prabhanshubhowal/natural_language_to_linux

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Remove blank lines and replace " " with "/" in "struct.txt" as input to make directories with parents as needed	sed '/^$/d;s/ /\//g' struct.txt \| xargs mkdir -p
Find all files/directories under current directory that match the case insensitive extended regex ./(EA\|FS)_.	find -E . -iregex './(EA\|FS)_.'
Add read permission for 'other' for all files/directories named 'rc.conf' under current directory tree	find . -name "rc.conf" -exec chmod o+r '{}' \;
get a PID of a process	jobs -x echo %1
List all IP addresses assigned to current hostname, pausing for user interaction after each page.	more /etc/hosts \| grep `hostname` \| awk '{print $1}'
create a backup of all the files in the current folder to the floppy and save the file list in the file /tmp/BACKUP.LOG	find . -cpio /dev/fd0 -print \| tee /tmp/BACKUP.LOG
Change permissions to 644 for all subdirectories	find . -type d -print0\|xargs -0 chmod 644
display all the files in the file system which belong to the user "wnj" or which are modified after the file "ttt"	find / \( -newer ttt -or -user wnj \) -print
SSH into "myhost.com" as user "myname" with a check every 60 seconds that the server is still alive	ssh -o ServerAliveInterval=60 [email protected]
Generates temporary file name with full path by template 'fifo.XXXXXX' and saves it to variable 'fifo_name'	fifo_name=$(mktemp -u -t fifo.XXXXXX)
Identify files that do not have a listing in the /etc/passwd or /etc/group file	find / -nouser -o -nogroup
search the entire file system for the file "jan92.rpt"	find / -name jan92.rpt -print
Search the dir_data directory and all of its sub-directories for regular files and remove the execute permission for all while adding the write permission for the user.	find ~/dir_data -type f -exec chmod a-x,u+w {} \;
Find and print the names of all files found in the current directory and all of its sub-directories.	find . -print
Find all php files in current directory and delete text matching the regex '<?php /\\/ eval(base64_decode("aWY.*?>' in those files	find ./ -name ".php" -type f \| xargs sed -i 's#<?php /\\/ eval(base64_decode("aWY.?>##g' 2>&1
Print appended data in "file" and search for "my_pattern" without buffering	tail -f file \| stdbuf -o0 grep my_pattern
Find all directories containing 'linux' in their names under '/root' directory tree	find /root -type d -iname "linux"
find all text files in current folder and delete them	find . -name ".txt" -exec rm "{}" \;
Silently read $char number of symbols from file descriptor 4, without backslash escaping, and store received input in 'line' variable	read -u 4 -N $char -r -s line
find all the configuration or text files in current directory	find . -type f \ -print
Move all directories in the current directory tree that have been modified in the last day to "/path/to/target-dir"	find . -depth -type d -mtime 0 -exec mv -t /path/to/target-dir {} +
List all hidden regular files from the current directory separating them with zeroes	find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '.*' -printf '%f\0'
Search for utility "foo" in PATH, display its file type description.	file $
Find all *.m4a files/directories under /home/family/Music directory	find /home/family/Music -name *.m4a -print0
display all the directories in the current folder which are atleast one level deep	find . -mindepth 1 -type d -print0
Remove all *.txt files in the home directory tree with confirmation	find $HOME/. -name *.txt -ok rm {} \;
split file "$file into pieces named with 5 character suffix	split -a 5 $file
Sort lines in "FILE" to standard output preserving only unique lines	sort -u FILE
Shows strings that NOT match regex '^'	echo "${line}" \| egrep --invert-match '^'
Print content of all files ending with '*.foo' in current directory recursively	find . -name '*.foo' -exec cat {} \;
Search the entire file system for .jpg files.	find / -name “*.jpg”
Save the list of files modified within a fortnight ago to `deploy.txt' stripping the file names of any leading directories	find . -type f -mtime -14 -printf '%f\n' > deploy.txt
Force create a symbolic link as a file named "/usr/lib/jvm/default-java" to "$default_java_dir" with verbose output	sudo ln -sTfv "$default_java_dir" "/usr/lib/jvm/default-java"
