I want to delete .txt and .csv files from a particular folder. Below is the shell script I am using. But its not deleting the files, if I use only of the file extension then it works. Can you please help here. I also used ||, but did not work.
function purge_inbox_donefile(){
cd $INBOX_DIR
find . -path "*/done*" -iname ["*.txt" -o "*.csv"] -exec rm -f {} \; -print
}
You can use -o between -iname parameters rather than within the pattern. Such as:
-iname "*.txt" -o -iname "*.csv"
If you need to bracket your expression to keep it distinct from your other parameters, do not forget to escape your brackets, ie:
\( -iname "*.txt" -o -iname "*.csv" \)
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I am currently running the below jpegoptim command via cron to have jpegoptim look for jpg files to compress.
find /home/public_html/public/uploads -name '*.jpg' -type f -print0 | xargs -0 jpegoptim -o -p --size=300k --strip-all
This works, but is there a way to include .jpeg, .JPG, and .JPEG without having to run the same command multiple times? Also, is it okay to run every hour, or would this keep compressing the same files eventually reducing the quality?
You can match all of *.jpg, *.JPG, *.jpeg, *.JPEG by using two case-insensitive name matches.
find /home/public_html/public/uploads \
'(' -iname '*.jpg' -o -iname '*.jpeg' ')' -type f -print0 \
| xargs -0 jpegoptim -o -p --size=300k --strip-all
You can keep a separate timestamp to avoid reprocessing the same files, for example
find /home/public_html/public/uploads \
-newer .STAMP '(' -iname '*.jpg' -o -iname '*.jpeg' ')' -type f -print0 \
| xargs -0 jpegoptim -o -p --size=300k --strip-all
touch .STAMP
I have a script which has the following command. I am trying to edit this in such a way that it only searches the files in the directory of the path without going in the subdirectories. That is not recursive search
find {Path} -name "cor*" -type f -exec ls -l {} \;
Example: The command should give cor123.log only and not cor456.log. Currently it gives both
<Path>
..cor123.log
<directory>
..cor456.log
I tried using -maxdepth but it's not supported in AIX. -prune and -depth didn't help either.
Will appreciate any help. Thanks
You can use
find . -name . -o -prune
to find files and directories non-recursively.
So in your case this one will work:
find . -name . -o -prune -name 'cor*' -type f -exec ls -l {} \;
Do you need find for selecting files only?
When you know that all files starting with cor are regula files, you can use
ls -l ${Path}/cor*
or
ls -l ${Path}/cor*.log
When you need the -type f, you can try to filter the results.
The filename can not have a /, so remove everything with an / after the Path.
We do not know the last char of ${Path}. It can be /, which will make the grep -Ev "${Path}/.*/" filter useless. After the Path at least one character is needed before looking for the next /.
find "${Path}" -name "cor*" -type f 2>/dev/null| grep -Ev "${Path}..*/" | xargs -ls
Late answer but may save some. In aix
find /some/directory/* -prune -type f -name *.log
For instance make your path have the last forward slash with a wildcard then -prune
/*
find /some/directory/* -prune -name "cor*" -type f -exec ls -l {} \
Tested.
I need to place a command that will search for all files in the current directory as well as in its sub-directories - ending by ~, and/or all files that start or end by #. The command line will show and erase all files found. Only one command is allowed: no ’;’ or ’&&’ or other shenanigans.
here is my command:
find . -name "#*" -o -name "*#" -o -name "*~" -print -delete
but it erases only the files ending in ~
You forgot to enclose the conditions with parenthesis (). This means that only the last condition will trigger the actions -print and -delete.
The default is and -a, which would not require the parenthesis, that's why most find commands such as find -type f -name "pattern" -print works without parenthesis.
You should try:
find . \( -name "#*" -o -name "*#" -o -name "*~" \) -print -delete
How about -print0 primary in conjunction with xargs -0'' like this .
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm
za:temp za$ ls
file.txt file.txt~
za:temp za$ find . -name "*~" -print0 | xargs -0 rm
za:temp za$ ls
file.txt
Or with xargs -I {} plus your comand which does the same thing .
# xargs -I {} to capture the value of find
find . -iname *something* | xargs -I {} rm {}
edit : if you can't see the files that start with # using find . then the files have spaces within the name of the file(s) like # file.txt. you will need to find files with spaces with something like find . -name "* *" and then remove the spaces.
I currently have this script to compress log files:
find . -name '*.log' -print0 | xargs -0 tar zcf $file
Currently finds and compress all the *.log files. I would like to modify it to include also all the ".txt" files but I don't know how, this should be fairly simple right?
find . -type f \( -name "*.log" -o -name "*.txt" \) -exec tar zcf "$file" {} +
Alternatively:
find . -type f -regex ".*\.\(txt\|log\)$" -exec tar zcf "$file" {} +
No need for xargs if your version of find is POSIX compliant and can have it's -exec command terminated with a + (most can)
I need to find all image files from directory (gif, png, jpg, jpeg).
find /path/to/ -name "*.jpg" > log
How to modify this string to find not only .jpg files?
find /path/to -regex ".*\.\(jpg\|gif\|png\|jpeg\)" > log
find /path/to/ \( -iname '*.gif' -o -iname '*.jpg' \) -print0
will work. There might be a more elegant way.
find -E /path/to -regex ".*\.(jpg|gif|png|jpeg)" > log
The -E saves you from having to escape the parens and pipes in your regex.
find /path/to/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 file | grep -i image
This uses the file command to try to recognize the type of file, regardless of filename (or extension).
If /path/to or a filename contains the string image, then the above may return bogus hits. In that case, I'd suggest
cd /path/to
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 file --mime-type | grep -i image/
find /path -type f \( -iname "*.jpg" -o -name "*.jpeg" -o -iname "*gif" \)
On Mac OS use
find -E packages -regex ".*\.(jpg|gif|png|jpeg)"
In supplement to #Dennis Williamson 's response above, if you want the same regex to be case-insensitive to the file extensions, use -iregex :
find /path/to -iregex ".*\.\(jpg\|gif\|png\|jpeg\)" > log
find -regex ".*\.\(jpg\|gif\|png\|jpeg\)"
in case files have no extension we can look for file mime type
find . -type f -exec file -i {} + | awk -F': +' '{ if ($2 ~ /audio|video|matroska|mpeg/) print $1 }'
where (audio|video|matroska|mpeg) are mime types regex
&if you want to delete them:
find . -type f -exec file -i {} + | awk -F': +' '{ if ($2 ~ /audio|video|matroska|mpeg/) print $1 }' | while read f ; do
rm "$f"
done
or delete everything else but those extensions:
find . -type f -exec file -i {} + | awk -F': +' '{ if ($2 !~ /audio|video|matroska|mpeg/) print $1 }' | while read f ; do
rm "$f"
done
notice the !~ instead of ~
Adding -regextype posix-extended option only worked in my case:
sudo find . -regextype posix-extended -regex ".*\.(css|js|jpg|jpeg|png|ico|ttf|woff|svg)" -exec chmod 0640 {} \;