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aliases:
- /2006/10/using-gnu-find
categories:
- linux
date: 2006-10-03 14:00
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slug: using-gnu-find
title: using gnu find

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<p>
 list all the directories excluding ".":
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<blockquote>
 find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -not -name ".*"
</blockquote>
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find some string in all files matching a pattern in the subfolders (with grep -r you cannot specify the type of file)
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<blockquote>
 find . -name '*.py' -exec grep -i pdb '{}' \;
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