Let say I have a directory with a lot of subdirectories: 04762b39018e3cf4b1a2c6a304919b75 06e0caf156de30dd962cf6b9300aba66 1f1d0cb1b810336299cda5426d0f12f5 2fe7a428eb303da6846800fa20ab7ed4 41e0136413703b0685d6799f8a22a8e6 asdf 1234 Databases Some of this directories are exact 32 characters long, (md5hash actually) and I would like to find them. Recursive search is not required in this case. I tried with this command: find /root/my/subdir -maxdepth 1 -type… Read More Search 32 character long directories only with find

I am trying to find all txt files in mutiple directories and use the contents of file to match each txt file and copy them to a new directory (all). Not every directory will have a match and there are more then txt files inside each, but those are not needed. The below executes but… Read More find specific files and copy to new folder

Given to the success of the question I posted here: Find empty files and their duplicates, thank you Freeman & Mark Setchell, I am now encouraged to ask another related question. In this case, the challenge is to delete the file if it lacks a partner. The text2image tool in Tesseract sometimes fails to produce… Read More Delete a file if it lacks a duplicate (partner)

I am trying to train tesseract. The process involves creating triples of files: box files, text files and image (tif) files. The tool that creates the .box files sometimes creates empty files. Those empty files cause problems for the engine. So, I want to delete the empty box files as well as their partners. The… Read More Find empty files and their duplicates

I have a worksheet with full of simple data and complex formulas. I want to find special cells which contain specific characters. Try to use the Find function, but not gives back the correct result because the cells Numberformat sometimes contains characters as of the cells values which i am looking for. This is a… Read More Cannot find the correct result with Find method in Excel VBA

With the following command, I want to find a specific file name, print its name and then compress it in-place with bzip2 command. The compression works but file name is not printed. $ find . -name *.sb.* -printf "%f\n" | xargs bzip2 $ ls foo.sb.txt.bzip2 $ How can I fix that? >Solution : I suggest… Read More Using printf in "find" command

I’m trying to select files created before today with GNU find but it does not work as I expect : $ find log/ -maxdepth 1 ! -newermt today -name "BACKUP*OK" log/BACKUP_copro-20230504_OK log/BACKUP_distrib-20230503_OK log/BACKUP_distrib-20230504_OK $ find log/ -maxdepth 1 -daystart ! -newermt today -name "BACKUP*OK" log/BACKUP_copro-20230504_OK log/BACKUP_distrib-20230503_OK log/BACKUP_distrib-20230504_OK $ But I expect this file only :… Read More Select files before today with GNU find

To find a file containing more than one case-insensitive search term, I’m doing: find . -iname "*first*" -iname "*second*" I’d like to turn this into a utility script, so that I can just type ./myfind.sh first second However, since brace expansion happens before variable expansion, I can’t do: #!/bin/bash find . {-iname "*${*}*"} Note that… Read More How to construct a find statement using multiple bash script arguments

When calling the findProd function with the number 1, everything works correctly. However, if I replace the number 1 with the idToFind variable, the console outputs undefined. Why is this happening? P.S. in my file, if I print idToFind, the result is 1. addToCartButtons.forEach(button => { button.addEventListener(‘click’, (event) => { const idToFind = event.target.dataset.id; let… Read More If I set the value to find as a variable, why doesn't it work?