargs, piping?)
this is my first post so I hope you'll be kind enough to forgive me if I make some formatting mistakes or else. This is one question I've had for quite some time and while looking for answers I have ...
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Recursively apply the msgfmt command to all .po files in directory with find -exec
I have the following directory structure:
webiste/
locale/
en/
LC_MESSAGES/
translation.po
de/
LC_MESSAGES/
...
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find -exec grep does not work
I need to use a find command in a script with ssh and grep together.
Something like this:
ssh user@host find /var/log -type f -mtime 1 -exec grep -i -F error warn {} \;
But it says, that there is no ...
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How to search for both within filename (find) and file (grep) using a single line of code?
I'm pretty sure I've done this in the past (and that an answer is out there somewhere), but can't remember right now.
I'm looking for a one-liner to search for (and return / echo) matches in both the ...
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How to find ghostscript files in ubuntu?
I'm working with the terminal and im trying to find ghostscript files in all the computer. How can I do that? I know that I must use the comand "find", but is there anything else I should type?
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Dash (superkey) doesnt find any software and my software-center doesn't start
Can anybody help me? I have only access to software that is already shown in the starter..
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find files and print info
I can easily find files with given string in name:
me@comp:/usr/local/hydra/hydra-7.4.2$ find -D stat -name "*hack*"
./hack881663129.txt
./hack881663129_7.txt
./hack881663129_5.txt
...
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How to exclude/ignore hidden files and directories in a wildcard-embedded “find” search?
Starting from (notice the wildcards before and after "some text")
find . -type f -name '*some text*'
how can one exclude/ignore all hidden files and directories?
I've already been googling for far ...
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how to find exact file without listing folders
my current folder is the top of the folder tree structure
somewhere inside I have an *.rpm file.
how do I find that *.rpm file in a way that'll list only its full path when found and not list every ...
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How to take the first n files from a directory with a letter in alphabetical order to another directory
I need to take the first 3 files from a directory starting with letter b in alphabetical order to another directory. I've come up with this command:
find ...
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Finding all directories with a certain string then changing permissions
I'm trying to combine two things.
I have to set permissions on a number of directories, all of which have "domain-" in their name.
I wanted to "find all directories in the current directory that ...
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Remove files in multiple directories except some sub-folders
I'm using Ubuntu Server 12.10 and I need to configure a cron job to delete some files in samba shares that belong to some criteria.
I'm configured some samba shares in /media/raid/.
The folders are:
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Search files in subfolder and export results to file
I have a folder with hundreds of subfolders. I need to locate recursively within the subfolders those that don't have certain files inside (for instance *ch.pdf or *.jpg) and export the results to a ...
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Move certain subfolders to another folder
I have a main folder with several subfolders (that have a numbered name format), and i need to retrieve just the ones that start with 6, to a folder. Can i make this recursevely?
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Recursive list of files with names that don't contain a certain string
I have: a directory with many nested subdirectories and files.
I would like: a list of all files whose name doesn't contain a certain string.
Example file structure:
foo/
foo/bar/foobar.txt
...
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Why do I see a difference in file count between Nautilus and find?
For a university project, I have to count all the files in a folder. I have used the command:
find ./dirName | wc -l
Although when I compare this to the file count provided by Nautilus it is ...
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How do I use the find command to effectively recurse when the pattern contains a wildcard?
I was under the impression that the following command will search for, and list all Java files starting from the current directory and recursing down.
However, if I have a Java file in the root of my ...
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find command does not find string in subfolders
I have a file structure something like this:
/apps/base/logs1
and
/apps/base/logs2
Both logs1 and logs2 folders have .log files with some other files as well.
I am trying to do this
From /apps ...
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How do I remove files as a result of the find command?
I want to rm all the files that I get when I run
find search-3S-beta |grep "\.log\."
What would be the command?
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How do I exclude a directory by name using find?
I have a lot of directories on my system, with a structure looking like this:
\-----data
\------- 001abc
\------- 002abc
\------- 003abc
\------- 004abc
\------- ...
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Count lines in files from set
I need to count the number of lines in files from a set.
I tried to execute
find -name pattern -exec vc -l '{}' \;
But this command returns
find: `vc': No such file or directory
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Find and exec using pulled variable
So far I have a simple batch script that moves *.mkv files from their source folders to a folder called "Movies". Now I would like FileBot to rename them using the 'find' command, since it (filebot) ...
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I can't find a file in ubuntu 12.04
i used the code in terminal
sudo mv filename.jpg /usr/share/backgrounds
but when i check there, it is missing, also can't find in /home
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Cat all files in a directory, with a specific file at the beginning an end…?
