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 many arguments’. My next plan was to use find … Read more
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 \{\} \; file1 file2 testdir1 testdir2 ./file2 ./file1 6 Answers … Read more
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? 10 Answers 10
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? 5 Answers 5
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 example, I want to recursively search for uint in multiple messages.h and messages.cpp files: # find -name ‘messages.*’ … Read more
Is it possible to show all collections and its contents in MongoDB? Is the only way to show one by one? 6 Answers 6
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 file I clicked on would open in … Read more
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 way to get find‘s -exec to see … Read more
I am doing a find and then getting a list of files. How do I pipe it to another utility like cat (so that cat displays the contents of all those files) and basically need to grep something from these files. 15 Answers 15
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 this thread: chmod: How to recursively add execute permissions only … Read more