Questions tagged [find]
A commandline utility to find files and directories.
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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
implying ...
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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 any way to find all files that gedit needs and uses to work?
Does such command/...
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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
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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 /Artist/Album/cover.(jpg|...
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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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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 '\(.git\|assets\|...
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cp: `./lcommands/cde.pdf' and `lcommands/cde.pdf' are the same file
I am trying to learn about the find command. I would like to understand the meaning of this warning:
ankit@battlestar:/home/mount_150/studies$ find -iname "*.pdf" -exec cp -ar {} lcommands/ \;
cp: `....
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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 xyz?
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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 ...
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How do I get mlocate to only index certain directories?
I'd like to use mlocate on my Ubuntu server, but only to index certain directories (e.g. /home and /data, but not everything under /). However, mlocate's standard configuration works the opposite way; ...
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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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I just recursively chmod'd everything under / to 750. Any tips?
I won't be the first and I won't be the last, I suppose. While playing around with the find command, I made a whoops and it would appear that instead of changing the permissions of the ~/web directory ...
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how to have 'find' not return the current directory
I'm currently trying to find (and copy) all files and folder structure matching a specific pattern, in a specified directory and I'm so nearly there!
Specifically, I want to recursively copy all ...
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How can I use find command more efficiently?
I wanted to know, what is the best way to use the find command efficiently?
I generally use, find [filename] [dir] which gives me a long list of file names none of them any way related to my search.
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How to use find when there are spaces in the directory names?
I need to find all .nfo files in my media directory so I can use sed to change some parts. The problem is my folders have spaces in the names.
find /media/media1/HDTV -name \*.nfo -type f
media/...
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Help locating the virtualbox export?
I just did this
VBoxManage export foo_to_be_export --output bar.ova
But then I forgot to setup the default path. However, it shows it's 100%. I couldn't find this image now.
I tried
sudo find / -...
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Count duplicated words in a text file
I have a 20 mb file with text and ids. I need a grep or something to count and show any duplicated ids.
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Find a file by name using command-line
I would like to determine the location of a file using command-line. I have tried:
find . -type f -name "postgis-2.0.0"
and
locate postgis-2.0.0
to no avail. What is the command to determine the ...
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find . -type l says missing argument
I want to find all symbolic links in the current directory and below. Therefore, I used:
find . -type l
Running that clears the screen showing "Pattern not found (press RETURN)" at the bottom of the ...
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find: unknown predicate
This is probably not a Ubuntu question as such, but a Linux one instead, still hope some Linux user out there can help me understand this.
I'm trying to use the find command to look for some files an ...
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find: missing argument to -exec
The following works from the terminal no problem
find testDir -type f -exec md5sum {} \;
Where testDir is a directory that contains some files (for example file1, file2 and file3).
However, if I ...
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Grep for a word in a file and show below and above lines too? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to grep 2 or 3 lines, one containing the text I want, and the others just below it?
Say I have a file. I want to find a particular word in that file and show the line.
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Fail to access a Windows drive from a live session [closed]
I am attempting to use Ubuntu to rescue files from a Windows pc. I am using Ubuntu for the first time, so I am a complete novice. I am asking for assistance to find the files on the pc.
I have a ...
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Custom GREP with asterisks and anchors?
I have lots of EDI files (which is pretty much a single line of gibberish text) that are about 300mb/pcs.
I'm looking to pattern matching this:
`*UP*605284466346 {lots of other stuff inbetween with ...
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find symlink to a known file /etc/init.d/ portmap
I'm looking for the /etc/rc.X/ softlink to /etc/init.d/portmap.
Does anyone know where portmap is called?
How can I find all symlinks to a file?
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How to find a folder on my server with a certain name?
I have a directory somewhere on my server wth the name "exampledocs". I tried to find it's location using:
ls -d */ | grep -E 'exampledocs'
and
find * -regextype posix-extended \-regex '...
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Missing php.ini after apt-get install php5
I just installed php5 as root via apt-get install php5, and for whatever reason I can't find my php.ini file.
Running locate php.ini or ls /etc/ | grep php.ini both yield no results.
Is there ...
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Finding directories inside a folder and deleting if smaller than a certain size?
What command can I execute to check the directories inside a folder and if the total size of the directory is smaller than 30MB, delete it? I played around with the find command trying to move files ...
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How to find location of installed library
Background: I'm trying to build my program but first I need to set up libraries in NetBeans. My project is using GLU and therefore I installed libglu-dev. I didn't note the location where the ...
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Character encoding problem with filenames - find broken filenames
I have the problem described in this Q&A. Probably from quite old linux distros or from windows I have several files with broken filenames. ls displays a "?" instead of the broken character. I ...
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Command "find -name" must be enclosed in quotes or it doesn't work. Why is that?
find . -name *.rb
doesn't work on my ubuntu
I have to do
find . -name "*.rb"
to get it to work.
Why is that?
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How can I find files quicker than find or locate?
I have been using find command to find files on my 1 tb hard disk. it takes very long. then I used locate which proved to be faster with regular update using updatedb. But the limitation of locate is ...
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Accessing a folder that I can't "name" in the shell
I have a stubborn folder that someone must have created accidentally and that has persisted all this time. I can see it with:
# find /var/www/html -maxdepth 1 -type d
which gives me:
/var/www/html
/...
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I cannot find anything in LibreOffice help [closed]
I have packages libreoffice-help-en-gb and libreoffice-help-en-us installed.
LibreOffice 3.4.4
OOO340m1 (Build:402)
pre-installed on Ubuntu Oneiric
Here is the screen shot.
Error message: No ...
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subshell ls -lh "$(find /music -type d)" doesn't return list, instead results of find command
I'm trying to list the details of all the directories in my music folder using the following command:
ls -lh "$(find /music -type d)"
However all I get is the return of the find command. Is this ...
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Find file or directory in whole directory structure
How can I find a file with a specific name in bash. I want to search through the whole system. I tried with find, but that only work through one level.
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Get disk utilization by file-type?
Is there a way to get a break down of a disk (or directory) utilization based upon file-type from the command line?
I guess I could write a bash script to find+du based upon a few known file-types, ...
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