Questions tagged [find]
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Find all files containing a specific text (string) on Linux?
How do I find all files containing a specific string of text within their file contents?
The following doesn't work. It seems to display every single file in the system.
find / -type f -exec grep -H '...
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How do I exclude a directory when using `find`?
How do I exclude a specific directory when searching for *.js files using find?
find . -name '*.js'
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How can I exclude all "permission denied" messages from "find"?
I need to hide all permission denied messages from:
find . > files_and_folders
I am experimenting when such message arises. I need to gather all folders and files, to which it does not arise.
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Find a value in a list [duplicate]
I use the following to check if item is in my_list:
if item in my_list:
print("Desired item is in list")
Is "if item in my_list:" the most "pythonic" way of finding ...
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How do I find files that do not contain a given string pattern?
How do I find out the files in the current directory which do not contain the word foo (using grep)?
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Does a "Find in project..." feature exist in Eclipse IDE?
Does Eclipse have a way to search a whole project for some text like Xcode's "find in project" feature?
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Find duplicate lines in a file and count how many time each line was duplicated?
Suppose I have a file similar to the following:
123
123
234
234
123
345
I would like to find how many times '123' was duplicated, how many times '234' was duplicated, etc.
So ideally, the ...
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How can I get a recursive full-path listing, one line per file?
How can I spit out a flat list of recursive one-per-line paths?
For example, I just want a flat listing of files with their full paths:
/home/dreftymac/.
/home/dreftymac/foo.txt
/home/dreftymac/bar....
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find -exec with multiple commands
I am trying to use find -exec with multiple commands without any success. Does anybody know if commands such as the following are possible?
find *.txt -exec echo "$(tail -1 '{}'),$(ls '{}')" \;
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Find a file by name in Visual Studio Code
How can I find a file by name (or path) in Visual Studio Code?
A Visual Studio shortcut I'm used to is CTRL+,, but it does not work here.
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Using find to locate files that match one of multiple patterns
I was trying to get a list of all python and html files in a directory with the command find Documents -name "*.{py,html}".
Then along came the man page:
Braces within the pattern (‘{}’) are not ...
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How to use regex with find command?
I have some images named with generated uuid1 string. For example 81397018-b84a-11e0-9d2a-001b77dc0bed.jpg. I want to find out all these images using "find" command:
find . -regex "[a-...
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Make xargs handle filenames that contain spaces
$ ls *mp3 | xargs mplayer
Playing Lemon.
File not found: 'Lemon'
Playing Tree.mp3.
File not found: 'Tree.mp3'
Exiting... (End of file)
My command fails because the file "Lemon Tree.mp3" ...
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How to loop through file names returned by find?
x=$(find . -name "*.txt")
echo $x
if I run the above piece of code in Bash shell, what I get is a string containing several file names separated by blank, not a list.
Of course, I can further ...
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How can I find elements by text content with jQuery?
Can anyone tell me if it's possible to find an element based on its content rather than by an ID or class?
I am attempting to find elements that don't have distinct classes or IDs. (Then I then need ...
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