Move all *.log files under $sourcePath that were modified more than 10 days ago to a zip archive $zipFile	find $sourcePath -type f -mtime +10 -name "*.log" \| xargs zip -mT $zipFile -@
search for all pdf files in the folder "/home/pdf" which have been accessed in the last 60*24 hours	find /home/you -iname "*.pdf" -atime -60 -type -f
Find all directories in directory tree `httpdocs'	find httpdocs -type d
remove all the "core" files in the current folder which have not been changed in the last 4 days.	find . -name core -ctime +4 -exec /bin/rm -f {} \;
find the count of all the charcters of the list of regular files present in the current folder	find . -type f \| xargs \| wc -c
Print lines in the sorted contents of "second.txt" that are not in the sorted contents of "first.txt"	comm -13 <(sort first.txt) <(sort second.txt)
Reports count of characters in the value of ${FOO} variable as follows: "length==<counted number of characters>"	echo -e "length==$"
Find all directories under /path/to/base/dir and change their permission to 755	find /path/to/base/dir -type d -exec chmod 755 {} +
display long listing of all the symbolic links in the current folder	find . -type l -exec ls -l {} \;
find all the text files in the home folder	find ~ -name "*.txt" — print
Find all files in your home directory and below that are smaller than 100M.	find ~ -size -100M
File 'mydatafile' has a number on each line, display the sum of these numbers rounded to lowest integer.	awk '{s+=$1} END {printf "%.0f", s}' mydatafile
Gets IP addresses of all active network interfaces on host.	ifconfig \| awk -F':' '/inet addr/&&!/127.0.0.1/{split($2,_," ");print _[1]}'
Delete file with inode number 314167125	find . -type f -inum 314167125 -delete
Replace 'company' with 'newcompany' in all files under current directory and keep backups with .bakup extension	find -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 sed -i .bakup 's/company/newcompany/g'
Delete all files/directories with node number $inum under current directory tree	find . -inum $inum -exec rm {} \
Unzip and untar "file.tar.gz"	zcat file.tar.gz \|tar x
Find files in the current directory tree which are larger than 5 MB in size	find . -size +5000k -type f
Get a list of all hidden files from the current directory tree	find . -type f -name '.*' -print0 \| while IFS= read -r -d '' f; do basename "$f"; done
Counts lines of /etc/fstab file.	cat /etc/fstab \| wc -l
run command './bin/elasticsearch -d --default.path.conf=/etc/elasticsearch' as user elasticsearch	sudo su elasticsearch -c './bin/elasticsearch -d --default.path.conf=/etc/elasticsearch'
Find files in entire file system that are writable by group or other	find / -perm /g+w,o+w
search for the folder .dummy in the entire directory structure of "test folder" and remove it.	find -depth "Test Folder" -type d -name .dummy -exec rm -rf \{\} \;
Find all files/directories named 'articles.jpg' under current directory tree	find . -name "articles.jpg"
Search the current directory tree for regular files whose names begin with "orapw"	find . -name "orapw*" -type f
Find all top-level files in the current folder but ones with name like 'Music' to the 'dest/' folder.	find . -maxdepth 1 -name 'Music' -prune -o -print0 \| xargs -0 -i cp {} dest/
Copies all files under the current folder like "file.ext" with "FooBar" in the path to the root of the current folder, preserving mode, ownership and timestamp attributes.	find . -name "file.ext"\| grep "FooBar" \| xargs -i cp -p "{}" .
Archive "/path/to/sfolder/" to "[email protected]:/path/to/remote/dfolder" preserving hard links and compressing the data during transmission	rsync -aHvz /path/to/sfolder/ [email protected]:/path/to/remote/dfolder
Recursively change the owner and group of "subdir2" to "user2"	chown user2:user2 -R subdir2
Prints sequentially listing of a current folder and calendar of a current month.	echo `ls` "`cal`"
show all the files in the current folder which has the word "ITM"	find . -name ‘ITM’
display all the ".c" files in the current folder excluding those that are present in the .svn sub folder	find . -name .svn -prune -o -name "*.c" -print
