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List files modified in the last hour - find command
Daniel Romero
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1 response
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shell, find, linux, unix
How to check in bash if file size is greater than N
Janos Gyerik
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3 responses
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shell, find, bash
Capybara - select first element (Ambiguity Resolution)
Vlado Cingel
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0 responses
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find, capybara, first
command line magic examples with grep / cut / awk / sort
Ralph Meier
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shell, sed, grep, find
shell: Find and copy files
Sajnikanth Suriyanarayanan
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0 responses
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find, copy, bash
RegEx to find a line containing certain words
Tom Loudon
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0 responses
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regex, find, regular expression, replace
How NOT to delete files with the find command
Greg Nofi
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8 responses
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find, unix
Find files on Linux with... find
pmaoui
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0 responses
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regex, find, linux, regexp
Find locked files in OSX terminal
Jinn Koriech
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0 responses
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osx, find, file, lock
Push all the files in a directory to an s3 bucket
Hartley Brody
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0 responses
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find, s3, xargs, aws
Add a file to every subdirectory recursively
Hartley Brody
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0 responses
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grep, find, xargs, git
Remove files older than 7 days
Balazs Nadasdi
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1 response
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shell, script, find, cron
Replace relative path to parent directory with dynamic root directory of a Node.js project
James Womack
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0 responses
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node, regex, sed, find
OS X and Project Wide Find and Replace
Ben Simpson
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1 response
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sed, grep, find, replace
Searching strings in Xcode using NSScanner and NSRegularExpression
Anthony Levings
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0 responses
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regex, grep, find, nsstring
Recursively Expand Tabs to Spaces
Seppi
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0 responses
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bash, script, find, tabs
Find a Class in a bunch of JAR Files
Philipp Haußleiter
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0 responses
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find, batch, jar, class
Use find and sed to find and replace text in multiple files
Andrea Puggioni
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1 response
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sed, find, linux, bash
List directory with up to 8 millions files
0asa
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0 responses
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ls, terminal, find, list
Little ruby snippet to find words in files recursively
Rafael Barbosa
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2 responses
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ruby, find, directory, words
Running any command on a directory tree containing files with spaces
Robin Smidsrød
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0 responses
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shell, find, whitespace, loop
Find commits not in the logs
Gil Polguère
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0 responses
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find, logs, search, commit
Delete all files except those matching a pattern
Aaron Ott
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0 responses
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find, commandline, linux
Shell: grep in specific files in a subfolder
Alex Heusingfeld
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0 responses
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shell, grep, find, search
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shell, unix, find, bash
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shell, ls, find, commandline
Remove files older than 7 days
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shell, script, find, cron
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find, capybara, first
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