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Christoph: /* Misc */

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Christoph: /* Misc */

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Christoph: /* See also */

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Christoph: /* Misc */

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Christoph: /* Misc */

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 ===Misc===
-  find . -name "rc.conf" -print
+  $ find . -name "rc.conf" -print
-  find . -name "rc.conf" -exec chmod o+r '{}' \;
+  $ find . -name "rc.conf" -exec chmod o+r '{}' \;
-  find /usr/src -not \( -name "*,v" -o -name ".*,v" \) '{}' \; -print
+  $ find /usr/src -not \( -name "*,v" -o -name ".*,v" \) '{}' \; -print
-  find . -exec grep "bob and alice" '{}' \; -print
+  $ find . -exec grep "bob and alice" '{}' \; -print
-  find . -exec grep -q "bob and alice" '{}' \; -print
+  $ find . -exec grep -q "bob and alice" '{}' \; -print
-  find /path/ \( -name "foo*" -or -name "bar*" \) -type f -ls
+  $ find /path/ \( -name "foo*" -or -name "bar*" \) -type f -ls
 * Find all files having a specific number of characters in their files names or more (e.g., 64+ characters):
-  find /path/you/wish/to/search -regextype posix-extended -regex '\./[^/]{64,}'
+  $ find /path/you/wish/to/search -regextype posix-extended -regex '\./[^/]{64,}'
 * Find all files/directories at any depth in a given path that have spaces and replace them with underscores:
-  find /foo/bar/ -depth -name "* *" -execdir rename 's/ /_/g' "{}" \;
+  $ find /foo/bar/ -depth -name "* *" -execdir rename 's/ /_/g' "{}" \;
   #~OR~
-  find . -depth -name '* *' \
+  $ find . -depth -name '* *' \
-   | while IFS= read -r f ; do mv -i "$f" "$(dirname "$f")/$(basename "$f"|tr ' ' _)" ; done
+     | while IFS= read -r f ; do mv -i "$f" "$(dirname "$f")/$(basename "$f"|tr ' ' _)" ; done
   #~OR~
-  for f in *\ *; do mv "$f" "${f// /_}"; done  # not recursive, but fast
+  $ for f in *\ *; do mv "$f" "${f// /_}"; done  # not recursive, but fast
 * Find all files with ampersands ("&") in their filenames and replace with "and":
-  find . -type f -name "*&*" -execdir rename 's/\&/and/g' "{}" \;
+  $ find . -type f -name "*&*" -execdir rename 's/\&/and/g' "{}" \;
 * Find all files with strange (i.e., non-standard Linux) filenames and rename them:
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 * Find executable files without extensions:
   $ find $HOME/bin/ -type f ! -name "*.*" -perm -og+rx
 ===Using find to fix corrupted timestamps===

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 done
 </pre>
 ===Using find to fix corrupted timestamps===

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 *[[Textutils]]
 *[[Diffutils]]
 ==External links==

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   find /path/ \( -name "foo*" -or -name "bar*" \) -type f -ls
-* Find all files having a specific number of characters in their files names or more (e.g., "64" characters):
+* Find all files having a specific number of characters in their files names or more (e.g., 64+ characters):
   find /path/you/wish/to/search -regextype posix-extended -regex '\./[^/]{64,}'

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 * Find all files with ampersands ("&") in their filenames and replace with "and":
   find . -type f -name "*&*" -execdir rename 's/\&/and/g' "{}" \;
 ===Using find to fix corrupted timestamps===