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Write every two lines in "infile" on a single line separated by a comma | cat infile | paste -sd ',\n' |
Write every two lines in "infile" on a single line separated by a space | cat infile | paste -sd ' \n' |
Write the lines appended to "xxxx" as it appears to the console and append to "yyyy" in the background | tail -F xxxx | tee -a yyyy & |
Write out the entire directory hierarchy from the current directory | find . |
Write out the entire directory hierarchy from the current directory | find . -print |
Write output and error of "bash myscript.sh" to standard output and to "output.log" | bash myscript.sh 2>&1 | tee output.log |
Write output of "ls -a" to standard output and to "output.file" | ls -a | tee output.file |
Write output of "ls -hal /root/" to standard output and to "/root/test.out" | ls -hal /root/ | sudo tee /root/test.out |
Write output of "ls -lR /" to standard output and append to "output.file" | ls -lR / | tee -a output.file |
Write output of "ls -lR /" to standard output and to "output.file" | ls -lR / | tee output.file |
Write standard input to standard output and file "/tmp/arjhaiX4" | tee /tmp/arjhaiX4 |
Write standard input to standard output and to "foobar.txt" | tee foobar.txt |
Change directory to the parent of the real path of the current script | cd $(dirname $(readlink -f $0)) |
change the extension of all the ".abc" files in the folder "/the/path" to ".edefg" and do not change in the sub directories. execdir ensures that the command after it is executed only in the folder where the file is found | find /the/path -type f -name '*.abc' -execdir rename 's/\.\/(.+)\.abc$/version1_$1.abc/' {} \; |
Change the group of "myfile" to "friends" | chown :friends myfile |
change owner and group of the current directory and all files into it to user and group andrew | chown -R andrewr:andrewr * |
change owner and group of the file "file" to user "user" and group "group" | chown user:group file ... |
Change the owner of "destination_dir" to "user" | chown user destination_dir |
change the permissions of all the regular/normal files to 664 in the current folder | find . -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \; |
Change the permission to 0755 for all directories under current directory | find . -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} \; |
Change permissions to 644 recursively for PHP files. | find . -type f -name '*.php' -exec chmod 644 {} \; |
Clean directories and subdirectories of the temporary files generated during normal use | find . \( -name a.out -o -name '*.o' -o -name 'core' \) -exec rm {} \; |
Copies all files under current directory like '*FooBar*' to the '~/foo/bar' directory. | find -name '*FooBar*' -print0 | xargs -0 cp -t ~/foo/bar |
copy the file header.shtml to each directory under dir1, dir2, dir3, or dir4 | find dir1 dir2 dir3 dir4 -type d -exec cp header.shtml {} \; |
Count files accessed more than a month ago | find . -atime +30 -exec ls \; | wc -l |
Create a compressed archive of "/home" and split the contents into files with at most 4000 MiB each and use prefix "/media/DRIVENAME/BACKUPNAME.tgz" | tar --one-file-system -czv /home | split -b 4000m - /media/DRIVENAME/BACKUPNAME.tgz |
create a tar ball of all the jpg and png images in the current folder | find . \( -iname "*.png" -o -iname "*.jpg" \) -print -exec tar -rf images.tar {} \; |
create directory /etc/cron.15sec | mkdir /etc/cron.15sec |
create directory certs | mkdir certs/ |
create directory dir1 | mkdir dir1 |
create directory tata | mkdir tata |
Create intermediate directories as required and directory /my/other/path/here | mkdir -p /my/other/path/here |
Delete all .svn directories under current directory | find . -type d -name .svn -print0|xargs -0 rm -rf |
Delete all empty directories under current directory | find -type d -empty |
Delete all files in directory $DIR that have not been accessed in at least 5 days | find "$DIR" -type f -atime +5 -exec rm {} \; |
Delete all files named 'Waldo' under ~/Books directory tree where '~' expands to user's home directory | find ~/Books -type f -name Waldo -exec rm {} \; |
delete all files that have the extension "bam" in current directory | find . -name "*.bam" | xargs rm |
Display the 5 smallest files in the current directory and its sub-directories. | find . -type f -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n | head -5 |
display all files in current folder | find . |
display all files in the current folder | find . |
display all files in the current folder | find . -print |
display all the files in current folder | find . |
display all the files in the current folder | find . |
display all the files in the current folder | find . -print |
display all the files in the current folder | find ./ |
display all the files in the current folder. | find . |
displays all the files in the current folder | find . |
display all files in the current folder which do not match the regular expression | find . -not -regex ".*test.*" |
display all the files in the file system which belong to the user "wnj" or which are modified after the file "ttt" | find / \( -newer ttt -or -user wnj \) -print |
display all the regular/normal files in the folder "/home/user/demo" which have the permission 777. | find /home/user/demo -type f -perm 777 -print |
display all the regular/normal files in the home folder that have been modified in the last 1 day (from the start of day ie, from 00:00 ) | find ~/ -daystart -type f -mtime 1 |
display all the symbolic links in the current folder | find . -type l |
display all the symbolic links in the current folder | find ./ -type l |
Find a single file called FindCommandExamples.txt under current directory and remove it | find . -type f -name "FindCommandExamples.txt" -exec rm -f {} \; |
