how to get file path without the filename itself im trying to find my .csv files then cd into their directory: find Documents/notes -type f -name "*.csv" | head -1 | xsel -b this copies the first file dir into my clipboard and i’d like to then run: cd $(xsel -b) but ofcourse I can’t …
Using find in order to detect a magento module At magento routes are located in adminhtml/routes.xml each module has a folder named adminhtml with a file routes.xml each module has its own folder. In other words I have the following file structure: vendor + MyModule ++ etc +++ adminhtml ++++ routes.xml + AnotherModule ++ etc …
How does `ls` find hard links? Setup The following sequence of commands is setup for my question. root@cd330f76096d:/# cd root@cd330f76096d:~# ls root@cd330f76096d:~# mkdir -p my_dir/my_subdir root@cd330f76096d:~# ls -hAil total 12K 6175969 -rw-r–r– 1 root root 3.1K Oct 15 2021 .bashrc 6175970 -rw-r–r– 1 root root 161 Jul 9 2019 .profile 7382820 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root …
Pass result of find command as another command's multiple options I have a CLI tool that can take an option with multiple values – The syntax is like this: CLI -I path/to/file1 -I path/to/file2 … How can I pass the result of the find command to this CLI? For reference If it’s positional multiple arguments: …
How to find and exec with or I am trying to find files with *.c and *.h extensions. I use the following command find "$path" -type f -iname "*.c" -o -iname "*.h" -exec ls {} ; This only executes ls the *.h matches. I have tried -o -iname *.c -o -iname *.h same thing happens. …
How do I find all directories that contain matching files? I am looking for directories that contain files that match a pattern, say, foobar*.csv. Directories that do contain such files may contain hundreds of them (and no subdirectories!), so I want find to print here/is/the/path/to/dir as soon as it finds here/is/the/path/to/dir/foobar-2022-01-01.csv and stop descending. How …
Why does `find . -type d -not -perm 775` print out directories with `rwxr-xr-x` permissions? I want to find all directories without a specific set of permissions. As seen from the below image, find prints out directories that should not be listed. Can someone describe why? Asked By: Shuzheng || Source Your find command is …
Execute on all files without corresponding extension How can I find and execute a program when the said file does not have a corresponding file? Example files: /file1.c /file1.h /file2.c /file3.c /file3.hpp /file4.c/unrelated.txt find / -type f -name ‘*.c’ -exec my_program_here {} ; executes on: /file1.c /file2.c /file3.c but I want to filter out those …
Deleting files whose filenames match strings contained in a file There is a text file, del.txt, containing a list of randomly-generated identifying strings, for example: 07ckv978yk0 HuinLBoZHcY _oR7ccXiunY I would like to delete any files whose filenames contain any of the identifying strings. The filenames would be in the format of 20191223_abcdef_07ckv978yk0.json, where the matching …
Detect multiple files at subfolder containing specific string on Linux I have multiple files of work.log at different subfolders need to detect two keyword Can’t find file or Not pass by number Direct path like : /folder/Date/Job1/20190116_ADMtest_1/ADM.log /folder/Date/Job1/20190122_ADMtest_2/ADM.log /folder/Date/Job1/20190203_ADMtest_4/ADM.log /folder/Date/Job1/20190217_ADMtest_3/ADM.log /folder/Date/Job1/20190218_ADMtest_21/ADM.log /folder/Date/Job1/20190225_ADMtest_18/ADM.log In every log will look like: [Message] 2019-01-16 11:13:21 Read 2 files from: …
find -exec bash -c {} +: why only one file of found two? touch 1.txt 2.txt find . -name "[12].txt" -exec sh -c ‘echo "${1}"’ sh {} + -exec echo {} + ./2.txt ./2.txt ./1.txt Why echo within sh -c outputs only one file? Today I thought I understood how find works from Understanding the …
Find(1): test 'A' pass but test 'A -o B' fails This function doesn’t print out anything; skyrimse_testroot() { local directory="$1" find "$directory" ( -type f -ipath "${directory}/data/scripts/*.pex" ) -o ( -type d -ipath "${directory}/data/meshes" ) -print -quit } But this one does (I removed the second test group); skyrimse_testroot() { local directory="$1" find "$directory" ( …
Just as there is "locate" to "find". Is there a database for a faster "grep"? locate (or rather, updatedb) is somewhat simple: it takes the output of find for the required paths (usually ‘/’), sorts it, and then compresses it with a front-compression tool (frcode), in which the consecutive common prefixes are replaced by number …
find command – list all directories with a set sticky bit This doesn’t work find / -type d -perm 1000 The problem is, that it matches only the exact permission (1000), but I only want to find out if the sticky bit is set or not. I don’t care about the other permissions… My solution …
Rename the sub-sub-directories of a directory named _QWE I can run a command in all directories named _QWE using: find . -name ‘_QWE’ -type d -execdir touch {}/1234.txt ; However, I need to run -execdir rename ‘s!^./(d+ -)s(d+.)!$1!’ {} ; in all the immediate sub-directories of _QWE to rename the sub-directories of the sub-directories of …
find special characters in filenames and copy them into new folder. filenames may contain weird non ascii characters and special ones I like to copy all files with special character "｜" in filenames (not the pipe one) into a folder. However, i have several problems cause filenames may include ascii and not ascii characters, single …
find -name -path I have a some tree. . ├── 1 │ └── a │ └── script.a.sh ├── 2 │ └── a │ └── script.b.sh … └── a └── script.sh And I need to find script.*.sh. I execute ./a/script.sh: #!/bin/bash # path="/tmp/test" readarray files < <(find ${path} -path "*/a/script.*.sh") if [ ${#files[@]} -ne 0 ] …
Pipe null terminated file paths twice to same output, but second time sorted by basename So, let’s say I have a script that uses find to print paths with null-terminated filenames. I also want to print another version of the output where each path is sorted by its basename. I want to achieve this without …
find combine many names and paths in one command I have a rather complex set of files to be found and reacted upon (e.g. paths copied to a text file): For example: find / ( -iname "*ssh*" -or -iname "*scp*" ) ( -not -path -"/run" -not -path "/rw/*" -and -not -path "/home/*" -and -not -path …
How to find the most recent file that contains a string I have a directory containing several files. I need to know the full path of only the most recent file that contains a certain string. This needs to work on macOS, and the directory path contains spaces. I need to be able to invoke …
