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Copy loadable kernel module "mymodule.ko" to the drivers in modules directory matchig current kernel. | sudo cp mymodule.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/ | ['cp', 'uname', 'sudo'] | Output a Bash command to accomplish the following task. Task: Copy loadable kernel module "mymodule.ko" to the drivers in modules directory matchig current kernel. Bash Command:<START>sudo cp mymodule.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/<END> | Use the provided context to output a Bash command that accomplishes the following task. Context: # cp\n\n> Copy files and directories.\n> More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/cp>.\n\n- Copy a file to another location:\n\n`cp {{path/to/source_file.ext}} {{path/to/target_file.ext}}`\n\n- Copy a file into another directory, keeping the filename:\n\n`cp {{path/to/source_file.ext}} {{path/to/target_parent_directory}}`\n\n- Recursively copy a directory's contents to another location (if the destination exists, the directory is copied inside it):\n\n`cp -r {{path/to/source_directory}} {{path/to/target_directory}}`\n\n- Copy a directory recursively, in verbose mode (shows files as they are copied):\n\n`cp -vr {{path/to/source_directory}} {{path/to/target_directory}}`\n\n- Copy multiple files at once to a directory:\n\n`cp -t {{path/to/destination_directory}} {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}`\n\n- Copy all files with a specific extension to another location, in interactive mode (prompts user before overwriting):\n\n`cp -i {{*.ext}} {{path/to/target_directory}}`\n\n- Follow symbolic links before copying:\n\n`cp -L {{link}} {{path/to/target_directory}}`\n\n- Use the full path of source files, creating any missing intermediate directories when copying:\n\n`cp --parents {{source/path/to/file}} {{path/to/target_file}}`\n # uname\n\n> Uname prints information about the machine and operating system it is run on.\n> More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/uname-invocation.html>.\n\n- Print all information:\n\n`uname --all`\n\n- Print the current kernel name:\n\n`uname --kernel-name`\n\n- Print the current network node host name:\n\n`uname --nodename`\n\n- Print the current kernel release:\n\n`uname --kernel-release`\n\n- Print the current kernel version:\n\n`uname --kernel-version`\n\n- Print the current machine hardware name:\n\n`uname --machine`\n\n- Print the current processor type:\n\n`uname --processor`\n\n- Print the current operating system name:\n\n`uname --operating-system`\n # sudo\n\n> Executes a single command as the superuser or another user.\n> More information: <https://www.sudo.ws/sudo.html>.\n\n- Run a command as the superuser:\n\n`sudo {{less /var/log/syslog}}`\n\n- Edit a file as the superuser with your default editor:\n\n`sudo --edit {{/etc/fstab}}`\n\n- Run a command as another user and/or group:\n\n`sudo --user={{user}} --group={{group}} {{id -a}}`\n\n- Repeat the last command prefixed with `sudo` (only in Bash, Zsh, etc.):\n\n`sudo !!`\n\n- Launch the default shell with superuser privileges and run login-specific files (`.profile`, `.bash_profile`, etc.):\n\n`sudo --login`\n\n- Launch the default shell with superuser privileges without changing the environment:\n\n`sudo --shell`\n\n- Launch the default shell as the specified user, loading the user's environment and reading login-specific files (`.profile`, `.bash_profile`, etc.):\n\n`sudo --login --user={{user}}`\n\n- List the allowed (and forbidden) commands for the invoking user:\n\n`sudo --list`\n Task: Copy loadable kernel module "mymodule.ko" to the drivers in modules directory matchig current kernel. Bash Command:<START>sudo cp mymodule.ko /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/<END> | Use the provided context to output a Bash command that accomplishes the following task. Context: cp(1) - Linux manual page man7.org > Linux > man-pages Linux/UNIX system programming training cp(1) Linux manual page NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | AUTHOR | REPORTING BUGS | COPYRIGHT | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON CP(1) User Commands CP(1) NAME top cp - copy files and directories SYNOPSIS top cp [OPTION]... [-T] SOURCE DEST cp [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY cp [OPTION]... -t DIRECTORY SOURCE... DESCRIPTION top Copy SOURCE to DEST, or multiple SOURCE(s) to DIRECTORY. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -a, --archive same as -dR --preserve=all --attributes-only don't copy the file data, just the attributes --backup[=CONTROL] make a backup of each existing destination file -b like --backup but does not accept an argument --copy-contents copy contents of special files when recursive -d same as --no-dereference --preserve=links --debug explain how a file is copied. Implies -v -f, --force if an existing destination file cannot be opened, remove it and try again (this option is ignored when the -n option is also used) -i, --interactive prompt before overwrite (overrides a previous -n option) -H follow command-line symbolic links in SOURCE -l, --link hard link files instead of copying -L, --dereference always follow symbolic links in SOURCE -n, --no-clobber do not overwrite an existing file (overrides a -u or previous -i option). See also --update -P, --no-dereference never follow symbolic links in SOURCE -p same as --preserve=mode,ownership,timestamps --preserve[=ATTR_LIST] preserve the specified attributes --no-preserve=ATTR_LIST don't preserve the specified attributes --parents use full source file name under DIRECTORY -R, -r, --recursive copy directories recursively --reflink[=WHEN] control clone/CoW copies. See below --remove-destination remove each existing destination file before attempting to open it (contrast with --force) --sparse=WHEN control creation of sparse files. See below --strip-trailing-slashes remove any trailing slashes from each SOURCE argument -s, --symbolic-link make symbolic links instead of copying -S, --suffix=SUFFIX override the usual backup suffix -t, --target-directory=DIRECTORY copy all SOURCE arguments into DIRECTORY -T, --no-target-directory treat DEST as a normal file --update[=UPDATE] control which existing files are updated; UPDATE={all,none,older(default)}. See below -u equivalent to --update[=older] -v, --verbose explain what is being done -x, --one-file-system stay on this file system -Z set SELinux security context of destination file to default type --context[=CTX] like -Z, or if CTX is specified then set the SELinux or SMACK security context to CTX --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit ATTR_LIST is a comma-separated list of attributes. Attributes are 'mode' for permissions (including any ACL and xattr permissions), 'ownership' for user and group, 'timestamps' for file timestamps, 'links' for hard links, 'context' for security context, 'xattr' for extended attributes, and 'all' for all attributes. By default, sparse SOURCE files are detected by a crude heuristic and the corresponding DEST file is made sparse as well. That is the behavior selected by --sparse=auto. Specify --sparse=always to create a sparse DEST file whenever the SOURCE file contains a long enough sequence of zero bytes. Use --sparse=never to inhibit creation of sparse files. UPDATE controls which existing files in the destination are replaced. 'all' is the default operation when an --update option is not specified, and results in all existing files in the destination being replaced. 'none' is similar to the --no-clobber option, in that no files in the destination are replaced, but also skipped files do not induce a failure. 'older' is the default operation when --update is specified, and results in files being replaced if they're older than the corresponding source file. When --reflink[=always] is specified, perform a lightweight copy, where the data blocks are copied only when modified. If this is not possible the copy fails, or if --reflink=auto is specified, fall back to a standard copy. Use --reflink=never to ensure a standard copy is performed. The backup suffix is '~', unless set with --suffix or SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX. The version control method may be selected via the --backup option or through the VERSION_CONTROL environment variable. Here are the values: none, off never make backups (even if --backup is given) numbered, t make numbered backups existing, nil numbered if numbered backups exist, simple otherwise simple, never always make simple backups As a special case, cp makes a backup of SOURCE when the force and backup options are given and SOURCE and DEST are the same name for an existing, regular file. AUTHOR top Written by Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering. REPORTING BUGS top GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT top Copyright 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. 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Hosting by jambit GmbH. uname(1) - Linux manual page man7.org > Linux > man-pages Linux/UNIX system programming training uname(1) Linux manual page NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | AUTHOR | REPORTING BUGS | COPYRIGHT | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON UNAME(1) User Commands UNAME(1) NAME top uname - print system information SYNOPSIS top uname [OPTION]... DESCRIPTION top Print certain system information. With no OPTION, same as -s. -a, --all print all information, in the following order, except omit -p and -i if unknown: -s, --kernel-name print the kernel name -n, --nodename print the network node hostname -r, --kernel-release print the kernel release -v, --kernel-version print the kernel version -m, --machine print the machine hardware name -p, --processor print the processor type (non-portable) -i, --hardware-platform print the hardware platform (non-portable) -o, --operating-system print the operating system --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit AUTHOR top Written by David MacKenzie. REPORTING BUGS top GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT top Copyright 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. 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Hosting by jambit GmbH. sudo(8) - Linux manual page man7.org > Linux > man-pages Linux/UNIX system programming training sudo(8) Linux manual page NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | COMMAND EXECUTION | EXIT VALUE | SECURITY NOTES | ENVIRONMENT | FILES | EXAMPLES | DIAGNOSTICS | SEE ALSO | HISTORY | AUTHORS | CAVEATS | BUGS | SUPPORT | DISCLAIMER | COLOPHON SUDO(8) System Manager's Manual SUDO(8) NAME top sudo, sudoedit execute a command as another user SYNOPSIS top sudo -h | -K | -k | -V sudo -v [-ABkNnS] [-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt] [-u user] sudo -l [-ABkNnS] [-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt] [-U user] [-u user] [command [arg ...]] sudo [-ABbEHnPS] [-C num] [-D directory] [-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt] [-R directory] [-T timeout] [-u user] [VAR=value] [-i | -s] [command [arg ...]] sudoedit [-ABkNnS] [-C num] [-D directory] [-g group] [-h host] [-p prompt] [-R directory] [-T timeout] [-u user] file ... DESCRIPTION top allows a permitted user to execute a command as the superuser or another user, as specified by the security policy. The invoking user's real (not effective) user-ID is used to determine the user name with which to query the security policy. supports a plugin architecture for security policies, auditing, and input/output logging. Third parties can develop and distribute their own plugins to work seamlessly with the front- end. The default security policy is sudoers, which is configured via the file /etc/sudoers, or via LDAP. See the Plugins section for more information. The security policy determines what privileges, if any, a user has to run . The policy may require that users authenticate themselves with a password or another authentication mechanism. If authentication is required, will exit if the user's password is not entered within a configurable time limit. This limit is policy-specific; the default password prompt timeout for the sudoers security policy is 5 minutes. Security policies may support credential caching to allow the user to run again for a period of time without requiring authentication. By default, the sudoers policy caches credentials on a per-terminal basis for 5 minutes. See the timestamp_type and timestamp_timeout options in sudoers(5) for more information. By running with the -v option, a user can update the cached credentials without running a command. On systems where is the primary method of gaining superuser privileges, it is imperative to avoid syntax errors in the security policy configuration files. For the default security policy, sudoers(5), changes to the configuration files should be made using the visudo(8) utility which will ensure that no syntax errors are introduced. When invoked as sudoedit, the -e option (described below), is implied. Security policies and audit plugins may log successful and failed attempts to run . If an I/O plugin is configured, the running command's input and output may be logged as well. The options are as follows: -A, --askpass Normally, if requires a password, it will read it from the user's terminal. If the -A (askpass) option is specified, a (possibly graphical) helper program is executed to read the user's password and output the password to the standard output. If the SUDO_ASKPASS environment variable is set, it specifies the path to the helper program. Otherwise, if sudo.conf(5) contains a line specifying the askpass program, that value will be used. For example: # Path to askpass helper program Path askpass /usr/X11R6/bin/ssh-askpass If no askpass program is available, will exit with an error. -B, --bell Ring the bell as part of the password prompt when a terminal is present. This option has no effect if an askpass program is used. -b, --background Run the given command in the background. It is not possible to use shell job control to manipulate background processes started by . Most interactive commands will fail to work properly in background mode. -C num, --close-from=num Close all file descriptors greater than or equal to num before executing a command. Values less than three are not permitted. By default, will close all open file descriptors other than standard input, standard output, and standard error when executing a command. The security policy may restrict the user's ability to use this option. The sudoers policy only permits use of the -C option when the administrator has enabled the closefrom_override option. -D directory, --chdir=directory Run the command in the specified directory instead of the current working directory. The security policy may return an error if the user does not have permission to specify the working directory. -E, --preserve-env Indicates to the security policy that the user wishes to preserve their existing environment variables. The security policy may return an error if the user does not have permission to preserve the environment. --preserve-env=list Indicates to the security policy that the user wishes to add the comma-separated list of environment variables to those preserved from the user's environment. The security policy may return an error if the user does not have permission to preserve the environment. This option may be specified multiple times. -e, --edit Edit one or more files instead of running a command. In lieu of a path name, the string "sudoedit" is used when consulting the security policy. If the user is authorized by the policy, the following steps are taken: 1. Temporary copies are made of the files to be edited with the owner set to the invoking user. 2. The editor specified by the policy is run to edit the temporary files. The sudoers policy uses the SUDO_EDITOR, VISUAL and EDITOR environment variables (in that order). If none of SUDO_EDITOR, VISUAL or EDITOR are set, the first program listed in the editor sudoers(5) option is used. 3. If they have been modified, the temporary files are copied back to their original location and the temporary versions are removed. To help prevent the editing of unauthorized files, the following restrictions are enforced unless explicitly allowed by the security policy: Symbolic links may not be edited (version 1.8.15 and higher). Symbolic links along the path to be edited are not followed when the parent directory is writable by the invoking user unless that user is root (version 1.8.16 and higher). Files located in a directory that is writable by the invoking user may not be edited unless that user is root (version 1.8.16 and higher). Users are never allowed to edit device special files. If the specified file does not exist, it will be created. Unlike most commands run by sudo, the editor is run with the invoking user's environment unmodified. If the temporary file becomes empty after editing, the user will be prompted before it is installed. If, for some reason, is unable to update a file with its edited version, the user will receive a warning and the edited copy will remain in a temporary file. -g group, --group=group Run the command with the primary group set to group instead of the primary group specified by the target user's password database entry. The group may be either a group name or a numeric group-ID (GID) prefixed with the # character (e.g., #0 for GID 0). When running a command as a GID, many shells require that the # be escaped with a backslash (\). If no -u option is specified, the command will be run as the invoking user. In either case, the primary group will be set to group. The sudoers policy permits any of the target user's groups to be specified via the -g option as long as the -P option is not in use. -H, --set-home Request that the security policy set the HOME environment variable to the home directory specified by the target user's password database entry. Depending on the policy, this may be the default behavior. -h, --help Display a short help message to the standard output and exit. -h host, --host=host Run the command on the specified host if the security policy plugin supports remote commands. The sudoers plugin does not currently support running remote commands. This may also be used in conjunction with the -l option to list a user's privileges for the remote host. -i, --login Run the shell specified by the target user's password database entry as a login shell. This means that login- specific resource files such as .profile, .bash_profile, or .login will be read by the shell. If a command is specified, it is passed to the shell as a simple command using the -c option. The command and any args are concatenated, separated by spaces, after escaping each character (including white space) with a backslash (\) except for alphanumerics, underscores, hyphens, and dollar signs. If no command is specified, an interactive shell is executed. attempts to change to that user's home directory before running the shell. The command is run with an environment similar to the one a user would receive at log in. Most shells behave differently when a command is specified as compared to an interactive session; consult the shell's manual for details. The Command environment section in the sudoers(5) manual documents how the -i option affects the environment in which a command is run when the sudoers policy is in use. -K, --remove-timestamp Similar to the -k option, except that it removes every cached credential for the user, regardless of the terminal or parent process ID. The next time is run, a password must be entered if the security policy requires authentication. It is not possible to use the -K option in conjunction with a command or other option. This option does not require a password. Not all security policies support credential caching. -k, --reset-timestamp When used without a command, invalidates the user's cached credentials for the current session. The next time is run in the session, a password must be entered if the security policy requires authentication. By default, the sudoers policy uses a separate record in the credential cache for each terminal (or parent process ID if no terminal is present). This prevents the -k option from interfering with commands run in a different terminal session. See