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What if I don't want to display the first directory in the find command?
I don't want to display the first directory component of paths printed by the inner find command from the below example
find . ! -name . -prune -type d -exec sh -c '
for dir do
echo "\n\n${dir#.*/...
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Trying to mount a drive, but Mint can't find it?
I'm trying to mount the NTFS partition as described here https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-mount-partition-with-ntfs-file-system-and-read-write-access
The system is installed on sda5 and mounting sda1 is ...
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Find actual file by only file name, not literally everything non-related
PuTTY/SSH and logged in as root I simply want to find any instances of the file PEAR.php.
I've looked through a dozen different tutorials but they seem to just copy-paste the same instructions. An ...
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What are the file size options for "find . -size" command?
I found out that to look for file size in bytes, I use 'c'.
So I can look for file size with 1000 bytes by using: find . -size 1000c
But what about different kind of size such as Mb, Gb or even bits?
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How does sort -n command know what it needs to sort by in a file that contains both numbers and text?
I'm reading this blog at the moment: https://www.baeldung.com/linux/dir-find-largest-file-recursively
And I am asking about this command:
find /usr/lib -type f -printf "%s\t%p\n" | sort -n | ...
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Rename the sub-sub-directories of a directory named _QWE
I can run a command in all directories named _QWE using:
find . -name '_QWE' -type d -execdir touch {}/1234.txt \;
However, I need to run -execdir rename 's!^\./(\d+ -)\s(\d+\.)!$1!' {} \; in all the ...
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find -name -path
I have a some tree.
.
├── 1
│ └── a
│ └── script.a.sh
├── 2
│ └── a
│ └── script.b.sh
...
└── a
└── script.sh
And I need to find script.*.sh. I execute ./a/script.sh:
#!/bin/bash
#...
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Rename multiple folders using external string manipulation tool
I am using ccase.
The following command works.
$ mv camelCase (ccase -t Kebab camelCase)
Now I am trying to rename multiple directories using:
$ find . -type d -execdir rename 's/(.*)/$(ccase -t ...
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Recursively remove certain folder from entire folder tree [duplicate]
Given a directory projects/ whose subfolders may have a venv/ folder at variable depths
projects/foo/src/venv/ # venv/ at depth 2
projects/bar/venv/ # venv/ at depth 1
projects/baz/src/...
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How find file name by pattern to immediately use it again for the umpteenth time
How do we find file names by pattern to use them, for copy/move or delete etc, again for the umpteenth time in that line CLI, e.g.
$ ls
.hello-577
.world-999
.foo-444
jjj
hello
world
foo
kkk
lll
so ...
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Properly tabulating 'find's output with printf and sorting them by date
I'm using gfind running on MacOS, to find text files.
I am trying to see the filenames only and the birthdate of my gfind results, and then sorting them by date, and paging them. Is this achievable?
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find command, only execute when file is newer
I have a script that has the following steps:
1 mirror a remote server with lftp
open ftps://'[name]':'[pwd]'@[remote_host]
set ssl:check-hostname no
mirror --delete-first --only-newer /...
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What is the practical purpose of "./" in front of relative file paths (in the output from "find")?
Why are some relative file paths displayed in the form of ./file, instead of just file? For example, when I do:
find .
I get this output:
./file1
./file2
./file3
What is the practical purpose, other ...
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find command behaving abnormally on rhel7 host
find command seems to be behaving abnormally when used with -user option
find /var/tmp -type f -user `whoami` -name *
or
find /var/tmp -type f -user udunto -name *
when used , prints file from root ...
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How to remember, which order grep and find takes the parameters?
Every time I use grep and find I'm stumbling through, which order I should type the commands: When I should write the path and when I should write the flags, if it needs double quotations or not, etc. ...
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