Linux_Tips_And_Tricks.md

Linux Tips and Tricks

Find and delete files

• find . -name "*.bak" -type f -delete
• find . -name "*.bak" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm -f

Find and delete folders

• find . -name test -type d -print0|xargs -0 rm -r --
• find . -name test -type d -exec rm -r {} \;
• find . -name test -type d -exec rm -r {} +
• find . -name "test" -type d -delete
• find . "test" -type d -exec rm -rf {} \;
• find . -name test -exec rm -R "{}" \;

chmod all files and directories recursively

find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

Truncate all files in a directory

for f in *; do >$f; done