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General Unix Commands
# Find the number of line in a file type recuresively.
find . -name '*.php' | xargs wc -l
# Find occurence on on word say "carrot" in many files.
grep -ir carrot . | wc -l
# This helps in moving files so keep backup!!!
# Moves files with json extension from sub-folders recursively to single output folder.
find <parent/folders/subfolders> -type f -name '*.json' -exec mv -i {} <new/folder> \;
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