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I was helped with a command, but it doesn't seem to be working. This is the command:
find /var/www/HernandezW/wordpress/ -type d -exec chmod 750 {}\;
The shell return error messages:
find: missing argument to `-exec'
How can I fix it to be able to install WordPress?
Try adding space after {}:
find /var/www/HernandezW/wordpress/ -type d -exec chmod 750 {} \;
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I want to change my folder emblems recursively. I know that the command gvfs-set-attribute -t string ~/Desktop/ metadata::emblems [] can change the emblem of only Desktop.
How can I change whole folders and the files emblems? I tried gvfs-set-attribute -t stringv ~/* metadata::emblems [] but it returns error Error setting attribute: Setting attribute /home/taygun/Desktop not supported.
You could feed the command into find:
find ~/ -type d -exec gvfs-set-attribute -t stringv {} metadata::emblems [] \;
There are some known issues with the defaultdir ~ on some distros with gvfs-set-attribute (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1368676)
Consider upgrading to the latest version if you're not already on it.
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I need to remove a large number of symbolic links from a folder that has other files which I don't want to remove. Is there any easy way to remove only symbolic links?
You can use the find(1) command
find . -maxdepth 1 -type l -exec rm {} \;
-maxdepth 1 is for only scanning current directory.
-type l is for searching symbolic links
-exec executes rm to delete given file, the {} being replaced by find with an appropriate path, and the \; ending the sub-command run by find
See also the man page of rm(1) (and of ls(1), mv(1), cp(1), ln(1), stat(1) if you want to use them in a variant of that find command).
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I have list of files which ends with -live.conf.
e.g.
admin-live.conf
user-live.conf
Above files should be renamed to:
admin-dev.conf
user-dev.conf
please help me how can I achieve with single command.
this is rename stand-alone utility by perl package.
usage :-
rename -n -v 's/live.conf/dev.conf/' *
Proper find + bash solution:
find . -type f -name "*-live.conf" -exec bash -c \
'dir_n=${0%/*}/; fn=${0##*/}; mv "$0" "$dir_n${fn/-live/-dev}"; ' {} \;
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I have to do this task on linux
find recursively only files in /etc that are larger than 200kb and redirect stdout to a file named FLfindout and redirect stderr to a file named FLfinderr
and I typed in
find /etc 200k > FLfindout 2> FLstderr
and I don't know what the output suppose to be look like. and is this command right?
If I understand your question right you just want to get the list of files greater than 200Kb, you can try
find /etc -type f -size +200
if you want this print into a file, you could try
find /etc -type f -size +200 > file.txt
Try this:
find /etc -type f -size +200k -print > FLfindout 2> FLstderr
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I have lot of files in specific folder.
I want to delete all files expect *.html file type in that folder.
Is there any way to do this in command line? I am using Linux.
I'll assume that you refer to linux command line, please update your question if not.
find ./folder/to/look/in -not -iname '*.html' -exec rm {} \;
Here's an explanation of what this does
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If you have not too many files then you might want to make find execute one single rm command. You can do that with using + instead of ;
find ./folder/to/look/in -not -iname '*.html' -exec rm {} +
Here's an explanation of this one