Posts tagged find

I can never remember the correct format of the find command so that I can recusively search through folders for a particular file or files. So I set up a scripts folder in my user folder and added it to my path in my .ba

If you're ever sat at the linux commandline and had a repetitive task to complete on some files or directories then you'll find "xargs" together with "find" a very useful combination. Find will return a list of files and

Just had to make a few changes to a website I own that means changing the same text in lots of files. Linux has a lot of powerful tools to do this across many directories in one go. The safe modern pattern is: Two comman