Questions tagged [find]
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Global Find and Replace in Visual Studio
I have a solution with multiple projects and we need to do some serious global replacements.
Is there a way to do a wildcard replacement where some values remain in after the replace?
So, for ...
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How can I make the "find" Command on OS X default to the current directory?
I am a heavy command line user and use the find command extensively in my build system scripts. However on Mac OS X when I am not concentrating I often get output like this:
$ find -name \*.plist
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How to use 'find' to search for files created on a specific date? [closed]
How do I use the UNIX command find to search for files created on a specific date?
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How can I search for a multiline pattern in a file?
I needed to find all the files that contained a specific string pattern. The first solution that comes to mind is using find piped with xargs grep:
find . -iname '*.py' | xargs grep -e 'YOUR_PATTERN'
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How do I get the find command to print out the file size with the file name?
If I issue the find command as follows:
find . -name *.ear
It prints out:
./dir1/dir2/earFile1.ear
./dir1/dir2/earFile2.ear
./dir1/dir3/earFile1.ear
I want to 'print' the name and the size to the ...
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How do I use a pipe in the exec parameter for a find command?
I'm trying to construct a find command to process a bunch of files in a directory using two different executables. Unfortunately, -exec on find doesn't allow to use pipe or even \| because the shell ...
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