How can I modify the below command to find all files modified in last day that have extension of .log ?
Here is the command so far :
find . -mtime -1 -print
find . -name \*.log -mtime -1 -print
find . -mtime -1 -iname '*.log'
Note: Using double quotes instead of single quotes will likely give unexpected results due to shell expansion.
Use -name option to find files by particular name
find . -mtime -1 -name "*.log" -print
Notice the use of wildcard character * to find all files ending with .log
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AIM: to find all JS|TS excluding *.spec.js files in a directory but replace the base path with ./
I have this command
find src/app/directives -name '*.[j|t]s' ! -name '*.spec.js' -exec printf "import \"%s\";\n" {} \;
which in said directory prints the marked JS files. However I want to replace the src/app with ./
I've tried playing with [[]] and this command but they don't work.
find src/app/components -name '*.[j|t]s' ! -name '*.spec.js' -exec printf "import \"%s\";\n" ${{}/src
/hi} \;
zsh: bad substitution
Given your "AIM", all you really need is:
find src/app/directives -type f -name "*.[jt]s" ! -name "*.spec.js" -printf "./%f\n"
The reason being is the '|' in your character-class isn't matching anything, but isn't hurting anything for that matter. Your second ! -name "*.spec.js" is fine. You don't need -exec and can simply use -printf "./%f\n" (where "%f" provides the filename only for the current file). You simply prepend the "./" as part of the -printf format-string.
Let me know if I misunderstood your AIM or if you have further questions.
Removing src/app/directives While Preserving Remaining Path
If you want to preserve the remainder of the path after src/app/directives (essentially just replacing it with '.'), you can use a short helper-script with the POSIX parameter expansion to trim src/app/directives from the front of the string replacing it with '.' using printf in the helper script. For example the helper could be:
#!/bin/zsh
printf ".%s" "${1#./src/app/directives}"
(note: the leading "./" being removed along with src/app/directives is prepended by find, the '.' added by the printf format-string will result in the returned filename being ./rest/of/path/to/filename)
Call the script whatever you like, helper.sh below. Make it executable chmod +x helper.sh.
The find call would then be:
find src/app/directives -type f -name "*.[jt]s" ! -name "*.spec.js" -exec path/to/helper.sh '{}' \;
Give that a go and let me know if it does what you are needing.
Is there a command which lists all folders that matches a wildcard expression? Example, if there are thousands of directories and I only want those ending in M or those starting in JO to be listed, can I do that with a certain Linux command? Thanks!
Use find command, for example:
# find anything that start with 'jo' end with 'm' (case insensitive)
find . -iname 'jo*m'
You can execute any command after that, for example:
# find just like above but case sensitive, and move them to `/tmp`
find . -name 'JO*M' -exec mv -v {} /tmp \;
To find only a directory, you can use -type d flag, for example:
# find any directory that start with JO
find . -name 'JO*' -type d
Explanation, first argument is the starting directory, . means current directory. The next argument means the search criteria -name for case sensitive search, -iname for case insensitive search, -type for type of item search, -exec to execute certain command where the {} is the file name matched. You can learn more here or for your specific case here.
I'm using csh and I have a directory structure containing multiple sub-directories. I'm trying to rename all the directories and sub-directories but not the files inside these directories. So something like
From
topdir1
--dir11
--dir12
topdir2
--dir21
----dir211
--dir22
to
topdir1.test
--dir11.test
--dir12.test
topdir2.test
--dir21.test
----dir211.test
--dir22.test
I can list the directories with find . -maxdepth 3 -type d. I'm trying to use a foreach loop to rename them. So
foreach i (`find . -maxdepth 3 -type d`)
mv $i $i.test
end
But this doesn't work as once the top level directory is renamed, it cannot find the sub-directories, so it only renames the top level directories.
Any idea on how to go about this?
Thanks
How about reversing the find results so that the subdirectories are listed first?
foreach i (`find ./* -maxdepth 3 -type d | sort -r`)
mv $i $i.test
end
Sort will output the longest directory names last, using the -r (reverse) flag changes it so that the lowest directories will be listed first, and be renamed before their parent directories do.
Use the -depth option to find.
From the solaris man find page:
-depth Always true. Causes descent of the
directory hierarchy to be done so that
all entries in a directory are acted on
before the directory itself. This can
be useful when find is used with cpio(1)
to transfer files that are contained in
directories without write permission.
Why use a loop? Just let find do the work:
find . -depth -maxdepth 3 -type d -exec mv {} {}.test \;
That is not strictly portable (some implementations of find may legally not expand {}.test to the string you want, so you might prefer:
find . -depth -maxdepth 3 -type d -exec sh -c 'mv $0 $0.test' {} \;
I was trying to make Unix "find" not to list the directories while searching for a particular file.
find <path> -name filename <Dont't list matching directories>
find <path> -name filename ! -type d
You can use the -type argument, so you probably want to include -type f to match only files.
find -name filename -type f
OR
find -name filename -not -type d
I need to know if we have any command on UNIX such that:
It gives me all the files which got updated after time t in the current directory
You can use find with the mtime parameter:
find . -maxdepth 1 -mtime -1h30m
You can use the find command for this.
Touch a file with your specific date and then use that file with the -newer parameter of find.
# To find all files modifed on 10th of Dec:
touch -t 12100000 foo
# MMDDhhmm
find ./ -type f -maxdepth 1 -newer foo
Use the find command with appropriate arguments. Relevant information is here.
#find files by modification time
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find . -mtime 1 # 24 hours
find . -mtime -7 # last 7 days
find . -mtime -7 -type f # just files
find . -mtime -7 -type d # just dirs
find with time: this works on mac os x
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find / -newerct '1 minute ago' -print