A stash of useful unix commands that are too hard to remember, but too useful to forget

README.md

Find all files excluding a single directory:

find . -path ./exclude-this -prune -o -type f -name '*.js' -print

Notes:

• The -path ./exclude-this -prune -o part ensures that the path ./exclude-this isn't included
• The -print part ensures that the base directory of the excluded path isn't outputtet (this isn't needed if combining with -exec)

Search and replace across files using a regular expression:

find . -type f -name '*.js' -exec sed -i '' -e 's/foo/bar/' {} \;

Notes:

• The -i '' in the sed part of the command ensures existing files are replace without creating a backup. If you want the backup, just use -i without the '' part