Tech Notes » Find http://www.ryannitz.org/tech-notes Miscellaneous technology examples and notes Sun, 03 Apr 2011 16:48:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.ryannitz.org/tech-notes http://ryan-nitz/favicon.ico Tech Notes Bash Find On A Large Dataset – Write The Results To A File http://www.ryannitz.org/tech-notes/2009/03/14/bash-find-dataset-write-file/ http://www.ryannitz.org/tech-notes/2009/03/14/bash-find-dataset-write-file/#comments Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:20:26 +0000 Ryan http://leisuremech.com/?p=148 A fast bash based solution for executing a find on a directory with a lot of files that you want to log to a file:

find /my/data/  -name '*.xml' -type f -fprint my_xml_files.txt

This example looks in the /my/data/ directory for all files with the xml extension and then writes the results to the my_xml_files.txt file.

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