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ls: terminated by signal 13 when using xargs

I'm using the following command to delete four largest size files in a folder: find "/var/www/site1/" -maxdepth 1 -type …

find xargs
osx find exec rm find: exec: unknown primary or operator

I've got a bunch of files that end in "-e" that I want to remove. $ find . -name "*-e" exec rm {} \; …

bash unix find rm
How to execute multiple commands after xargs -0?

find . -name "filename including space" -print0 | xargs -0 ls -aldF > log.txt find . -name "filename including space" -print0 | xargs …

bash find xargs
How to get last Git tag matching regex criteria

I need Git command to get/find last tag starting with 'v' to get last versioning commit (I am using …

regex git tags find tagging
md5 all files in a directory tree

I have a a directory with a structure like so: . ├── Test.txt ├── Test1 │   ├── Test1.txt │   ├── Test1_copy.txt │   └── Test1a │   ├── …

bash for-loop find md5 directory-structure
detecting the start of a loop in a singly linked link list?

Is there any way of finding out the start of a loop in a link list using not more than …

loops linked-list find singly-linked-list cycle-detection
using std::find with a predicate

I want to use std::find function along with a predicate (not sure if I use the correct word). Here …

c++ vector find predicate
How to check if find command didn't find anything?

I know that is possible to use for loop with find command like that for i in `find $something`; do (...) …

linux bash find suse
Find all zips, and unzip in place - Unix

I have been trying for some time and believe I am fairly close to this, but I am fairly new …

shell unix find zip unzip
Include only certain file types when searching in Visual Studio

Often when I want to search through my code in Visual Studio, I know the thing I'm looking for is …

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