21 January 2010

findr: a GNU/Unix 'find' helper

I've been more aggressive lately about creating helper scripts and aliases for common tasks, and I liked this find helper enough to want to share it. I find that I often do filename searches like this:
find -iname "*some_word*"
That's not so bad to type, but why not make it even easier for my, and maybe your [...]

by Scott Carpenter on 21 January 2010 at 9:41 pm
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15 April 2007

bash shell script: copy only files modifed after specified date

Or maybe you just want to tar up only directories and subdirectories, excluding files...
I've mentioned a few times lately that I'm working on my backup plan for GNU/Linux. I started by looking at great free software tools like Samba's rsync and GNU Tar, and I don't think I need to look much further than [...]

by Scott Carpenter on 15 April 2007 at 10:00 pm
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