Re: [Nolug] Wireless

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Mischa Krilov wrote:

> I'm pretty spoiled, I know. Also, due to a long-ago frustration with
> find, my instinct is to type "find /path | grep foo" instead. Must overcome.

I confess i did the same thing before i learned all the stuff find could
do. Most useful when used with -exec... here's the most common things i
use it for:

Delete all tmp*.html files:

fine . -name 'tmp*.html' -exec rm -rf {} \;

Need to chown all files owned by uid 501 to ray (when i moved from redhat
to debian, my uid changed from 501 to 1000):

find / -uid 501 -exec chown ray.ray {} \;

Delete files that haven't changed in 14 days:

find /tmp -mtime +14 -exec rm -rf {} \;

Show me all files bigger than 50 megs (512-byte blocks):

find . -size +100000 -ls

Show me all the SUID root or SGID root files on my system

find / \( -perm 4755 -o -perm 2755 \) -uid 0 -ls

When a file has control characters in its filename and you can't delete
it, and tab complete won't work, delete it by it's inode number. ls -li
to get inode, then

find . -inum 123456 -exec rm -rf {} \;

ray

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Ray DeJean  				       	 http://www.r-a-y.org
Systems Engineer                    Southeastern Louisiana University
IBM Certified Specialist  	      AIX Administration, AIX Support
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