the timestamp_type option in sudoers(5) for more information. This option does not require a password, and was added to allow a user to revoke permissions from a .logout file. When used in conjunction with a command or an option that may require a password, this option will cause to ignore the user's cached credentials. As a result, will prompt for a password (if one is required by the security policy) and will not update the user's cached credentials. Not all security policies support credential caching. -l, --list If no command is specified, list the privileges for the invoking user (or the user specified by the -U option) on the current host. A longer list format is used if this option is specified multiple times and the security policy supports a verbose output format. If a command is specified and is permitted by the security policy for the invoking user (or the, user specified by the -U option) on the current host, the fully-qualified path to the command is displayed along with any args. If -l is specified more than once (and the security policy supports it), the matching rule is displayed in a verbose format along with the command. If a command is specified but not allowed by the policy, will exit with a status value of 1. -N, --no-update Do not update the user's cached credentials, even if the user successfully authenticates. Unlike the -k flag, existing cached credentials are used if they are valid. To detect when the user's cached credentials are valid (or when no authentication is required), the following can be used: sudo -Nnv Not all security policies support credential caching. -n, --non-interactive Avoid prompting the user for input of any kind. If a password is required for the command to run, will display an error message and exit. -P, --preserve-groups Preserve the invoking user's group vector unaltered. By default, the sudoers policy will initialize the group vector to the list of groups the target user is a member of. The real and effective group-IDs, however, are still set to match the target user. -p prompt, --prompt=prompt Use a custom password prompt with optional escape sequences. The following percent (%) escape sequences are supported by the sudoers policy: %H expanded to the host name including the domain name (only if the machine's host name is fully qualified or the fqdn option is set in sudoers(5)) %h expanded to the local host name without the domain name %p expanded to the name of the user whose password is being requested (respects the rootpw, targetpw, and runaspw flags in sudoers(5)) %U expanded to the login name of the user the command will be run as (defaults to root unless the -u option is also specified) %u expanded to the invoking user's login name %% two consecutive % characters are collapsed into a single % character The custom prompt will override the default prompt specified by either the security policy or the SUDO_PROMPT environment variable. On systems that use PAM, the custom prompt will also override the prompt specified by a PAM module unless the passprompt_override flag is disabled in sudoers. -R directory, --chroot=directory Change to the specified root directory (see chroot(8)) before running the command. The security policy may return an error if the user does not have permission to specify the root directory. -S, --stdin Write the prompt to the standard error and read the password from the standard input instead of using the terminal device. -s, --shell Run the shell specified by the SHELL environment variable if it is set or the shell specified by the invoking user's password database entry. If a command is specified, it is passed to the shell as a simple command using the -c option. The command and any args are concatenated, separated by spaces, after escaping each character (including white space) with a backslash (\) except for alphanumerics, underscores, hyphens, and dollar signs. If no command is specified, an interactive shell is executed. Most shells behave differently when a command is specified as compared to an interactive session; consult the shell's manual for details. -U user, --other-user=user Used in conjunction with the -l option to list the privileges for user instead of for the invoking user. The security policy may restrict listing other users' privileges. When using the sudoers policy, the -U option is restricted to the root user and users with either the list priviege for the specified user or the ability to run any command as root or user on the current host. -T timeout, --command-timeout=timeout Used to set a timeout for the command. If the timeout expires before the command has exited, the command will be terminated. The security policy may restrict the user's ability to set timeouts. The sudoers policy requires that user-specified timeouts be explicitly enabled. -u user, --user=user Run the command as a user other than the default target user (usually root). The user may be either a user name or a numeric user-ID (UID) prefixed with the # character (e.g., #0 for UID 0). When running commands as a UID, many shells require that the # be escaped with a backslash (\). Some security policies may restrict UIDs to those listed in the password database. The sudoers policy allows UIDs that are not in the password database as long as the targetpw option is not set. Other security policies may not support this. -V, --version Print the version string as well as the version string of any configured plugins. If the invoking user is already root, the -V option will display the options passed to configure when was built; plugins may display additional information such as default options. -v, --validate Update the user's cached credentials, authenticating the user if necessary. For the sudoers plugin, this extends the timeout for another 5 minutes by default, but does not run a command. Not all security policies support cached credentials. -- The -- is used to delimit the end of the options. Subsequent options are passed to the command. Options that take a value may only be specified once unless otherwise indicated in the description. This is to help guard against problems caused by poorly written scripts that invoke sudo with user-controlled input. Environment variables to be set for the command may also be passed as options to in the form VAR=value, for example LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/pkg/lib. Environment variables may be subject to restrictions imposed by the security policy plugin. The sudoers policy subjects environment variables passed as options to the same restrictions as existing environment variables with one important difference. If the setenv option is set in sudoers, the command to be run has the SETENV tag set or the command matched is ALL, the user may set variables that would otherwise be forbidden. See sudoers(5) for more information. COMMAND EXECUTION top When executes a command, the security policy specifies the execution environment for the command. Typically, the real and effective user and group and IDs are set to match those of the target user, as specified in the password database, and the group vector is initialized based on the group database (unless the -P option was specified). The following parameters may be specified by security policy: real and effective user-ID real and effective group-ID supplementary group-IDs the environment list current working directory file creation mode mask (umask) scheduling priority (aka nice value) Process model There are two distinct ways can run a command. If an I/O logging plugin is configured to log terminal I/O, or if the security policy explicitly requests it, a new pseudo-terminal (pty) is allocated and fork(2) is used to create a second process, referred to as the monitor. The monitor creates a new terminal session with itself as the leader and the pty as its controlling terminal, calls fork(2) again, sets up the execution environment as described above, and then uses the execve(2) system call to run the command in the child process. The monitor exists to relay job control signals between the user's terminal and the pty the command is being run in. This makes it possible to suspend and resume the command normally. Without the monitor, the command would be in what POSIX terms an orphaned process group and it would not receive any job control signals from the kernel. When the command exits or is terminated by a signal, the monitor passes the command's exit status to the main process and exits. After receiving the command's exit status, the main process passes the command's exit status to the security policy's close function, as well as the close function of any configured audit plugin, and exits. This mode is the default for sudo versions 1.9.14 and above when using the sudoers policy. If no pty is used, calls fork(2), sets up the execution environment as described above, and uses the execve(2) system call to run the command in the child process. The main process waits until the command has completed, then passes the command's exit status to the security policy's close function, as well as the close function of any configured audit plugins, and exits. As a special case, if the policy plugin does not define a close function, will execute the command directly instead of calling fork(2) first. The sudoers policy plugin will only define a close function when I/O logging is enabled, a pty is required, an SELinux role is specified, the command has an associated timeout, or the pam_session or pam_setcred options are enabled. Both pam_session and pam_setcred are enabled by default on systems using PAM. This mode is the default for sudo versions prior to 1.9.14 when using the sudoers policy. On systems that use PAM, the security policy's close function is responsible for closing the PAM session. It may also log the command's exit status. Signal handling When the command is run as a child of the process, will relay signals it receives to the command. The SIGINT and SIGQUIT signals are only relayed when the command is being run in a new pty or when the signal was sent by a user process, not the kernel. This prevents the command from receiving SIGINT twice each time the user enters control-C. Some signals, such as SIGSTOP and SIGKILL, cannot be caught and thus will not be relayed to the command. As a general rule, SIGTSTP should be used instead of SIGSTOP when you wish to suspend a command being run by . As a special case, will not relay signals that were sent by the command it is running. This prevents the command from accidentally killing itself. On some systems, the reboot(8) utility sends SIGTERM to all non-system processes other than itself before rebooting the system. This prevents from relaying the SIGTERM signal it received back to reboot(8), which might then exit before the system was actually rebooted, leaving it in a half-dead state similar to single user mode. Note, however, that this check only applies to the command run by and not any other processes that the command may create. As a result, running a script that calls reboot(8) or shutdown(8) via may cause the system to end up in this undefined state unless the reboot(8) or shutdown(8) are run using the exec() family of functions instead of system() (which interposes a shell between the command and the calling process). Plugins Plugins may be specified via Plugin directives in the sudo.conf(5) file. They may be loaded as dynamic shared objects (on systems that support them), or compiled directly into the binary. If no sudo.conf(5) file is present, or if it doesn't contain any Plugin lines, will use sudoers(5) for the policy, auditing, and I/O logging plugins. See the sudo.conf(5) manual for details of the /etc/sudo.conf file and the sudo_plugin(5) manual for more information about the plugin architecture. EXIT VALUE top Upon successful execution of a command, the exit status from will be the exit status of the program that was executed. If the command terminated due to receipt of a signal, will send itself the same signal that terminated the command. If the -l option was specified without a command, will exit with a value of 0 if the user is allowed to run and they authenticated successfully (as required by the security policy). If a command is specified with the -l option, the exit value will only be 0 if the command is permitted by the security policy, otherwise it will be 1. If there is an authentication failure, a configuration/permission problem, or if the given command cannot be executed, exits with a value of 1. In the latter case, the error string is printed to the standard error. If cannot stat(2) one or more entries in the user's PATH, an error is printed to the standard error. (If the directory does not exist or if it is not really a directory, the entry is ignored and no error is printed.) This should not happen under normal circumstances. The most common reason for stat(2) to return permission denied is if you are running an automounter and one of the directories in your PATH is on a machine that is currently unreachable. SECURITY NOTES top tries to be safe when executing external commands. To prevent command spoofing, checks "." and "" (both denoting current directory) last when searching for a command in the user's PATH (if one or both are in the PATH). Depending on the security policy, the user's PATH environment variable may be modified, replaced, or passed unchanged to the program that executes. Users should never be granted privileges to execute files that are writable by the user or that reside in a directory that is writable by the user. If the user can modify or replace the command there is no way to limit what additional commands they can run. By default, will only log the command it explicitly runs. If a user runs a command such as sudo su or sudo sh, subsequent commands run from that shell are not subject to sudo's security policy. The same is true for commands that offer shell escapes (including most editors). If I/O logging is enabled, subsequent commands will have their input and/or output logged, but there will not be traditional logs for those commands. Because of this, care must be taken when giving users access to commands via to verify that the command does not inadvertently give the user an effective root shell. For information on ways to address this, see the Preventing shell escapes section in sudoers(5). To prevent the disclosure of potentially sensitive information, disables core dumps by default while it is executing (they are re-enabled for the command that is run). This historical practice dates from a time when most operating systems allowed set-user-ID processes to dump core by default. To aid in debugging crashes, you may wish to re-enable core dumps by setting disable_coredump to false in the sudo.conf(5) file as follows: Set disable_coredump false See the sudo.conf(5) manual for more information. ENVIRONMENT top utilizes the following environment variables. The security policy has control over the actual content of the command's environment. EDITOR Default editor to use in -e (sudoedit) mode if neither SUDO_EDITOR nor VISUAL is set. MAIL Set to the mail spool of the target user when the -i option is specified, or when env_reset is enabled in sudoers (unless MAIL is present in the env_keep list). HOME Set to the home directory of the target user when the -i or -H options are specified, when the -s option is specified and set_home is set in sudoers, when always_set_home is enabled in sudoers, or when env_reset is enabled in sudoers and HOME is not present in the env_keep list. LOGNAME Set to the login name of the target user when the -i option is specified, when the set_logname option is enabled in sudoers, or when the env_reset option is enabled in sudoers (unless LOGNAME is present in the env_keep list). PATH May be overridden by the security policy. SHELL Used to determine shell to run with -s option. SUDO_ASKPASS Specifies the path to a helper program used to read the password if no terminal is available or if the -A option is specified. SUDO_COMMAND Set to the command run by sudo, including any args. The args are truncated at 4096 characters to prevent a potential execution error. SUDO_EDITOR Default editor to use in -e (sudoedit) mode. SUDO_GID Set to the group-ID of the user who invoked sudo. SUDO_PROMPT Used as the default password prompt unless the -p option was specified. SUDO_PS1 If set, PS1 will be set to its value for the program being run. SUDO_UID Set to the user-ID of the user who invoked sudo. SUDO_USER Set to the login name of the user who invoked sudo. USER Set to the same value as LOGNAME, described above. VISUAL Default editor to use in -e (sudoedit) mode if SUDO_EDITOR is not set. FILES top /etc/sudo.conf front-end configuration EXAMPLES top The following examples assume a properly configured security policy. To get a file listing of an unreadable directory: $ sudo ls /usr/local/protected To list the home directory of user yaz on a machine where the file system holding ~yaz is not exported as root: $ sudo -u yaz ls ~yaz To edit the index.html file as user www: $ sudoedit -u www ~www/htdocs/index.html To view system logs only accessible to root and users in the adm group: $ sudo -g adm more /var/log/syslog To run an editor as jim with a different primary group: $ sudoedit -u jim -g audio ~jim/sound.txt To shut down a machine: $ sudo shutdown -r +15 "quick reboot" To make a usage listing of the directories in the /home partition. The commands are run in a sub-shell to allow the cd command and file redirection to work. $ sudo sh -c "cd /home ; du -s * | sort -rn > USAGE" DIAGNOSTICS top Error messages produced by include: editing files in a writable directory is not permitted By default, sudoedit does not permit editing a file when any of the parent directories are writable by the invoking user. This avoids a race condition that could allow the user to overwrite an arbitrary file. See the sudoedit_checkdir option in sudoers(5) for more information. editing symbolic links is not permitted By default, sudoedit does not follow symbolic links when opening files. See the sudoedit_follow option in sudoers(5) for more information. effective uid is not 0, is sudo installed setuid root? was not run with root privileges. The binary must be owned by the root user and have the set-user-ID bit set. Also, it must not be located on a file system mounted with the nosuid option or on an NFS file system that maps uid 0 to an unprivileged uid. effective uid is not 0, is sudo on a file system with the 'nosuid' option set or an NFS file system without root privileges? was not run with root privileges. The binary has the proper owner and permissions but it still did not run with root privileges. The most common reason for this is that the file system the binary is located on is mounted with the nosuid option or it is an NFS file system that maps uid 0 to an unprivileged uid. fatal error, unable to load plugins An error occurred while loading or initializing the plugins specified in sudo.conf(5). invalid environment variable name One or more environment variable names specified via the -E option contained an equal sign (=). The arguments to the -E option should be environment variable names without an associated value. no password was provided When tried to read the password, it did not receive any characters. This may happen if no terminal is available (or the -S option is specified) and the standard input has been redirected from /dev/null. a terminal is required to read the password needs to read the password but there is no mechanism available for it to do so. A terminal is not present to read the password from, has not been configured to read from the standard input, the -S option was not used, and no askpass helper has been specified either via the sudo.conf(5) file or the SUDO_ASKPASS environment variable. no writable temporary directory found sudoedit was unable to find a usable temporary directory in which to store its intermediate files. The no new privileges flag is set, which prevents sudo from running as root. was run by a process that has the Linux no new privileges flag is set. This causes the set-user-ID bit to be ignored when running an executable, which will prevent from functioning. The most likely cause for this is running within a container that sets this flag. Check the documentation to see if it is possible to configure the container such that the flag is not set. sudo must be owned by uid 0 and have the setuid bit set was not run with root privileges. The binary does not have the correct owner or permissions. It must be owned by the root user and have the set-user-ID bit set. sudoedit is not supported on this platform It is only possible to run sudoedit on systems that support setting the effective user-ID. timed out reading password The user did not enter a password before the password timeout (5 minutes by default) expired. you do not exist in the passwd database Your user-ID does not appear in the system passwd database. you may not specify environment variables in edit mode It is only possible to specify environment variables when running a command. When editing a file, the editor is run with the user's environment unmodified. SEE ALSO top su(1), stat(2), login_cap(3), passwd(5), sudo.conf(5), sudo_plugin(5), sudoers(5), sudoers_timestamp(5), sudoreplay(8), visudo(8) HISTORY top See the HISTORY.md file in the distribution (https://www.sudo.ws/about/history/) for a brief history of sudo. AUTHORS top Many people have worked on over the years; this version consists of code written primarily by: Todd C. Miller See the CONTRIBUTORS.md file in the distribution (https://www.sudo.ws/about/contributors/) for an exhaustive list of people who have contributed to . CAVEATS top There is no easy way to prevent a user from gaining a root shell if that user is allowed to run arbitrary commands via . Also, many programs (such as editors) allow the user to run commands via shell escapes, thus avoiding sudo's checks. However, on most systems it is possible to prevent shell escapes with the sudoers(5) plugin's noexec functionality. It is not meaningful to run the cd command directly via sudo, e.g., $ sudo cd /usr/local/protected since when the command exits the parent process (your shell) will still be the same. The -D option can be used to run a command in a specific directory. Running shell scripts via can expose the same kernel bugs that make set-user-ID shell scripts unsafe on some operating systems (if your OS has a /dev/fd/ directory, set-user-ID shell scripts are generally safe). BUGS top If you believe you have found a bug in , you can submit a bug report at https://bugzilla.sudo.ws/ SUPPORT top Limited free support is available via the sudo-users mailing list, see https://www.sudo.ws/mailman/listinfo/sudo-users to subscribe or search the archives. DISCLAIMER top is provided AS IS and any express or implied warranties, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose are disclaimed. See the LICENSE.md file distributed with or https://www.sudo.ws/about/license/ for complete details. COLOPHON top This page is part of the sudo (execute a command as another user) project. Information about the project can be found at https://www.sudo.ws/. 