Comments on: Linux or Unix find and remove files with one find command on fly

By: lupht

lupht — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:51:58 +0000

Kiran:

Try the -ignore_readdir_race option

By: Roshan

Roshan — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:24:53 +0000

How to override after find command?
Note :i know find command but dont know how to combine these operations.
cat “I’m repled content” > test.zip .
ex:
1> i have to find files with name “*test*.*” and replace the content of the file with “I’m replaced content”.
2> find the file with size more than 10mb and replace the content of the file with “I’m replaced content”.

By: Sailor Enlil

Sailor Enlil — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:59:27 +0000

Does find’s -delete option support or have something similar to rm’s -f flag? (i.e. force delete a file/directory even if the write permission is not set)? I need to delete files that may not be write enabled (eg r– or r-x when viewed using ls -l).

By: Kiran

Kiran — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:43:46 +0000

Hi,

I am trying to delete files and folders using the below command

find /opt/server/Outward/logs/ -daystart $ -type d ! $ -mtime +264 -exec rm -rf {} \;
I get the below error.
find: /opt/server/Outward/logs/2009-02-04: No such file or directory

The logs folder contains folders and sub-folders. After I execute the command i get the error message as above. What could be the possible reason and the solution.

Thanks
Kiran

By: durga

durga — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:38:59 +0000

hey, thanks!

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:43:44 +0000

Use -delete flag with find… works much faster than -exec rm

By: Hank

Hank — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:26:01 +0000

This should do it:

for FILE in `find . -name ‘*\:*’`; do NEW=`echo $FILE | sed -e ’s/:/_/’`; mv $FILE $NEW; done

By: JimmyNY

JimmyNY — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:01:07 +0000

Nobody has ever asked this question online it seems…

Problem: Stupid MAC (which I dont have anymore named files with these characters:
“:”
“?”
etc.. in the file names.. I could not find any file renamer that would rename these files in Windows/DOS..

So I tried FENDORA linux and I can rename the manually one by one but i have hundreds…

HELP!!!!

No RENAME or mv command works.. I trired everything i can find online..

I tried specifing the “:” like this “\:” “\x3a” etc.. and nothing.

does anyone know how to strip these retardted OS-illegal characters out of the names.. in one shot.?

I know the ren command in DOS.. but I have no clue it seems in Linux.
and no i don’t have a mac or access to one..

Thanks ahead of time, for your help.

By: CorkyMoo

CorkyMoo — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:03:29 +0000

Is it not ‘ | exec ‘ and not ‘ -exec ‘ ? Either way it does not work.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:27:55 +0000

I’m trying to remove files that have a certain misc dates
Would like to do a wild card for certain parts of the file name.
Example – 03230800203805V274803.810

Would ****08***********.810 work?

Want to delete the files containing in the postions 5 and 6 for 08.

Thanks,
Nicole