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find command with multiple pattern not returning any output
#!/bin/bash
pat="'*.ab' -o -name '*.bc'"
open="\("
close="\)"
path=path
find $path -type f $open -name $pat $close
Above code doesn't show any output for find. Do help
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Find a file and make a symlink to parent using find and -exec
I am trying to use find to find files matching a certain pattern, and then symlink their parent directorys to another directory, this is my current script (I'm doing this on mac so -printf won't work ...
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find -exec not working in bash script but working in terminal [duplicate]
I am trying to write some bash script to replace a command I quite often use. Here is the code from my file test.sh
#!/bin/bash
echo -e "\n"
i=0
args[i++]=$0
for arg in $@ ; do
args[i++]=$arg
done
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cp not evaluating dirname properly in find operation [duplicate]
I'm trying to create a script which will find files of a certain filename, copy a file to that file's location, and then delete the found file.
Ignoring the delete part for now, this is what I have ...
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Rewrite a find command that uses sed -i for AIX
I have a script that searches for a string and replaces it via the sed command. If that string contains special characters, the script will escape them (except for the slash because it's my current ...
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How to escape shell metacharacters automatically with `find` command?
I've got a bunch of XML files under a directory tree which I would like to move to corresponding folders with the same name within that same directory tree.
Here is sample structure (in shell):
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Recursively remove files with idx > 10,000
The problem
In the current working directory I have several (very many) folders and some of them have lots (like 100,000+) of files inside.
My goal is getting just the folder with 10,000+ files and ...
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Using exec in find over ssh from shell script
So, I am attempting to execute the following from within a shell script;
ssh -q $CUR_HOST "cd $LOGS_DIR; echo cd $LOGS_DIR; find . -name *.log -mmin +1440 -exec gzip {} \; exit"
When this runs, it ...
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