Questions tagged [file-search]
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How does the search algorithm in Gnome Files traverse the directory tree?
If I place myself in some directory C and press the search lens and type some keywords, are files matching the keywords in directory C displayed first? This is not obvious, for instance if the search ...
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Mobaxterm: in SFTP >>I am not able to search/find specific folder name in this list. Do we any option to do Search/Find in this folder list?
From this list, I am not able to do Search/Find for any specific folder name or file available in this directory. Any options available? Also, not able to type and move to any folder or file. Ex: if ...
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Looking to improve searches across large ( 7-10 GB files )
I have a need to search for many ( thousands) of dns within a large ( 7-10 GB) ldif file and print out the entries after it . I am mostly familiar with shell/python so tried to use awk for this and it ...
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extending recursive find to .tar, tar.gz, tar.bz2, and tar.xz on Debian 12
Continuing find a file within a tar.gz archive, how is it possible to automatically recursively search for files with given names, including the files inside the archives and compressed archives? For ...
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Retrieve the Following Occurrence of the String 'PWD' Once the Given String is Located
Below is my sample test.log file export SQRDIR=/v/orahome/Middleware/Oracle/bin64 export OID=ap0092 export PWD=pass1 export FDPWD=pass1 export AP0085_PWD=pass1 export SVR=AFFPROD export ...
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How to set up local Windows directory in WSL correctly?
I ran this script in Windows Subsystem for Linux at the command line. I wanted to search for the latest files but I got the error message "no such file or directory", and so I wonder how do ...
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search for a section of log that was appended upon execution of script
I'm using WebLogic start script startmymanageserver1.sh that writes(appends) to a managedserver.log log file every time it is executed. The managedserver.log may have logs from the past few months ...
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Unzip files with the same name from multiple directories
I have the file archive.zip located in multiple directories, i.e.: dir/001/archive.zip dir/002/archive.zip dir/003/archive.zip ... Is there a way in which I can recursively unzip all the archive.zip ...
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How to search for 3 specific things within a file?
Within the file, security.log I need to find how many IP addresses have the most DNSBL 5 rankings. This is what a line in this file can look like: Oct 24 00:00:28 MAIL-00 postfix/postscreen[10909]: ...
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Only output the name of file containing a pattern (without the line output) using grep
I want to list the files that contain a pattern, without outputting the line(s) containing the pattern. I assume that it's possible to do this with grep. How should I use grep in that sense? For ...
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Search for all videos created on a Saturday
I am using Linux Mint. There are several years worth of files and folders scattered everywhere. My goal is to find a way to search my entire hard drive for any video files that were created on a ...
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Find Files Recursively With Different ACLs
How would I go about finding all files recursively that have ACLs different from what I'm searching for? For example I would like to find all files in a directory that have ACLs that are not ...
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Find XML file with specific path
I'm working with XML files, each of which could be dozens of lines long. There are literally hundreds of these files, all over a directory structure. Yes, it is Magento. I need to find the file that ...
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Find recursively all files whose content match a specific regular expression
I like to search all PHP files and find a particular string that is identified by a regular expression. The regular expressions that I use to find the string is: \$[a-zA-Z0-9]{5,8}\s\=\s.{30,50}\;\$[a-...
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Difference between GNU find -not and GNU find -prune -o -print
This answer on opening all files in vim except [condition]: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/149356/98426 gives an answer similar to this: find . \( -name '.?*' -prune \) -o -type f -print (I adapted ...
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