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I want to remove certain files using find and -exec. But unlikely bash tells me, that I'm "missing" some argument. find . -name *.png -exec rm {} /; what do I miss? same "missing argument" return ...
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to be more specific ,I want to display contents of files from output of find command,I tried the following commands but they don't get my work done cat < find . -name "*.txt" find . -name "*.txt" | ...
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I'm using Amazon Linux with bash shell. I'm trying to touch every file in a certain directory, but this command is failing: [myuser@mymachine scripts]$ find /usr/java/jboss/standalone/deployments/...
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I have such a problem, I'm trying to output a list of movies without the names of directories in the file, but I have a bug, the argument is not found in the -exeс, below is the code $ find . -name "*...
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How to delete all empty directories starting with 201 ? The command must not execute recursive.. Only directories in the current directory find /var/www -type d -name "201*" -exec rm {} \ This ...
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I have a perl script that converts a file to json format and writes the output to a separate directory. It accepts 2 parameters, filename and output directory. The script needs to be run on multiple ...
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I am looking for a specific symbol in a bunch of shared libraries, I am using the following command: find . -iname "*.so" | nm -D //loop over output of find | grep -e symbol How can I tell nm -D to ...
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This question is inspired by Why is using a shell loop to process text considered bad practice ? I see these constructs for file in `find . -type f -name ...`; do smth with ${file}; done and for ...
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I find myself constantly looking up the syntax of find . -name "FILENAME" -exec rm {} \; mainly because I don't see how exactly the -exec part works. What is the meaning of the braces, the backslash ...
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I have find command that display files in my project: find . -type f -not -path './node_modules*' -a -not -path '*.git*' \ -a -not -path './coverage*' -a -not -path './bower_components*' \ ...
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I want to exclude the file ./test/main.cpp from my search. Here's what I'm seeing: $ grep -r pattern --exclude=./test/main.cpp ./test/main.cpp:pattern ./lib/main.cpp:pattern ./src/main.cpp:pattern I ...
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I have a script named script.sh. I don't know where it is in the file system, but I do know it exists. How do I find the script, make it executable, and run it all in one line through the command ...
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I'm curious as to what the {} in the following command is actually for? Example Command: find /foo/ -name "*.txt" -exec rm -v {} \; The Man page provided a small blurb but it confused me a little ...
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Is it possible to use regular expressions based on the result (file name) inside the exec argument with find? I want to be able to "exec" based on parts of the argument, like: find . -name pattern -...
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I have a little introductory exercise to do as homework, I have to do a little script which takes 2 arguments, first argument a directory the second argument a number. The functionality is to ...
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