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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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cygwin find -ls behaviour like ls [closed]
I use cygwin find with -ls (find . -ls) option to have a list of files with full path.
Due to UTF-16 (windows XP in this case) converted to en_UTF-8 under cygwin, special charactere like accent are ...
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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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Correctly predicting the amount of disk usage with find/ls/stat and df?
I'm trying to programatically calculate the number of files that can fit on a drive. The drive uses LUKS/ext4 and has a block size of 4096. Below is a df printout of the drive.
Filesystem ...
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Glob Not Match?
How to list files that don't match a glob?
E.g., let's say I have a directory that contains hundreds of files, 97% of which have the filename extension .png.
I know I can list the PNG files with:
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linux or solaris match files with uniq syntax
how to match all files that start with the string OS_PATCH
and ended with .gz
remark - the solution must to fit Linux and Solaris OS
this task could be by find command or maybe with ls with ...
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FreeBSD: How to know real file size on zfs with compression on?
I'm using zfs on my FreeBSD 9.0 x64 and pretty happy with it, but I find it hard to count directory real, not compressed, size.
Surely I can walk over the directory and count every file size with ls,...
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