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 th…
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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…
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 an…
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…
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 T…
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 inste…
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 …
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 own…
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 …