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Questions tagged [find]

search for files in a directory hierarchy

Find is used to look files in a directory hierarchy. You can refer to its manpage here.

Examples:

Look for all files on a server owned by user siegfried:

 find / -user siegfried

Find all files ending in php en remove them:

 find / *.php -exec rm '{}' \;
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Finding/deleting top level folders not containing any files

I want to delete the top level directory which does not contain any files, but can contain other empty (meaning again not containing files) directories. For example: $ ls -R .: foo/ ./foo/: bar bar1 ./foo/bar/: ./foo/bar1/: Here, I would like to…
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Copying files (of a particular extension) remotely onto local computer preserving paths

I have bunch of files on the remote server. I'm not interested in most of them, except for .pl files. I want to get a copy of these on my local computer. What is the best way to do this (at the same try preserving its path)? I'm thinking somewhere…
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List all files without 775 or 777 permissions

How can I list all files without 777 or 775 file permissions?
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File name using find

How to get the file name while using find command? When I use find command to search particular type of files from a directory and subdirectories, I get the whole path of that file, how do I get the file name only? The problem I am facing is when I…
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Untar multiple files in different directories

am trying to perform an update on multiple site that use an open source CMS but untaring a patch file in each sites httpdocs directory. My plan was to perform a find for the patch file then untar using the following command: find . -name…
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Scripts help FIND command via atime output to multiple files

here is a script I have wrote that I need help with. in the script I do a find for any file that has not been access for over 30 days, 60, 90, 180, 270 & 365 days. This works just fine. however, this takes a few days just to finish the 30 day…
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Find directories not containing subdirectories with today file date

Can you please help me with a bash string for finding and listing only parent directories NOT containing subdirectories with today file date, so i can delete them recursively? My Env is CentOS and dir structure like…
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$'\r': command not found error when executing find in a bash script

I wrote the following script; it's modified for simplicity and privacy…
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RHEL 9 server with cloned disk unable to find logical volume after boot

We have an RHEL 9 server. We cloned it's disk drive to a new disk. (dd if=/dev/olddrive of=/dev/newdrive bs=4096) It has a couple LVM partitions (as shown on /etc/fstab on the cloned disk): However when booting from the new disk, we got an…
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searching for multiple files, but if one file is missing I want to know from the output + find

$ find ./ -name "AABE*" ## this returns nothing $ echo $? 0 $ find ./ -name "AWGT*" ## this returns locations of were files matching the…
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Linux find command to return files AND owner of files NOT owned by specified user

I have the following terminal command: find /home/not_this/ \! -user not_this_user_account The goal is to find all the files and directories not owned by the specified user and this version of the find command works great. However I'd really like…
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How to rsync files/folder from some days ago?

I would like to run cron job that run rsync command to copy files from 3-4 days ago, I've already try some rsync command like this: rsync -arogzv --ignore-existing --files-from=<(find . -type f,d -mtime +2 ) --exclude={'some_files'} /source…
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Failing string replacement in xargs command

I am trying to automatically create symlinks to directories and to replace a certain text string (foo) of the original name in the link name (bar). The name of the target directories may contain spaces (e.g. "foo with whitespace"). This is a minimal…
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Where to find the website folder in ubuntu server?

So someone gave me the task to find where is the website code exist on ubuntu server when I look at the the index.html file path it is /var/www/example.com/html but when I go to /var/www directory I am not able to find example.com folder. Can anyone…
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locate all nested war/jar files inside jboss/wildfly - log4j

I want to detect all nested wars and jars containing the log4j library. I have jboss/wildfly services. I started to find out with 'locate | grep', but it shows me only tmp directories, not exactly war/jar files, for example…
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