I know how to delete only files not directories as follows:
find /path/to/directory -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec rm -iv {} \;
I learned the above snippet from Here
If i want to delete files that has at least one digit in its file name.
find /path/to/directory -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec rm -iv *[0-9]* {} \;
Should this work for my case? Any suggestion?
You can use a glob pattern in -name option and then use -delete option:
find /path/to/directory -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*[0-9]*' -delete
If -delete is not available then:
find /path/to/directory -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*[0-9]*' -exec rm -iv {} \;
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First one :
We found several files and we have to copy that to kat4 and here is code, but it doesn't seem to work corectly
find /home/imk-prac/ -type f -size -13c -name '*\?plik\?*' -exec cp {} /home/inf-19/aduda/\*kat1\*/\*kat2\*/\*kat4\*/ \; 2> /dev/null
'cp' I assume that it is copy, but I don't know what 'exec' and '{}' do.
Second one:
find /home/imk-prac/ \( -type f -size -13c -name '*\?plik\?*' \) -o\( -type d -name '\[Kolo1\]*' \)2> /dev/null
Generally,I understand this line (except for '2' and '-o') , but I want to add looking for files which were modificated in less that 30 days and here is what I wanted to combine with upper command :
find /home/imk-prac/ -type f -mtime -30 -exec ls -l {} \; > /dev/null
As a result I wrote it down as:
find /home/imk-prac/ \( -type f -size -13c -name '*\?plik\?' -mtime -30 -exec ls -l{}\) -o \( -type d -name '\[Kolo1\]*' \) 2> /dev/null
but it doesn't work
Moreover, I wanted to add looking for files with speciefied quantity of symbols and I found this command:
grep -Po '(^|\s)\S{64}(\s|$)' file
But I have no idea how to combine all of those 3 upper commands.
I will be grateful for any help, thank you for your time!
How to remove all files without the .txt and .exe extensions recursively in the current working directory? I need a one-liner.
I tried:
find . ! -name "*.txt" "*.exe" -exec rm -r {} \
find -type f -regextype posix-extended -iregex '.*\.(txt|exe)$'
Try this.
find . -type f ! -name "*.exe" ! -name "*.txt" -exec rm {} \;
The above command will remove all the files other than the .exe and .txt extension files in the current directory and sub directory recursively.
If you have GNU find with the -delete action:
find . -type f ! \( -name '*.txt' -o -name '*.exe' \) -delete
And if not:
find . -type f ! \( -name '*.txt' -o -name '*.exe' \) -exec rm -f {} +
using -exec ... {} + to execute rm as few times as possible, with the arguments chained.
Try the following:
rm -f $(find . -type f ! \( -name "*.txt" -o -name "*.exe" \))
This will first recursively find all files that do not end with .txt or .exe extensions, and then delete all of these files.
I need to search for multiple pattern of files and check their mtime and if it morethan 30 days then delete all the files. I am using the below command but it's deleting only one pattern of file and not all. Kindly let me know where is the mistake in my command.
find /root -type f \( -name "*.tgz" -o -name "*.bz2" \) -mtime +30 -print -exec rm '{}' +
Try escaping parentheses in the command and adding a wildcard character:
find /root -type f \( -name "*.tgz" -o -name "*.bz2" \) -mtime +30 -exec rm {} \+
I am able to delete lets say all regular files in a folder older than 7 days via:
find /path/to/dir -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;
with a single problem. There is a file here (.gitignore) which I want to keep. I tried using regex but apparently findutils regex does not have support for negative lookahead (?!gitignore)
Any other ideas?
Use ! -name .gitignore
find /path/to/dir ! -name .gitignore -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;
You can group multiple arguments within escaped parentheses. Example, to remove all files except .gitignore and javascript files (ending in .js):
find /path/to/dir ! \( -name ".gitignore" -o -name "*.js" \) -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;
-o means or
Is there a way to write the file names to a file before they are deleted for reference later to check what has been deleted.
find <PATH> -type f -name "<filePattern>" -mtime +1 -delete
Just add a -print expression to the invocation of find:
find <PATH> -type f -name "<filePattern>" -mtime +1 -delete -print > log
I'm not sure if this prints the name before or after the file is unlinked, but it should not matter. I suspect -delete -print unlinks before it prints, while -print -delete will print before it unlinks.
Like William said, you can use -print. However, instead of -print > log, you can also use the -fprint flag.
You'd want something like:
find <PATH> -type f -name "<filePattern>" -mtime +1 -fprint "<pathToLog>" -delete
For instance, I use this in a script:
find . -type d -name .~tmp~ -fprint /var/log/rsync-index-removal.log -delete
You can use -exec and rm -v:
find <PATH> -type f -name "<filePattern>" -mtime +1 -exec rm -v {} \;
rm -v will report what it is deleting.
With something like this you can execute multiple commands in the exec statement, like log to file, rm file, and whatever more you should need
find <PATH> -type f -name "<filePattern>" -mtime +1 -exec sh -c "echo {} >>mylog; rm -f {}" \;
From a shell script named removelogs.sh
run the command sh removelogs.sh in terminal
this is the text in removelogs.sh file.
cd /var/log;
date >> /var/log/removedlogs.txt;
find . -maxdepth 4 -type f -name \*log.old -delete -print >> /var/log/removedlogs.txt
. - to run at this location !!! so ensure you do not run this in root folder!!!
-maxdepth - to prevent it getting out of control
-type - to ensure just files
-name - to ensure just your filtered names
-print - to send the result to stdout
-delete - to delete said files
>> - appends to files not overwrites > creates new file
works for me on CENTOS7