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al@P5Q:~/bin$ pwd
/home/al/bin
al@P5Q:~/bin$ cat findh
#!/usr/bin/perl
# findh prints example find useage
print "\nfilename accepts wildcards || Or try: locate filename\ncmd | top dir (recurses down) | opt -n denotes-> | name_of_file2find\n\n";
print "find /home -name filename\n--\n";

print <<STUFF;
find SBo/13.1/ -name "*.info" -exec grep -H 'MAINTAINER' {} \; | cut -d= -f2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr > maintainers.txt

find / -perm +04000 -exec ls -ld {} \\; 2> /dev/null > /tmp/SUID.files
find / -perm +02000 -exec ls -ld {} \\; 2> /dev/null > /tmp/SGID.files

# files larger than 2 megs. size.txt ordered list (see next 2 also)
find /home/al/ -xdev -size +2000k -print | xargs ls -ldS > ~/size.txt

# sed escapes spaces (makes the ls part work on MS Win folder/file names)
find . -xdev -size +2000k -print | sed 's/ /\\ /g' | xargs ls -ldS > ~/size.txt

# size is both listed and ordered also works on MS Win with spaces
find . -type f -size +50000k -exec ls -lhS {} \;

# replace space with underscore
find /your/path -iname "*" | while read fname ; do
  "`echo "$fname" | sed 's/ /_/i'`"
done

# caution searches from / (all of al files on entire disk)
find / -xdev -user al -print | xargs ls -ldS > /home/al/alfil.txt

# change group
find /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin -type f -group bin | xargs chgrp root

# all files under yum_repo that are less than 26 days old
find /home/al/yum_repo -mtime -26

# quote when pattern used in name portion
find /mnt/usbhd/rhel/yum_repo -name '*'

find /usr -name foobar.txt

find / -name foobar.txt  # srch from root of HD

find / -iname '*.MP3'  # case insensitive

find -amin -60  # files accessed less than 60 minutes ago

# redirect next to a file may serve as an install log of files installed
# find / -xdev -ctime -1  # finds new(ly) (software installed) files
  ^^^^ ^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^  ^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^
perl -MFile::Find -le 'find sub{print if /\\.txt\$/}, "."'

# tested s/print/unlink/ to delete files
perl -MFile::Find -e 'find sub { print if /\\.txt\$/} , shift || "."'

my \@files = `find $dir -name '*.txt'`;

# files only also in cur dir only
find . -name '*' -maxdepth 1 -type f > ~/myfiles.txt
find . -name '*.htm' -maxdepth 1 -type f > ~/myfiles.txt

# cp files to /tmp/slackupdate (ok prompts, exec just does it)
find . -type f -name "*.txt" -maxdepth 1 -ok cp {} /tmp/slackupdate \\;
find . -type f -name "*.txt" -maxdepth 1 -exec cp {} /tmp/slackupdate \\;
find . -name '*.bak' -type f -exec rm {} \\;

# very powerful bulk rename ie s/?/_/ or s/ /_/ etc. in file names
find . -type f -name '*?*' -print0 | xargs -0 rename '?' '_'

scp -rp /mnt/hda5/home/carla carla\@192.168.1.5:/home/carla/tmp
# copies a folder recursively as a non root user to 2nd computer
scp pcdosbak.zip root\@192.168.1.6:/mnt/idehd
# copy to HD of sysresccd booted computer (passwd root)

locate command. To upgrade the database for the locate command do this while in the superuser mode: slocate -u. Then wait a while while it upgrades. To use the command just type locate mozilla (for example) and it will post all of the mozilla references in your computer.

slocate -u
STUFF
# end of findh

al@P5Q:~/bin$

#! /usr/bin/python
import commands
import os
import tkMessageBox
from Tkinter import *

 
#use locate on entered string
def locater(locatestr,nametxt):

   #open selected result in thunar
    def opendir():
        index=int(resultslist.curselection()[0])
        chosen=resultslist.get(index)
        os.system("thunar '" + chosen+"'")
   

    wind.title("Locating...")
    locatestr=nametxt.get()
    results=commands.getoutput("locate " + locatestr).splitlines()

  #create a list of results that you can mousewheel through
    resultbox=Tk()
    resultbox.title("Results")
    resultbox.geometry("310x600")
    resultslist=Listbox(resultbox)
    resultslist.pack(fill="both",expand=1)

    #create a button to open selected directory
    openbtn=Button(resultbox,text="Open", command=opendir)
    openbtn.pack(side="left",fill="y",expand=1)
    for result in results:
        resultslist.insert(END,result)


  
#make a main tkinter window
wind = Tk()
count=0
wind.title("Pylocater")
wind.geometry('250x120')



#txt entry field
nametxt=Entry(wind)
nametxt.pack(expand=1,side="bottom",fill="x")
locatestr=nametxt.get()

#Button to call the locater function
locatebtn = Button(wind,text="Locate Files",command=lambda:locater(locatestr,nametxt))
locatebtn.pack({"side":"left"},expand=1,fill="x")

quitbtn = Button(wind,text="Quit",fg="red",command=quit)
quitbtn.pack({"side": "right"},expand=1)

mainloop()