In this article, we will discuss a way to find files containing a specific string in Linux. Using find and grep command Suppose you are using a Command Line Terminal in Linux, and you need to find the files which contains specific text. You can use the find command along with the grep command to […]
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In this article, we will discuss ways to find file by name recursively in Linux. Suppose you are using a Linux terminal and you need to search for a file you know the name of the file but you don’t know its location in that case you can search for the file by name using
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In this article, we will learn how to find files by extension in Linux. Find files by Extension recursively in Linux If you are using Linux, then you might have encountered a situation, where you need to search for certain types of files in a directory reccursiverly. For exxample, suppose we want to find all
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Bash commands in Python can be a powerful tool for automating tasks such as setting up development environment and or deploying code to server, and also integrating different tools and languages. So, In this Python article, we will learn to run Bash commands in Python Programming language. But before that a quick introduction about bash
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Most of the programmers who are new to shell scripting and dealing with string variables, have a doubt regarding when they have to wrapquotes around a shell variable. In this article, we are going to perform some tests and try to understand when and where quotes around ashell variable are required. Table of Contents List
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In this article, we will learn how to find all files in a directory based on wildcard matching in Linux. Table Of Contents Introduction Finding files based on wildcard matching Example 1: Search for a file with specific Filename Example 2: Search for a file with specific pattern Example 3: Search for a file with
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While managing the linux servers we need to use the find command for finding files and directories based on our use case. In this article we want to learn about how to exclude a directory or multiple directories while using find command. Table Of Contents Using the prune option in find command Using “! -path”
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In this article, we will learn how to compare two folders in Linux and find differences. Table Of Contents Using the diff command Using the meld tool Summary Using the diff command The diff is one of the most widely used Linux command to compare contents of two files. It compares the contents of the
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We often come across a requirement to replace a string in a set of files. If we are using a windows environment, then doing it would be easy. Linux also provides some commands to search for a string in a file and replace all of them at once. We will look at multiple options that
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In this article, we will learn to count files in a directory and in its sub directories recursively in Linux. Table Of Contents Introduction Using tree command Using the find and wc command Using locate command: Using rsync command Summary: Introduction Sometimes we come across a requirement to find the count of all files in
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