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
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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 {} \;
I am trying to write a command to remove recursively several files with different extensions (*.extension1, *.extension2 etc) from the current directory and all its related sub-directories.
So far I got this command from another post but I couldn't workout how to adapt it to more than one file in the same command line:
find . -name "*.extension1" -type f -delete
Is it as simple as below?
find . -name "*.extension1";"*.extension2" -type f -delete
Just as a side note, these are all output files that I do not need, but not all are necessarily always output so some of the extensions might not be present. This is just as a general clean-up command.
find . \( -name "*.extension1" -o -name "*.extension2" \) -type f -delete
find Documents ( -name ".py" -o -name ".html" ) -exec file {} \;
OR
find . -regextype posix-egrep -regex ".*\.(extension1|extension2)$" -type f -delete
Just add more options. A regex solution can also apply but this one's better and safer.
find . \( -name '*.ext1' -or -name '*.ext2' \) -type f -delete
Edit: You probably need -or as well. Before deleting, test it first without the -delete option. (2) Added a pair of () as suggested by gniourf_gniourf.
Maybe regexp will help you
find . -regextype posix-awk -regex "(.*.ext1|.*.ext2)" -type f -delete
Another solution using rm:
rm -rf ./**/*.{txt,nfo,jpg,jpeg,png,exe,url}
If you want to delete other files too for e.g. those starting with sample. just add that too:
rm -rf ./**/*.{txt,nfo,jpg,jpeg,png,exe,url} ./**/*/sample.*
This simple command will delete all the files with extension1 and extension2 recursively in that directory.
rm find . -name *.extension1 -o -name *.extentions2
I am trying to construct my etags file. I have a project structure such that given a root directory there are subdirectories and within those can be directories named 'cpp'. For example:
root
- sub1
- cpp
- sub2
- sub21
- cpp
- csharp
So for regular project i usually something like:
find . -type f ( -iname '.cpp' -o -iname '.hpp' -o -iname '.c' -o -iname '.h' -o -iname '.cc' -o -iname '.hh' ) -print | xargs etags -a
This won't work anymore as it will also pick up files that could be csharp, objective c etc...
So what i am trying to accomplish is to only have find return the files in the subdirectories called cpp. So how can i get find to do that?
Thanks ...
Or more simply (assuming there are not further subdirectories in the cpp directories:
find . -type f -path "*/cpp/*"
This would return the whole relative path from . though, which may require further trimming :/
Nested find might work for you
find . -type d -name "cpp" -exec find {} -type f \;
Following is the folder structure
- home/ABCD/test1/example1/sample1/textfile.txt
If I execute the find command like
find /home/ABCD/ -type f -print
I am getting the following output
/home/ABCD/test1/example1/sample1/textfile.txt
Note: I am executing the find command from the ABCD folder, In the results I want to exclude /home/ABCD/ folder I just want /test1/example1/sample1/testfile.txt as the result
How can I achieve this?
Since you are executing find from /home/ABCD/ do something like this:
find * -type f -print
Or if you are looking for files in test1 do this:
find test1 -type f -print
Also with -maxdepth N you can limit the recursion in find
If you only want to look for files named textfile.txt do
find test1 -type f -name 'textfile.txt' -print
If you want to print the leading slash do
find . -type f -printf '/%p\n'
For more info have a look here
Note: If have the above string in a variable, you can trim it like this:
string="/home/ABCD/test1/example1/sample1/textfile.txt"
echo "${string#/home/ABCD}"
Some more examples of string manipulation here
Just use . as the starting directory
find . -type f -print
gives
./test1/example1/sample1/textfile.txt
and if you really want a leading slash, use -printf for the output
find . -type f -printf '/%P\n'
You can use the mindepth parameter to start looking at one level below the current directory
find /home/ABCD/ -mindepth 1 -type f -print
This should substitute your current working directory name with a .
find . -type f | perl -pne "s#$PWD#.#"
So you would get results like:
./test1/example1/sample1/textfile.txt
If you do not want the preceeding ./, use this command instead:
find . -type f | perl -pne "s#$PWD/##"
I use Emacs and it sometimes makes backup for edited files. After a few days, I would have a lot of backup files whose name ends with a tilde.
Is there a way to find these files and delete them at once?
I tried this:
find "*" -type f -iname *~
But it doesn't work. I want the command to work recursively – something like ls -alR.
You need to escape from the shell. And you need to specify search path, not *
find . -type f -name '*~'
To delete the files:
find . -type f -name '*~' -exec rm -f '{}' \;
You can do something like that :
find . -type f -name '*~' -delete
If you want to delete also #*# file :
find . -type f -name '*~' -o -name '#*#' -delete
You can print all deleted files with "-print":
find . -type f -name '*~' -delete -print
Another way is by using grep.
lnydex99uhc:javastuff user$ ls
Permutation.java VigenereCipher.java VigenereCipher.java~
lnydex99uhc:javastuff user $ find . | grep .~$
./VigenereCipher.java~
You can also pass any command you want like this :
lnydex99uhc:javastuff zatef$ rm $(find . | grep .~$)