Is there a simple way to recursively find all files in a directory hierarchy, that do not end in a list of extensions? E.g. all files that are not *.dll or *.exe UNIX/GNU find, powerful as it is, doesn’t seem to have an exclude mode (or I’m missing it), and I’ve always found it hard … Read more
I was helped out today with a command, but it doesn’t seem to be working. This is the command: find /home/me/download/ -type f -name “*.rm” -exec ffmpeg -i {} -sameq {}.mp3 && rm {}\; The shell returns find: missing argument to `-exec’ What I am basically trying to do is go through a directory recursively … Read more
I don’t quite understand the example given from the man find, can anyone give me some examples and explanations? Can I combine regular expression in it? The more detailed question is like this: Write a shell script, changeall, which has an interface like changeall [-r|-R] “string1” “string2”. It will find all files with an suffix … Read more
It seems that ls doesn’t sort the files correctly when doing a recursive call: ls -altR . | head -n 3 How can I find the most recently modified file in a directory (including subdirectories)? 21 Answers 21
Is it possible to use the find command in some way that it will not recurse into the sub-directories? For example, DirsRoot |–>SubDir1 | |-OtherFile1 |–>SubDir2 | |-OtherFile2 |-File1 |-File2 And the result of something like find DirsRoot –do-not-recurse -type f will be only File1, File2? 4 Answers 4
How do you grep and only return the matching line? i.e. The path/filename is omitted from the results. In this case I want to look in all .bar files in the current directory, searching for the term FOO find . -name ‘*.bar’ -exec grep -Hn FOO {} \; 3 Answers 3
I am having a hard time getting find to look for matches in the current directory as well as its subdirectories. When I run find *test.c it only gives me the matches in the current directory. (does not look in subdirectories) If I try find . -name *test.c I would expect the same results, but … Read more
Being forced to use CVS for a current client and the address changed for the remote repo. The only way I can find to change the remote address in my local code is a recursive search and replace. However, with the sed command I’d expect to work: find ./ -type f -exec sed -i “s/192.168.20.1/new.domain.com/” … Read more
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I need to search a WPF control hierarchy for controls that match a given name or type. How can I do this? 20 Answers 20
