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- Remove old files by date in filename - I have backup scripts that create files with the backup date in their filename, in ISO 8601 format, as generated by date -I, as follows: mirrors.tgz-2015-12-31 This is year-month-day: mirrors.tgz-Y-m-d Every month I want to delete all old backu...
- Find files containing a pattern - You can find files with grep or find with grep. Using grep grep -riHn [pattern] . This will recursively find all files under the current directory (and it’s subdirectories) that contain the given pattern. The flags are as follows: r recursive...
- Find and replace - Notes on how to use the find command to find and replace text. Index Delete everything up to the first occurence of a regexp Keep everything between <START> and <END> Find and replace over multiple lines with sed Find and replace ...
- Find notes - Notes on the Linux find command. Index Find multiple file names Find ignoring a file Find ignoring a file and a directory Find files with particular permissions Find files not owned by a particular user or group Change extension of multip...
- Find filenames of a certain length - To find files whos filenames have a certain length, you can use various combinations of the ls, egrep and find commands. E.g. find files that have 9 characters followed by .txt: me@pc ~/tmp $ ls ?????????.txt analytics.txt capilinks.txt particles.t...
