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Contents 1 Look for and change permission of only directories 2 Look for and change permission of only files 3 Move all JPG images to another directory 4 Remove all SVN directories 5 Look for the string "com.apple.itunes" in files that end with ".plist" 6 Find files with a wildcard older than 1 day

Look for and change permission of only directories

find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find . -type d -exec chmod a+x {} \;

Look for and change permission of only files

find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

find ./ -name *.pdf -exec chmod 755 {} \;

find . -type d -user fileowner -exec chmod 0755 {} \;

find . -type f -name '*.htm*' -exec chmod 644 {} \;

Move all JPG images to another directory

find . -name "*.jpg" -type f -exec mv {} ../JPGs \;

Remove all SVN directories

find . -name ".svn" -type d -exec rm -rf {} \;

Look for the string "com.apple.itunes" in files that end with ".plist"

sudo find / -name *.plist -exec grep -l 'com.apple.itunes' {} \;

Find files with a wildcard older than 1 day

find /tmp -name "session*" -mtime +1