Print the list of files from the "/zu/durchsuchender/Ordner" directory tree whose names begin with "beispieldatei" and which contain string "Beispielinhalt"	find "/zu/durchsuchender/Ordner" -name "beispieldatei*" -print0 \| xargs -0 grep -l "Beispielinhalt"
Search the specified group for the given "filename	find / -group users -iname "filename"
search for all the files having spaces in the current folder and save the output to the variable founddata	founddata=`find . -name "filename including space" -print0`
Find all files with the SUID bit set	find / -perm -u+s
display the filename and size of all the files in the file system which are bigger than 20MB	find / -type f -size +20000k -exec ls -lh {} \; \| awk '{ print $8 ": " $5 }'
Create intermediate directories as required and directory /my/other/path/here	mkdir -p /my/other/path/here
Find '.git' directories in directory tree /path/to/files and print the pathnames of their parents	find /path/to/files -type d -name '.git' -exec dirname {} +
Find all regular files residing in the current directory tree and search them for string "/bin/ksh"	find . -type f -print \| xargs grep -i 'bin/ksh'
Remount "/dev/block/mtdblock3" on "/system" with read and write permission	mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
Archive all filepattern-2009 files/directories under data/ into 2009.tar	find data/ -name "filepattern-2009" \| cpio -ov --format=ustar > 2009.tar
Find all files ignoring hidden files under current directory and replace every occurrences of 'subdomainA.example.com' with 'subdomainB.example.com' in those files	find . -not -path '/\.' -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 sed -i 's/subdomainA\.example\.com/subdomainB.example.com/g'
dispaly a long listig of all the files in the current folder which are bigger than 100KB	find . -size +100000 -ls
Get current directory name without full path, ie. the part after the last /	basename "$(pwd)"
find all the files that are modified in the last 7 days	find -daystart -mtime -7
Print every file's type, name, and inode	find -printf "%y %i %prn"
Find all files under /somefolder matching the extended regex '\./$' in their paths	find -E /somefolder -type f -regex '\./$'
Gets domain name from dig reverse lookup and save in variable 'go'.	go=$(dig -x 8.8.8.8\| awk '/PTR[[:space:]]/{print $NF}')
Split "complete.out" into files with at most "$lines_per_file" lines each	split --lines $lines_per_file complete.out
Print "new.txt" with line numbers prepended and lines 3 and 4 deleted	cat new.txt \| nl \|sed "3d;4d"
Find all files under current directory and print only the filenames (not paths)	find . -type f -execdir echo '{}' ';'
Find all regular files in the home directory tree that were modified in the last 24 hours	find ~ -type f -mtime 0
Print the contents of "my_script.py"	cat my_script.py
find all the text files in current folder and change the extension of these files and move them to another folder	find ./ -name \.txt \| perl -p -e 's/^(.\/\.txt)$/mv $1 .\/foo\/$2.bar.txt/' \| bash
search for the file foo in the current folder and display a long listing of it in sorted order of modification date	find . -name foo \| xargs ls -tl
find all the fles that have .ssh in the end and redirect the output to ssh-stuff	find / -name .ssh* -print \| tee -a ssh-stuff
find all the normal/regular files in the current folder which are present in the pattern file "file_list.txt"	find . type f -print \| fgrep -f file_list.txt
Locate logo.gif in the /var/www directory tree	find /var/www -name logo.gif
Show file type information for files in /usr/bin	find /usr/bin \| xargs file
display the version of find command	find -version
List the current directory recursively ignoring ./src/emacs/ and all its contents	find . -path ./src/emacs -prune -o -print
Remove files that are greater than 1MB in size under current directory	find . -type f -size +1M -exec rm {} +
find regular files and directories that have been modified in the last seven days	find . -mtime -7 -type f
download contents from "https://www.npmjs.com/install.sh" and execute	curl https://www.npmjs.com/install.sh \| sh
Delete all files with '.old' extension under current directory tree	find . -name “*.old” -exec rm {} \;
create directory dir	mkdir -p dir

