I have the following statement in script:
find ${LANDING_FILE_DIR}${BTIME_FILENAME_PATTERN2} -print | while read file; do
...
done
When there are no files located by the find comand it returns:
"find: bad status-- /home/rnitcher/test/....." to the command line
How do I get control in... (3 Replies)
I'm using Imagemagick to create thumbnails for a large directory tree. The only thing I can't see is how to get it to write the thumbnails to a "thumbs" subdirectory!
Either of these two commands from the Imagemagick site does most of the job:
find -name '*.jpg' | xargs -n1 sh -c 'convert $0... (5 Replies)
I want the output of the find command to be printed and also the total files found by it. Can someone help in this.
Obviously $ find . -type f | wc -l will not output the files found but only the count. I want both. There can be millions and trillions of files so dont want the output of find... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I am having trouble getting a combination of commands to work.
I need to traverse through all sub-directories of a certain directory and 'cat' the contents of a particular file in the sub-directories.
The commands on their own work but when I combine them I get no output.
The... (4 Replies)
I am trying to delete files older than 60 days from a folder:
find /myfolder/*.dat -mtime +60 -exec rm {} \;
ERROR - argument list too long: find
I can't just give the folder name, as there are some files that I don't want to delete. So i need to give with the pattern (*.dat). I can... (3 Replies)
hi,
i've been trying to figure this weird error but I cannot seem to know why. I am using below find command:
find . \( ! -name . -prune \) -type f -mtime +365 -print
The above code returns no file because no files are really more then 365 days old. However, when I use xargs, its... (9 Replies)
Guys i want to run a command to list all directories that havn't been modified in over 548 days ( 1.5 yrs ).
Id like to run a script to first print what the command finds ( so i get a list of the files pre move ... i have a script set for this :
find /Path/Of\ Target/Directory/ -type d -mtime... (4 Replies)
I need to apply mp3gain (album mode) to all mp3 files in a given directory. Each album is in its own directory under /media/data/music/albums for example:
/media/data/music/albums/foo
/media/data/music/albums/bar
/media/data/music/albums/more
What needs to happen is:
cd... (4 Replies)
How can I recursively find all files in a directory and print out the file and first line number of any text blocks that match the below cases?
This would seem to involve find, xargs, *grep, regex, etc.
In summary, I want to find so-called empty "try-catch blocks" that do not contain code... (0 Replies)
Hi, I'd like to ask if anybody can help improve my code to move 1 million+ files from a directory to another:
find /source/dir -name file* -type f | xargs -I '{}' mv {} /destination/dir
I learned this line of code from this forum as well and it works fine. However, file movement is kinda... (6 Replies)
Discussion started by: agentgrecko
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LEARN ABOUT MINIX
find
FIND(1) General Commands Manual FIND(1)NAME
find - find files meeting a given condition
SYNOPSIS
find directory expression
EXAMPLES
find / -name a.out -print
# Print all a.out paths
find /usr/ast ! -newer f -ok rm {} ;
# Ask before removing
find /usr -size +20 -exec mv {} /big ;
# move files > 20 blks
find / -name a.out -o -name '*.o' -exec rm {};
# 2 conds
DESCRIPTION
Find descends the file tree starting at the given directory checking each file in that directory and its subdirectories against a predi-
cate. If the predicate is true, an action is taken. The predicates may be connected by -a (Boolean and), -o (Boolean or) and ! (Boolean
negation). Each predicate is true under the conditions specified below. The integer n may also be +n to mean any value greater than n, -n
to mean any value less than n, or just n for exactly n.
-name s true if current filename is s (include shell wild cards)
-size n true if file size is n blocks
-inum n true if the current file's i-node number is n
-mtime ntrue if modification time relative to today (in days) is n
-links ntrue if the number of links to the file is n
-newer ftrue if the file is newer than f
-perm n true if the file's permission bits = n (n is in octal)
-user u true if the uid = u (a numerical value, not a login name)
-group gtrue if the gid = g (a numerical value, not a group name)
-type x where x is bcdfug (block, char, dir, regular file, setuid, setgid)
-xdev do not cross devices to search mounted file systems
Following the expression can be one of the following, telling what to do when a file is found:
-print print the file name on standard output
-exec execute a MINIX command, {} stands for the file name
-ok prompts before executing the command
SEE ALSO test(1), xargs(1).
FIND(1)