Difference between revisions of "Find"

Latest revision as of 14:23, 28 April 2009

To change every directory to have ug+rwx and sticky:

find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 1770

For read/write but NOT execute on normal files:

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0660

To delete old files (e.g. older than one day):

find . -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \;

To find files, links, etc. but NOT directories, and omit the leading ".":

find –not –type d | sed ‘s/.//’

Copy files in many subdirectories into a single subdirectory:

find . -name *.mp3 -print0 | xargs -0 -I '{}' mv '{}' the-one-folder

Find source files that were modified today (and a few more file types too):

alias src_mod_today='find . -type f -mtime -1 | grep -v "\.o$" | grep -v "\.so$" | grep -v moc_'

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 To change every directory to have ug+rwx and [http://www.faqs.org/faqs/hp/hpux-faq/section-70.html sticky]:
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+ find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 1770
-find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 1770
-</pre>
 -print0 and -0 are to [http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/lpt/09_22.html deal with spaces in the filenames].
+For read/write but NOT execute on normal files:
+ find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 0660
+To delete old files (e.g. older than one day):
+ find . -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \;
+To find files, links, etc. but NOT directories, and omit the leading ".":
+ find –not –type d | sed ‘s/.//’
+Copy files in many subdirectories into a single subdirectory:
+ find . -name *.mp3 -print0 | xargs -0 -I '{}' mv '{}' the-one-folder
+Find source files that were modified today (and a few more file types too):
+ alias src_mod_today='find . -type f -mtime -1 | grep -v "\.o$" | grep -v "\.so$" | grep -v moc_'