May 1, 2017 · The complete name of the file is Book1.gnumeric. Are you saying that I have to specify the entire name of the file? For some reason I thought, for this specific command, that …

Dec 11, 2015 · That's because grep can't read file names to search through from standard input. What you're doing is printing file names that contain XYZ. Use find 's -exec option instead: find …

98 How can I get a list of the subdirectories which contain a file whose name matches a particular pattern? More specifically, I am looking for directories which contain a file with the letter 'f' …

How do I search the subdirectories of /dir to find the one called x/x/dir/x/x/x/target? This question is similar to, but not exactly what I am looking for: find command for certain subdirectories.

Jan 6, 2021 · The the find command itself then calls the basename utility for each found name. As an alternative, we could instead use a parameter substitution to remove all but the filename …

Feb 2, 2017 · find . -name '*.py' -exec grep something {} \; -print would print the file name after the matching lines. find . -name '*.py' -exec grep something /dev/null {} + would print the file name …

All of your output from the find command, including error messages usually sent to stderr (file descriptor 2) go now to stdout (file descriptor 1) and then get filtered by the grep command.

This pattern of adding -i before an option follows for other find options too. Ex: -name to search for a name, and -iname to make it case-insensitive. -path to search for a path, and -ipath to make …

You can use find. If, for example, you wanted to find all files and directories that had abcd in the filename, you could run: find . -name '*abcd*'

Nov 26, 2013 · Simply: find . ! -name '*2013*' Add a ! -type d to also exclude the files of type directory (like . itself), or -type f to include only regular files, excluding all other types of files …