Advanced features

This section gives more examples on how find, xargs, sed, and awk can be used together.

Examples:

• Rename command that handles special characters:

  find . -name "*.htm" | sed 's/\([[:space:]"*$?!<>()&;\\`|]\)/\\\1/g' | sed "s/'/\\'/g" | sed 's/\(.*\)/mv \1 \1l/' | (sh)

• Build a report of all core files

  find / \( -type f -o -type l \) -name core -ls | awk '{ print $5 ", " $0 }' | sort | awk -F, '$1 == LastUser { print "\t" $2 } $1 != LastUser { LastUser = $1; print $1; print "\t" $2 }'

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