Remove blank lines and replace " " with "/" in "struct.txt" as input to make directories with parents as needed

sed '/^$/d;s/ /\//g' struct.txt | xargs mkdir -p

Find all files/directories under current directory that match the case insensitive extended regex .*/(EA|FS)_.*

find -E . -iregex '.*/(EA|FS)_.*'

Add read permission for 'other' for all files/directories named 'rc.conf' under current directory tree

find . -name "rc.conf" -exec chmod o+r '{}' \;

get a PID of a process

jobs -x echo %1

List all IP addresses assigned to current hostname, pausing for user interaction after each page.

more /etc/hosts | grep `hostname` | awk '{print $1}'

create a backup of all the files in the current folder to the floppy and save the file list in the file /tmp/BACKUP.LOG

find . -cpio /dev/fd0 -print | tee /tmp/BACKUP.LOG

Change permissions to 644 for all subdirectories

find . -type d -print0|xargs -0 chmod 644

display all the files in the file system which belong to the user "wnj" or which are modified after the file "ttt"

find / $ -newer ttt -or -user wnj $ -print

SSH into "myhost.com" as user "myname" with a check every 60 seconds that the server is still alive

ssh -o ServerAliveInterval=60 [email protected]

Generates temporary file name with full path by template 'fifo.XXXXXX' and saves it to variable 'fifo_name'

fifo_name=$(mktemp -u -t fifo.XXXXXX)

Identify files that do not have a listing in the /etc/passwd or /etc/group file

find / -nouser -o -nogroup

search the entire file system for the file "jan92.rpt"

find / -name jan92.rpt -print

Search the dir_data directory and all of its sub-directories for regular files and remove the execute permission for all while adding the write permission for the user.

find ~/dir_data -type f -exec chmod a-x,u+w {} \;

Find and print the names of all files found in the current directory and all of its sub-directories.

find . -print

Find all php files in current directory and delete text matching the regex '<?php /\*\*/ eval(base64_decode("aWY.*?>' in those files

find ./ -name "*.php" -type f | xargs sed -i 's#<?php /\*\*/ eval(base64_decode("aWY.*?>##g' 2>&1

Print appended data in "file" and search for "my_pattern" without buffering

tail -f file | stdbuf -o0 grep my_pattern

Find all directories containing 'linux' in their names under '/root' directory tree

find /root -type d -iname "*linux*"

find all text files in current folder and delete them

find . -name ".txt" -exec rm "{}" \;

Silently read $char number of symbols from file descriptor 4, without backslash escaping, and store received input in 'line' variable

read -u 4 -N $char -r -s line

find all the configuration or text files in current directory

find . -type f \ -print

Move all directories in the current directory tree that have been modified in the last day to "/path/to/target-dir"

find . -depth -type d -mtime 0 -exec mv -t /path/to/target-dir {} +

List all hidden regular files from the current directory separating them with zeroes

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '.*' -printf '%f\0'

Search for utility "foo" in PATH, display its file type description.

file $

Find all *.m4a files/directories under /home/family/Music directory

find /home/family/Music -name *.m4a -print0

display all the directories in the current folder which are atleast one level deep

find . -mindepth 1 -type d -print0

Remove all *.txt files in the home directory tree with confirmation

find $HOME/. -name *.txt -ok rm {} \;

split file "$file into pieces named with 5 character suffix

split -a 5 $file

Sort lines in "FILE" to standard output preserving only unique lines

sort -u FILE

Shows strings that NOT match regex '^'

echo "${line}" | egrep --invert-match '^'

Print content of all files ending with '*.foo' in current directory recursively

find . -name '*.foo' -exec cat {} \;

Search the entire file system for .jpg files.

find / -name “*.jpg”

Save the list of files modified within a fortnight ago to `deploy.txt' stripping the file names of any leading directories

find . -type f -mtime -14 -printf '%f\n' > deploy.txt

Force create a symbolic link as a file named "/usr/lib/jvm/default-java" to "$default_java_dir" with verbose output

sudo ln -sTfv "$default_java_dir" "/usr/lib/jvm/default-java"

