Top "Find" questions

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How to display modified date time with 'find' command?

With a find command, I can display directories names with multiple levels. The following command display all directories under /var …

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How to exclude this / current / dot folder from find "type d"

find . -type d can be used to find all directories below some start point. But it returns the current directory (.) …

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find -exec cmd {} + vs | xargs

Which one is more efficient over a very large set of files and should be used? find . -exec cmd {} + or …

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How can I process the results of find in a bash script?

I'm trying to use an array to store a list of file names using the find command. For some reason …

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Checking value exist in a std::map - C++

I know find method finds the supplied key in std::map and return an iterator to the element. Is there …

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Finding human-readable files on Unix

I'd like to find human-readable files on my Linux machine without a file extension constraint. Those files should be of …

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Using `find -perm` to find when a permission is not set

I want to find the non-readable files in my directory (eg the files with g-r). So I tried this: find . …

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What is the meaning of Possible null pointer dereference in findbug?

I am using Sonar and I have got this kind of violation from it for a peace of my code: …

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List all files (with full paths) in a directory (and subdirectories), order by access time

I'd like to construct a Linux command to list all files (with their full paths) within a specific directory (and …

linux bash find ls
List only certain files in a directory matching the word BOZO and ending with either '123' or '456'

I'm trying to figure out how to get a list of file names for a file named BOZO but ending …

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