find /folder/202205??/ -type f | xargs head -50| grep ‘^Starting’ There are 20220501 20220502 20220503 and so on folders… This command searches all first 50 lines of all files in ‘/folder/202205??/’ and shows the lines beginning with text “Starting” I haven’t the path and the filename of the files that are matched by the grep command. How can I get
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Using linux find command to identify files that (A) match either of two names (with wildcards) and (B) that also contain a string
The find command is really useful to identify files with a given name that also contain a string somewhere inside of them. For instance lets say I’m looking for the string “pacf(” in an R markdown file somewhere in my current directory. I get useful results. However, sometimes, I’m not sure if the file I am looking for is an
Linux “find” command and highlight filename [closed]
Closed. This question needs details or clarity. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Add details and clarify the problem by editing this post. Closed 1 year ago. Improve this question I am using the Linux find command. It looks through all the *.jar files and their contents and finds the word “foo” in them but
Copy files to another directory containing the same directory structure in bash
I have the following directory structure: Each class contains the exact same directories, and the directories contain png files. What I want to do is copy the contents from dir1 to dir2 such that dir2 has the following format: For example: dir2/i/*.png should contain all the files in dir1/class1/i/*.png, dir1/class2/i/*.png, dir1/class3/i/*.png, etc… I have tried doing the following: But I
Find workspace and delete everything with the name, except for filename and everything in a directory pattern
I’m trying to create a cronjob that will delete everything with a pattern *.jar, except for master.jar and anything in a directory pattern */jarkeeper/*/staging/* I’m close but not luck in finding the correct command. Here’s what i have so far: and What should the correct format be? Answer The issue looks like you are using -or as opposed to -or.
How to copy a file to all subdirectories?
How can I paste read-me.jpg file into all sub-directories? Here is a command to create a new file in all subdirectories. But I want to copy jpg file into all subdirectories instead. Directory List: already tried with this command but no output Answer You tried to redirect cp’s output into $dir but instead we should specify the destination $dir/read-me.jpg as
Create a dictionary from the ouput of the program
This is a Python Program to get all the captions from youtube link: and the output of the above program is: But I want to get only the lang and code from the above output in a dictionary pair. Thanks in Advance. Answer It’s pretty simple If you want a one-liner Output
How to find all the files created today and modified anytime before 5 minutes?
Let’s say it is 10:00 am when the command is run, I need to list the files modified between midnight and 9:55 am. I have tried the following command which looks logical as per the documentation but it is pulling all the files since yesterday. Answer Since -daystart isn’t that portible, consider a solution like so; Use $(date +”%H”) to
What is the command to remove files in Linux from a particular directory which are owned by a particular user?
Let’s say we have a directory path /home/username. How can we delete all the files only from this path which are owned/created by the user dev-user? When I am trying but it’s giving an error and it’s removing files from other directories as well. Answer Use the user flag to specify files owner by a specific user and use -delete
Trying to find empty files in other user home directory
I want to search for empty files inside the home directory of the user “adam” for example. Now i don’t know the right path for that user, so I need to get it from /etc/passwd with the following command: Output: /home/adam (for example) Then executing this command to find the empty files. Is it possible to do this with one