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Questions tagged [find]

This tag has multiple meanings. Please DO NOT use this tag if you're just trying to find something.

find is:

  1. a filesystem search tool on various flavors of *nix,
  2. a filesystem search tool on various flavors of DOS and Windows,
  3. the name of a jQuery method,
  4. the name of a family of methods in ActiveRecord,
  5. a function in the C++ standard library,
  6. a method of strings in Python,
  7. a method of Matcher Class in Java.
  8. a method in many different NoSQL's to find documents in a collection.
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MongoDB Show all contents from all collections

Is it possible to show all collections and its contents in MongoDB? Is the only way to show one by one?
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How to exclude this / current / dot folder from find "type d"

find . -type d can be used to find all directories below some start point. But it returns the current directory (.) too, which may be undesired. How can it be excluded?
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How to pipe list of files returned by find command to cat to view all the files

I am doing a find to get a list of files. How do I pipe it to another utility like cat so that cat displays the contents of all those files? Afterwards, I'd use grep on that to search some text in those files.
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'find -exec' a shell function in Linux

Is there a way to get find to execute a function I define in the shell? For example: dosomething () { echo "Doing something with $1" } find . -exec dosomething {} \; The result of that is: find: dosomething: No such file or directory Is there a…
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Chmod recursively

I have an archive, which is archived by someone else, and I want to automatically, after I download it, to change a branch of the file system within the extracted files to gain read access. (I can't change how archive is created). I've looked into…
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Visual Studio Clicking Find Results Opens Code in Wrong Window

I'm using Visual Studio 2010 and when I do a "Find in Files" the results are returned to the "Find Results 1" window which is docked below my code editor window. Before, I would double click on one of the results in the Find Results window and the…
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How can I get `find` to ignore .svn directories?

I often use the find command to search through source code, delete files, whatever. Annoyingly, because Subversion stores duplicates of each file in its .svn/text-base/ directories my simple searches end up getting lots of duplicate results. For…
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How to go to each directory and execute a command?

How do I write a bash script that goes through each directory inside a parent_directory and executes a command in each directory. The directory structure is as follows: parent_directory (name could be anything - doesnt follow a pattern) 001…
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Find all files with a filename beginning with a specified string?

I have a directory with roughly 100000 files in it, and I want to perform some function on all files beginning with a specified string, which may match tens of thousands of files. I have tried ls mystring* but this returns with the bash error 'Too…
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Using semicolon (;) vs plus (+) with exec in find

Why is there a difference in output between using find . -exec ls '{}' \+ and find . -exec ls '{}' \; I got: $ find . -exec ls \{\} \+ ./file1 ./file2 .: file1 file2 testdir1 ./testdir1: testdir2 ./testdir1/testdir2: $ find . -exec ls …
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How can I check if character in a string is a letter? (Python)

I know about islower and isupper, but can you check whether or not that character is a letter? For Example: >>> s = 'abcdefg' >>> s2 = '123abcd' >>> s3 = 'abcDEFG' >>> s[0].islower() True >>> s2[0].islower() False >>> s3[0].islower() True Is…
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How to use find command to find all files with extensions from list?

I need to find all image files from directory (gif, png, jpg, jpeg). find /path/to/ -name "*.jpg" > log How to modify this string to find not only .jpg files?
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Find and copy files

Why does the following does not copy the files to the destination folder? # find /home/shantanu/processed/ -name '*2011*.xml' -exec cp /home/shantanu/tosend {} \; cp: omitting directory `/home/shantanu/tosend' cp: omitting directory…
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Find files containing a given text

In bash I want to return file name (and the path to the file) for every file of type .php|.html|.js containing the case-insensitive string "document.cookie" | "setcookie" How would I do that?
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Search for executable files using find command

What type of parameter/flag can I use with the Unix find command so that I search executables?
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