Questions tagged [find]
The find command in Windows systems is used to filter lines of input text, and return those matching the filter. The find command in *nix system is used to locate files or folders that match a certain criteria.
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I want my macro to find all words (in a certain unformatted document) that start with a certain string ("yyy") give these words a different formatting
I want to find all words (in a certain unformatted document) that start with a certain string ("yyy") and give these words a different formatting.
The following VBA-code executes once and ...
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Setting Details View by default after a find operation - Windows 10
When I perform a find operation inside a folder, the default view is Content. Is it possible to set it as Details (only for find's results, not for the file explorer)?
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"find" command does not find all files from root unless folder is specified [duplicate]
I am trying to find the files that are named setenv.sh on this machine, I am logged in as root and am searching from the '/' using the following syntax and receiving the output:
# First
[root@...
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Can ionice reduce wear and tear on hard disks?
Without knowing how ionice works functionally, I was wondering if ionice more smartly batches disk I/O operations for more efficient physical movement (spinning disks specifically).
I run a lot of ...
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windows-equivalent of mac's "insert pattern" functionality for {find,search}ing/replacing text
surprised no one has asked this question yet.
is there any way to get the "insert pattern" functionality that is available on pretty much all mac apps with search and replace (except, ...
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How to "find" while following specific symlinks on Linux?
I would like to find files (with similar feature to find), but follow and only follow specific symlinks (by pattern matching).
Apparently find itself cannot handle it: There is no option to setup ...
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Linux Find directories that don’t containing a specific type of file? [duplicate]
I'm new to Linux and I want to find directories which doesn't contain a type of file, like *.jpg.
Is there a parameter of the find command to do that?
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Find and delete files with linux command line
I want to delete all files containing "chrome".
I have this command on linux :
find . -type f -name '' -print -delete
after name I don't know what to put.
I tried *chrome* or *chrome*.*...
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How to recursively search for files starting with ".#" under a path in zsh?
In the current working directory, la -a returns,
. .#program 2.py .DS_Store picker.py
.#picker 2.py .#program 3.py hw1 temp.test
.#picker.py .. hw2
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In `find`, after using a test like `-type d`, how can I at some point undo this setting, so the rest evaluates as if `-type d` wasn't there?
When using the command find, I often need to have a flow control, e.g. if .. then.
A simplified example;
find ~ -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec echo -e "\nnext beg of new dir::" \; -exec ls -lad \{...
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How to find and delete folders that are 15 days older using cron jobs in Truenas Scale?
I have security camera in my home it upload recorded videos to my Home NAS every one hour time intervals which is powered by Truenas Scale Operating System now all the footage are stored in my NAS I ...
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Linux file search: fdfind command vs. fdz command
I'd love to use the fdz command to search for files on a Linux system, the presentation of fdz results is much more pleasant. But there's something I need to resolve first. An example will be much ...
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Delete line with batch script when testing only the first 4 characters on the line
How can I search in lines in the batch file.
And only if the first 4 chararcters start with SLUI or VRLP then the line must be deleted.
Now I have the following commands in script, only the line will ...
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Regex to find more than one occurrence in GrepWin
I want to find more than one occurrence of the tag h1 in multiples files.
The following regex brings files that has it more than 2 times, which is working great:
/(h1.*){2}/
However, what if I want ...
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Using aspell to check many files in a cancellable way
I'm on macOS and using zsh. I have about a hundred Markdown files which I would like to spell check from the command line. It seems like aspell is the right way to do this, however I want to be able ...
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