Questions tagged [find]
A commandline utility to find files and directories.
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Invalid magic number and need to load kernel
I'm new to try Ubuntu on my broken laptop to backup some files before reinstall W10. I downloaded Ubuntu 22.04 LTS through official website and used Rufus to create a bootable USB with that ISO thing ...
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How Can I Combine 'SRM' and 'Find'?
I'm using SRM to securely delete files and directories. Most of the data is on FAT and NTFS volumes since I dualboot with Windows (I'm trying to use Ubuntu as much as possible and stay away from ...
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Correct way to delete /boot/firmware .bak files in Ubuntu 22.04?
I'm very new to Ubuntu, I installed the Raspberry Pi Ubuntu Server 22.04.3 LTS (64-bit) image, with their imager tool:
# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
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Is there an easy way to find all files on an ubuntu server and load them along with path information into mysql?
I am using Ubuntu server 20.04 for OwnCloud and backups of multiple networked computers. I know I have many duplicate files on the server and would like to have one database of all files so I can ...
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find does not find directory
I have a folder with information of the courses I am teaching or I have teached. In there I execute find to search by name:
~/Academic/Cursos$ find . -name '2022*' -print
./MaGAAV/Formulación de ...
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Using the find command in Krunner
I am a big fan of krunner. But eversince I came across it I have been disappointed by its search function. When I am searching for a specific expression I normally use:
find . -iname '*heavymetal*'
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Slow performance of find
I have a process that creates many nested directories and files in output directory. Right now the directory has 67,000 files which does not sound much.
I have a cleanup cron job setup exactly like ...
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Where can I find default noisy color backgrounds?
I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS version.
I want to change login screen background to as like my lock screen background. I know how to change login screen background but I can't find the default color ...
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How to find the last valid information possibly spread over several log files
I have a fleet of buses that send me a monitoring log file every morning regarding the status of the vehicle the previous day. The log updates various information every 5 minutes. Among the data ...
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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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Copy selected files from one folder, retaining the directory structure
I want to copy all the JPG files from one folder to another and it works.
find /path/from/dirA/ -name "*.JPG" -exec cp "{}" /path/to/dirB \;
To improve on the above, I would like ...
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Find files from timestamps
I have a lot of files, of which I need to show only those created in the last 3 hours, and sort this list by date. I tried to do it with the following command:
find /root/shell/copy/ \( -type f -mmin +...
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Geany - how to disable mark option in find function?
I pressed mark but now I have no idea how to disable it. And I can not google this. Just closing the window doesn't help.
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Using find with -delete but not scanning a backup disk mounted in /media
I need to find all directories named ABC in /, but I want find to ignore (not scan) the path /media.
I've tried a few ways, as I found on the Internet, but none are working properly.
My latest three ...
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How to find and return the names of all images containing specific metadata?
I want to find all .jpg files in my directory that contain a specific tag and copy them to a different directory. In particular, I am using GThumb which allows me to put tags to my photos - it stores ...
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"Permission denied" while trying to find files
I'm running:
sudo find / -name .mysql_history
and I'm getting:
find: ‘/run/user/999/doc’: Permission denied
find: ‘/run/user/999/gvfs’: Permission denied
Why? Any help would be appreciated.
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Looking for a tool that finds quickly the duplicates of a known file
I have up to now used the tool fdupes to find all the duplicates of a file but this doesn't seem to work. I tried to do :
fdupes -r ~/Large_directory file_to_find.txt
Firstly I have, just after ...
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How can I select mp3 files by album?
Sorry, I'm a little newer to Ubuntu.
I want to use the terminal to delete a large number of mp3 files, but only the ones in a certain album while leaving files in other albums untouched. I have too ...
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More efficient way to find content of files within millions of files
We currently have a series of files ordered by date, by type and then individual XML files containing details, with the basic structure as:
2020-01-01/
FR_abc
FR_abc_datetime_random.xml
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Writing a find command with ffmpeg to process videos
I want to write a command or script to find all my .mkv videos larger than 3Gb, then run ffmpeg to make them smaller (720p) and change the extension to mp4. I have it working except the file ends up ...
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I have noticed that sometimes my HD is spinning and spinning running "find command" on Xubuntu 16.04.5
When I start my laptop the HD is spinning executing find command without reason, I tried to clean saved sessions, looking in startup programs if there is any command using find command, but I couldn't ...
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What is the command to list the files of specific extension within the range of file size and with depth of file search?
I tried using the following command but it is not working.
sudo find / -type f -iname "*.ttx" -size +5k 2>/dev/null | grep -E '^/?([^/]+/?){0,3}$'
I am using 2>/dev/null to avoid error ...
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error with 'find' package
I can't download anything because it says:
installArchives() failed: dpkg: warning: 'find' not found in PATH
or not executable
dpkg: error: 1 expected program not found in PATH or not executable
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Which package manages the Ctrl+F function?
I'm trying to find out which package manages the Ctrl+F (Find) function. I need this so I can properly file a bug; the Ctrl+F function is constantly being launched on whatever application I have on ...
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Ubuntu can't find or reogonize file
I've recently just installed Ubuntu, and it's been working fine, until now.
Ubuntu doesn't seem to regonize new files anymore. I just downloaded a file, put it in my desktop by GUI, and tried using ...
