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find . -name "*" -exec grep -Hn "spam" {} \; | grep -v svn This doesn't display all the svn revisions
(or just use grep . "spam" -R)
find files without error messages
- Errors go to /dev/null
find . -name * 2>/dev/null
find all the files containing "spam"
find . -name "*" -exec grep -sHIrin "spam" --directories=skip {} \;
broken links
find . -type l -xtype l
between two dates
find * -type f -mtime -65 -mtime -64 find * -type f -mtime -65 -mtime -64 -print0|xargs -0 grep -l toto
find the number of days between today and another day
a=$(date -d "20160615" +%s);b=$(date +%s); echo $((($b-$a)/(24*3600)))