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May 28, 20181 min read

find every file updated by a command

touch start; <DO STUFF>; find . -cnewer start -printf "%T+\t%p\n" | sort

May 24, 20182 min read

Find all text files

This blog is a repost of the best answer I've found to-date for: find all text files. It also contains some additional info on how the...

May 19, 20181 min read

find sort by date

find . your-options -printf "%T+\t%p\n" | sort

May 8, 20181 min read

Find files updated less then 3 minutes ago, less then 10 minutes ago

To find a file that was update 3 minutes ago on Linux type find . -cmin 3 To find a file that was updated 10 minutes ago type: find . -cmin

Apr 11, 20181 min read

Print the name of a file and the file's contents

This post lists a Linux command that will print the name of a file and then print the contents of that file. The following command will...

Feb 27, 20182 min read

Find "eth0" in all "*.dt*" files

find . -type f -name "*.dt*" -exec grep -Hi 'eth0' {} \;