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Where to find the website folder in ubuntu server?
So someone gave me the task to find where is the website code exist on ubuntu server
when I look at the the index.html file path it is
/var/www/example.com/html
but when I go to /var/www directory I ...
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How can I search for symlinks that point to other symlinks? [closed]
I have morass of chained symlinks like this scattered around:
A (symlink) -> B (symlink) -> C (file)
Some may even involve longer chains, I'm not sure yet.
When manually examining a single file ...
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Cron to find multiple file types and automatically delete them
I am trying to put together a command that will find multiple file types and automatically delete them. I want to run this in a cron every 10 minutes on my server.
I would like to find files of type: ....
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Windows search cannot find files in current directory
We have a windows server 2012 r2 that has the file server role and windows search installed.
The drives with the shared folders are indexed and the shares folders are mapped on all clients.
I can ...
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find: equal file size limit but different unit returns different result
I noticed that the these two commands to list files below 5 GiB produce different results:
find . -type f -size -5368709120c
find . -type f -size -5G
Specifically the one that uses kilobyte unit (...
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Linux Find File with Exact Size
In the Linux command line, how can I find all files exactly 158 kB in size? I was using the following command but it didn't work:
find /var/www/ -xdev -type f -size 158k
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Grep a textfile with (find generated) files, but ignore paths
I receive a huge textfile generated with find.
The contents of the generated textfile are a file-referenes with full path, i.e.:
//server/dir1/dir1foobar.ext
//server/dir1/dir2/dir1bar.ext
//server/...
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linux: find files from a list in txt, the files contain spaces
I need to find files from a list in txt (i already have the txt with all the files, are separated with lines), the files contain spaces and the extension of the files are pdf, if you can suggest how ...
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How can i manipulate the find command to "find" the directories the "found" file is in?
So i'm trying to use the find command to find all files in my system with mtime -x. It does this but it does not "find" the directories of the file.
find . -mtime -2 -exec rsync -av {} /destination/ ...
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Find and replace files in linux
I know how to find and replace certain string through files, but I'm interested how could I find and replace whole files? e.g. I would like to find all info.php files that were modified at specific ...
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Clarifying what modifies atime and the impact the find command might have
So on a regular basis I clear out files from my server which have an atime +160 with a command such as: (technically to delete old files but avoid any file that might have been accessed recently)
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Move files to another directory which are older than a date
I am looking for a solution to move files that are year older from today. My log partition is getting full, but I can not remove them. They are needed for a long long time. Anyway one solution I came ...
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finding files that match a precise size: a multiple of 4096 bytes [duplicate]
I have several drupal sites running on my local machine with WAMP installed (apache 2.2.17, php 5.3.4, and mysql 5.1.53). Whenever I try to visit the administrative page, the php process seems to die....
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How does find command sort results?
I have an old messy shell script. One of the steps executes find command with some parameters and expects the results to be sorted by creation time. It works well on old machines (find version is 4.1....
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How to find files with trailing slash in linux
I have some files in the filesystem that end with a trailing slash like so:
my_text_file_1.txt\
some_other_file_2.pl\
I usually use find for these cases, but the following did not work:
find . -...
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How to use find to replace several files of the same name
I have several files of the same name (say, somefile.php) scattered within several directories under /var/
If I want to replace all of them with a new version of somefile.php located in, say, /home/...
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How to view hidden files using Linux `find` command
On a Linux server, I need to find all files with a certain file extension in the current directory and all sub-directories.
Previously, I have always used the following command:
find . -type f | grep -...
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Linux - A more fine grained -mtime for find?
find is a great tool for finding files. It has the option to find files that were modified in the last X days with -mtime. However I'd like something more fine grained than that. I want to be able to ...
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How to Find a file in FreeBSD
I'm trying to locate all copies of example.filename on my FreeBSD server. What's the best / easiest / most efficient way to do this?
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