Move all *.log files under $sourcePath that were modified more than 10 days ago to a zip archive $zipFile

find $sourcePath -type f -mtime +10 -name "*.log" | xargs zip -mT $zipFile -@

search for all pdf files in the folder "/home/pdf" which have been accessed in the last 60*24 hours

find /home/you -iname "*.pdf" -atime -60 -type -f

Find all directories in directory tree `httpdocs'

find httpdocs -type d

remove all the "core" files in the current folder which have not been changed in the last 4 days.

find . -name core -ctime +4 -exec /bin/rm -f {} \;

find the count of all the charcters of the list of regular files present in the current folder

find . -type f | xargs | wc -c

Print lines in the sorted contents of "second.txt" that are not in the sorted contents of "first.txt"

comm -13 <(sort first.txt) <(sort second.txt)

Reports count of characters in the value of ${FOO} variable as follows: "length==<counted number of characters>"

echo -e "length==$"

Find all directories under /path/to/base/dir and change their permission to 755

find /path/to/base/dir -type d -exec chmod 755 {} +

display long listing of all the symbolic links in the current folder

find . -type l -exec ls -l {} \;

find all the text files in the home folder

find ~ -name "*.txt" — print

Find all files in your home directory and below that are smaller than 100M.

find ~ -size -100M

File 'mydatafile' has a number on each line, display the sum of these numbers rounded to lowest integer.

awk '{s+=$1} END {printf "%.0f", s}' mydatafile

Gets IP addresses of all active network interfaces on host.

ifconfig | awk -F':' '/inet addr/&&!/127.0.0.1/{split($2,_," ");print _[1]}'

Delete file with inode number 314167125

find . -type f -inum 314167125 -delete

Replace 'company' with 'newcompany' in all files under current directory and keep backups with .bakup extension

find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i .bakup 's/company/newcompany/g'

Delete all files/directories with node number $inum under current directory tree

find . -inum $inum -exec rm {} \

Unzip and untar "file.tar.gz"

zcat file.tar.gz |tar x

Find files in the current directory tree which are larger than 5 MB in size

find . -size +5000k -type f

Get a list of all hidden files from the current directory tree

find . -type f -name '.*' -print0 | while IFS= read -r -d '' f; do basename "$f"; done

Counts lines of /etc/fstab file.

cat /etc/fstab | wc -l

run command './bin/elasticsearch -d --default.path.conf=/etc/elasticsearch' as user elasticsearch

sudo su elasticsearch -c './bin/elasticsearch -d --default.path.conf=/etc/elasticsearch'

Find files in entire file system that are writable by group or other

find / -perm /g+w,o+w

search for the folder .dummy in the entire directory structure of "test folder" and remove it.

find -depth "Test Folder" -type d -name .dummy -exec rm -rf \{\} \;

Find all files/directories named 'articles.jpg' under current directory tree

find . -name "articles.jpg"

Search the current directory tree for regular files whose names begin with "orapw"

find . -name "orapw*" -type f

Find all top-level files in the current folder but ones with name like '*Music*' to the 'dest/' folder.

find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*Music*' -prune -o -print0 | xargs -0 -i cp {} dest/

Copies all files under the current folder like "file.ext" with "FooBar" in the path to the root of the current folder, preserving mode, ownership and timestamp attributes.

find . -name "file.ext"| grep "FooBar" | xargs -i cp -p "{}" .