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Display all lines containing "IP_MROUTE" in the current kernel's compile-time config file. | cat /boot/config-`uname -r` | grep IP_MROUTE | ['cat', 'grep', 'uname'] | Output a Bash command to accomplish the following task. Task: Display all lines containing "IP_MROUTE" in the current kernel's compile-time config file. Bash Command:<START>cat /boot/config-`uname -r` | grep IP_MROUTE<END> | Use the provided context to output a Bash command that accomplishes the following task. Context: # cat\n\n> Print and concatenate files.\n> More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/cat>.\n\n- Print the contents of a file to `stdout`:\n\n`cat {{path/to/file}}`\n\n- Concatenate several files into an output file:\n\n`cat {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}} > {{path/to/output_file}}`\n\n- Append several files to an output file:\n\n`cat {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}} >> {{path/to/output_file}}`\n\n- Write `stdin` to a file:\n\n`cat - > {{path/to/file}}`\n\n- [n]umber all output lines:\n\n`cat -n {{path/to/file}}`\n\n- Display non-printable and whitespace characters (with `M-` prefix if non-ASCII):\n\n`cat -v -t -e {{path/to/file}}`\n # grep\n\n> Find patterns in files using regular expressions.\n> More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/manual/grep.html>.\n\n- Search for a pattern within a file:\n\n`grep "{{search_pattern}}" {{path/to/file}}`\n\n- Search for an exact string (disables regular expressions):\n\n`grep --fixed-strings "{{exact_string}}" {{path/to/file}}`\n\n- Search for a pattern in all files recursively in a directory, showing line numbers of matches, ignoring binary files:\n\n`grep --recursive --line-number --binary-files={{without-match}} "{{search_pattern}}" {{path/to/directory}}`\n\n- Use extended regular expressions (supports `?`, `+`, `{}`, `()` and `|`), in case-insensitive mode:\n\n`grep --extended-regexp --ignore-case "{{search_pattern}}" {{path/to/file}}`\n\n- Print 3 lines of context around, before, or after each match:\n\n`grep --{{context|before-context|after-context}}={{3}} "{{search_pattern}}" {{path/to/file}}`\n\n- Print file name and line number for each match with color output:\n\n`grep --with-filename --line-number --color=always "{{search_pattern}}" {{path/to/file}}`\n\n- Search for lines matching a pattern, printing only the matched text:\n\n`grep --only-matching "{{search_pattern}}" {{path/to/file}}`\n\n- Search `stdin` for lines that do not match a pattern:\n\n`cat {{path/to/file}} | grep --invert-match "{{search_pattern}}"`\n # uname\n\n> Uname prints information about the machine and operating system it is run on.\n> More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/uname-invocation.html>.\n\n- Print all information:\n\n`uname --all`\n\n- Print the current kernel name:\n\n`uname --kernel-name`\n\n- Print the current network node host name:\n\n`uname --nodename`\n\n- Print the current kernel release:\n\n`uname --kernel-release`\n\n- Print the current kernel version:\n\n`uname --kernel-version`\n\n- Print the current machine hardware name:\n\n`uname --machine`\n\n- Print the current processor type:\n\n`uname --processor`\n\n- Print the current operating system name:\n\n`uname --operating-system`\n Task: Display all lines containing "IP_MROUTE" in the current kernel's compile-time config file. 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With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. -A, --show-all equivalent to -vET -b, --number-nonblank number nonempty output lines, overrides -n -e equivalent to -vE -E, --show-ends display $ at end of each line -n, --number number all output lines -s, --squeeze-blank suppress repeated empty output lines -t equivalent to -vT -T, --show-tabs display TAB characters as ^I -u (ignored) -v, --show-nonprinting use ^ and M- notation, except for LFD and TAB --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit EXAMPLES top cat f - g Output f's contents, then standard input, then g's contents. cat Copy standard input to standard output. AUTHOR top Written by Torbjorn Granlund and Richard M. Stallman. REPORTING BUGS top GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT top Copyright 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 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Hosting by jambit GmbH. grep(1) - Linux manual page man7.org > Linux > man-pages Linux/UNIX system programming training grep(1) Linux manual page NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | REGULAR EXPRESSIONS | EXIT STATUS | ENVIRONMENT | NOTES | COPYRIGHT | BUGS | EXAMPLE | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON GREP(1) User Commands GREP(1) NAME top grep - print lines that match patterns SYNOPSIS top grep [OPTION...] PATTERNS [FILE...] grep [OPTION...] -e PATTERNS ... [FILE...] grep [OPTION...] -f PATTERN_FILE ... [FILE...] DESCRIPTION top grep searches for PATTERNS in each FILE. PATTERNS is one or more patterns separated by newline characters, and grep prints each line that matches a pattern. Typically PATTERNS should be quoted when grep is used in a shell command. A FILE of - stands for standard input. If no FILE is given, recursive searches examine the working directory, and nonrecursive searches read standard input. OPTIONS top Generic Program Information --help Output a usage message and exit. -V, --version Output the version number of grep and exit. Pattern Syntax -E, --extended-regexp Interpret PATTERNS as extended regular expressions (EREs, see below). -F, --fixed-strings Interpret PATTERNS as fixed strings, not regular expressions. -G, --basic-regexp Interpret PATTERNS as basic regular expressions (BREs, see below). This is the default. -P, --perl-regexp Interpret PATTERNS as Perl-compatible regular expressions (PCREs). This option is experimental when combined with the -z (--null-data) option, and grep -P may warn of unimplemented features. Matching Control -e PATTERNS, --regexp=PATTERNS Use PATTERNS as the patterns. If this option is used multiple times or is combined with the -f (--file) option, search for all patterns given. This option can be used to protect a pattern beginning with -. -f FILE, --file=FILE Obtain patterns from FILE, one per line. If this option is used multiple times or is combined with the -e (--regexp) option, search for all patterns given. The empty file contains zero patterns, and therefore matches nothing. If FILE is - , read patterns from standard input. -i, --ignore-case Ignore case distinctions in patterns and input data, so that characters that differ only in case match each other. --no-ignore-case Do not ignore case distinctions in patterns and input data. This is the default. This option is useful for passing to shell scripts that already use -i, to cancel its effects because the two options override each other. -v, --invert-match Invert the sense of matching, to select non-matching lines. -w, --word-regexp Select only those lines containing matches that form whole words. The test is that the matching substring must either be at the beginning of the line, or preceded by a non-word constituent character. Similarly, it must be either at the end of the line or followed by a non-word constituent character. Word-constituent characters are letters, digits, and the underscore. This option has no effect if -x is also specified. -x, --line-regexp Select only those matches that exactly match the whole line. For a regular expression pattern, this is like parenthesizing the pattern and then surrounding it with ^ and $. General Output Control -c, --count Suppress normal output; instead print a count of matching lines for each input file. With the -v, --invert-match option (see above), count non-matching lines. --color[=WHEN], --colour[=WHEN] Surround the matched (non-empty) strings, matching lines, context lines, file names, line numbers, byte offsets, and separators (for fields and groups of context lines) with escape sequences to display them in color on the terminal. The colors are defined by the environment variable GREP_COLORS. WHEN is never, always, or auto. -L, --files-without-match Suppress normal output; instead print the name of each input file from which no output would normally have been printed. -l, --files-with-matches Suppress normal output; instead print the name of each input file from which output would normally have been printed. Scanning each input file stops upon first match. -m NUM, --max-count=NUM Stop reading a file after NUM matching lines. If NUM is zero, grep stops right away without reading input. A NUM of -1 is treated as infinity and grep does not stop; this is the default. If the input is standard input from a regular file, and NUM matching lines are output, grep ensures that the standard input is positioned to just after the last matching line before exiting, regardless of the presence of trailing context lines. This enables a calling process to resume a search. When grep stops after NUM matching lines, it outputs any trailing context lines. When the -c or --count option is also used, grep does not output a count greater than NUM. When the -v or --invert-match option is also used, grep stops after outputting NUM non-matching lines. -o, --only-matching Print only the matched (non-empty) parts of a matching line, with each such part on a separate output line. -q, --quiet, --silent Quiet; do not write anything to standard output. Exit immediately with zero status if any match is found, even if an error was detected. Also see the -s or --no-messages option. -s, --no-messages Suppress error messages about nonexistent or unreadable files. Output Line Prefix Control -b, --byte-offset Print the 0-based byte offset within the input file before each line of output. If -o (--only-matching) is specified, print the offset of the matching part itself. -H, --with-filename Print the file name for each match. This is the default when there is more than one file to search. This is a GNU extension. -h, --no-filename Suppress the prefixing of file names on output. This is the default when there is only one file (or only standard input) to search. --label=LABEL Display input actually coming from standard input as input coming from file LABEL. This can be useful for commands that transform a file's contents before searching, e.g., gzip -cd foo.gz | grep --label=foo -H 'some pattern'. See also the -H option. -n, --line-number Prefix each line of output with the 1-based line number within its input file. -T, --initial-tab Make sure that the first character of actual line content lies on a tab stop, so that the alignment of tabs looks normal. This is useful with options that prefix their output to the actual content: -H,-n, and -b. In order to improve the probability that lines from a single file will all start at the same column, this also causes the line number and byte offset (if present) to be printed in a minimum size field width. -Z, --null Output a zero byte (the ASCII NUL character) instead of the character that normally follows a file name. For example, grep -lZ outputs a zero byte after each file name instead of the usual newline. This option makes the output unambiguous, even in the presence of file names containing unusual characters like newlines. This option can be used with commands like find -print0, perl -0, sort -z, and xargs -0 to process arbitrary file names, even those that contain newline characters. Context Line Control -A NUM, --after-context=NUM Print NUM lines of trailing context after matching lines. Places a line containing a group separator (--) between contiguous groups of matches. With the -o or --only-matching option, this has no effect and a warning is given. -B NUM, --before-context=NUM Print NUM lines of leading context before matching lines. Places a line containing a group separator (--) between contiguous groups of matches. With the -o or --only-matching option, this has no effect and a warning is given. -C NUM, -NUM, --context=NUM Print NUM lines of output context. Places a line containing a group separator (--) between contiguous groups of matches. With the -o or --only-matching option, this has no effect and a warning is given. --group-separator=SEP When -A, -B, or -C are in use, print SEP instead of -- between groups of lines. --no-group-separator When -A, -B, or -C are in use, do not print a separator between groups of lines. File and Directory Selection -a, --text Process a binary file as if it were text; this is equivalent to the --binary-files=text option. --binary-files=TYPE If a file's data or metadata indicate that the file contains binary data, assume that the file is of type TYPE. Non-text bytes indicate binary data; these are either output bytes that are improperly encoded for the current locale, or null input bytes when the -z option is not given. By default, TYPE is binary, and grep suppresses output after null input binary data is discovered, and suppresses output lines that contain improperly encoded data. When some output is suppressed, grep follows any output with a message to standard error saying that a binary file matches. If TYPE is without-match, when grep discovers null input binary data it assumes that the rest of the file does not match; this is equivalent to the -I option. If TYPE is text, grep processes a binary file as if it were text; this is equivalent to the -a option. When type is binary, grep may treat non-text bytes as line terminators even without the -z option. This means choosing binary versus text can affect whether a pattern matches a file. For example, when type is binary the pattern q$ might match q immediately followed by a null byte, even though this is not matched when type is text. Conversely, when type is binary the pattern . (period) might not match a null byte. Warning: The -a option might output binary garbage, which can have nasty side effects if the output is a terminal and if the terminal driver interprets some of it as commands. On the other hand, when reading files whose text encodings are unknown, it can be helpful to use -a or to set LC_ALL='C' in the environment, in order to find more matches even if the matches are unsafe for direct display. -D ACTION, --devices=ACTION If an input file is a device, FIFO or socket, use ACTION to process it. By default, ACTION is read, which means that devices are read just as if they were ordinary files. If ACTION is skip, devices are silently skipped. -d ACTION, --directories=ACTION If an input file is a directory, use ACTION to process it. By default, ACTION is read, i.e., read directories just as if they were ordinary files. If ACTION is skip, silently skip directories. If ACTION is recurse, read all files under each directory, recursively, following symbolic links only if they are on the command line. This is equivalent to the -r option. --exclude=GLOB Skip any command-line file with a name suffix that matches the pattern GLOB, using wildcard matching; a name suffix is either the whole name, or a trailing part that starts with a non-slash character immediately after a slash (/) in the name. When searching recursively, skip any subfile whose base name matches GLOB; the base name is the part after the last slash. A pattern can use *, ?, and [...] as wildcards, and \ to quote a wildcard or backslash character literally. --exclude-from=FILE Skip files whose base name matches any of the file-name globs read from FILE (using wildcard matching as described under --exclude). --exclude-dir=GLOB Skip any command-line directory with a name suffix that matches the pattern GLOB. When searching recursively, skip any subdirectory whose base name matches GLOB. Ignore any redundant trailing slashes in GLOB. -I Process a binary file as if it did not contain matching data; this is equivalent to the --binary-files=without-match option. --include=GLOB Search only files whose base name matches GLOB (using wildcard matching as described under --exclude). If contradictory --include and --exclude options are given, the last matching one wins. If no --include or --exclude options match, a file is included unless the first such option is --include. -r, --recursive Read all files under each directory, recursively, following symbolic links only if they are on the command line. Note that if no file operand is given, grep searches the working directory. This is equivalent to the -d recurse option. -R, --dereference-recursive Read all files under each directory, recursively. Follow all symbolic links, unlike -r. Other Options --line-buffered Use line buffering on output. This can cause a performance penalty. -U, --binary Treat the file(s) as binary. By default, under MS-DOS and MS-Windows, grep guesses whether a file is text or binary as described for the --binary-files option. If grep decides the file is a text file, it strips the CR characters from the original file contents (to make regular expressions with ^ and $ work correctly). Specifying -U overrules this guesswork, causing all files to be read and passed to the matching mechanism verbatim; if the file is a text file with CR/LF pairs at the end of each line, this will cause some regular expressions to fail. This option has no effect on platforms other than MS-DOS and MS-Windows. -z, --null-data Treat input and output data as sequences of lines, each terminated by a zero byte (the ASCII NUL character) instead of a newline. Like the -Z or --null option, this option can be used with commands like sort -z to process arbitrary file names. REGULAR