The examples were used by me mostly during my work,
(continuously updated)
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Find and Gzip |
find $PWD –type f –name “*.log” | xargs tar zcvf one.tar
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Find and Remove
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find –type f –name “*.log” | xargs rm
find –type f –name “*.log” -exec rm -f {} \;
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Find and get confirmation to remove
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find –type f –name “*.log” –ok rm {} ‘;’
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Find files with size and compress
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find $PWD –size + 10000c –type f –name “*.log” | xargs
tar zcvf one.tar
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Find files with size and compress , that
are not already compressed by gzip
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find $PWD –size + 10000c –type f –name “*.log” -regex
‘.*[^gz]’ –exec gzip ‘{}’ ‘;’
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Find and grep (grep is)
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find $PWD –size + 10000c –type f –name “*.log” –exec grep is
{} ‘;’
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List the number of files in the given
directory,
Using a special predicate ‘\! –type d|f’ to
exclude the listing of directories or files
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Find $pwd ‘! –type d | wc –l ( list only files)
Find $pwd ‘! –type f | wc –l ( list only directories)
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Find using max depth
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Find $PWD –maxdepth 1 –type d –print
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Find and stop executing if the result is
blank
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Find $PWD –name “*.bak” –print | xargs –r ls –l
If the result of find is blank ,the ls –l will not get
executed if we use “-r” option
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Redirect errors with out seeing them
on screen
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find -name "*.txt" 2>>/dev/null
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Find files that are accessed after the
/etc/hosts/ was modified
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find -anewer /etc/hosts
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Find all files which are modified after the
/sample file is modified
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find -newer $PWD/sample
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Find Files Which Changed in The Last 60
minutes
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find $PWD -cmin -60
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Find Files Which Accessed in The Last 60
minutes
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find $PWD -amin -60
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FInd Files That are Updated in The Last 60
Minutes
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find $PWD -mmin -60
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Find all files Older than 2 days and gzip
them
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find $PWD -type f -mtime +2 | xargs gzip
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Find the Top 20 high size files
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find $PWD -type f -print0 | xargs -0 du -h | sort -nr | head
-20
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Find Broken Sym Links
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find -type l ! -exec test -e {} \;
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Find Empty Files
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Find $PWD -empty
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Find and Move Files
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find /home -iname '*.zip' -exec mv '{}' /backup/ \;
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Grep a File
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find $PWD -type f | grep PAVAN
or
find $PWD -type f -exec egrep PAVAN {} \; |
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Find and Delete a file
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find $PWD -type f –delete
OR
find /tmp/bar/ -type f -delete
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Please Let me Know if these need any modifications.
Happy Learning J