Archive "/path/to/sfolder/" to "[email protected]:/path/to/remote/dfolder" preserving hard links and compressing the data during transmission

rsync -aHvz /path/to/sfolder/ [email protected]:/path/to/remote/dfolder

Recursively change the owner and group of "subdir2" to "user2"

chown user2:user2 -R subdir2

Prints sequentially listing of a current folder and calendar of a current month.

echo `ls` "`cal`"

show all the files in the current folder which has the word "ITM"

find . -name ‘*ITM*’

display all the ".c" files in the current folder excluding those that are present in the .svn sub folder

find . -name .svn -prune -o -name "*.c" -print

Print the list of files from the "/zu/durchsuchender/Ordner" directory tree whose names begin with "beispieldatei" and which contain string "Beispielinhalt"

find "/zu/durchsuchender/Ordner" -name "beispieldatei*" -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l "Beispielinhalt"

Search the specified group for the given "filename

find / -group users -iname "filename"

search for all the files having spaces in the current folder and save the output to the variable founddata

founddata=`find . -name "filename including space" -print0`

Find all files with the SUID bit set

find / -perm -u+s

display the filename and size of all the files in the file system which are bigger than 20MB

find / -type f -size +20000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $8 ": " $5 }'

Create intermediate directories as required and directory /my/other/path/here

mkdir -p /my/other/path/here

Find '.git' directories in directory tree /path/to/files and print the pathnames of their parents

find /path/to/files -type d -name '.git' -exec dirname {} +

Find all regular files residing in the current directory tree and search them for string "/bin/ksh"

find . -type f -print | xargs grep -i 'bin/ksh'

Remount "/dev/block/mtdblock3" on "/system" with read and write permission

mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system

Archive all filepattern-*2009* files/directories under data/ into 2009.tar

find data/ -name "filepattern-*2009*" | cpio -ov --format=ustar > 2009.tar

Find all files ignoring hidden files under current directory and replace every occurrences of 'subdomainA.example.com' with 'subdomainB.example.com' in those files

find . -not -path '*/\.*' -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/subdomainA\.example\.com/subdomainB.example.com/g'

dispaly a long listig of all the files in the current folder which are bigger than 100KB

find . -size +100000 -ls

Get current directory name without full path, ie. the part after the last /

basename "$(pwd)"

find all the files that are modified in the last 7 days

find -daystart -mtime -7

Print every file's type, name, and inode

find -printf "%y %i %prn"

Find all files under /somefolder matching the extended regex '\./$' in their paths

find -E /somefolder -type f -regex '\./$'

Gets domain name from dig reverse lookup and save in variable 'go'.

go=$(dig -x 8.8.8.8| awk '/PTR[[:space:]]/{print $NF}')

Split "complete.out" into files with at most "$lines_per_file" lines each

split --lines $lines_per_file complete.out

Print "new.txt" with line numbers prepended and lines 3 and 4 deleted

cat new.txt | nl |sed "3d;4d"

Find all files under current directory and print only the filenames (not paths)

find . -type f -execdir echo '{}' ';'

Find all regular files in the home directory tree that were modified in the last 24 hours

find ~ -type f -mtime 0

Print the contents of "my_script.py"

cat my_script.py

find all the text files in current folder and change the extension of these files and move them to another folder

find ./ -name \*.txt | perl -p -e 's/^(.*\/\.txt)$/mv $1 .\/foo\/$2.bar.txt/' | bash

search for the file foo in the current folder and display a long listing of it in sorted order of modification date

find . -name foo | xargs ls -tl

find all the fles that have .ssh in the end and redirect the output to ssh-stuff

find / -name .ssh* -print | tee -a ssh-stuff

find all the normal/regular files in the current folder which are present in the pattern file "file_list.txt"

find . type f -print | fgrep -f file_list.txt

Locate logo.gif in the /var/www directory tree

find /var/www -name logo.gif

Show file type information for files in /usr/bin

find /usr/bin | xargs file

display the version of find command

find -version

List the current directory recursively ignoring ./src/emacs/ and all its contents

find . -path ./src/emacs -prune -o -print

Remove files that are greater than 1MB in size under current directory

find . -type f -size +1M -exec rm {} +

find regular files and directories that have been modified in the last seven days

find . -mtime -7 -type f

download contents from "https://www.npmjs.com/install.sh" and execute

curl https://www.npmjs.com/install.sh | sh

Delete all files with '.old' extension under current directory tree

find . -name “*.old” -exec rm {} \;

create directory dir

mkdir -p dir