find
List of commands for find:
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find:ai:030ba find all directories in the current directory$ find . -type dtry on your machineexplain this command
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find:ai:04b42 find sum of bytes of all files that are more than 180 days older and list them using ls$ find . -type f -mtime +180 -exec ls -l {} + | awk '{sum += $5} END {print sum}'try on your machineexplain this command
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find:ai:0d242 Find folder named 'ciconia' within the file system and output the location$ find / -name ciconia -type d 2>/dev/nulltry on your machineexplain this command
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find:ai:0fa36 copy all files ending with .mkv to parent path$ find /path/to/current/directory -type f -name '*.mkv' -exec cp {} .. \;try on your machineexplain this command
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find:ai:2c433 How to find very big files?$ find ${directory} -type f -size +100Mtry on your machineexplain this command
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find:ai:330b7 list all files under 1 kb in directory recursively$ find . -type f -size -1ktry on your machineexplain this command
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find:ai:33256 how do i delete files older than a date$ find ${filename}s -type f ! -newermt yyyy-mm-dd -deletetry on your machineexplain this command
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find:ai:3d4b0 find all directories only sort month date time$ find . -type d -exec stat --format='{"path": "%n", "modified": "%y"}' {} + | sort -k2try on your machineexplain this command
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find:ai:3e759 find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -ls | sort -k8M -k9n -k10n$ find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -ls | sort -k8M -k9n -k10ntry on your machineexplain this command
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find:ai:55a96 how do I delete .sql files older than$ find ${filename}s -name '*.sql' -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \;try on your machineexplain this command
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find:ai:5e206 how do i rename folders and replace the word "Staffel" with "Season" in a directory recursively$ find ${directory} -type d -name '*Staffel*' -exec rename 's/Staffel/Season/' {} +try on your machineexplain this command
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find:ai:73ada Recursively counts all files in the current directory and its subdirectories$ find . -type f | wc -ltry on your machineexplain this command
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find:ai:77038 find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -ls | sort -k8M -k9n -k10n -k11Vf$ find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -ls | sort -k8M -k9n -k10n -k11Vftry on your machineexplain this command
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find:ai:78e0e delete all files recursively ending with .nfo in specific folder$ find /path/to/folder -type f -name '*.nfo' -deletetry on your machineexplain this command
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find:ai:8c4e8 how do I search for a file with a particular string in the name$ find . -name '*{string}*'try on your machineexplain this command
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find:ai:8d223 Searches for a folder named 'ciconia' in the home directory$ find ~/ -type d -name ciconiatry on your machineexplain this command
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find:ai:9afa9 delete all files ending with '.nfo' in a specific directory$ find ${directory} -type f -name '*.nfo' -deletetry on your machineexplain this command
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find:ai:abbe7 Rename all files in current directory to max 20 characters$ find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec sh -c 'mv "$1" "${1:0:20}"' _ {} \;try on your machineexplain this command
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find:ai:b6911 how do I recursively search a path and only show the most recently modified file with a timestamp?$ find /your/path -type f -printf '%T@ %p
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find:ai:b7e66 Searches for a file named 'wp-setting.php' in the entire file system$ find / -name wp-setting.phptry on your machineexplain this command
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find:ai:bc3a9 how do I delete files older than$ find ${filename}s -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;try on your machineexplain this command
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find:ai:bf859 zip excluding all files with recurring name in subdirectories$ find ${directory} -type f -not -path '*/recurring_name/*' -exec zip archive.zip {} +try on your machineexplain this command
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find:ai:c0495 find all directories only sort month$ find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -printf '%TY-%Tm\t%p\n' | sort -k1,1n -k2,2n | cut -f2-try on your machineexplain this command
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find:ai:cc3e0 How to delete all files bigger than 10 mb?$ find . -type f -size +10M -deletetry on your machineexplain this command
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find:ai:d6a87 find all files with 0 bytes in all folder and subfolders$ find . -type f -size 0 -exec ls -l {} \; -exec echo {} \;try on your machineexplain this command
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find:ai:dc91a find sum of bytes in GB of all files that are more than 180 days older and list them using ls$ find ${directory} -type f -mtime +180 -ls | awk '{SUM += $7} END {print SUM/1024/1024/1024}' | jq -R .try on your machineexplain this command
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find:ai:dd0b8 delete .sql files older than 1 week$ find ${filename}s -name '*.sql' -type f -mtime +7 -deletetry on your machineexplain this command
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find:ai:e174d how do i rename all folders and replace the word "Staffel" with "Season" in a directory recursively$ find ${directory} -depth -type d -execdir rename 's/Staffel/Season/' {} +try on your machineexplain this command
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find:ai:e4788 Searches all subdirectories starting from root for a file called .startup$ find / -name .startuptry on your machineexplain this command
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find:ai:e71fc Recursively finds all files ending with .mkv and moves them to specified path.$ find /path/to/start -type f -name '*.mkv' -exec mv {} /destination/path \;try on your machineexplain this command
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find:ai:e7406 cat all files named status recursively$ find . -type f -name 'status' -exec cat {} \;try on your machineexplain this command
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find:ai:f5504 find all files that are more than 180 days older and list them using ls$ find . -type f -mtime +180 -exec ls -l {} \;try on your machineexplain this command
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find:ai:f648b How to find all files that contain "text" in the filename$ find /path/to/search -type f -name '*text*'try on your machineexplain this command
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find:ai:fcb96 search sub directories for file called .startup$ find ${directory} -type f -name .startuptry on your machineexplain this command
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find:tldr:0bc58 find: Find files matching multiple path/name patterns.$ find ${root_path} -path '${**-path-**-*-ext}' -or -name '${*pattern*}'try on your machineexplain this command
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find:tldr:1d82c find: Run a command for each file (use `{}` within the command to access the filename).$ find ${root_path} -name '${*-ext}' -exec ${wc -l {} }\;try on your machineexplain this command
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find:tldr:1e3af find: Find files matching a given pattern, excluding specific paths.$ find ${root_path} -name '${*-py}' -not -path '${*-site-packages-*}'try on your machineexplain this command
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find:tldr:35c1a find: Find files matching a given size range, limiting the recursive depth to "1":.$ find ${root_path} -maxdepth 1 -size ${+500k} -size ${-10M}try on your machineexplain this command
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find:tldr:4b725 find: Display lines that do not contain the specified string.$ find "${string}" ${path\to\file_or_directory} /vtry on your machineexplain this command
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find:tldr:4fca5 find: Display line numbers with the list of lines.$ find "${string}" ${path\to\file_or_directory} /ntry on your machineexplain this command
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find:tldr:8efff find: Find empty (0 byte) files and delete them.$ find ${root_path} -type ${f} -empty -deletetry on your machineexplain this command
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find:tldr:9da7a find: Find files modified in the last 7 days.$ find ${root_path} -daystart -mtime -${7}try on your machineexplain this command
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find:tldr:b06eb find: Find lines that contain a specified string.$ find "${string}" ${path\to\file_or_directory}try on your machineexplain this command
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find:tldr:d74c9 find: Find directories matching a given name, in case-insensitive mode.$ find ${root_path} -type d -iname '${*lib*}'try on your machineexplain this command
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find:tldr:e5430 find: Display the count of lines that contain the specified string.$ find "${string}" ${path\to\file_or_directory} /ctry on your machineexplain this command