EXPRESSIONS top A regular expression is a pattern that describes a set of strings. Regular expressions are constructed analogously to arithmetic expressions, by using various operators to combine smaller expressions. grep understands three different versions of regular expression syntax: basic (BRE), extended (ERE) and perl (PCRE). In GNU grep, basic and extended regular expressions are merely different notations for the same pattern-matching functionality. In other implementations, basic regular expressions are ordinarily less powerful than extended, though occasionally it is the other way around. The following description applies to extended regular expressions; differences for basic regular expressions are summarized afterwards. Perl-compatible regular expressions have different functionality, and are documented in pcre2syntax(3) and pcre2pattern(3), but work only if PCRE support is enabled. The fundamental building blocks are the regular expressions that match a single character. Most characters, including all letters and digits, are regular expressions that match themselves. Any meta-character with special meaning may be quoted by preceding it with a backslash. The period . matches any single character. It is unspecified whether it matches an encoding error. Character Classes and Bracket Expressions A bracket expression is a list of characters enclosed by [ and ]. It matches any single character in that list. If the first character of the list is the caret ^ then it matches any character not in the list; it is unspecified whether it matches an encoding error. For example, the regular expression [0123456789] matches any single digit. Within a bracket expression, a range expression consists of two characters separated by a hyphen. It matches any single character that sorts between the two characters, inclusive, using the locale's collating sequence and character set. For example, in the default C locale, [a-d] is equivalent to [abcd]. Many locales sort characters in dictionary order, and in these locales [a-d] is typically not equivalent to [abcd]; it might be equivalent to [aBbCcDd], for example. To obtain the traditional interpretation of bracket expressions, you can use the C locale by setting the LC_ALL environment variable to the value C. Finally, certain named classes of characters are predefined within bracket expressions, as follows. Their names are self explanatory, and they are [:alnum:], [:alpha:], [:blank:], [:cntrl:], [:digit:], [:graph:], [:lower:], [:print:], [:punct:], [:space:], [:upper:], and [:xdigit:]. For example, [[:alnum:]] means the character class of numbers and letters in the current locale. In the C locale and ASCII character set encoding, this is the same as [0-9A-Za-z]. (Note that the brackets in these class names are part of the symbolic names, and must be included in addition to the brackets delimiting the bracket expression.) Most meta-characters lose their special meaning inside bracket expressions. To include a literal ] place it first in the list. Similarly, to include a literal ^ place it anywhere but first. Finally, to include a literal - place it last. Anchoring The caret ^ and the dollar sign $ are meta-characters that respectively match the empty string at the beginning and end of a line. The Backslash Character and Special Expressions The symbols \< and \> respectively match the empty string at the beginning and end of a word. The symbol \b matches the empty string at the edge of a word, and \B matches the empty string provided it's not at the edge of a word. The symbol \w is a synonym for [_[:alnum:]] and \W is a synonym for [^_[:alnum:]]. Repetition A regular expression may be followed by one of several repetition operators: ? The preceding item is optional and matched at most once. * The preceding item will be matched zero or more times. + The preceding item will be matched one or more times. {n} The preceding item is matched exactly n times. {n,} The preceding item is matched n or more times. {,m} The preceding item is matched at most m times. This is a GNU extension. {n,m} The preceding item is matched at least n times, but not more than m times. Concatenation Two regular expressions may be concatenated; the resulting regular expression matches any string formed by concatenating two substrings that respectively match the concatenated expressions. Alternation Two regular expressions may be joined by the infix operator |; the resulting regular expression matches any string matching either alternate expression. Precedence Repetition takes precedence over concatenation, which in turn takes precedence over alternation. A whole expression may be enclosed in parentheses to override these precedence rules and form a subexpression. Back-references and Subexpressions The back-reference \n, where n is a single digit, matches the substring previously matched by the nth parenthesized subexpression of the regular expression. Basic vs Extended Regular Expressions In basic regular expressions the meta-characters ?, +, {, |, (, and ) lose their special meaning; instead use the backslashed versions \?, \+, \{, \|, \(, and \). EXIT STATUS top Normally the exit status is 0 if a line is selected, 1 if no lines were selected, and 2 if an error occurred. However, if the -q or --quiet or --silent is used and a line is selected, the exit status is 0 even if an error occurred. ENVIRONMENT top The behavior of grep is affected by the following environment variables. The locale for category LC_foo is specified by examining the three environment variables LC_ALL, LC_foo, LANG, in that order. The first of these variables that is set specifies the locale. For example, if LC_ALL is not set, but LC_MESSAGES is set to pt_BR, then the Brazilian Portuguese locale is used for the LC_MESSAGES category. The C locale is used if none of these environment variables are set, if the locale catalog is not installed, or if grep was not compiled with national language support (NLS). The shell command locale -a lists locales that are currently available. GREP_COLORS Controls how the --color option highlights output. Its value is a colon-separated list of capabilities that defaults to ms=01;31:mc=01;31:sl=:cx=:fn=35:ln=32:bn=32:se=36 with the rv and ne boolean capabilities omitted (i.e., false). Supported capabilities are as follows. sl= SGR substring for whole selected lines (i.e., matching lines when the -v command-line option is omitted, or non-matching lines when -v is specified). If however the boolean rv capability and the -v command-line option are both specified, it applies to context matching lines instead. The default is empty (i.e., the terminal's default color pair). cx= SGR substring for whole context lines (i.e., non- matching lines when the -v command-line option is omitted, or matching lines when -v is specified). If however the boolean rv capability and the -v command-line option are both specified, it applies to selected non-matching lines instead. The default is empty (i.e., the terminal's default color pair). rv Boolean value that reverses (swaps) the meanings of the sl= and cx= capabilities when the -v command- line option is specified. The default is false (i.e., the capability is omitted). mt=01;31 SGR substring for matching non-empty text in any matching line (i.e., a selected line when the -v command-line option is omitted, or a context line when -v is specified). Setting this is equivalent to setting both ms= and mc= at once to the same value. The default is a bold red text foreground over the current line background. ms=01;31 SGR substring for matching non-empty text in a selected line. (This is only used when the -v command-line option is omitted.) The effect of the sl= (or cx= if rv) capability remains active when this kicks in. The default is a bold red text foreground over the current line background. mc=01;31 SGR substring for matching non-empty text in a context line. (This is only used when the -v command-line option is specified.) The effect of the cx= (or sl= if rv) capability remains active when this kicks in. The default is a bold red text foreground over the current line background. fn=35 SGR substring for file names prefixing any content line. The default is a magenta text foreground over the terminal's default background. ln=32 SGR substring for line numbers prefixing any content line. The default is a green text foreground over the terminal's default background. bn=32 SGR substring for byte offsets prefixing any content line. The default is a green text foreground over the terminal's default background. se=36 SGR substring for separators that are inserted between selected line fields (:), between context line fields, (-), and between groups of adjacent lines when nonzero context is specified (--). The default is a cyan text foreground over the terminal's default background. ne Boolean value that prevents clearing to the end of line using Erase in Line (EL) to Right (\33[K) each time a colorized item ends. This is needed on terminals on which EL is not supported. It is otherwise useful on terminals for which the back_color_erase (bce) boolean terminfo capability does not apply, when the chosen highlight colors do not affect the background, or when EL is too slow or causes too much flicker. The default is false (i.e., the capability is omitted). Note that boolean capabilities have no =... part. They are omitted (i.e., false) by default and become true when specified. See the Select Graphic Rendition (SGR) section in the documentation of the text terminal that is used for permitted values and their meaning as character attributes. These substring values are integers in decimal representation and can be concatenated with semicolons. grep takes care of assembling the result into a complete SGR sequence (\33[...m). Common values to concatenate include 1 for bold, 4 for underline, 5 for blink, 7 for inverse, 39 for default foreground color, 30 to 37 for foreground colors, 90 to 97 for 16-color mode foreground colors, 38;5;0 to 38;5;255 for 88-color and 256-color modes foreground colors, 49 for default background color, 40 to 47 for background colors, 100 to 107 for 16-color mode background colors, and 48;5;0 to 48;5;255 for 88-color and 256-color modes background colors. LC_ALL, LC_COLLATE, LANG These variables specify the locale for the LC_COLLATE category, which determines the collating sequence used to interpret range expressions like [a-z]. LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, LANG These variables specify the locale for the LC_CTYPE category, which determines the type of characters, e.g., which characters are whitespace. This category also determines the character encoding, that is, whether text is encoded in UTF-8, ASCII, or some other encoding. In the C or POSIX locale, all characters are encoded as a single byte and every byte is a valid character. LC_ALL, LC_MESSAGES, LANG These variables specify the locale for the LC_MESSAGES category, which determines the language that grep uses for messages. The default C locale uses American English messages. POSIXLY_CORRECT If set, grep behaves as POSIX requires; otherwise, grep behaves more like other GNU programs. POSIX requires that options that follow file names must be treated as file names; by default, such options are permuted to the front of the operand list and are treated as options. Also, POSIX requires that unrecognized options be diagnosed as illegal, but since they are not really against the law the default is to diagnose them as invalid. NOTES top This man page is maintained only fitfully; the full documentation is often more up-to-date. COPYRIGHT top Copyright 1998-2000, 2002, 2005-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. BUGS top Reporting Bugs Email bug reports to the bug-reporting address bug- grep@gnu.org. An email archive https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grep and a bug tracker https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/pkgreport.cgi?package=grep are available. Known Bugs Large repetition counts in the {n,m} construct may cause grep to use lots of memory. In addition, certain other obscure regular expressions require exponential time and space, and may cause grep to run out of memory. Back-references are very slow, and may require exponential time. EXAMPLE top The following example outputs the location and contents of any line containing f and ending in .c, within all files in the current directory whose names contain g and end in .h. The -n option outputs line numbers, the -- argument treats expansions of *g*.h starting with - as file names not options, and the empty file /dev/null causes file names to be output even if only one file name happens to be of the form *g*.h. $ grep -n -- 'f.*\.c$' *g*.h /dev/null argmatch.h:1:/* definitions and prototypes for argmatch.c The only line that matches is line 1 of argmatch.h. Note that the regular expression syntax used in the pattern differs from the globbing syntax that the shell uses to match file names. SEE ALSO top Regular Manual Pages awk(1), cmp(1), diff(1), find(1), perl(1), sed(1), sort(1), xargs(1), read(2), pcre2(3), pcre2syntax(3), pcre2pattern(3), terminfo(5), glob(7), regex(7) Full Documentation A complete manual https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/manual/ is available. If the info and grep programs are properly installed at your site, the command info grep should give you access to the complete manual. COLOPHON top This page is part of the GNU grep (regular expression file search tool) project. Information about the project can be found at https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/. If you have a bug report for this manual page, send it to bug-grep@gnu.org. This page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository git://git.savannah.gnu.org/grep.git on 2023-12-22. 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Hosting by jambit GmbH. uname(1) - Linux manual page man7.org > Linux > man-pages Linux/UNIX system programming training uname(1) Linux manual page NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | AUTHOR | REPORTING BUGS | COPYRIGHT | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON UNAME(1) User Commands UNAME(1) NAME top uname - print system information SYNOPSIS top uname [OPTION]... DESCRIPTION top Print certain system information. With no OPTION, same as -s. -a, --all print all information, in the following order, except omit -p and -i if unknown: -s, --kernel-name print the kernel name -n, --nodename print the network node hostname -r, --kernel-release print the kernel release -v, --kernel-version print the kernel version -m, --machine print the machine hardware name -p, --processor print the processor type (non-portable) -i, --hardware-platform print the hardware platform (non-portable) -o, --operating-system print the operating system --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit AUTHOR top Written by David MacKenzie. REPORTING BUGS top GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT top Copyright 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO top arch(1), uname(2) Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/uname> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) uname invocation' COLOPHON top This page is part of the coreutils (basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities) project. Information about the project can be found at http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/. If you have a bug report for this manual page, see http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/. This page was obtained from the tarball coreutils-9.4.tar.xz fetched from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/ on 2023-12-22. If you discover any rendering problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON (which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to man-pages@man7.org GNU coreutils 9.4 August 2023 UNAME(1) Pages that refer to this page: arch(1), uname(2), systemd.unit(5), lsof(8), ovs-l3ping(8), ovs-test(8), ovs-vlan-test(8) HTML rendering created 2023-12-22 by Michael Kerrisk, author of The Linux Programming Interface. For details of in-depth Linux/UNIX system programming training courses that I teach, look here. Hosting by jambit GmbH. Task: Display all lines containing "IP_MROUTE" in the current kernel's compile-time config file. Bash Command:<START>cat /boot/config-`uname -r` | grep IP_MROUTE<END> |
Display current running kernel's compile-time config file. | cat /boot/config-`uname -r` | ['cat', 'uname'] | Output a Bash command to accomplish the following task. Task: Display current running kernel's compile-time config file. Bash Command:<START>cat /boot/config-`uname -r`<END> | Use the provided context to output a Bash command that accomplishes the following task. Context: # cat\n\n> Print and concatenate files.\n> More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/cat>.\n\n- Print the contents of a file to `stdout`:\n\n`cat {{path/to/file}}`\n\n- Concatenate several files into an output file:\n\n`cat {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}} > {{path/to/output_file}}`\n\n- Append several files to an output file:\n\n`cat {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}} >> {{path/to/output_file}}`\n\n- Write `stdin` to a file:\n\n`cat - > {{path/to/file}}`\n\n- [n]umber all output lines:\n\n`cat -n {{path/to/file}}`\n\n- Display non-printable and whitespace characters (with `M-` prefix if non-ASCII):\n\n`cat -v -t -e {{path/to/file}}`\n # uname\n\n> Uname prints information about the machine and operating system it is run on.\n> More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/uname-invocation.html>.\n\n- Print all information:\n\n`uname --all`\n\n- Print the current kernel name:\n\n`uname --kernel-name`\n\n- Print the current network node host name:\n\n`uname --nodename`\n\n- Print the current kernel release:\n\n`uname --kernel-release`\n\n- Print the current kernel version:\n\n`uname --kernel-version`\n\n- Print the current machine hardware name:\n\n`uname --machine`\n\n- Print the current processor type:\n\n`uname --processor`\n\n- Print the current operating system name:\n\n`uname --operating-system`\n Task: Display current running kernel's compile-time config file. Bash Command:<START>cat /boot/config-`uname -r`<END> | Use the provided context to output a Bash command that accomplishes the following task. Context: cat(1) - Linux manual page man7.org > Linux > man-pages Linux/UNIX system programming training cat(1) Linux manual page NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | EXAMPLES | AUTHOR | REPORTING BUGS | COPYRIGHT | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON CAT(1) User Commands CAT(1) NAME top cat - concatenate files and print on the standard output SYNOPSIS top cat [OPTION]... [FILE]... DESCRIPTION top Concatenate FILE(s) to standard output. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. -A, --show-all equivalent to -vET -b, --number-nonblank number nonempty output lines, overrides -n -e equivalent to -vE -E, --show-ends display $ at end of each line -n, --number number all output lines -s, --squeeze-blank suppress repeated empty output lines -t equivalent to -vT -T, --show-tabs display TAB characters as ^I -u (ignored) -v, --show-nonprinting use ^ and M- notation, except for LFD and TAB --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit EXAMPLES top cat f - g Output f's contents, then standard input, then g's contents. cat Copy standard input to standard output. AUTHOR top Written by Torbjorn Granlund and Richard M. Stallman. REPORTING BUGS top GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT top Copyright 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 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Hosting by jambit GmbH. uname(1) - Linux manual page man7.org > Linux > man-pages Linux/UNIX system programming training uname(1) Linux manual page NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | AUTHOR | REPORTING BUGS | COPYRIGHT | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON UNAME(1) User Commands UNAME(1) NAME top uname - print system information SYNOPSIS top uname [OPTION]... DESCRIPTION top Print certain system information. With no OPTION, same as -s. -a, --all print all information, in the following order, except omit -p and -i if unknown: -s, --kernel-name print the kernel name -n, --nodename print the network node hostname -r, --kernel-release print the kernel release -v, --kernel-version print the kernel version -m, --machine print the machine hardware name -p, --processor print the processor type (non-portable) -i, --hardware-platform print the hardware platform (non-portable) -o, --operating-system print the operating system --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit AUTHOR top Written by David MacKenzie. REPORTING BUGS top GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT top Copyright 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO top arch(1), uname(2) Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/uname> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) uname invocation' COLOPHON top This page is part of the coreutils (basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities) project. Information about the project can be found at http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/. If you have a bug report for this manual page, see http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/. This page was obtained from the tarball coreutils-9.4.tar.xz fetched from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/ on 2023-12-22. If you discover any rendering problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON (which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to man-pages@man7.org GNU coreutils 9.4 August 2023 UNAME(1) Pages that refer to this page: arch(1), uname(2), systemd.unit(5), lsof(8), ovs-l3ping(8), ovs-test(8), ovs-vlan-test(8) HTML rendering created 2023-12-22 by Michael Kerrisk, author of The Linux Programming Interface. For details of in-depth Linux/UNIX system programming training courses that I teach, look here. Hosting by jambit GmbH. Task: Display current running kernel's compile-time config file. Bash Command:<START>cat /boot/config-`uname -r`<END> |