Is there a way to cat all files in a given directory, but with a particular file at the beginning and end?
For example, say I have: file1.js, file2.js, file3.js, file4.js, file5.js -- Effectively I ...
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Does apt-cacher change packages access time?
I tried to remove the long time unused packages from apt-cacher archive using find:
$ find /var/cache/apt-cacher -atime +5 -type f -name ".*deb*" | wc -l 8471
$ find /var/cache/apt-cacher -atime +9 ...
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What is the difference between “find” and “locate” search methods in Catfish?
There seem to be two different methods of searching for files in Catfish
What is the difference?
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bash escaping and find command
I trying to remove boring \-escaping from this command:
find . \( -name '*.mp3' -o -name '*.jpg' \) -print
by wrapping it in single quotes:
find . '( -name *.mp3 -o -name *.jpg )' -print
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Finding gephi's settings file in ubuntu?
I am trying to increase the maximum amount of memory available to Gephi on Ubuntu. The official Gephi help says this is how to do it:
On Linux, go into your application directory and then into the ...
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How to find all the files related to a software?
I'm not sure if it is possible, but if it is, how can I find all the files related to a software? For example, is there anyway to find all files that gedit needs and uses to work?
Does such ...
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How can I synchronize all PDFs from one directory with Dropbox?
I want to synchronize all the PDFs from one directory (my Zotero library) to Dropbox. Finally, I want to have a list of all the PDFs, not the directory names.
I successfully synchronized all my PDFs ...
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Find files in linux and exclude specific directories
I have a find looking like this:
rm -f crush-all.js
find . -type f \( -name "*.js" ! -name "*-min*" ! -name "*console*" \) | while read line
do
cat "$line" >> crush-all.js
echo >> ...
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Recursively find every first file at each branch of a directory tree
Consider the following directory listing:
/a/1
/a/2
/a/3
/b/1
/b/2
/b/3/a
/b/3/b
/c/a.whatever
/c/b
/c/c
I want a command that will find the first (alphanumeric sort) file in each directory (inc ...
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Find directories that DON'T contain a file
Yes, I'm sorting out my music. I've got everything arranged beautifully in the following mantra: /Artist/Album/Track - Artist - Title.ext and if one exists, the cover sits in ...
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List of files modified between perticular time period
I am trying to get list of files modified between particular period of time as explain in this answer.
I stored date and time in two variables [nn and nn1 (stupid naming)] and tried with find ...
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React to a modified directory
In linux everything is considered as file, Now if I want to find only folders/directories not the files then how can i do that?
I am getting all the modified files with the following command.
find ...
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How to find files between two dates using “find”?
I have an email account that has passed 60GB of emails, and currently I'm having a lot of trouble using an email client to archive emails of last year (2011).
Via terminal, I am trying to use find to ...
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ubuntu alongside win7
I have two hard drives, one where win7(C) is installed and the other ubuntu 12.04(D). I cant find the other files on D like movies and etc using ubuntu but i do find them running win7.
How can I find ...
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Using grep to find a string
I am trying to locate a file that (should) contains the string "1896.345", somewhere under /home/dir/.
Any ideas of how I can do it? Thanks
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Can someone explain me the find command behavior that I use?
Can any one tell me why the following command won't run :
find ./assign/*.c -exec cp ./assign2 {} \;
and what's the difference when i do the following(which actually runs):
find ./assign -type f ...
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find command to remove files says that some files don't exist
I have an OSX Mountain Lion Laptop connected to and ubuntu 11.10 system and tried to copy one .csv file from the OSX machine to the ubuntu machine. I stopped the file transfer as I realised it created ...
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Exclude some of the “find” results
I'm using find command along with -exec something argument. Can I exclude some directories/name that match regex (something like rsync's --exclude)? Will -prune be enough if I want to exclude many ...
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Find files/folders in folder except some specific folders
I'm trying to move all files from one folder to another, except some specific folders.
I tried this to move all files except the .git, assets or build folders:
find .. ! -regex ...
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What does this warning mean in find command?
I am trying to learn the find command, please help me with this warning:
ankit@battlestar:/home/mount_150/studies$ find -iname "*.pdf" -exec cp -ar {} lcommands/ \;
cp: `./lcommands/june.pdf' and ...
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Searching for a filename without a certain string
So when you want to search for a file with a filename containing the string xyz from a directory to all depths, you write
sudo find path -name '*xyz*'
How do I find all files without the string ...
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What does “paths must precede expression” mean when using find?
I want show all the files that have a .bak extension.
kaykav@ubu2:~/Documents$ ls
cdIndex1-60 met.bak tem.bak
I type the cmd : $ find . -name *.bak
I'm in the correct Directory for this. I get ...
