File searching Commands and Description

[sukishan]

file searching • alias l='ls -l --color=auto' quick dir listing
• ls -lrt List files by date. See also newest and find_mm_yyyy
• ls /usr/bin | pr -T9 -W$COLUMNS Print in 9 columns to width of terminal
  find -name '*.[ch]' | xargs grep -E 'expr' Search 'expr' in this dir and below. See also findrepo
  find -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 grep -F 'example' Search all regular files for 'example' in this dir and below
  find -maxdepth 1 -type f | xargs grep -F 'example' Search all regular files for 'example' in this dir    find -maxdepth 1 -type d | while read dir; do echo $dir; echo cmd2; done Process each item with multiple commands (in while loop)
• find -type f ! -perm -444 Find files not readable by all (useful for web site)
• find -type d ! -perm -111 Find dirs not accessible by all (useful for web site)
• locate -r 'file[^/]*\.txt' Search cached index for names. This re is like glob *file*.txt
• look reference Quickly search (sorted) dictionary for prefix
• grep --color reference /usr/share/dict/words Highlight occurances of regular expression in dictionary

[dhoni]

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