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Find and print permissions command in a csh file

Trying to create a .csh file that can find and display permission of the files in the directory. Using the following content of the script #!/bin/csh -b find . type -f \( -name "*.sh" -o -name "*....
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How to use if on csh FreeBSD from test if file is older then X minutes

I have the following code working in Debian system's: for File in "${Files[@]}"; do if test "`find $FolderDownload/$File -cmin -190`" ; then echo "File is new then 3 hours" # Set ...
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Issues setting a variable to a string containing metacharacters, find, and another variable in csh

I'm using csh for a project (forced into it, sorry), and one component of my script uses variations of the following in a large block of its functionality: find . -maxdepth 1 -not -type d | awk '{...
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How to manipulate multiple file names using find?

How to improve the command below to change a string in a filename. find . -type f -name '*<today>*' -exec mv {} {}_renamed \; Actually I have a few files in my directory with today's date as a ...
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Find unique values from find

I want to find unique files inside a directory, which also have sub directories. There are specific types of files, say .lib files. There are same .lib file inside different sub directoris. I need ...
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How to create tar.gz of each file of a particular type in single command?

I need to compress and decompress each of the files of a particular type say *.html in their respective location. For decompression, I used following command, it seemed to work for me: find dir -...
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Odd alias "find . -name '*\!{*}*' -ls" in Unix Power Tools

From Unix Power Tools 3rd Edition page 175: Article 9.27 shows a way to match directories in the middle of a path. Here's a simpler "find file" alias that can come in very handy: alias ff &...
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Text files containing their own name

I need to find in certain directory and all its' subdirectories all text files that contain their own name. How do I do this? (preferably without awk command)
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