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find a file name using command line
I would like to determine the location of a file using command-line. I have tried:
find ./tor.keyring
I must be missing something here
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How do I find files of a certain extension(s) except in paths that contain certain strings and then print the result to a file?
Upon a little search, I came up with this command:
> find . -type f \( -name "*.exe" \) | egrep -v
> 'games_1|rei|games|tor|jogos|mods|text' > 1
What I wanted to do was find files ...
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Why doesn't the given command mask other lines? [duplicate]
Command: sudo find / -name miniedit.py -print | grep -i "miniedit" | tail -1
Output:
find: ‘/proc/10031/task/10031/net’: Invalid argument
find: ‘/proc/10031/net’: Invalid argument
find: ‘/...
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Search for a "string" or "String with Spaces" recursively that may be a file- or directory-name or a text inside a file
I would like to search for the string rstudio (and its different possible combinations mentioned below) recursively starting from /.
In some locations, rstudio is a string inside another file (but ...
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Help finding files with the same filename (except what's inside parenthesis) and deleting the smaller size ones
I need to know how to find one or more files with the same filename (except what's inside parenthesis) and delete the one(s) with the smaller size, in a folder. I don't care if it's a GUI app or ...
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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
Description:...
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Find images recursively, copy, rename, and resize?
How can I find images recursively and copy them into their own directories with new names? For example:
folder
- subfolder1
- a.jpg
- subfolder2
- b.jpg
- subfolder3
- c.jpg
So I can get:
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How to use variable in Find and grep command?
find command to get files have part of their names as date ($Y variable that has date in the script)
Y=(date -d "1 day ago" "+%Y-%m-%d")
find /log/bssuser/CDR/Postpaid_CDR_Log/ -...
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how to use find command to get files created yesterday?
What is the option used with find to get files created yesterday on Linux scripting?
The below trials don't work:
find /log/bssuser/CDR/Postpaid_CDR_Log/ -newer yesterday
OR
find -mtime 24
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list items correctly in bash with a space in their name
I have for example following Files:
test1.txt
test2.txt
test space.txt
I use the following command:
output=$(ls -l --time-style=long-iso | awk '{print $8, $6}')
And I get following output:
test1.txt ...
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To delete the directories using find command
I am using the Linux command to delete the directories from my server.
find . ! -name . -type d -mtime +30 -print -delete
But the directories are not deleting. Attached the image , please refer.
I am ...
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Get stats of number of files of unqiue file extensions including binaries from command line
I am trying to recursively count the number of different extensions and how often each of them occurs in the files of a directory and I want to include the number of files with no extension. I am ...
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How to delete files with specific size?
Using ls -lSrh I get this output:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 a a 2.4K Feb 15 04:44 10010.png
-rw-rw-r-- 1 a a 2.4K Feb 15 04:43 1000.png
-rw-rw-r-- 1 a a 2.4K Feb 15 04:44 10009.png
-rw-rw-r-- 1 a a 2.4K Feb 15 04:...
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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.
.
└── Parent folder/
├──...
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exclude files that have specific characters in name
here is my command to find files in a specific location and with specific extensions only, it works fine. But I want to exclude files that have '_bkp' or '_backup' as a substring in their file names -
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how to us the chown command and mv with find command
I have been searching around and found this question which almost solved my problem. The goal is to have a folder on Ubuntu server which other computers connect to and save files. I have two ...
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Remove all files in folder except files with certain sequence
I have a folder with a massive number of .dat files that follows a certain pattern (i.e., *_t_0.1000.dat, *_t_0.1001.dat .... , *_t_0.2000.dat). What I eventually want to do is to delete all files ...
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Linux TCP/IP Connections Limit
I want only 1 incoming connection from port 1000 to 65535 to be able to connect to the ubuntu server, how and in what way can it be done?
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UBUNTU commands to find file in a folder
I want to find files in a certain folder with certain extension, lets say finding ".sql" in "/backup-nfs". Later on, I will use this command on crontab to delete some files ...
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Why does "ls --all --recursive -1 *.htm*" only list files in current directory?
In Terminal I do this command:
ls --all --recursive -1 *.htm*
or this:
ls -a -R -1 *.htm*
But it only lists the html-files in the current directory...?!
According to 'man ls' that option has this ...
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Find commands include files not in directory
there are only three files/subdirectories in my directory
root@acd95b24dde6:~# ls -l
total 1048
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1067355 Sep 6 12:57 apollo13.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6 Sep 12 22:02 out....
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Why does "cp" complain about identical files when chaining with "find"?
I have a find command as below that lists the matching files:
$ find . -type f -name "*.txt"
./level2/file2.txt
./level2/level3/file3.txt
./level2/level3/level4/file4.txt
./level2/level3/...
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Cannot locate file after moving
The thing is that I am starting after a few months of experience in linux to use the command line. I was trying to use a new "cursor theme". I found on reddit that I needed to move the file ...