Find all loadable modules for current kernel, whose name includes "perf" | find /lib/modules/`uname -r` -regex .*perf.* | ['find', 'uname'] | Output a Bash command to accomplish the following task. Task: Find all loadable modules for current kernel, whose name includes "perf" Bash Command:<START>find /lib/modules/`uname -r` -regex .*perf.*<END> | Use the provided context to output a Bash command that accomplishes the following task. Context: # find\n\n> Find files or directories under a directory tree, recursively.\n> More information: <https://manned.org/find>.\n\n- Find files by extension:\n\n`find {{root_path}} -name '{{*.ext}}'`\n\n- Find files matching multiple path/name patterns:\n\n`find {{root_path}} -path '{{**/path/**/*.ext}}' -or -name '{{*pattern*}}'`\n\n- Find directories matching a given name, in case-insensitive mode:\n\n`find {{root_path}} -type d -iname '{{*lib*}}'`\n\n- Find files matching a given pattern, excluding specific paths:\n\n`find {{root_path}} -name '{{*.py}}' -not -path '{{*/site-packages/*}}'`\n\n- Find files matching a given size range, limiting the recursive depth to "1":\n\n`find {{root_path}} -maxdepth 1 -size {{+500k}} -size {{-10M}}`\n\n- Run a command for each file (use `{}` within the command to access the filename):\n\n`find {{root_path}} -name '{{*.ext}}' -exec {{wc -l}} {} \;`\n\n- Find all files modified today and pass the results to a single command as arguments:\n\n`find {{root_path}} -daystart -mtime {{-1}} -exec {{tar -cvf archive.tar}} {} \+`\n\n- Find empty (0 byte) files and delete them:\n\n`find {{root_path}} -type {{f}} -empty -delete`\n # uname\n\n> Uname prints information about the machine and operating system it is run on.\n> More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/uname-invocation.html>.\n\n- Print all information:\n\n`uname --all`\n\n- Print the current kernel name:\n\n`uname --kernel-name`\n\n- Print the current network node host name:\n\n`uname --nodename`\n\n- Print the current kernel release:\n\n`uname --kernel-release`\n\n- Print the current kernel version:\n\n`uname --kernel-version`\n\n- Print the current machine hardware name:\n\n`uname --machine`\n\n- Print the current processor type:\n\n`uname --processor`\n\n- Print the current operating system name:\n\n`uname --operating-system`\n Task: Find all loadable modules for current kernel, whose name includes "perf" Bash Command:<START>find /lib/modules/`uname -r` -regex .*perf.*<END> | Use the provided context to output a Bash command that accomplishes the following task. Context: find(1) - Linux manual page man7.org > Linux > man-pages Linux/UNIX system programming training find(1) Linux manual page NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | OPTIONS | EXPRESSION | UNUSUAL FILENAMES | STANDARDS CONFORMANCE | ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES | EXAMPLES | EXIT STATUS | HISTORY | COMPATIBILITY | NON-BUGS | BUGS | REPORTING BUGS | COPYRIGHT | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON FIND(1) General Commands Manual FIND(1) NAME top find - search for files in a directory hierarchy SYNOPSIS top find [-H] [-L] [-P] [-D debugopts] [-Olevel] [starting-point...] [expression] DESCRIPTION top This manual page documents the GNU version of find. GNU find searches the directory tree rooted at each given starting-point by evaluating the given expression from left to right, according to the rules of precedence (see section OPERATORS), until the outcome is known (the left hand side is false for and operations, true for or), at which point find moves on to the next file name. If no starting-point is specified, `.' is assumed. If you are using find in an environment where security is important (for example if you are using it to search directories that are writable by other users), you should read the `Security Considerations' chapter of the findutils documentation, which is called Finding Files and comes with findutils. That document also includes a lot more detail and discussion than this manual page, so you may find it a more useful source of information. OPTIONS top The -H, -L and -P options control the treatment of symbolic links. Command-line arguments following these are taken to be names of files or directories to be examined, up to the first argument that begins with `-', or the argument `(' or `!'. That argument and any following arguments are taken to be the expression describing what is to be searched for. If no paths are given, the current directory is used. If no expression is given, the expression -print is used (but you should probably consider using -print0 instead, anyway). This manual page talks about `options' within the expression list. These options control the behaviour of find but are specified immediately after the last path name. The five `real' options -H, -L, -P, -D and -O must appear before the first path name, if at all. A double dash -- could theoretically be used to signal that any remaining arguments are not options, but this does not really work due to the way find determines the end of the following path arguments: it does that by reading until an expression argument comes (which also starts with a `-'). Now, if a path argument would start with a `-', then find would treat it as expression argument instead. Thus, to ensure that all start points are taken as such, and especially to prevent that wildcard patterns expanded by the calling shell are not mistakenly treated as expression arguments, it is generally safer to prefix wildcards or dubious path names with either `./' or to use absolute path names starting with '/'. Alternatively, it is generally safe though non-portable to use the GNU option -files0-from to pass arbitrary starting points to find. -P Never follow symbolic links. This is the default behaviour. When find examines or prints information about files, and the file is a symbolic link, the information used shall be taken from the properties of the symbolic link itself. -L Follow symbolic links. When find examines or prints information about files, the information used shall be taken from the properties of the file to which the link points, not from the link itself (unless it is a broken symbolic link or find is unable to examine the file to which the link points). Use of this option implies -noleaf. If you later use the -P option, -noleaf will still be in effect. If -L is in effect and find discovers a symbolic link to a subdirectory during its search, the subdirectory pointed to by the symbolic link will be searched. When the -L option is in effect, the -type predicate will always match against the type of the file that a symbolic link points to rather than the link itself (unless the symbolic link is broken). Actions that can cause symbolic links to become broken while find is executing (for example -delete) can give rise to confusing behaviour. Using -L causes the -lname and -ilname predicates always to return false. -H Do not follow symbolic links, except while processing the command line arguments. When find examines or prints information about files, the information used shall be taken from the properties of the symbolic link itself. The only exception to this behaviour is when a file specified on the command line is a symbolic link, and the link can be resolved. For that situation, the information used is taken from whatever the link points to (that is, the link is followed). The information about the link itself is used as a fallback if the file pointed to by the symbolic link cannot be examined. If -H is in effect and one of the paths specified on the command line is a symbolic link to a directory, the contents of that directory will be examined (though of course -maxdepth 0 would prevent this). If more than one of -H, -L and -P is specified, each overrides the others; the last one appearing on the command line takes effect. Since it is the default, the -P option should be considered to be in effect unless either -H or -L is specified. GNU find frequently stats files during the processing of the command line itself, before any searching has begun. These options also affect how those arguments are processed. Specifically, there are a number of tests that compare files listed on the command line against a file we are currently considering. In each case, the file specified on the command line will have been examined and some of its properties will have been saved. If the named file is in fact a symbolic link, and the -P option is in effect (or if neither -H nor -L were specified), the information used for the comparison will be taken from the properties of the symbolic link. Otherwise, it will be taken from the properties of the file the link points to. If find cannot follow the link (for example because it has insufficient privileges or the link points to a nonexistent file) the properties of the link itself will be used. When the -H or -L options are in effect, any symbolic links listed as the argument of -newer will be dereferenced, and the timestamp will be taken from the file to which the symbolic link points. The same consideration applies to -newerXY, -anewer and -cnewer. The -follow option has a similar effect to -L, though it takes effect at the point where it appears (that is, if -L is not used but -follow is, any symbolic links appearing after -follow on the command line will be dereferenced, and those before it will not). -D debugopts Print diagnostic information; this can be helpful to diagnose problems with why find is not doing what you want. The list of debug options should be comma separated. Compatibility of the debug options is not guaranteed between releases of findutils. For a complete list of valid debug options, see the output of find -D help. Valid debug options include exec Show diagnostic information relating to -exec, -execdir, -ok and -okdir opt Prints diagnostic information relating to the optimisation of the expression tree; see the -O option. rates Prints a summary indicating how often each predicate succeeded or failed. search Navigate the directory tree verbosely. stat Print messages as files are examined with the stat and lstat system calls. The find program tries to minimise such calls. tree Show the expression tree in its original and optimised form. all Enable all of the other debug options (but help). help Explain the debugging options. -Olevel Enables query optimisation. The find program reorders tests to speed up execution while preserving the overall effect; that is, predicates with side effects are not reordered relative to each other. The optimisations performed at each optimisation level are as follows. 0 Equivalent to optimisation level 1. 1 This is the default optimisation level and corresponds to the traditional behaviour. Expressions are reordered so that tests based only on the names of files (for example -name and -regex) are performed first. 2 Any -type or -xtype tests are performed after any tests based only on the names of files, but before any tests that require information from the inode. On many modern versions of Unix, file types are returned by readdir() and so these predicates are faster to evaluate than predicates which need to stat the file first. If you use the -fstype FOO predicate and specify a filesystem type FOO which is not known (that is, present in `/etc/mtab') at the time find starts, that predicate is equivalent to -false. 3 At this optimisation level, the full cost-based query optimiser is enabled. The order of tests is modified so that cheap (i.e. fast) tests are performed first and more expensive ones are performed later, if necessary. Within each cost band, predicates are evaluated earlier or later according to whether they are likely to succeed or not. For -o, predicates which are likely to succeed are evaluated earlier, and for -a, predicates which are likely to fail are evaluated earlier. The cost-based optimiser has a fixed idea of how likely any given test is to succeed. In some cases the probability takes account of the specific nature of the test (for example, -type f is assumed to be more likely to succeed than -type c). The cost-based optimiser is currently being evaluated. If it does not actually improve the performance of find, it will be removed again. Conversely, optimisations that prove to be reliable, robust and effective may be enabled at lower optimisation levels over time. However, the default behaviour (i.e. optimisation level 1) will not be changed in the 4.3.x release series. The findutils test suite runs all the tests on find at each optimisation level and ensures that the result is the same. EXPRESSION top The part of the command line after the list of starting points is the expression. This is a kind of query specification describing how we match files and what we do with the files that were matched. An expression is composed of a sequence of things: Tests Tests return a true or false value, usually on the basis of some property of a file we are considering. The -empty test for example is true only when the current file is empty. Actions Actions have side effects (such as printing something on the standard output) and return either true or false, usually based on whether or not they are successful. The -print action for example prints the name of the current file on the standard output. Global options Global options affect the operation of tests and actions specified on any part of the command line. Global options always return true. The -depth option for example makes find traverse the file system in a depth-first order. Positional options Positional options affect only tests or actions which follow them. Positional options always return true. The -regextype option for example is positional, specifying the regular expression dialect for regular expressions occurring later on the command line. Operators Operators join together the other items within the expression. They include for example -o (meaning logical OR) and -a (meaning logical AND). Where an operator is missing, -a is assumed. The -print action is performed on all files for which the whole expression is true, unless it contains an action other than -prune or -quit. Actions which inhibit the default -print are -delete, -exec, -execdir, -ok, -okdir, -fls, -fprint, -fprintf, -ls, -print and -printf. The -delete action also acts like an option (since it implies -depth). POSITIONAL OPTIONS Positional options always return true. They affect only tests occurring later on the command line. -daystart Measure times (for -amin, -atime, -cmin, -ctime, -mmin, and -mtime) from the beginning of today rather than from 24 hours ago. This option only affects tests which appear later on the command line. -follow Deprecated; use the -L option instead. Dereference symbolic links. Implies -noleaf. The -follow option affects only those tests which appear after it on the command line. Unless the -H or -L option has been specified, the position of the -follow option changes the behaviour of the -newer predicate; any files listed as the argument of -newer will be dereferenced if they are symbolic links. The same consideration applies to -newerXY, -anewer and -cnewer. Similarly, the -type predicate will always match against the type of the file that a symbolic link points to rather than the link itself. Using -follow causes the -lname and -ilname predicates always to return false. -regextype type Changes the regular expression syntax understood by -regex and -iregex tests which occur later on the command line. To see which regular expression types are known, use -regextype help. The Texinfo documentation (see SEE ALSO) explains the meaning of and differences between the various types of regular expression. -warn, -nowarn Turn warning messages on or off. These warnings apply only to the command line usage, not to any conditions that find might encounter when it searches directories. The default behaviour corresponds to -warn if standard input is a tty, and to -nowarn otherwise. If a warning message relating to command-line usage is produced, the exit status of find is not affected. If the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable is set, and -warn is also used, it is not specified which, if any, warnings will be active. GLOBAL OPTIONS Global options always return true. Global options take effect even for tests which occur earlier on the command line. To prevent confusion, global options should be specified on the command-line after the list of start points, just before the first test, positional option or action. If you specify a global option in some other place, find will issue a warning message explaining that this can be confusing. The global options occur after the list of start points, and so are not the same kind of option as -L, for example. -d A synonym for -depth, for compatibility with FreeBSD, NetBSD, MacOS X and OpenBSD. -depth Process each directory's contents before the directory itself. The -delete action also implies -depth. -files0-from file Read the starting points from file instead of getting them on the command line. In contrast to the known limitations of passing starting points via arguments on the command line, namely the limitation of the amount of file names, and the inherent ambiguity of file names clashing with option names, using this option allows to safely pass an arbitrary number of starting points to find. Using this option and passing starting points on the command line is mutually exclusive, and is therefore not allowed at the same time. The file argument is mandatory. One can use -files0-from - to read the list of starting points from the standard input stream, and e.g. from a pipe. In this case, the actions -ok and -okdir are not allowed, because they would obviously interfere with reading from standard input in order to get a user confirmation. The starting points in file have to be separated by ASCII NUL characters. Two consecutive NUL characters, i.e., a starting point with a Zero-length file name is not allowed and will lead to an error diagnostic followed by a non- Zero exit code later. In the case the given file is empty, find does not process any starting point and therefore will exit immediately after parsing the program arguments. This is unlike the standard invocation where find assumes the current directory as starting point if no path argument is passed. The processing of the starting points is otherwise as usual, e.g. find will recurse into subdirectories unless otherwise prevented. To