How do you grep and only return the matching line? i.e. The path/filename is omitted from the results. In this case I want to look in all .bar files in the current directory, searching for the term FOO Answer No need to find. If you are just looking for a pattern within a specific directory, this should suffi…
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List all graphic image files with find? [closed]
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Print md5sum of results of a find command in Linux
I am tryng to do checksum on all .jar files I can find in directory and its sub directories. Then print the filename with the checksum value to a file. this is what I have. I am trying to join two commands together that I know work individually. Any help appreciated. Answer You could use something like this t…
Grep inside all files created within date range
I am on the Ubuntu OS. I want to grep a word (say XYZ) inside all log files which are created within date range 28-may-2012 to 30-may-2012. How do I do that? Answer This is a little different from Banthar’s solution, but it will work with versions of find that don’t support -newermt and it shows h…
regular expression to exclude filetypes from find
When using find command in linux, one can add a -regex flag that uses emacs regualr expressions to match. I want find to look for all files except .jar files and .ear files. what would be the regular expression in this case? Thanks Answer You don’t need a regex here. You can use find with the -name and …
linux find regex
I’m having trouble using the regex of the find command. Probably something I don’t understand about escaping on the command line. Why are these not the same? Bash, Ubuntu Answer Regular expressions with character classes (e.g. [[:digit:]]) are not supported in the default regular expression syntax…
How to only get file name with Linux ‘find’?
I’m using find to all files in directory, so I get a list of paths. However, I need only file names. i.e. I get ./dir1/dir2/file.txt and I want to get file.txt Answer In GNU find you can use -printf parameter for that, e.g.:
Delete files with string found in file – Linux cli
I am trying to delete erroneous emails based on finding the email address in the file via Linux CLI. I can get the files with find . | xargs grep -l email@example.com But I cannot figure out how to delete them from there as the following code doesn’t work. rm -f | xargs find . | xargs grep -l email@exam…
How to find directories with the name of specific length
How could I find directories with the name of specific length? For example, I have bunch of directories which have length of the name equal to 33 chars (‘a92e8cc611fdebcca3cf2fc8dc02c918’, ‘c442fb3f46d6c8bd17d27245290a9512’ and so on). Does find utility accepts condition in form of the…
How can I search for a multiline pattern in a file?
I needed to find all the files that contained a specific string pattern. The first solution that comes to mind is using find piped with xargs grep: But if I need to find patterns that spans on more than one line, I’m stuck because vanilla grep can’t find multiline patterns. Answer So I discovered …