Find all *.csv files under /foo/bar and move them to some_dir | find /foot/bar/ -name '*.csv' -print0 | xargs -0 mv -t some_dir |
Find all *.java files under current directory and archive them to myfile.tar | find . -type f -name "*.java" | xargs tar rvf myfile.tar |
Find all *.ogg files under the home directory ignoring the case | find $HOME -iname '*.ogg' |
Find all *.ogg (case insensitive) files under your home directory that are less than 100MB in size | find $HOME -iname '*.ogg' -type f -size -100M |
Find all *bar files/directories under current directory | find -name *bar |
Find all the .c files in the current directory tree that contain the string ‘stdlib.h’ | find . -name '*.c' | xargs grep 'stdlib.h' |
Find all .java files starting from the current folder | find . -name "*.java" |
Find all 0644 permission files/directories under current directory tree and show only the first 10 of them | find . -perm 0644 | head |
Find all 777 permission directories and use chmod command to set permissions to 755 | find . -type d -perm 777 -print -exec chmod 755 {} \; |
Find all Subscription.java files/directories under current directory and enter into the parent directory of the first one found | cd $(find . -name Subscription.java | xargs dirname) |
Find all Subscription.java files/directories under current directory and enter into the parent directory of the first one found | cd `find . -name Subscription.java | xargs dirname` |
find all the config(.conf files) files in the folder /home/pat | find /home/pat -iname "*.conf" |
find all directories in the current folder and do not search in sub directories | find . -type d -maxdepth 1 |
find all directory list which have empty list in /tmp directory | find /tmp -type d -empty |
find all directory list which have empty list in /tmp directory . | find /tmp -type d -empty |
Find all directories under current directory and set read & execute permission for group and other for these files | find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod go+rx |
Find all directories under current directory and set read-write-execute permission for owner, read-execute permission for group and no permission for other for those directories | find . -type d -exec chmod u=rwx,g=rx,o= '{}' \; |
Find all directories under minimum 1 level down the current directory and set their permission to 755 | find . -type d -mindepth 1 -print -exec chmod 755 {}/* \; |
find all the directories with the name "some-dir" in the current folder and move them to another folder and do not search in subfolders | find ./ -maxdepth 1 -name "some-dir" -type d -print0 | xargs -0r mv -t x/ |
Find all files/directories in entire file system that are owned by "shadow" group | find / -group shadow |
Find all files/directories in entire file system with 644 permission | find / -perm 644 |
Find all the files/directories in the entire filesystem that do not belong to user 'wnj' and are not newer than the file/directory 'ttt' by modification time | find / \! \( -newer ttt -user wnj \) -print |
Find all files/directories named '.todo' under $STORAGEFOLDER directory tree and print the parent directory names | find "$STORAGEFOLDER" -name .todo -printf '%h\n' |
Find all files/directories named file1 under current directory | find -name file1 |
Find all files/directories that were modified after February 1st under '/usr' directory tree | find /usr -newermt "Feb 1" |
Find all files/directories under current directory following symlinks if needed | find -L |
Find all files/directories under current directory tree that are owned by 'root' | find . -uid 0 -print |
Find all files/directories under current directory tree that have modified in the last 2 days and contain 'blah' (case insensitive) in their names | find . -iname '*blah*' \( -type d -o -type f \) -mtime -2 |
Find all files/directories with space in their names under current directory | find . -name '* *' |
find all the files ending with .ini in the current directory. | find . -name *.ini |
find all files in the current directory and sub-directories that were modified after the /etc/passwd file was modified | find -newer /etc/passwd |
find all files in the current directory do not display the files which are not readable | find . ! -readable -prune |
Find all files in the current directory tree which do not belong to any user | find . -nouser |
Find all files in the current directory tree whose size is greater than 1MB | find . -size +1M |
find all files in the current folder that have a single letter in their name and have not been modified today | find . -name \? -mtime +0 |
find all files in current folder using name patterns | find . -iregex ".*packet.*" |
find all the files in the current folder which belong to the user root. | find . -user root -perm -4000 -print |
find all files in the current folder with the permission 777 and modify the permissions as 755. | find . -type f -perm 777 -exec chmod 755 {} \; |
Find all files in the directory $directory or below with the permissions specificed by $permissions. | find "$directory" -perm "$permissions" |
Find all the files in entire file system which are modified 50 days back. | find / -mtime 50 |
find all the files in the entire file system which have been modified in the last 120 hours | find / -mtime -5 -print |
Find all the files in file system which are changed in last 1 hour | find / -cmin -60 |
find all the files in the folder /usr/bin which have been modified in the last 10 days | find /usr/bin -type f -mtime -10 |
find all the files in the home folder which are empty (Size 0 bytes) | find ~ -empty |
Find all files named "file.ext" under the current working directory tree and print its filename | find `pwd` -name "file.ext" -printf "%f\n" |
Find all file paths under current directory, sort them numerically and show last 10 lines of output with only their paths | find . -type f -printf '%T@ %p\n' | sort -n | tail -10 | cut -f2- -d" " |