process only the starting points, one can additionally pass -maxdepth 0. Further notes: if a file is listed more than once in the input file, it is unspecified whether it is visited more than once. If the file is mutated during the operation of find, the result is unspecified as well. Finally, the seek position within the named file at the time find exits, be it with -quit or in any other way, is also unspecified. By "unspecified" here is meant that it may or may not work or do any specific thing, and that the behavior may change from platform to platform, or from findutils release to release. -help, --help Print a summary of the command-line usage of find and exit. -ignore_readdir_race Normally, find will emit an error message when it fails to stat a file. If you give this option and a file is deleted between the time find reads the name of the file from the directory and the time it tries to stat the file, no error message will be issued. This also applies to files or directories whose names are given on the command line. This option takes effect at the time the command line is read, which means that you cannot search one part of the filesystem with this option on and part of it with this option off (if you need to do that, you will need to issue two find commands instead, one with the option and one without it). Furthermore, find with the -ignore_readdir_race option will ignore errors of the -delete action in the case the file has disappeared since the parent directory was read: it will not output an error diagnostic, and the return code of the -delete action will be true. -maxdepth levels Descend at most levels (a non-negative integer) levels of directories below the starting-points. Using -maxdepth 0 means only apply the tests and actions to the starting- points themselves. -mindepth levels Do not apply any tests or actions at levels less than levels (a non-negative integer). Using -mindepth 1 means process all files except the starting-points. -mount Don't descend directories on other filesystems. An alternate name for -xdev, for compatibility with some other versions of find. -noignore_readdir_race Turns off the effect of -ignore_readdir_race. -noleaf Do not optimize by assuming that directories contain 2 fewer subdirectories than their hard link count. This option is needed when searching filesystems that do not follow the Unix directory-link convention, such as CD-ROM or MS-DOS filesystems or AFS volume mount points. Each directory on a normal Unix filesystem has at least 2 hard links: its name and its `.' entry. Additionally, its subdirectories (if any) each have a `..' entry linked to that directory. When find is examining a directory, after it has statted 2 fewer subdirectories than the directory's link count, it knows that the rest of the entries in the directory are non-directories (`leaf' files in the directory tree). If only the files' names need to be examined, there is no need to stat them; this gives a significant increase in search speed. -version, --version Print the find version number and exit. -xdev Don't descend directories on other filesystems. TESTS Some tests, for example -newerXY and -samefile, allow comparison between the file currently being examined and some reference file specified on the command line. When these tests are used, the interpretation of the reference file is determined by the options -H, -L and -P and any previous -follow, but the reference file is only examined once, at the time the command line is parsed. If the reference file cannot be examined (for example, the stat(2) system call fails for it), an error message is issued, and find exits with a nonzero status. A numeric argument n can be specified to tests (like -amin, -mtime, -gid, -inum, -links, -size, -uid and -used) as +n for greater than n, -n for less than n, n for exactly n. Supported tests: -amin n File was last accessed less than, more than or exactly n minutes ago. -anewer reference Time of the last access of the current file is more recent than that of the last data modification of the reference file. If reference is a symbolic link and the -H option or the -L option is in effect, then the time of the last data modification of the file it points to is always used. -atime n File was last accessed less than, more than or exactly n*24 hours ago. When find figures out how many 24-hour periods ago the file was last accessed, any fractional part is ignored, so to match -atime +1, a file has to have been accessed at least two days ago. -cmin n File's status was last changed less than, more than or exactly n minutes ago. -cnewer reference Time of the last status change of the current file is more recent than that of the last data modification of the reference file. If reference is a symbolic link and the -H option or the -L option is in effect, then the time of the last data modification of the file it points to is always used. -ctime n File's status was last changed less than, more than or exactly n*24 hours ago. See the comments for -atime to understand how rounding affects the interpretation of file status change times. -empty File is empty and is either a regular file or a directory. -executable Matches files which are executable and directories which are searchable (in a file name resolution sense) by the current user. This takes into account access control lists and other permissions artefacts which the -perm test ignores. This test makes use of the access(2) system call, and so can be fooled by NFS servers which do UID mapping (or root-squashing), since many systems implement access(2) in the client's kernel and so cannot make use of the UID mapping information held on the server. Because this test is based only on the result of the access(2) system call, there is no guarantee that a file for which this test succeeds can actually be executed. -false Always false. -fstype type File is on a filesystem of type type. The valid filesystem types vary among different versions of Unix; an incomplete list of filesystem types that are accepted on some version of Unix or another is: ufs, 4.2, 4.3, nfs, tmp, mfs, S51K, S52K. You can use -printf with the %F directive to see the types of your filesystems. -gid n File's numeric group ID is less than, more than or exactly n. -group gname File belongs to group gname (numeric group ID allowed). -ilname pattern Like -lname, but the match is case insensitive. If the -L option or the -follow option is in effect, this test returns false unless the symbolic link is broken. -iname pattern Like -name, but the match is case insensitive. For example, the patterns `fo*' and `F??' match the file names `Foo', `FOO', `foo', `fOo', etc. The pattern `*foo*` will also match a file called '.foobar'. -inum n File has inode number smaller than, greater than or exactly n. It is normally easier to use the -samefile test instead. -ipath pattern Like -path. but the match is case insensitive. -iregex pattern Like -regex, but the match is case insensitive. -iwholename pattern See -ipath. This alternative is less portable than -ipath. -links n File has less than, more than or exactly n hard links. -lname pattern File is a symbolic link whose contents match shell pattern pattern. The metacharacters do not treat `/' or `.' specially. If the -L option or the -follow option is in effect, this test returns false unless the symbolic link is broken. -mmin n File's data was last modified less than, more than or exactly n minutes ago. -mtime n File's data was last modified less than, more than or exactly n*24 hours ago. See the comments for -atime to understand how rounding affects the interpretation of file modification times. -name pattern Base of file name (the path with the leading directories removed) matches shell pattern pattern. Because the leading directories of the file names are removed, the pattern should not include a slash, because `-name a/b' will never match anything (and you probably want to use -path instead). An exception to this is when using only a slash as pattern (`-name /'), because that is a valid string for matching the root directory "/" (because the base name of "/" is "/"). A warning is issued if you try to pass a pattern containing a - but not consisting solely of one - slash, unless the environment variable POSIXLY_CORRECT is set or the option -nowarn is used. To ignore a directory and the files under it, use -prune rather than checking every file in the tree; see an example in the description of that action. Braces are not recognised as being special, despite the fact that some shells including Bash imbue braces with a special meaning in shell patterns. The filename matching is performed with the use of the fnmatch(3) library function. Don't forget to enclose the pattern in quotes in order to protect it from expansion by the shell. -newer reference Time of the last data modification of the current file is more recent than that of the last data modification of the reference file. If reference is a symbolic link and the -H option or the -L option is in effect, then the time of the last data modification of the file it points to is always used. -newerXY reference Succeeds if timestamp X of the file being considered is newer than timestamp Y of the file reference. The letters X and Y can be any of the following letters: a The access time of the file reference B The birth time of the file reference c The inode status change time of reference m The modification time of the file reference t reference is interpreted directly as a time Some combinations are invalid; for example, it is invalid for X to be t. Some combinations are not implemented on all systems; for example B is not supported on all systems. If an invalid or unsupported combination of XY is specified, a fatal error results. Time specifications are interpreted as for the argument to the -d option of GNU date. If you try to use the birth time of a reference file, and the birth time cannot be determined, a fatal error message results. If you specify a test which refers to the birth time of files being examined, this test will fail for any files where the birth time is unknown. -nogroup No group corresponds to file's numeric group ID. -nouser No user corresponds to file's numeric user ID. -path pattern File name matches shell pattern pattern. The metacharacters do not treat `/' or `.' specially; so, for example, find . -path "./sr*sc" will print an entry for a directory called ./src/misc (if one exists). To ignore a whole directory tree, use -prune rather than checking every file in the tree. Note that the pattern match test applies to the whole file name, starting from one of the start points named on the command line. It would only make sense to use an absolute path name here if the relevant start point is also an absolute path. This means that this command will never match anything: find bar -path /foo/bar/myfile -print Find compares the -path argument with the concatenation of a directory name and the base name of the file it's examining. Since the concatenation will never end with a slash, -path arguments ending in a slash will match nothing (except perhaps a start point specified on the command line). The predicate -path is also supported by HP-UX find and is part of the POSIX 2008 standard. -perm mode File's permission bits are exactly mode (octal or symbolic). Since an exact match is required, if you want to use this form for symbolic modes, you may have to specify a rather complex mode string. For example `-perm g=w' will only match files which have mode 0020 (that is, ones for which group write permission is the only permission set). It is more likely that you will want to use the `/' or `-' forms, for example `-perm -g=w', which matches any file with group write permission. See the EXAMPLES section for some illustrative examples. -perm -mode All of the permission bits mode are set for the file. Symbolic modes are accepted in this form, and this is usually the way in which you would want to use them. You must specify `u', `g' or `o' if you use a symbolic mode. See the EXAMPLES section for some illustrative examples. -perm /mode Any of the permission bits mode are set for the file. Symbolic modes are accepted in this form. You must specify `u', `g' or `o' if you use a symbolic mode. See the EXAMPLES section for some illustrative examples. If no permission bits in mode are set, this test matches any file (the idea here is to be consistent with the behaviour of -perm -000). -perm +mode This is no longer supported (and has been deprecated since 2005). Use -perm /mode instead. -readable Matches files which are readable by the current user. This takes into account access control lists and other permissions artefacts which the -perm test ignores. This test makes use of the access(2) system call, and so can be fooled by NFS servers which do UID mapping (or root- squashing), since many systems implement access(2) in the client's kernel and so cannot make use of the UID mapping information held on the server. -regex pattern File name matches regular expression pattern. This is a match on the whole path, not a search. For example, to match a file named ./fubar3, you can use the regular expression `.*bar.' or `.*b.*3', but not `f.*r3'. The regular expressions understood by find are by default Emacs Regular Expressions (except that `.' matches newline), but this can be changed with the -regextype option. -samefile name File refers to the same inode as name. When -L is in effect, this can include symbolic links. -size n[cwbkMG] File uses less than, more than or exactly n units of space, rounding up. The following suffixes can be used: `b' for 512-byte blocks (this is the default if no suffix is used) `c' for bytes `w' for two-byte words `k' for kibibytes (KiB, units of 1024 bytes) `M' for mebibytes (MiB, units of 1024 * 1024 = 1048576 bytes) `G' for gibibytes (GiB, units of 1024 * 1024 * 1024 = 1073741824 bytes) The size is simply the st_size member of the struct stat populated by the lstat (or stat) system call, rounded up as shown above. In other words, it's consistent with the result you get for ls -l. Bear in mind that the `%k' and `%b' format specifiers of -printf handle sparse files differently. The `b' suffix always denotes 512-byte blocks and never 1024-byte blocks, which is different to the behaviour of -ls. The + and - prefixes signify greater than and less than, as usual; i.e., an exact size of n units does not match. Bear in mind that the size is rounded up to the next unit. Therefore -size -1M is not equivalent to -size -1048576c. The former only matches empty files, the latter matches files from 0 to 1,048,575 bytes. -true Always true. -type c File is of type c: b block (buffered) special c character (unbuffered) special d directory p named pipe (FIFO) f regular file l symbolic link; this is never true if the -L option or the -follow option is in effect, unless the symbolic link is broken. If you want to search for symbolic links when -L is in effect, use -xtype. s socket D door (Solaris) To search for more than one type at once, you can supply the combined list of type letters separated by a comma `,' (GNU extension). -uid n File's numeric user ID is less than, more than or exactly n. -used n File was last accessed less than, more than or exactly n days after its status was last changed. -user uname File is owned by user uname (numeric user ID allowed). -wholename pattern See -path. This alternative is less portable than -path. -writable Matches files which are writable by the current user. This takes into account access control lists and other permissions artefacts which the -perm test ignores. This test makes use of the access(2) system call, and so can be fooled by NFS servers which do UID mapping (or root- squashing), since many systems implement access(2) in the client's kernel and so cannot make use of the UID mapping information held on the server. -xtype c The same as -type unless the file is a symbolic link. For symbolic links: if the -H or -P option was specified, true if the file is a link to a file of type c; if the -L option has been given, true if c is `l'. In other words, for symbolic links, -xtype checks the type of the file that -type does not check. -context pattern (SELinux only) Security context of the file matches glob pattern. ACTIONS -delete Delete files or directories; true if removal succeeded. If the removal failed, an error message is issued and find's exit status will be nonzero (when it eventually exits). Warning: Don't forget that find evaluates the command line as an expression, so putting -delete first will make find try to delete everything below the starting points you specified. The use of the -delete action on the command line automatically turns on the -depth option. As in turn -depth makes -prune ineffective, the -delete action cannot usefully be combined with -prune. Often, the user might want to test a find command line with -print prior to adding -delete for the actual removal run. To avoid surprising results, it is usually best to remember to use -depth explicitly during those earlier test runs. The -delete action will fail to remove a directory unless it is empty. Together with the -ignore_readdir_race option, find will ignore errors of the -delete action in the case the file has disappeared since the parent directory was read: it will not output an error diagnostic, not change the exit code to nonzero, and the return code of the -delete action will be true. -exec command ; Execute command; true if 0 status is returned. All following arguments to find are taken to be arguments to the command until an argument consisting of `;' is encountered. The string `{}' is replaced by the current file name being processed everywhere it occurs in the arguments to the command, not just in arguments where it is alone, as in some versions of find. Both of these constructions might need to be escaped (with a `\') or quoted to protect them from expansion by the shell. See the EXAMPLES section for examples of the use of the -exec option. The specified command is run once for each matched file. The command is executed in the starting directory. There are unavoidable security problems surrounding use of the -exec action; you should use the -execdir option instead. -exec command {} + This variant of the -exec action runs the specified command on the selected files, but the command line is built by appending each selected file name at the end; the total number of invocations of the command will be much less than the number of matched files. The command line is built in much the same way that xargs builds its command lines. Only one instance of `{}' is allowed within the command, and it must appear at the end, immediately before the `+'; it needs to be escaped (with a `\') or quoted to protect it from interpretation by the shell. The command is executed in the starting directory. If any invocation with the `+' form returns a non-zero value as exit status, then find returns a non-zero exit status. If find encounters an error, this can sometimes cause an immediate exit, so some pending commands may not be run at all. For this reason -exec my- command ... {} + -quit may not result in my-command actually being run. This variant of -exec always returns true. -execdir command ; -execdir command {} + Like -exec, but the specified command is run from the subdirectory containing the matched file, which is not normally the directory in which you started find. As with -exec, the {} should be quoted if find is being invoked from a shell. This a much more secure method for invoking commands, as it avoids race conditions during resolution of the paths to the matched files. As with the -exec action, the `+' form of -execdir will build a command line to process more than one matched file, but any given invocation of command will only list files that exist in the same subdirectory. If you use this option, you must ensure that your PATH environment variable does not reference `.'; otherwise, an attacker can run any commands they like by leaving an appropriately-named file in a directory in which you will run -execdir. The same applies to having entries in PATH which are empty or which are not absolute directory names. If any invocation with the `+' form returns a non-zero value as exit status, then find returns a non-zero exit status. If find encounters an error, this can sometimes