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I use this command to find files with a given pattern and then rename them to something else
find . -name '*-GHBAG-*' -exec bash -c 'echo mv $0 ${0/GHBAG/stream-agg}' {} \;
As I run this command, I see some outputs like this
mv ./report-GHBAG-1B ./report-stream-agg-1B
mv ./reoprt-GHBAG-0.5B ./report-stream-agg-0.5B
However at the end, when I run ls, I see the old file names.
You are echo'ing your 'mv' command, not actually executing it. Change to:
find . -name '*-GHBAG-*' -exec bash -c 'mv $0 ${0/GHBAG/stream-agg}' {} \;
I would suggest using the rename command to perform this task. rename renames the filenames supplied according to the rule specified as a Perl regular expression.
In this case, you could use:
rename 's/GHBAG/stream-agg/' *-GHBAG-*
In reply to anumi's comment, you could in effect search recursively down directories by matching '**':
rename 's/GHBAG/stream-agg/' **/*-GHBAG-*
This works for my needs, replacing all matching files or file types. Be warned, this is a very greedy search
# bashrc
function file_replace() {
for file in $(find . -type f -name "$1*"); do
mv $file $(echo "$file" | sed "s/$1/$2/");
done
}
I will usually run with find . -type f -name "MYSTRING*" in advance to check the matches out before replacing.
For example:
file_replace "Slider.js" "RangeSlider.ts"
renamed: packages/react-ui-core/src/Form/Slider.js -> packages/react-ui-core/src/Form/RangeSlider.ts
renamed: stories/examples/Slider.js -> stories/examples/RangeSlider.ts
or ditch the filetype to make it even greedier
file_replace Slider RangeSlider
renamed: packages/react-ui-core/src/Form/Slider.js -> packages/react-ui-core/src/Form/RangeSlider.js
renamed: stories/examples/Slider.js -> stories/examples/RangeSlider.js
renamed: stories/theme/Slider.css -> stories/theme/RangeSlider.css
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I have a directory structure like:
/Folder1/file1
/file2
/file3
/.file4
I need to remove only /file2 and /file3. I want to keep /Folder1/file1 and /.file4.
If globbing is disabled rm * will work. You can check whether dotglob is disabled with the shopt command. If it is turned on use:
shopt -u dotglob
rm *
shopt -s dotglob
find . -type f -name "[^.]*" -delete
(Do it without -delete first, to be sure you typed it right.)
find . -type f -name file{2,3} -delete
type -f search only for files, ignoring directories
file{2,3} file2 and file3
or
file{2..6} means range (file2, file3, file4, file5 file6)
Unless you search for wildcard before the file name like "*file" this will not delete hidden files.
To run only in the current directory to do not delete /Folder1/file1
find . -maxdepth 0 -type f -name file{2,3} -delete
But to run simply in the current directory i prefer the old rm.
rm file*
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I need to find a specific data from a file. And I want to search it from entire system of my Linux. Is this possible?
The above answer will work but that will try grepping directories as well for the pattern which inturn will throw an error. The best solution will be to search for files only. This will considerably reduce the search time as well.
find / -type f -exec grep -i <pattern> {} \;
If you are only interested in listing the files containing the pattern, you could pass the -l switch in grep.
find / -type f -exec grep -il <pattern> {} \;
If you would like to list both the file(s) and the pattern, you can pass the -H switch in grep.
find / -type f -exec grep -iH <pattern> {} \;
#alvits - Thanks for the suggestion.
find / -name "*" -exec grep -q <pattern> '{}' \; -print
This command search from root directory(/); and so all sub directories.
You can replace your search pattern in place of in command.
And it will print all files contains your pattern.
If you know the file extension of your searching file, you can limit search by replacing * with *.extention within command.
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I tried to delete some images by matching them to a regular expression and I did this in two similar ways by now, both including piping the results of find to rm. First I found all the images that I wish to be deleted with this:
find . -type f -regex ".+-[0-9]+x[0-9]+\.jpg"
Which found a lot of results.
So I tried to delete them like this:
find . -type f -regex ".+-[0-9]+x[0-9]+\.jpg" -exec rm -rf {} \;
And then like this:
find . -type f -regex ".+-[0-9]+x[0-9]+\.jpg" | xargs rm
After both attempts, the find command no longer sees the images that I wanted to delete (when I run the first command again), but ls sees them, and so does Nautilus. Is there some kind of commit I should run in order to actually delete them from the hard disk?
I tried searching the rm man page for "commit" and the find man page for "remove", but haven't found anything significant.
Your regex doesn't match these filenames...
$ touch yellow-zone-etna-36x36.png yellow-zone-etna-615x250.png
$ find . -type f -regex ".+-[0-9]+x[0-9]+\.jpg"
$ # no output
because you have PNGs, you're looking for JPEGs, and you additionally have JPEGs that don't match the regex either.
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I have a huge number of text files, organized in a big folder tree, on Debian Linux. What I need is to find all text files having a specific name pattern and then move the containing folder to a destination.
