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How to quote arguments with xargs
Suppose that I want to delete all files in a folder that are greater than 1 MB.
$ find . -size +1M | xargs -0 rm
This will not delete files that have space in their names. So I want it to quote all ...
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GNU find and masking the {} for some shells - which?
The man page for GNU find states:
-exec command ;
[...] The string `{}' is replaced by the current
file name being processed everywhere it occurs in the
arguments to the command, ...
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Using a generated list of filenames as argument list -- with spaces
I'm trying to invoke a script with a list of filenames collected by find. Nothing special, just someting like this:
$ myscript `find . -name something.txt`
The problem is that some of the pathnames ...
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Why doesn't 'find' show this file? [duplicate]
Using find with grep, one can locate files that match a pattern:
# find | grep error
./solr-modifiedSolr4/SolrPhpClient/phpdocs/errors.html
./error_log
./includes/classes/error_log
However, using ...
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How does 'find -exec' pass file names with spaces?
If I have a directory containing some files whose names have spaces, e.g.
$ ls -1 dir1
file 1
file 2
file 3
I can successfully copy all of them to another directory like this:
$ find dir1 -mindepth ...
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Why can't find -regex match a newline?
Why does this fail?
touch "$(printf "a\nb")"; find . -regex './.\n.'
I also tried these, none of which work:
find . -regextype posix-extended -regex '.\n.'
find . -regextype posix-awk -regex '.\n.'
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find not recursive when given a pattern on the command line
Imagine a source tree. There are xml files everywhere.
But since there is a XYZ.xml at the root of this tree it won't find my xml files.
find -iname *.xml
returns
./XYZ.xml
instead of
./XYZ.xml
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How do I perform xargs grep on grep output that has spaces?
I'm searching for files based on a regular expression, and then I'm trying to search those files for content. So, for example, I have something like
#Find all C++ files that match a certain pattern ...
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what's the difference between using 'single quotes' or not in find command
find ~/ -name *test.txt
find ~/ -name '*test.txt'
I need to construct an example where the first form fails but the second still works.
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How to recursively set directory permissions with a find that lacks -exec?
My Qnap NAS is cursed with a find command that lacks the -exec parameter, so I have to pipe to something. The shell is: GNU bash, version 3.2.57(2)-release-(arm-unknown-linux-gnueabihf)
I'm trying to ...
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Why is find not listing matching files when preceded by an asterisk(*)? [duplicate]
On Ubuntu 14.04, 64 bit, I have set /lib/modules/4.2.0-27-generic/kernel/drivers to be my current directory. I intend to search all files having net present as a sub-string. If I search with a regex ...
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find usage - command line vs script
I am seeing different results from the find command between being run manually on the command line vs run in a script.
If I run the following on the command line:
find . -name '*.txt' ! -name '*...
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Shell script, find -name, and wildcard expansion
I'm trying to use find -name in a sh script with a previously computed complex argument for the condition. Simplified, it goes like
cond="-name '*.txt*"
find . $cond -ls
But now I have the problem ...
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Find a file and make a symlink to parent using find and -exec
I am trying to use find to find files matching a certain pattern, and then symlink their parent directorys to another directory, this is my current script (I'm doing this on mac so -printf won't work ...
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How to escape shell metacharacters automatically with `find` command?
I've got a bunch of XML files under a directory tree which I would like to move to corresponding folders with the same name within that same directory tree.
Here is sample structure (in shell):
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