List (or move) only files with a certain number of lines?
Dealing with a whole bunch of two-line config files, I’d like a way to exclude any files that have a different number of lines.
find
Find files that a user can not read?
I want to find files that a particular user will not be able to read.
find and rsync?
I want to be able to search for files over 14 days and over 10k and than rsync those found files to a destination.
find exclude directory
I am on Linux (Ubuntu) and I am would like to exclude certain directories (like .hg) when I am doing a
Recursively rename e-mail files from .txt to .eml
Directory “$d” contains a few thousand e-mail files with the .txt extension. To open them in my e-mail client, I need to rename them to .eml
limit find output AND avoid signal 13
I have a directory with ~1M files and need to search for particular patterns. I know how to do it for all the files:
Delete all files in a directory whose name do not match a line in a file list
I have a directory with 1000+ files. In a text file, I have about 50 filenames, one per line. I’d like to delete all the files in the directory whose filenames don’t correspond with an entry on the list. What’s the best way to do this? I started a shell script, but couldn’t determine the proper command to determine in the filename is on the list. Thanks.
Find pattern and move
I’m wondering if anybody knows how to find a pattern and then move it to a different location.
Why did find with -delete erase the files in my /save/ directory when find without delete was not able to locate them?
I want to delete all the files in the current directory tree, except those in save. I ran this command:
Omitting extension with find?
I need to create thumbnails from multiple .png files and would like to do this using ImageMagicks convert utility. To recursively find all files that are not thumbnails themselves, I am using the following call (split into two lines to make it readable):