A couple of things that might bug you: find won't follow symbolic links by default; find will drill into filesystems you might wish it hadn't (such as a network filesystem or other, in-memory or special, filesystems). You can control all of that from options you will find in your findman page.
Hi,
I am issuing find command below mentioned ways but it givs different count. I don't understand the behaviour. Could any one have any clue?
$ find . -mtime -5 -maxdepth 1 -exec ls -lrt {} \; | wc -l
169
$ find . -mtime -5 -maxdepth 1 | wc -l
47
$ find . -mtime -5 -maxdepth 1 | wc -l... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I am looking to extract linux version from /etc/*-release file.
I am specifically tring to avoid use of awk command here. would be great if can do done via sed or grep command.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.5 (Tikanga)
output must be 6
regards,
Litu (7 Replies)
Under one of my directories on server I have more than 500 files with different type and name. When I run the find command to list the files with 'ABC_DEFGH' in the begining of its name and older than 20 days, nothing is return as result. Though I know there are more than 400 files which their name... (10 Replies)
Hello.
From a script, a command for a test is use :
find /home/user_install -maxdepth 1 -type f -newer /tmp/000_skel_file_deb ! -newer /tmp/000_skel_file_end -name '.bashrc' -o -name '.profile' -o -name '.gtkrc-2.0' -o -name '.i18n' -o -name '.inputrc'
Tha command... (3 Replies)
Hello.
I need to find all files but excluding some because
I need to exclude some sub-folders
I need to exclude some filenames
Files must be within two dates.
The result is sent to a function
I cannot achieved to put together the date conditions, the folder conditions and the... (4 Replies)
Discussion started by: jcdole
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fslint
fslint-gui(1) User Commands fslint-gui(1)NAME
fslint-gui - A GUI wrapper for the individual fslint command line tools
SYNOPSIS
fslint-gui [OPTIONS] [PATHS]
DESCRIPTION
fslint is a toolset to find various problems with filesystems, including duplicate files and problematic filenames etc.
Individual command line tools are available in addition to the GUI and to access them, one can change to, or add to $PATH the
/usr/share/fslint/fslint directory on a standard install. Each of these commands in that directory have a --help option which further
details its parameters.
findup - find DUPlicate files
findnl - find Name Lint (problems with filenames)
findu8 - find filenames with invalid utf8 encoding
findbl - find Bad Links (various problems with symlinks)
findsn - find Same Name (problems with clashing names)
finded - find Empty Directories
findid - find files with dead user IDs
findns - find Non Stripped executables
findrs - find Redundant Whitespace in files
findtf - find Temporary Files
findul - find possibly Unused Libraries
zipdir - Reclaim wasted space in ext2 directory entries
PARAMETERS
If [PATHS] are specified, they become the default search path, otherwise the current directory becomes the default.
--version
Display the fslint version and exit
--help Display help for tool specific options
AUTHOR
Written by Padraig Brady
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <P@draigBrady.com>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2000-2009 Padraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER-
CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details, which is available at www.gnu.org
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