General Unix Commands

Terminal 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> \;