Top "Find" questions

How do I list all the files in a directory and subdirectories in reverse chronological order?

I want to do something like ls -t but also have the files in subdirectories included. But the problem is …

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find: missing argument to -exec

I was helped out today with a command, but it doesn't seem to be working. This is the command: find /…

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"find: paths must precede expression:" How do I specify a recursive search that also finds files in the current directory?

I am having a hard time getting find to look for matches in the current directory as well as its …

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How to recursively find the latest modified file in a directory?

It seems that ls doesn't sort the files correctly when doing a recursive call: ls -altR . | head -n 3 How can …

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Batch / Find And Edit Lines in TXT file

I want to create a batch while which finds specific lines in a batch file and are able to edit …

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Find all files with a filename beginning with a specified string?

I have a directory with roughly 100000 files in it, and I want to perform some function on all files beginning …

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How to find elements with 'value=x'?

I need to remove element that have value="123". I know that all elements with different values are located into #attached_…

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Find all elements on a page whose element ID contains a certain text using jQuery

I'm trying to find all elements on a page whose element ID contains a certain text. I'll then need to …

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Find all stored procedures that reference a specific column in some table

I have a value in a table that was changed unexpectedly. The column in question is CreatedDate: this is set …

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grep without showing path/file:line

How do you grep and only return the matching line? i.e. The path/filename is omitted from the results. …

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