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  1. How can I exclude all "permission denied" messages from "find"?

    grep -v 'Permission denied$' filters out (-v) all lines (from the find command's stderr stream) that end with the phrase Permission denied and outputs the remaining lines to stderr (>&2).

  2. Find all files containing a specific text (string) on Linux

    Jun 6, 2013 · find is the standard tool for searching files - combined with grep when looking for specific text - on Unix-like platforms. The find command is often combined with xargs, by the way.

  3. How do I exclude a directory when using `find`? [closed]

    Among the approached variously suggested in this thread (How to exclude a directory in find . command), I find that searches using the accepted answer are much faster -- with caveats.

  4. Windows equivalent of Unix "find" command? - Stack Overflow

    Feb 5, 2015 · After long time working with Unix systems I had to make some scripts on Windows. For serious scripting Powershell is the tool you should use. You can search Internet with keywords like …

  5. unix - How to only find files in a given directory, and ignore ...

    Oct 10, 2011 · 15 Is there any particular reason that you need to use find? You can just use ls to find files that match a pattern in a directory.

  6. Search for executable files using find command - Stack Overflow

    Dec 16, 2010 · What type of parameter/flag can I use with the Unix find command so that I search executables?

  7. unix - How do I get the find command to print out the file size with ...

    Sep 15, 2008 · Printf works like this: find . -name *.ear -printf "%p %k KB\n" -exec is more powerful and lets you execute arbitrary commands - so you could use a version of 'ls' or 'wc' to print out the …

  8. unix - How to use find command to find all files with extensions from ...

    find /path/to/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 file | grep -i image This uses the file command to try to recognize the type of file, regardless of filename (or extension).

  9. Unix find: multiple file types - Stack Overflow

    Aug 25, 2011 · $ find . -name '*.h' -o -name '*.cpp' To find this information in the man page, type man find and the search for operators by typing /OPERATORS and hit enter. The . isn't strictly necessary …

  10. How maxdepth and mindepth works with find command?

    Feb 6, 2020 · I want to know how the maxdepth and mindepth works with find command. And also want to know how the below command works, find . -mindepth 2 -maxdepth 5 -name 'file1'