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find . -type f -not -name '*.mp3'
find . -name '*.log' -mtime -2 -exec grep -Hc Exception {} \; | grep -v :0$
find . -name '*conf*' -exec grep -Hni 'text to match' {} \; > matches.txt
grep -rn 'nameserver' /etc 2>/dev/null
find /etc -type f -print0 2>/dev/null | xargs -0 grep --color=AUTO -Hn 'nameserver' 2>/dev/null