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Currently I’m doing this to try and store the actual file and its contents the find command finds as I’m searching for a file named Myfile: find /Users/Documents -name Myfile > outputfile The …
I’m trying to delete all migration files in my Django app using a single command. Here’s the structure of my repository: |– core | |– migrations | |– __init__.py | |– 0001_initial.py …
The following works very well. It gets me leaf directories. find . -type d -links 2 What I need is something like below. In the current directory, there are directories named as C2S7*, within those …
I’m trying to collect the full pathways of every directory starting with the letter “K” in a large parent directory containing several hundred files and directories. Each of the directories …
I’m trying to extract the text of a bunch of pdf’s with pdftotext using find: find /path/to/pdfs -iname “*.pdf” -exec pdftotext {} ~/Desktop/texts/{} ; However this doesn’t work because {} …
I’ve often found it hard to find programs after I’ve installed them on Windows 10, pinned/made a shortcut to their executable, then deleted the shortcut to remove clutter. My first approach is to …
on my Red Hat server I have a script inside the /root/ folder that performs some operations based on the contents of some folders. In particular find /PATH/TO_TEST/ -type f -name *.war → search for …
Quarrying out from another thread Move file that has aged x minutes, this question came up: How does the find command found typically in Linux search for files in the current directory? Consider a …
How to get file names sorted by the modification timestamp descending? I should add that file names may potentially contain any special character except . Here is what I got so far. The loop that …
I have directory /usr/process with many sub-directories. I want to find the biggest file named *calculation*. There could be millions of files to search through. When I use the command below and sort …