List of useful unix commands

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Useful unix commands

recursively search files matching *.fileExt for pattern in current directory

grep --color -inr --include \*.kt 'SDK_INT' .

Detect how many gradle daemons are running

Get the current amount of instances - 1

ps aux | grep GradleDaemon | wc -l

perform operation on specific files in directories

find */*.tar -exec tar xvzf {} \;

Total file size of certain filetype

find . -type f -name '*.png' -exec du -ch {} + | grep total$

Delete all build/ directories and its contents recursively

find . -name 'build' -type d -exec rm -rf {} \;

Search files for specific reference

grep -rnw . --exclude-dir={build,*.iml} -e 'pattern'

Delete files in current directory older than 7 days

find . -name "*.sql" -type f -mtime +7 -exec rm -f {} \;