I want to perform a find command in a directory, and exclude from the set of results all files that are .gif, .jpeg, and .class.
I was wondering if someone could help me out. I've been trying to play with the regex option, but clearly I'm not doing it properly.
Something like:
find . \! -name '*.class' \! -name '*.jpeg' \! -name '*.class'
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I was given a Makefile for an assignment that gives me a make clean
command. With the way the repository is set up, it deletes everything in the /bin and /out folders, except for a file called .gitignore. This is what the command looks like:
clean:
find out/ ! -name .gitignore -type f -delete && \
find bin/ ! -name .gitignore -type f -delete
Now that I'm doing my project, I need to store things in a folder called /bin/fonts and /bin/word_lists. I'm trying to modify the command so that it ignores these two files. The only problem is, I don't know what language these commands are written in, so I don't even know where to start looking at the syntax. Could somebody point me in the right direction? I tried something like this:
clean:
find out/ ! -name .gitignore -type f -delete && \
find bin/ ! -name .gitignore ! -name fonts/FreeSans.ttf -type f -delete
But it still deletes everything in fonts, and even if it did work the way I wanted, that doesn't really solve the problem of saving every single font in the folder.
I also tried this:
clean:
find out/ ! -name .gitignore -type f -delete && \
find ./bin -mindepth 1 ! -name .gitignore ! -regex '^./fonts/\(/.*\)?' ! -regex '^./word_lists/\(/.*\)?' -delete
following this post, but it instead deleted everything INCLUDING the folders bin/fonts as well as bin/word_lists.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
-name does not examine the full file path, it only matches against the file name (so -name FreeSans.ttf would match, but match this file name in any directory).
The predicate you are looking for is called -path but then you need to specify a pattern for the entire path.
clean:
find out/ bin/ ! -name .gitignore ! -path 'bin/fonts/*
! -path 'bin/word_lists/*' -type f -delete
(Notice also how I condensed the find to traverse two directories at the same time. I assume you mean bin not /bin; perhaps see also Difference between ./ and ~/)
Hey all I am attempting rename all files that match a certain pattern in B-shell. I am stuck on the syntax of the mv command to rename the file.
I am finding all the files like this and I know I have to pipe the output of this command into the mv command but just can't figure it out. Here is the code and here is the mv command.
find . -iname "f????.a" -print0 | (some command that renames the files that have been found)
Any help on this is greatly appreciated.
find . -iname "f????.a" -exec mv {} {}.img \;
I am trying to put the result of a find command to a text file on a unix bash shell
Using:
find ~/* -name "*.txt" -print > list_of_txt_files.list
However the list_of_txt_files.list stays empty and I have to kill the find to have it return the command prompt. I do have many txt files in my home directory
Alternatively How do I save the result of a find command to a text file from the commandline. I thought that this should work
The first thing I would do is use single quotes (some shells will expand the wildcards, though I don't think bash does, at least by default), and the first argument to find is a directory, not a list of files:
find ~ -name '*.txt' -print > list_of_txt_files.list
Beyond that, it may just be taking a long time, though I can't imagine anyone having that many text files (you say you have a lot but it would have to be pretty massive to slow down find). Try it first without the redirection and see what it outputs:
find ~ -name '*.txt' -print
You can redirect output to a file and console together by using tee.
find ~ -name '*.txt' -print | tee result.log
This will redirect output to console and to a file and hence you don't have to guess whether if command is actually executing.
Here is what worked for me
find . -name '*.zip' -exec echo {} \\; > zips.out
I've been stuck on a little unix command line problem.
I have a website folder (4gb) I need to grab a copy of, but just the .php, .html, .js and .css files (which is only a couple hundred kb).
I'm thinking ideally, there is a way to zip or tar a whole folder but only grabbing certain file extensions, while retaining subfolder structures. Is this possible and if so, how?
I did try doing a whole zip, then going through and excluding certain files but it seemed a bit excessive.
I'm kinda new to unix.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Switch into the website folder, then run
zip -R foo '*.php' '*.html' '*.js' '*.css'
You can also run this from outside the website folder:
zip -r foo website_folder -i '*.php' '*.html' '*.js' '*.css'
You can use find and grep to generate the file list, then pipe that into zip
e.g.
find . | egrep "\.(html|css|js|php)$" | zip -# test.zip
(-# tells zip to read a file list from stdin)
This is how I managed to do it, but I also like ghostdog74's version.
tar -czvf archive.tgz `find test/ | egrep ".*\.html|.*\.php"`
You can add extra extensions by adding them to the regex.
I liked Nick's answer, but, since this is a programming site, why not use Ant to do this. :)
Then you can put in a parameter so that different types of files can be zipped up.
http://ant.apache.org/manual/Tasks/zip.html
you may want to use find(GNU) to find all your php,html etc files.then tar them up
find /path -type f \( -iname "*.php" -o -iname "*.css" -o -iname "*.js" -o -iname "*.ext" \) -exec tar -r --file=test.tar "{}" +;
after that you can zip it up
You could write a shell script to copy files based on a pattern/expression into a new folder, zip the contents and then delete the folder. Now, as for the actual syntax of it, ill leave that to you :D.
I know that to find all the .h files I need to use:
find . -name "*.h"
but how to find all the .h AND .cpp files?
find . -name \*.h -print -o -name \*.cpp -print
or
find . \( -name \*.h -o -name \*.cpp \) -print
find -name "*.h" -or -name "*.cpp"
(edited to protect the asterisks which were interpreted as formatting)
Paul Tomblin Has Already provided a terrific answer, but I thought I saw a pattern in what you were doing.
Chances are you'll be using find to generate a file list to process with grep one day, and for such task there exists a much more user friendly tool, Ack
Works on any system that supports perl, and searching through all C++ related files in a directory recursively for a given string is as simple as
ack "int\s+foo" --cpp
"--cpp" by default matches .cpp .cc .cxx .m .hpp .hh .h .hxx files
(It also skips repository dirs by default so wont match on files that happen to look like files in them.)
A short, clear way to do it with find is:
find . -regex '.*\.\(cpp\|h\)'
From the man page for -regex: "This is a match on the whole path, not a search." Hence the need to prefix with .* to match the beginning of the path ./dir1/dir2/... before the filename.
find . -regex ".*\.[cChH]\(pp\)?" -print
This tested fine for me in cygwin.
You can use find in this short form:
find \( -name '*.cpp' -o -name '*.h' \) -print
-print can be omitted. Using -o just between expressions is especially useful when you want to find multiple types of files and do one same job (let's say calculating md5sum).