Example:
/home/spenx/src/a12/a1a22.txt
/home/spenx/src/a12/a1a51.txt
/home/spenx/src/a12/a1b61.txt
/home/spenx/src/a12/a1x71.txt
/home/spenx/src/a167/a1a22.txt
/home/spenx/src/a167/a1a51.txt
/home/spenx/src/a167/a1b61.txt
/home/spenx/src/a167/a1x71.txt
The commands:
find /home/spenx/src -name "a1a2*txt"
mv /home/spenx/src/a12 /home/spenx/dst
mv /home/spenx/src/a167 /home/spenx/dst
The result:
/home/spenx/dst/a12/a1a22.txt
/home/spenx/dst/a167/a1a22.txt
Thank you for your help.
SK
combination of find, dirname and mv along with xargs should solve your problem
find /home/spenx/src -name "a1a2*txt" | xargs -n 1 dirname | xargs -I list mv list /home/spenx/dst/
find will fetch list of files
dirname will extract path of file. Note that it can only take one argument at a time
mv will move source directories to destination
xargs is the key to allow output of one command to be passed as arguments to next command
For details of options used with xargs, refer to its man page of just do man xargs on terminal
You can execute:
find /home/spenx/src name "a1a2*txt" -exec mv {} /home/spenx/dst \;
Font: http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-linux-unix-find-move-all-mp3-file.html
Create this mv.sh script in the current directory that will contain this:
o=$1
d=$(dirname $o)
mkdir /home/spenx/dst/$d 2>/dev/null
mv $o /home/spenx/dst/$d
Make sure it is executable by this command:
chmod +x mv.sh
Next call this command:
find /home/spenx/src -name "a1a2*txt" -exec ./mv.sh {} \;
find /home/spenx/src -name "a1a2*txt" -exec mv "{}" yourdest_folder \;
There's probably multiple ways to do this, but, since it seems you might have multiple matches in a single directory, I would probably do something along this line:
find /home/spenx/src -name "a1a2*txt" -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 dirname | sort -u |
while read d
do
mv "${d}" /home/spenx/dst
done
It's kind of long, but the steps are:
Find the list of all matching files (the find part), using -print0 to compensate for any names that have spaces or other odd characters in them
extract the directory part of each file name (the xargs ... dirname part)
sort and uniquify the list to get rid of duplicates
Feed the resulting list into a loop that moves each directory in turn
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I have been searching for a command that will return files from the current directory which contain a string in the filename. I have seen locate and find commands that can find files beginning with something first_word* or ending with something *.jpg.
How can I return a list of files which contain a string in the filename?
For example, if 2012-06-04-touch-multiple-files-in-linux.markdown was a file in the current directory.
How could I return this file and others containing the string touch? Using a command such as find '/touch/'
Use find:
find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*string*" -print
It will find all files in the current directory (delete maxdepth 1 if you want it recursive) containing "string" and will print it on the screen.
If you want to avoid file containing ':', you can type:
find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*string*" ! -name "*:*" -print
If you want to use grep (but I think it's not necessary as far as you don't want to check file content) you can use:
ls | grep touch
But, I repeat, find is a better and cleaner solution for your task.
Use grep as follows:
grep -R "touch" .
-R means recurse. If you would rather not go into the subdirectories, then skip it.
-i means "ignore case". You might find this worth a try as well.
The -maxdepth option should be before the -name option, like below.,
find . -maxdepth 1 -name "string" -print
find $HOME -name "hello.c" -print
This will search the whole $HOME (i.e. /home/username/) system for any files named “hello.c” and display their pathnames:
/Users/user/Downloads/hello.c
/Users/user/hello.c
However, it will not match HELLO.C or HellO.C. To match is case insensitive pass the -iname option as follows:
find $HOME -iname "hello.c" -print
Sample outputs:
/Users/user/Downloads/hello.c
/Users/user/Downloads/Y/Hello.C
/Users/user/Downloads/Z/HELLO.c
/Users/user/hello.c
Pass the -type f option to only search for files:
find /dir/to/search -type f -iname "fooBar.conf.sample" -print
find $HOME -type f -iname "fooBar.conf.sample" -print
The -iname works either on GNU or BSD (including OS X) version find command. If your version of find command does not supports -iname, try the following syntax using grep command:
find $HOME | grep -i "hello.c"
find $HOME -name "*" -print | grep -i "hello.c"
OR try
find $HOME -name '[hH][eE][lL][lL][oO].[cC]' -print
Sample outputs:
/Users/user/Downloads/Z/HELLO.C
/Users/user/Downloads/Z/HEllO.c
/Users/user/Downloads/hello.c
/Users/user/hello.c
If the string is at the beginning of the name, you can do this
$ compgen -f .bash
.bashrc
.bash_profile
.bash_prompt
An alternative to the many solutions already provided is making use of the glob **. When you use bash with the option globstar (shopt -s globstar) or you make use of zsh, you can just use the glob ** for this.
**/bar
does a recursive directory search for files named bar (potentially including the file bar in the current directory). Remark that this cannot be combined with other forms of globbing within the same path segment; in that case, the * operators revert to their usual effect.
Note that there is a subtle difference between zsh and bash here. While bash will traverse soft-links to directories, zsh will not. For this you have to use the glob ***/ in zsh.
find / -exec grep -lR "{test-string}" {} \;
grep -R "somestring" | cut -d ":" -f 1