find

How to search for files with immutable attribute set?

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For config auditing reasons, I want to be able to search my ext3 filesystem for files which have the immutable attribute set (via chattr +i). I can’t find any options for find or similar that do this. At this point, I’m afraid I’ll have to write my own script to parse lsattr output for each directory. Is there a standard utility that provides a better way?

Manipulate file name piped from find command

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I’m relatively new to Bash and am trying to do something that on the surface seemed pretty straightforward – run find over a directory hierarchy to get all of the *.wma files, pipe that output to a command where I convert them to mp3 and save the converted file as .mp3. My thinking was that the command should look like the following (I’ve left off the audio conversion command and am instead using echo for illustration):