Top "Find" questions

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List files matching pattern when too many for bash globbing

I'd like to run the following: ls /path/to/files/pattern* and get /path/to/files/pattern1 /path/to/files/…

bash find ls
Unresolved externals in C++ when using vectors and find

I have tried this code in a totally separate project, and it works fine (the only difference being that the …

c++ find stdvector unresolved-external
How to find all files which are basically soft or hard links of other directories or files on linux?

How could I get the list of all linked files on my system or from a certain directory. I used …

linux shell find hardlink symlink
Difference between find and filter in jquery

I'm working on fetching data from wiki pages. I'm using a combination of php and jquery to do this. First …

jquery find web-crawler
'find' with 'xargs' and 'tar'

I have the following I want to do: find . -maxdepth 6 \( -name \*.tar.gz -o -name bediskmodel -o -name src -o …

find tar xargs
bat function to find a file in folder and subfolders and do something with it.

I need to find all files with specific filename(for example main.css) in folder and all subfolders and then …

windows batch-file find batch-processing
find lacks the option -printf, now what?

I have not found a reason why Mac's find does not have the option -printf. Apple normally decides to take …

macos find printf
how using SQL IN operator in find method of cakephp ORM

i am beginner in cakephp , and i want use SQL IN operator in find method , i have words table. my …

cakephp orm find in-operator
Clean way to find ActiveRecord objects by id in the order specified

I want to obtain an array of ActiveRecord objects given an array of ids. I assumed that Object.find([5,2,3]) Would …

ruby-on-rails sqlite activerecord find rails-activerecord
How do I delete folders using regex from Linux terminal

Say I have folders: img1/ img2/ How do I delete those folders using regex from Linux terminal, that matches everything …

regex linux find rm