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How to find files using the `find` command and add text to them?
What I am trying to do is find files using the find command and then add text to those files.
I tried multiple ways, but nothing works:
find . -type f -iname 'filename' -exec '{}' echo "hello123&...
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Moving contents of a directory to another
I want to move all the contents including files and sub directories from /home/storage_new/nidhal/foldertest/ to /home/storage_new/nidhal/foldertest1/.
When I use the command ...
while true; do
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How do I search for a certain folder located inside the root directory?
I'm specifically looking for the command equivalent of sudo find / -name filename for searching folders instead of files in the terminal. Suggestions with a better set of commands for achieving the ...
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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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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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Where does Kubuntu/KDE keep references to themes?
I hope this message finds you well.
I've attempted to remove a desktop theme via System Settings > Workspace Theme > Desktop Theme. Clicking the 'Remove Theme' button removes the theme from the ...
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Find all files with given extension in subfolders, and add substring corresponding to subfolder
I have numerous txt files, scattered across different folders.
- case1
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- 0.25
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- case1.txt
- 0.35
|
_ case1.txt
- 0.30
|
_ case1.txt
-...
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Shell script to delete all files of certain type in different folders, except 10 latest
First of all, please excuse my poor english.
I am trying to write a shell script to clean up some files of certain type in my backup folders.
I need to remove files of certain type, except 10 newest ...
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Rename some files to their own name + something else
I have a directory like Photo
and I want to change the names of the directories inside it -> to what they are, but without it [www.faraDa...] like the first one that I change by mv command.
but I ...
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How to list all ASCII files present in a directory?
I want to list all ASCII files that are without extensions(.txt) in my present working directory(home).
I started with the ls command in the terminal but i don't know what i should put in the options ...
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Find command from left to right and attach ID
I am trying to match MRI files with their volume files.
Background:
Link to files: https://wiki.cancerimagingarchive.net/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=68550661#68550661171ba531fc374829b21d3647e95f532c
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why is output different of counting files?
I just want to count all the files in a directory. I used two method what I found:
tree /home/bkp
Whit this method the output is 2177879 file.
find /home/bkp -type f | wc -l
And with that one is ...
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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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My `find` command in script does not find files and directories with spaces in their names
Some time ago I wrote a script that moves files and directories from Downloads to .Downloads if they are older than 3 days, and delete them from this directory after 30 days. It is working just fine, ...
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Searching for and deleting files with a certain extension or ending with a number
I'd like my script to find a certain file type and delete it.
I know that find path/to/directory/ -type f -name '*.ext' -delete will find and delete all files with the extension.
Now I'd also like to ...
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find -exec rm -r print delete
I am trying to delete terabytes worth of folders and would like to see that things are actually being deleted. Currently, the command
find . -name "labelled_point_clouds" -type "d" ...
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How do I find folders without a certain name?
I'm trying to find a lot of folders, all without a certain bracket.
They're movie folders, like so:
Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979) [tmdb-7219]
Zombieland (2009) [tmdb-19908]
Zombieland Double Tap (2019) [...
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Find command shows the files are present but not found inside the directory
I tried search a files using following find command
find . -type f -mtime +18 -name '*[-.]20[0-9][0-9\-]*' -exec basename {} \;
I can see the files output like .
handh2.access.20210429.bz2
handh2....
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Trying to find files beggining with a number
For my school, I need to search all the files who start with a numeric. Ive tried searching on the web before but didnt find any answer. I need to use the find command.
The question is: Are there any ...
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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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Find the list of immediate next directory from the given location for reaching a destination file?
We can find the full absolute path of a destination file using find keyword. In my case, I need the list of all immediate next directory to my given location which can lead me to my program log file ...
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Find files with certain text within certain date range
I have a folder with huge number of files and I want to extract files present with certain text XYZ created within a date range.
I found this to search files within a date range, but unsure how to ...
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sh -c '...' sh {} not working when using if statement and having ' in the filename
I have the following simplified script:
find /home/cas/plex-media/series/ -type f ! -name "*.srt" -exec sh -c '
file=$1
if [ if-statement using $file ]; then
echo "true&...
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Linux Command [Requirement] [duplicate]
Can anyone tell me what this command means?
I've seen it in a tutorial but can't get it well.
find . -type f | xargs file
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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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find - Logical operators
I want find shows me the result with excluding permissions 660 AND files.
I.e. it has to show me files that have no permission 660 and all directories.
I run:
find "/path/to/dir" -not \( -...
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Move all files related to a Basename file in folders and subfolders
I have this files into a folder:
Enero.01200.2019.txt
Enero.01200.2019.pdf
Enero.01200.2019.png
Febrero.03100.2019.txt
Febrero.03100.2019.pdf
Febrero.03100.2019.png
Inside of each .txt file I have a ...