cause an immediate exit, so some pending commands may not be run at all. The result of the action depends on whether the + or the ; variant is being used; -execdir command {} + always returns true, while -execdir command {} ; returns true only if command returns 0. -fls file True; like -ls but write to file like -fprint. The output file is always created, even if the predicate is never matched. See the UNUSUAL FILENAMES section for information about how unusual characters in filenames are handled. -fprint file True; print the full file name into file file. If file does not exist when find is run, it is created; if it does exist, it is truncated. The file names /dev/stdout and /dev/stderr are handled specially; they refer to the standard output and standard error output, respectively. The output file is always created, even if the predicate is never matched. See the UNUSUAL FILENAMES section for information about how unusual characters in filenames are handled. -fprint0 file True; like -print0 but write to file like -fprint. The output file is always created, even if the predicate is never matched. See the UNUSUAL FILENAMES section for information about how unusual characters in filenames are handled. -fprintf file format True; like -printf but write to file like -fprint. The output file is always created, even if the predicate is never matched. See the UNUSUAL FILENAMES section for information about how unusual characters in filenames are handled. -ls True; list current file in ls -dils format on standard output. The block counts are of 1 KB blocks, unless the environment variable POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, in which case 512-byte blocks are used. See the UNUSUAL FILENAMES section for information about how unusual characters in filenames are handled. -ok command ; Like -exec but ask the user first. If the user agrees, run the command. Otherwise just return false. If the command is run, its standard input is redirected from /dev/null. This action may not be specified together with the -files0-from option. The response to the prompt is matched against a pair of regular expressions to determine if it is an affirmative or negative response. This regular expression is obtained from the system if the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable is set, or otherwise from find's message translations. If the system has no suitable definition, find's own definition will be used. In either case, the interpretation of the regular expression itself will be affected by the environment variables LC_CTYPE (character classes) and LC_COLLATE (character ranges and equivalence classes). -okdir command ; Like -execdir but ask the user first in the same way as for -ok. If the user does not agree, just return false. If the command is run, its standard input is redirected from /dev/null. This action may not be specified together with the -files0-from option. -print True; print the full file name on the standard output, followed by a newline. If you are piping the output of find into another program and there is the faintest possibility that the files which you are searching for might contain a newline, then you should seriously consider using the -print0 option instead of -print. See the UNUSUAL FILENAMES section for information about how unusual characters in filenames are handled. -print0 True; print the full file name on the standard output, followed by a null character (instead of the newline character that -print uses). This allows file names that contain newlines or other types of white space to be correctly interpreted by programs that process the find output. This option corresponds to the -0 option of xargs. -printf format True; print format on the standard output, interpreting `\' escapes and `%' directives. Field widths and precisions can be specified as with the printf(3) C function. Please note that many of the fields are printed as %s rather than %d, and this may mean that flags don't work as you might expect. This also means that the `-' flag does work (it forces fields to be left-aligned). Unlike -print, -printf does not add a newline at the end of the string. The escapes and directives are: \a Alarm bell. \b Backspace. \c Stop printing from this format immediately and flush the output. \f Form feed. \n Newline. \r Carriage return. \t Horizontal tab. \v Vertical tab. \0 ASCII NUL. \\ A literal backslash (`\'). \NNN The character whose ASCII code is NNN (octal). A `\' character followed by any other character is treated as an ordinary character, so they both are printed. %% A literal percent sign. %a File's last access time in the format returned by the C ctime(3) function. %Ak File's last access time in the format specified by k, which is either `@' or a directive for the C strftime(3) function. The following shows an incomplete list of possible values for k. Please refer to the documentation of strftime(3) for the full list. Some of the conversion specification characters might not be available on all systems, due to differences in the implementation of the strftime(3) library function. @ seconds since Jan. 1, 1970, 00:00 GMT, with fractional part. Time fields: H hour (00..23) I hour (01..12) k hour ( 0..23) l hour ( 1..12) M minute (00..59) p locale's AM or PM r time, 12-hour (hh:mm:ss [AP]M) S Second (00.00 .. 61.00). There is a fractional part. T time, 24-hour (hh:mm:ss.xxxxxxxxxx) + Date and time, separated by `+', for example `2004-04-28+22:22:05.0'. This is a GNU extension. The time is given in the current timezone (which may be affected by setting the TZ environment variable). The seconds field includes a fractional part. X locale's time representation (H:M:S). The seconds field includes a fractional part. Z time zone (e.g., EDT), or nothing if no time zone is determinable Date fields: a locale's abbreviated weekday name (Sun..Sat) A locale's full weekday name, variable length (Sunday..Saturday) b locale's abbreviated month name (Jan..Dec) B locale's full month name, variable length (January..December) c locale's date and time (Sat Nov 04 12:02:33 EST 1989). The format is the same as for ctime(3) and so to preserve compatibility with that format, there is no fractional part in the seconds field. d day of month (01..31) D date (mm/dd/yy) F date (yyyy-mm-dd) h same as b j day of year (001..366) m month (01..12) U week number of year with Sunday as first day of week (00..53) w day of week (0..6) W week number of year with Monday as first day of week (00..53) x locale's date representation (mm/dd/yy) y last two digits of year (00..99) Y year (1970...) %b The amount of disk space used for this file in 512-byte blocks. Since disk space is allocated in multiples of the filesystem block size this is usually greater than %s/512, but it can also be smaller if the file is a sparse file. %Bk File's birth time, i.e., its creation time, in the format specified by k, which is the same as for %A. This directive produces an empty string if the underlying operating system or filesystem does not support birth times. %c File's last status change time in the format returned by the C ctime(3) function. %Ck File's last status change time in the format specified by k, which is the same as for %A. %d File's depth in the directory tree; 0 means the file is a starting-point. %D The device number on which the file exists (the st_dev field of struct stat), in decimal. %f Print the basename; the file's name with any leading directories removed (only the last element). For /, the result is `/'. See the EXAMPLES section for an example. %F Type of the filesystem the file is on; this value can be used for -fstype. %g File's group name, or numeric group ID if the group has no name. %G File's numeric group ID. %h Dirname; the Leading directories of the file's name (all but the last element). If the file name contains no slashes (since it is in the current directory) the %h specifier expands to `.'. For files which are themselves directories and contain a slash (including /), %h expands to the empty string. See the EXAMPLES section for an example. %H Starting-point under which file was found. %i File's inode number (in decimal). %k The amount of disk space used for this file in 1 KB blocks. Since disk space is allocated in multiples of the filesystem block size this is usually greater than %s/1024, but it can also be smaller if the file is a sparse file. %l Object of symbolic link (empty string if file is not a symbolic link). %m File's permission bits (in octal). This option uses the `traditional' numbers which most Unix implementations use, but if your particular implementation uses an unusual ordering of octal permissions bits, you will see a difference between the actual value of the file's mode and the output of %m. Normally you will want to have a leading zero on this number, and to do this, you should use the # flag (as in, for example, `%#m'). %M File's permissions (in symbolic form, as for ls). This directive is supported in findutils 4.2.5 and later. %n Number of hard links to file. %p File's name. %P File's name with the name of the starting-point under which it was found removed. %s File's size in bytes. %S File's sparseness. This is calculated as (BLOCKSIZE*st_blocks / st_size). The exact value you will get for an ordinary file of a certain length is system-dependent. However, normally sparse files will have values less than 1.0, and files which use indirect blocks may have a value which is greater than 1.0. In general the number of blocks used by a file is file system dependent. The value used for BLOCKSIZE is system-dependent, but is usually 512 bytes. If the file size is zero, the value printed is undefined. On systems which lack support for st_blocks, a file's sparseness is assumed to be 1.0. %t File's last modification time in the format returned by the C ctime(3) function. %Tk File's last modification time in the format specified by k, which is the same as for %A. %u File's user name, or numeric user ID if the user has no name. %U File's numeric user ID. %y File's type (like in ls -l), U=unknown type (shouldn't happen) %Y File's type (like %y), plus follow symbolic links: `L'=loop, `N'=nonexistent, `?' for any other error when determining the type of the target of a symbolic link. %Z (SELinux only) file's security context. %{ %[ %( Reserved for future use. A `%' character followed by any other character is discarded, but the other character is printed (don't rely on this, as further format characters may be introduced). A `%' at the end of the format argument causes undefined behaviour since there is no following character. In some locales, it may hide your door keys, while in others it may remove the final page from the novel you are reading. The %m and %d directives support the #, 0 and + flags, but the other directives do not, even if they print numbers. Numeric directives that do not support these flags include G, U, b, D, k and n. The `-' format flag is supported and changes the alignment of a field from right-justified (which is the default) to left-justified. See the UNUSUAL FILENAMES section for information about how unusual characters in filenames are handled. -prune True; if the file is a directory, do not descend into it. If -depth is given, then -prune has no effect. Because -delete implies -depth, you cannot usefully use -prune and -delete together. For example, to skip the directory src/emacs and all files and directories under it, and print the names of the other files found, do something like this: find . -path ./src/emacs -prune -o -print -quit Exit immediately (with return value zero if no errors have occurred). This is different to -prune because -prune only applies to the contents of pruned directories, while -quit simply makes find stop immediately. No child processes will be left running. Any command lines which have been built by -exec ... + or -execdir ... + are invoked before the program is exited. After -quit is executed, no more files specified on the command line will be processed. For example, `find /tmp/foo /tmp/bar -print -quit` will print only `/tmp/foo`. One common use of -quit is to stop searching the file system once we have found what we want. For example, if we want to find just a single file we can do this: find / -name needle -print -quit OPERATORS Listed in order of decreasing precedence: ( expr ) Force precedence. Since parentheses are special to the shell, you will normally need to quote them. Many of the examples in this manual page use backslashes for this purpose: `\(...\)' instead of `(...)'. ! expr True if expr is false. This character will also usually need protection from interpretation by the shell. -not expr Same as ! expr, but not POSIX compliant. expr1 expr2 Two expressions in a row are taken to be joined with an implied -a; expr2 is not evaluated if expr1 is false. expr1 -a expr2 Same as expr1 expr2. expr1 -and expr2 Same as expr1 expr2, but not POSIX compliant. expr1 -o expr2 Or; expr2 is not evaluated if expr1 is true. expr1 -or expr2 Same as expr1 -o expr2, but not POSIX compliant. expr1 , expr2 List; both expr1 and expr2 are always evaluated. The value of expr1 is discarded; the value of the list is the value of expr2. The comma operator can be useful for searching for several different types of thing, but traversing the filesystem hierarchy only once. The -fprintf action can be used to list the various matched items into several different output files. Please note that -a when specified implicitly (for example by two tests appearing without an explicit operator between them) or explicitly has higher precedence than -o. This means that find . -name afile -o -name bfile -print will never print afile. UNUSUAL FILENAMES top Many of the actions of find result in the printing of data which is under the control of other users. This includes file names, sizes, modification times and so forth. File names are a potential problem since they can contain any character except `\0' and `/'. Unusual characters in file names can do unexpected and often undesirable things to your terminal (for example, changing the settings of your function keys on some terminals). Unusual characters are handled differently by various actions, as described below. -print0, -fprint0 Always print the exact filename, unchanged, even if the output is going to a terminal. -ls, -fls Unusual characters are always escaped. White space, backslash, and double quote characters are printed using C-style escaping (for example `\f', `\"'). Other unusual characters are printed using an octal escape. Other printable characters (for -ls and -fls these are the characters between octal 041 and 0176) are printed as-is. -printf, -fprintf If the output is not going to a terminal, it is printed as-is. Otherwise, the result depends on which directive is in use. The directives %D, %F, %g, %G, %H, %Y, and %y expand to values which are not under control of files' owners, and so are printed as-is. The directives %a, %b, %c, %d, %i, %k, %m, %M, %n, %s, %t, %u and %U have values which are under the control of files' owners but which cannot be used to send arbitrary data to the terminal, and so these are printed as-is. The directives %f, %h, %l, %p and %P are quoted. This quoting is performed in the same way as for GNU ls. This is not the same quoting mechanism as the one used for -ls and -fls. If you are able to decide what format to use for the output of find then it is normally better to use `\0' as a terminator than to use newline, as file names can contain white space and newline characters. The setting of the LC_CTYPE environment variable is used to determine which characters need to be quoted. -print, -fprint Quoting is handled in the same way as for -printf and -fprintf. If you are using find in a script or in a situation where the matched files might have arbitrary names, you should consider using -print0 instead of -print. The -ok and -okdir actions print the current filename as-is. This may change in a future release. STANDARDS CONFORMANCE top For closest compliance to the POSIX standard, you should set the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable. The following options are specified in the POSIX standard (IEEE Std 1003.1-2008, 2016 Edition): -H This option is supported. -L This option is supported. -name This option is supported, but POSIX conformance depends on the POSIX conformance of the system's fnmatch(3) library function. As of findutils-4.2.2, shell metacharacters (`*', `?' or `[]' for example) match a leading `.', because IEEE PASC interpretation 126 requires this. This is a change from previous versions of findutils. -type Supported. POSIX specifies `b', `c', `d', `l', `p', `f' and `s'. GNU find also supports `D', representing a Door, where the OS provides these. Furthermore, GNU find allows multiple types to be specified at once in a comma- separated list. -ok Supported. Interpretation of the response is according to the `yes' and `no' patterns selected by setting the LC_MESSAGES environment variable. When the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable is set, these patterns are taken system's definition of a positive (yes) or negative (no) response. See the system's documentation for nl_langinfo(3), in particular YESEXPR and NOEXPR. When POSIXLY_CORRECT is not set, the patterns are instead taken from find's own message catalogue. -newer Supported. If the file specified is a symbolic link, it is always dereferenced. This is a change from previous behaviour, which used to take the relevant time from the symbolic link; see the HISTORY section below. -perm Supported. If the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable is not set, some mode arguments (for example +a+x) which are not valid in POSIX are supported for backward- compatibility. Other primaries The primaries -atime, -ctime, -depth, -exec, -group, -links, -mtime, -nogroup, -nouser, -ok, -path, -print, -prune, -size, -user and -xdev are all supported. The POSIX standard specifies parentheses `(', `)', negation `!' and the logical AND/OR operators -a and -o. All other options, predicates, expressions and so forth are extensions beyond the POSIX standard. Many of these extensions are not unique to GNU find, however. The POSIX standard requires that find detects loops: The find utility shall detect infinite loops; that is, entering a previously visited directory that is an ancestor of the last file encountered. When it detects an infinite loop, find shall write a diagnostic message to standard error and shall either recover its position in the hierarchy or terminate. GNU find complies with these requirements. The link count of directories which contain entries which are hard links to an ancestor will often be lower than they otherwise should be. This can mean that GNU find will sometimes optimise away the visiting of a subdirectory which is actually a link to an ancestor. Since find does not actually enter such a subdirectory, it is allowed to avoid emitting a diagnostic message. Although this behaviour may be somewhat confusing, it is unlikely that anybody actually depends on this behaviour. If the leaf optimisation has been turned off with -noleaf, the directory entry will always be examined and the diagnostic message will be issued where it is appropriate. Symbolic links cannot be used to create filesystem cycles as such, but if the -L option or the -follow option is in use, a diagnostic message is issued when find encounters a loop of symbolic links. As with loops containing hard links, the leaf optimisation will often mean that find knows that it doesn't need to call stat() or chdir() on the symbolic link, so this diagnostic is frequently not necessary. The -d option is supported for compatibility with various BSD systems, but you should use the POSIX-compliant option -depth instead. The POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable does not affect the behaviour of the -regex or -iregex tests because those tests aren't specified in the POSIX standard. ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES top LANG Provides a default value for the internationalization variables that are unset or null. LC_ALL If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of all the other internationalization variables. LC_COLLATE The POSIX standard specifies that this variable affects the pattern matching to be used for the -name option. GNU find uses the fnmatch(3) library function, and so support for LC_COLLATE depends on the system library. This variable also affects the interpretation of the response to -ok; while the LC_MESSAGES variable selects the actual pattern used to interpret the response to -ok, the interpretation of any bracket expressions in the pattern will be affected by LC_COLLATE. LC_CTYPE This variable affects the treatment of character classes used in regular expressions and also with the -name test, if the system's fnmatch(3) library function supports this. This variable also affects the interpretation of any character classes in the regular expressions used to interpret the response to the prompt issued by -ok. The LC_CTYPE environment variable will also affect which characters are considered to be unprintable when filenames are printed; see the section UNUSUAL FILENAMES. LC_MESSAGES Determines the locale to be used for internationalised messages. If the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable is set, this also determines the interpretation of the response to the prompt made by the -ok action. NLSPATH Determines the location of the internationalisation message catalogues. PATH Affects the directories which are searched to find the executables invoked by -exec, -execdir, -ok and -okdir. POSIXLY_CORRECT Determines the block size used by -ls and -fls. If POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, blocks are units of 512 bytes. Otherwise they are units of 1024 bytes. Setting this variable also turns off warning messages (that is, implies -nowarn) by default, because POSIX requires that apart from the output for -ok, all messages printed on stderr are diagnostics and must result in a non-zero exit status. When POSIXLY_CORRECT is not set, -perm +zzz is treated just like -perm /zzz if +zzz is not a valid symbolic mode. When POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, such constructs are treated as an error. When POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, the response to the prompt made by the -ok action is interpreted according to the system's message catalogue, as opposed to according to find's own message translations. TZ Affects the time zone used for some of the time-related format directives of -printf and -fprintf. EXAMPLES top Simple `find|xargs` approach Find files named core in or below the directory /tmp and delete them. $ find /tmp -name core -type f -print | xargs /bin/rm -f Note that this will work incorrectly if there are any filenames containing newlines, single or double quotes, or spaces. Safer `find -print0 | xargs -0` approach Find files named core in or below the directory /tmp and delete them, processing filenames in such a way that file or directory names containing single or double quotes, spaces or newlines are correctly handled. $ find /tmp -name core -type f -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm -f The -name test comes before the -type test in order to avoid having to call stat(2) on every file. Note that there is still a race between the time find traverses the hierarchy printing the matching filenames, and the time the process executed by xargs works with that file. Processing arbitrary starting points Given that another program proggy pre-filters and creates a huge NUL-separated list of files, process those as starting points, and find all regular, empty files among them: $ proggy | find -files0-from - -maxdepth 0 -type f -empty The use of `-files0-from -` means to read the names of the starting points from standard input, i.e., from the pipe; and -maxdepth 0 ensures that only explicitly those entries are examined without recursing into directories (in the case one of the starting points is one). Executing a command for each file Run file on every file in or below the current directory. $ find . -type f -exec file '{}' \; Notice that the braces are enclosed in single quote marks to protect them from interpretation as shell script punctuation. The semicolon is similarly protected by the use of a backslash, though single quotes could have been used in that case also. In many cases, one might prefer the `-exec ... +` or better the `-execdir ... +` syntax for performance and security reasons. Traversing the filesystem just once - for 2 different actions Traverse the filesystem just once, listing set-user-ID files and directories into /root/suid.txt and large files into /root/big.txt. $ find / \ \( -perm -4000 -fprintf /root/suid.txt '%#m %u %p\n' \) , \ \( -size +100M -fprintf /root/big.txt '%-10s %p\n' \) This example uses the line-continuation character '\' on the first two lines to instruct the shell to continue reading the command on the next line. Searching files by age Search for files in your home directory which have been modified in the last twenty-four hours. $ find $HOME -mtime 0 This command works this way because the time since each file was last modified is divided by 24 hours and any remainder is discarded. That means that to match -mtime 0, a file will have to have a modification in the past which is less than 24 hours ago. Searching files by permissions Search for files which are executable but not readable. $ find /sbin /usr/sbin -executable \! -readable -print Search for files which have read and write permission for their owner, and group, but which other users can read but not write to. $ find . -perm 664 Files which meet these criteria but have other permissions bits set (for example if someone can execute the file) will not be matched. Search for files which have read and write permission for their owner and group, and which other users can read, without regard to the presence of any extra permission bits (for example the executable bit). $ find . -perm -664 This will match a file which has mode 0777, for example. Search for files which are writable by somebody (their owner, or their group, or anybody else). $ find . -perm /222 Search for files which are writable by either their owner or their group. $ find . -perm /220 $ find . -perm /u+w,g+w $ find . -perm /u=w,g=w All three of these commands do the same thing, but the first one uses the octal representation of the file mode, and the other two use the symbolic form. The files don't have to be writable by both the owner and group to be matched; either will do. Search for files which are writable by both their owner and their group. $ find . -perm -220 $ find . -perm -g+w,u+w Both these commands do the same thing. A more elaborate search on permissions. $ find . -perm -444 -perm /222 \! -perm /111 $ find . -perm -a+r -perm /a+w \! -perm /a+x These two commands both search for files that are readable for everybody (-perm -444 or -perm -a+r), have at least one write bit set (-perm /222 or -perm /a+w) but are not executable for anybody (! -perm /111 or ! -perm /a+x respectively). Pruning - omitting files and subdirectories Copy the contents of /source-dir to /dest-dir, but omit files and directories named .snapshot (and anything in them). It also omits files or directories whose name ends in `~', but not their contents. $ cd /source-dir $ find . -name .snapshot -prune -o \( \! -name '*~' -print0 \) \ | cpio -pmd0 /dest-dir The construct -prune -o \( ... -print0 \) is quite common. The idea here is that the expression before -prune matches things which are to be pruned. However, the -prune action itself returns true, so the following -o ensures that the right hand side is evaluated only for those directories which didn't get pruned (the contents of the pruned directories are not even visited, so their contents are irrelevant). The expression on the right hand side of the -o is in parentheses only for clarity. It emphasises that the -print0 action takes place only for things that didn't have -prune applied to them. Because the default `and' condition between tests binds more tightly than -o, this is the default anyway, but the parentheses help to show what is going on. Given the following directory of projects and their associated SCM administrative directories, perform an efficient search for the projects' roots: $ find repo/ \ \( -exec test -d '{}/.svn' \; \ -or -exec test -d '{}/.git' \; \ -or -exec test -d '{}/CVS' \; \ \) -print -prune Sample output: repo/project1/CVS repo/gnu/project2/.svn repo/gnu/project3/.svn repo/gnu/project3/src/.svn repo/project4/.git In this example, -prune prevents unnecessary descent into directories that have already been discovered (for example we do not search project3/src because we already found project3/.svn), but ensures sibling directories (project2 and project3) are found. Other useful examples Search for several file types. $ find /tmp -type f,d,l Search for files, directories, and symbolic links in the directory /tmp passing these types as a comma-separated list (GNU extension), which is otherwise equivalent to the longer, yet more portable: $ find /tmp \( -type f -o -type d -o -type l \) Search for files with the particular name needle and stop immediately when we find the first one. $ find / -name needle -print -quit Demonstrate the interpretation of the %f and %h format directives of the -printf action for some corner-cases. Here is an example including some output. $ find . .. / /tmp /tmp/TRACE compile compile/64/tests/find -maxdepth 0 -printf '[%h][%f]\n' [.][.] [.][..] [][/] [][tmp] [/tmp][TRACE] [.][compile] [compile/64/tests][find] EXIT STATUS top find exits with status 0 if all files are processed successfully, greater than 0 if errors occur. This is deliberately a very broad description, but if the return value is non-zero, you should not rely on the correctness of the results of find. When some error occurs, find may stop immediately, without completing all the actions specified. For example, some starting points may not have been examined or some pending program invocations for -exec ... {} + or -execdir ... {} + may not have been performed. HISTORY top A find program appeared in Version 5 Unix as part of the Programmer's Workbench project and was written by Dick Haight. Doug McIlroy's A Research UNIX Reader: Annotated Excerpts from the Programmers Manual, 1971-1986 provides some additional details; you can read it on-line at <https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~doug/reader.pdf>. GNU find was originally written by Eric Decker, with enhancements by David MacKenzie, Jay Plett, and Tim Wood. The idea for find -print0 and xargs -0 came from Dan Bernstein. COMPATIBILITY top As of findutils-4.2.2, shell metacharacters (`*', `?' or `[]' for example) used in filename patterns match a leading `.', because IEEE POSIX interpretation 126 requires this. As of findutils-4.3.3, -perm /000 now matches all files instead of none. Nanosecond-resolution timestamps were implemented in findutils-4.3.3. As of findutils-4.3.11, the -delete action sets find's exit status to a nonzero value when it fails. However, find will not exit immediately. Previously, find's exit status was unaffected by the failure of -delete. Feature Added in Also occurs in -files0-from 4.9.0 -newerXY 4.3.3 BSD -D 4.3.1 -O 4.3.1 -readable 4.3.0 -writable 4.3.0 -executable 4.3.0 -regextype 4.2.24 -exec ... + 4.2.12 POSIX -execdir 4.2.12 BSD -okdir 4.2.12 -samefile 4.2.11 -H 4.2.5 POSIX -L 4.2.5 POSIX -P 4.2.5 BSD -delete 4.2.3 -quit 4.2.3 -d 4.2.3 BSD -wholename 4.2.0 -iwholename 4.2.0 -ignore_readdir_race 4.2.0 -fls 4.0 -ilname 3.8 -iname 3.8 -ipath 3.8 -iregex 3.8 The syntax -perm +MODE was removed in findutils-4.5.12, in favour of -perm /MODE. The +MODE syntax had been deprecated since findutils-4.2.21 which was released in 2005. NON-BUGS top Operator precedence surprises The command find . -name afile -o -name bfile -print will never print afile because this is actually equivalent to find . -name afile -o \( -name bfile -a -print \). Remember that the precedence of -a is higher than that of -o and when there is no operator specified between tests, -a is assumed. paths must precede expression error message $ find . -name *.c -print find: paths must precede expression find: possible unquoted pattern after predicate `-name'? This happens when the shell could expand the pattern *.c to more than one file name existing in the current directory, and passing the resulting file names in the command line to find like this: find . -name frcode.c locate.c word_io.c -print That command is of course not going to work, because the -name predicate allows exactly only one pattern as argument. Instead of doing things this way, you should enclose the pattern in quotes or escape the wildcard, thus allowing find to use the pattern with the wildcard during the search for file name matching instead of file names expanded by the parent shell: $ find . -name '*.c' -print $ find . -name \*.c -print BUGS top There are security problems inherent in the behaviour that the POSIX standard specifies for find, which therefore cannot be fixed. For example, the -exec action is inherently insecure, and -execdir should be used instead. The environment variable LC_COLLATE has no effect on the -ok action. REPORTING BUGS top GNU findutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/#get-help> Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/> Report any other issue via the form at the GNU Savannah bug tracker: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=findutils> General topics about the GNU findutils package are discussed at the bug-findutils mailing list: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-findutils> COPYRIGHT top Copyright 1990-2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO top chmod(1), locate(1), ls(1), updatedb(1), xargs(1), lstat(2), stat(2), ctime(3) fnmatch(3), printf(3), strftime(3), locatedb(5), regex(7) Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/find> or available locally via: info find COLOPHON top This page is part of the findutils (find utilities) project. Information about the project can be found at http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/. If you have a bug report for this manual page, see https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=findutils. This page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository git://git.savannah.gnu.org/findutils.git on 2023-12-22. (At that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in the repository was 2023-11-11.) If you discover any rendering problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON (which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to man-pages@man7.org FIND(1) Pages that refer to this page: dpkg(1), dpkg-name(1), find-filter(1), grep(1), ippfind(1), locate(1), mkaf(1), pmlogger_daily(1), tar(1), updatedb(1), xargs(1), fts(3), proc(5), hier(7), symlink(7) HTML rendering created 2023-12-22 by Michael Kerrisk, author of The Linux Programming Interface. For details of in-depth Linux/UNIX system programming training courses that I teach, look here. Hosting by jambit GmbH. uname(1) - Linux manual page man7.org > Linux > man-pages Linux/UNIX system programming training uname(1) Linux manual page NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | AUTHOR | REPORTING BUGS | COPYRIGHT | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON UNAME(1) User Commands UNAME(1) NAME top uname - print system information SYNOPSIS top uname [OPTION]... DESCRIPTION top Print certain system information. With no OPTION, same as -s. -a, --all print all information, in the following order, except omit -p and -i if unknown: -s, --kernel-name print the kernel name -n, --nodename print the network node hostname -r, --kernel-release print the kernel release -v, --kernel-version print the kernel version -m, --machine print the machine hardware name -p, --processor print the processor type (non-portable) -i, --hardware-platform print the hardware platform (non-portable) -o, --operating-system print the operating system --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit AUTHOR top Written by David MacKenzie. REPORTING BUGS top GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT top Copyright 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO top arch(1), uname(2) Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/uname> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) uname invocation' COLOPHON top This page is part of the coreutils (basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities) project. Information about the project can be found at http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/. If you have a bug report for this manual page, see http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/. This page was obtained from the tarball coreutils-9.4.tar.xz fetched from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/ on 2023-12-22. If you discover any rendering problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON (which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to man-pages@man7.org GNU coreutils 9.4 August 2023 UNAME(1) Pages that refer to this page: arch(1), uname(2), systemd.unit(5), lsof(8), ovs-l3ping(8), ovs-test(8), ovs-vlan-test(8) HTML rendering created 2023-12-22 by Michael Kerrisk, author of The Linux Programming Interface. For details of in-depth Linux/UNIX system programming training courses that I teach, look here. Hosting by jambit GmbH. Task: Find all loadable modules for current kernel, whose name includes "perf" Bash Command:<START>find /lib/modules/`uname -r` -regex .*perf.*<END> |
Look for any instance of "HIGHMEM" in the current kernel's compile-time config file. | grep “HIGHMEM” /boot/config-`uname -r` | ['grep', 'uname'] | "Output a Bash command to accomplish the following task. Task: Look for any instance of \"HIGHMEM\" (...TRUNCATED) | "Use the provided context to output a Bash command that accomplishes the following task. Context: # (...TRUNCATED) | "Use the provided context to output a Bash command that accomplishes the following task. Context: g(...TRUNCATED) |
Search for command "tail" in the maps of the process with PID 2671 | cat /proc/2671/maps | grep `which tail` | ['cat', 'tail', 'grep'] | "Output a Bash command to accomplish the following task. Task: Search for command \"tail\" in the ma(...TRUNCATED) | "Use the provided context to output a Bash command that accomplishes the following task. Context: # (...TRUNCATED) | "Use the provided context to output a Bash command that accomplishes the following task. Context: c(...TRUNCATED) |
Display all lines containing PROBES in the current kernel's compile-time config file. | grep PROBES /boot/config-$(uname -r) | ['grep', 'uname'] | "Output a Bash command to accomplish the following task. Task: Display all lines containing PROBES i(...TRUNCATED) | "Use the provided context to output a Bash command that accomplishes the following task. Context: # (...TRUNCATED) | "Use the provided context to output a Bash command that accomplishes the following task. Context: g(...TRUNCATED) |
Display all lines containing UTRACE in the current kernel's compile-time config file. | grep UTRACE /boot/config-$(uname -r) | ['grep', 'uname'] | "Output a Bash command to accomplish the following task. Task: Display all lines containing UTRACE i(...TRUNCATED) | "Use the provided context to output a Bash command that accomplishes the following task. Context: # (...TRUNCATED) | "Use the provided context to output a Bash command that accomplishes the following task. Context: g(...TRUNCATED) |
Look for any instance of "ds1337" in the modules.alias file matching current kernel release | grep ds1337 /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.alias | ['grep', 'uname'] | "Output a Bash command to accomplish the following task. Task: Look for any instance of \"ds1337\" i(...TRUNCATED) | "Use the provided context to output a Bash command that accomplishes the following task. Context: # (...TRUNCATED) | "Use the provided context to output a Bash command that accomplishes the following task. Context: g(...TRUNCATED) |
A no-op on filename with sed | sed -i "s/\\\\\n//g" filename | ['sed'] | "Output a Bash command to accomplish the following task. Task: A no-op on filename with sed Bash Com(...TRUNCATED) | "Use the provided context to output a Bash command that accomplishes the following task. Context: # (...TRUNCATED) | "Use the provided context to output a Bash command that accomplishes the following task. Context: s(...TRUNCATED) |
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