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`find` behaves unintuitively when pruning directories
I have few files under the current directory,
./a.txt
./b.txt
./dir1/c.txt
./dir1/d.txt
When I execute find . -path './dir1' -prune -o -name "*.txt",
as expected, it excludes everything ...
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Tar: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
I am trying to make a create a backup bash script from multiple source dir to a different destination dir.
So I used find to search for source dir folder name, save it into variable and use it for tar ...
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Fix the following command so that it does search the home directory for files names README.md
I am confused on these two answers I got. Question:
Fix the following command so that it does search the home directory for files named README.md:
find README.md ~
find ~ -type f -name README.md (...
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Delete folders and contents that doesn't match a particular string
I am using Radarr which renames my movies directory with the following format:
Argo (2012)
Arrival (2016)
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
So every directory ends with ' (????)' but I'm not sure how to create ...
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Bash command to list names of specific directories and subdirectories on Linux
I need a bash command that searches the directory "rawdata" for all subdirectories with names starting with "AB", searches all these for the subdirectory "demo" and ...
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how to run find command on shell to get a part of the pathfile into variable?
I'm trying to get content of files spread on specific folder.
find /tmp -name '*.txt'
This give me:
/tmp/s3400/10.txt
/tmp/s3544/1212.txt
I need to store "s3400" value on a variable to run ...
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Search 32 character long directories only with find
Let say I have a directory with a lot of subdirectories:
04762b39018e3cf4b1a2c6a304919b75
06e0caf156de30dd962cf6b9300aba66
1f1d0cb1b810336299cda5426d0f12f5
2fe7a428eb303da6846800fa20ab7ed4
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Sed replace single text with content of file
I have a question regarding using sed.
I have a JSON file and I want to get it inserted in another file.
What I'm trying is to get all the contents of the .json file which contains 4500 lines, and ...
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How do I find (using bash) the top-level file with a particular name within a directory path?
I have a bash script that runs mysql scripts and that takes the mysql database name from a file rather than having me type in it as an option (so that I won't mistakenly type in the wrong one). I set ...
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Why find command doesn't pass all file as input to the -exec parameter?
There are all the files and symbolic links in the directory:
./02.tdf/IP_B186.tdf
./02.tdf/In_B186.tdf
./03.bed/IP_B186_vs_In_B186_peaks.xls.promoter_peak.bed
./03.bed/IP_B186_vs_In_B186_peaks.xls.bed
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Using find to pass multiple files to awk and redirect result into one output file
I have an awk script that processes files passed in. It runs on one input file and redirects into one output file...
awk -f solar.awk ./PerformanceData_2023-08-02_02-02-17/tmp_YdayData.txt > output....
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Using find to process folder names (containing whitespace and ') for a bash script fails
Using bash version 5.*
I created a script that creates a script that will play video and/or audio files in the given folder, the created playing-multimedia-files script using this function
ffprobe -...
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Using printf in "find" command
With the following command, I want to find a specific file name, print its name and then compress it in-place with bzip2 command. The compression works but file name is not printed.
$ find . -name *....
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pass arguments to gnome-terminal from find -exec command
i a file call "runAllBestScripts.sh". That file has this command:
find ~ -maxdepth 1 -type f \( -name 'best*' -a -not -name 'buns*.sh' \) -exec gnome-terminal --tab --title="Build {}&...
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