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No search results with filebrowser and terminal
Hei,
Ubuntu 22.10
I don't get search results while searching for files both with databrowser
and terminal.
Concrete: "Search" stopps after search in the first mentioned directory.
A lot of &...
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Calculate video total video length and output as total with respective folder
I'm working with some videos and I want to measure the total length of videos each folder contains and output it with the respective folder. Current structure is like this.
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└── Parent folder/
├──...
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Using find's -prune action
In this script:
#!/bin/bash
# Get the current epoch time minus 1 second to be sure all files are captured.
eptime=$((EPOCHSECONDS-1))
# Execute the commands that will do the sought for file changes:...
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find and copy directories
I have this directory structure:
.../current folder/Bx/Px/
where x are different numbers, like x=1, 2, 3... and so on.
I want to find directories P* in the current folder and then copy all of them ...
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Find command with ZSH based on a list of files
I was used to running BASH but I recently discovered ZSH and I have to say that it works well. However I have a problem with the find instruction below.
Let's say we have 3 webp files and one listing....
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Display files that have additional rights for group and others that the user does not have
I have a problem to solve for a university class I am taking.
I need a command that lists files in a directory that have a group or others permission that is set, but it is not set for the owner (such ...
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Use locate (or find) command to locate files on Windows partition from Ubuntu
I use the locate command quite heavily to search for files on my system and I think it works quite well for me.
I am now on a system with a double partition (Windows and Ubuntu) and I would like also ...
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finding directories and files
I understand that I can find directories with a specific pattern using:
find . -type d -name "tmp_*"
I understand that I can find files with a directory using:
find . -type f -name "tmp....
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LibreOffice: indent all lines starting with italic via find/replace
I have a huge text, and I would like to indent all lines which start with italic text, via find/replace.
I tried using ^ and italic via the format button, but then the search string is not found.
If I ...
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Output of find | xargs not redirecting to log file
I'm developing a Bash script which cleans up old data files periodically, and right now everything works except for the log file I'm trying to generate so I can see what it did.
The structure I'm ...
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Using find to edit multiple files in multiple directories (that are in consistent form)
what I a trying to do is to use find to edit/replace string in multiple files with same name in multiple directories with consistent form
multiple files:
status1_cap
multiple directories:
/home/user/...
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Accidentally moved files with the find command to a non-existing folder
I ran the following command:
find . -type f -name '*HEIC.jpg' -exec mv '{}' /media/bkup/New_folder/103APPLE/test_2 \
TEST_2 folder does not exist, I have a TEST 2 (no underscore), but the command ...
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command history
Which is the most correct answer for this question: Write a one-line command that searches the last 50 commands that have been used for the term "find", and saves the result in history.txt
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SED command runs from console but not through incrontab
Trying to make find and replace in a file when it is modified by the system or other user.
Incron+SED is the combination has worked the best till this moment. Problem is when the command is put into ...
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Find directories within directories ending in 'l0' that do not contain '*18*' in their names
I am currently doing find . ! -name '*18*' -name '*l0*' -type d but it is listing all the parent directories like 'd1_l0' , 'd2_l0', 'd3_l0' etc only. I actually want subdirectories like 'd1_l0/[15*,...
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how to find directories , compress and save in other location
I have a task -
To search 6 months old directories/files.
1) Tar and save to another location.
Below command works perfectly, but saving to same location where old files exist
find . -mtime +180 -...
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Print only the path of the file found
When I type this command :
find / -name Gson
the terminal prints all the folders it is searching and then somewhere in between I see the path
Can I somehow print just the path of the file found and ...
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How to store output of find from a background command
I have the following excerpt from a script for finding certain subfolders. Meanwhile a spinner indicates that something is taking longer in the background:
# runs find as background task and ...
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I don't know how to access my created file
I'm trying to connect my home wifi to my machine with wpa_supplicant but don't know the path to the file with SSID and passphrase. If I do ls -a -1 | less from my user account I can see it in the list,...
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While loop does not work, it reads the first line and exits and the locate command that is used does not output the value
We have a shell script which should read line from a file, where the file contents are the filenames, we need to locate the path of these filenames and copy to a different directory.
Here we have ...
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Current time and modification time of a file
How does the ctime and mtime differ for a file in find command?
For example, will
find . -ctime +1
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find . -mtime +1
give the same result or not?
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Help using FIND to find a specific file with an owner and permissions specified
in this SUID thread I have some to a grinding halt, with nil success. I need to find a file that is owned by the user Linux, has a SUID set and has user execute permissions set. The file is called ...
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Find and Grep working properly via prompt but not via Jenkins
I´m trying to filter some files using find and grep via the command below:
find . -type f -exec grep -q --exclude=*.{cpp,gradle,java,ttf,txt,xml,md} . {} \; -and -print
The funny thing is: via ...
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file listing system-wide
I am encountering a strange problem on my local machine. I am a developer and I am working with SAP/Hybris. This environment provides an ant build script which even builds the entire web application.
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Comlpex grep regex with unexpected token
I have a Magento 2 installation where I am attempting to find any syntactiaclly incorrect xml files.
I am trying to use the below command to find any acl.xml files in the code dir that contain a node ...
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