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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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Remove only files inside directory and subdirectory
Not the directory
Not the subdirectory
only want to delete the files inside directory and subdirectory
To remove all the files under dir/subdir/file (both dir/subdir/file and dir/subdir/subsubdir/file will be removed):
find dir/subdir -type f -delete
To remove files at most one level below dir/subdir (this removes dir/subdir/file but not dir/subdir/subsubdir/file):
find dir/subdir -maxdepth 1 -type f -delete
To remove dir/file and dir/subdir/file but not dir/subdir/subsubdir/file:
find dir dir/subdir -maxdepth 1 -type f -delete
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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
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Is there any command in linux to calculate SHA1 hash of a director which contains files + Directories(these directories future contains file and more directories).
tar cf - $DIRECTORY|sha1sum
Deficiencies/advantages (depending on your perspective):
$DIRECTORY must be exactly the same in both cases (so you must use
relative paths).
This takes into account file modification dates, not just file contents.
I think you should be able to use this
find . -type f -exec sha1sum {} \;
Just replace the "." with your directory.
File by file you mean?
$ cd my_folder
$ sha1sum *
d73c8369c7808f7e96561b4c18d68233678f354f xxx.txt
5941a4f547f69b4b6271a351242ce41b3e440795 yyy.txt
Or of all the files together?
$ cat my_folder/* | sha1sum
7713154076812602f6f737cf5ad5924813182298