The problem is that find returns the current directory (.) along with the other directories, so it deletes the processing folder as well as the subdirectories. A quick way to get around that would be to append …

Mar 5, 2015 · Under Linux, I'm looking for a command to list the largest file and/or the largest directories under a directory.

In bash, 2> /dev/null would actually work, as long as you add it as part of the find command itself, i.e., before the pipe. For example, this will work: find -type f -printf "%s %p\n" 2> /dev/null | sort -nr | head …

Nov 7, 2013 · In Linux, is there a way to do a search for files owned by multiple users (or group(s) of users) with the "find" command? Something like this? find . -user john, akido

Jan 8, 2013 · I need a Linux command to list all free open ports for use in an application lsof -i TCP| fgrep LISTEN Does not seen to be helping as the Ports it lists are not necessarily free for use. How …

Apr 7, 2016 · The find command won't print "no such file or directory" if the search path (/users/dan, in this case) exists, even if there are no matches. Are you sure this directory exists?

Oct 14, 2010 · 5 Both the locate and find commands will find a file, but they work in quite different ways. locate will work in an offline mode: For a simple explanation, the file indexing database in Unix …

Jan 23, 2024 · Find and delete files with linux command line Ask Question Asked 1 year, 10 months ago Modified 10 months ago

Jul 3, 2022 · to delete files on under folder we can use the following approach with find find /home -type f -delete but how to delete recursive only the files that exists under temp folder ? lets say we have the

Sep 29, 2011 · I will like to use "find" and locate" to search for source files in my project, but they take a long time to run. Are there faster alternatives to these programs I don't know about, or ways to spee...