I'm looking for a way to search certain files named "XYHello.pdf" or "BDHello.pdf" so basically "*Hello.pdf" in a directory with subfolder and export the found files including path to the file in a text file.
So that at the end I have a list with all found files including the paths in a list. I spontaneously thought about Linux Command find.
find . -type f -iname "*Hello.pdf"
But the problem is i need the full path to the file in a list.
find $PWD -type f -iname "*Hello.pdf"
or
find . -type f -iname "*Hello.pdf" -exec realpath {} \;
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I have files named test.txt in different directories like this
./222/test.txt
./111/test.txt
I want to rename all test.txt to info.txt
I've tried using this
find . -type f -iname 'test.txt' -exec mv {} {}info \;
I get test.txtinfo
Your idea is right, but you need to use -execdir instead of just -exec to simplify this.
find . -type f -iname 'test.txt' -execdir mv {} info.txt ';'
This works like -exec with the difference that the given shell command is executed with the directory of the found pathname as its current working directory and that {} will contain the basename of the found pathname without its path. Also note that the option is a non-standard one (non POSIX compliant).
Hi I wanted to recursively delete all files in a directory with various folders that do not contain the word "weight" in their file name. How can I do this?
Type this command first:
find '/path/to/directory' -type f \! -iname '*weight*'
If you are OK with deleting all the files suggested by the command, then you can actually delete them with:
find '/path/to/directory' -type f \! -iname '*weight*' -delete
I have a directory hierarchy, whose names do not follow a pattern. E.g.
parent
bcgegec
hfiwehfiuwe
huiwwuifegeufg
whegwgefyfeg
hfeohfeiofe
chidchuehugfe
dedewdewf
tegtgetg
gtgetgtg
and so on.
Inside some of such directories there is a file with "gr" extension. I need to find each of such files, cd to its dir and execute "gnuplot" command having the .gr file as argument. I tried the following to nest two find commands, but the {} of the inner one does not work as I need. The outer find should iterate for every directory, and the inner find should look for the presence of the .gr file.
find $parentDir -type d -exec sh -c '(cd {} && find . -maxdepth 1 -name *.gr -exec /usr/bin/gnuplot {} \;)' \;
Perhaps this is what you are looking for:
find . -type f -name "*.gr" -execdir /usr/bin/gnuplot {} \;
Read through man find for other useful information.
I have a folder which contains several file types say .html,.php,.txt etc.. and it has sub folders also .Sub folders may contain all the file types mentioned above.
Question1:- I want to find size of all the files having the file type as '.html' which are there in both root directory and in sub- directories
Question2:- I want to find size of all the files having the file type as '.html' which are there only in root directory but not in sub folders.
I surfed through the internet but all i am able to get is commands like df -h, du -sh etc..
Are there any bash commands for the above questions? Any bash scripts?
You can use the find command for that.
#### Find the files recursively
find . -type f -iname "*.html"
#### Find the files on the r
find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -iname "*.iml"
Then, in order to get their size, you can use the -exec option like this:
find . -type f -iname "*.html" -exec ls -lha {} \;
And if you really only need the file size (I mean, without all the other stuff that ls prints):
find . -type f -iname "*.html" -exec stat -c "%s" {} \;
Explanation:
iname search of files without being case sensitive
maxdepth travels subdirectories recursively up to the specify level (1 means only the immediate folder)
exec executes an arbitrary command using the found paths, where "{}" represents the path of the file
type indicates the type of file (a directory is a file in Linux)
Is there any alternative for below command to find files in a folder and subfolders as well.
find . | egrep '\./[^/]+/[^/]+/[^/]+'
Note: I don't want directories I want to get only files
Additionally, you could specify list of files extensions as your search options:
find . -type f -name "*.js" -o -name "*.ros" -o -name "*.php"
Above example, would only display file names with *.ros, *.php, and *.js as file extensions under specific folder and subfolders.
Why don't you just use find?
I am not sure from your question if you want to limit the depth. If so:
find . -type f -depth 2 -print
If you just want to find files
find . -type f -print
If you just want to find directories
find . -type d -print
You can also use -ls if -print does not float your boat.
find . -type f -ls