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Exclamation Points - Is there a linux bash command to find and delete all directories named "!example" (and their contents)
I have searched and searched for an answer to this question, and I have used some of the answers I found in the past for finding and deleting large numbers of directories that are named by a certain ...
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Why doesn't this for loop work?
This is on Ubuntu 12.04 I'm trying to figure out how to get ffmpeg to do a batch conversion of FLACs to MP3, recursively. If I cd into a directory and use
for f in *.flac; do ffmpeg -i "$f" -c:a ...
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How to find files that don't belong to a given user
How do I recursively search for all files or directories that do not belong to given user?
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How do you search for specific text in specific file types? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I grep in source files for some text?
What's the command to search for specific text in specific file types, recursively, under the current directory?
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How can I force only relative paths in "find" output?
I am attempting to create a script that can compress files with a certain extension in a number of directories into a single tar-ball. Currently what I have in the script file is:
find "$rootDir" -...
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