prabhanshubhowal/natural_language_to_linux

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display all the files in the current folder excluding search in the paths containing the folder having the word "mmm"	find . ! -path mmm
Find all the files that end with the extension “.java” in the current directoy tree	find . -name "*.java"
Find all *.txt files/directories under current directory	find . -name '*.txt'
search for MP3 files in the current folder and subfolders exclude dir1 AND dir2	find ! -path "dir1" ! -path "dir2" -iname "*.mp3"
Changes group ownership of '/home/www-user/php_user.sh' to 'www-data'.	chgrp www-data /home/www-user/php_user.sh
Request changing the passphrase of key file "private.key"	ssh-keygen -pf private.key
Find all files/directories named orm.properties under /eserver6 directory	find /eserver6 -name "orm.properties"
Change mode of all files ending with ".php" under the current folder to 755 and write the output to the console and "logfile.txt" file	find . -name '*.php' -exec chmod 755 {} \; \| tee logfile.txt
Search directory tree $DIR for *.txt files	find "${DIR}" -name "*.txt"
Lists all files in a current folder, separating names with comma.	ls \| xargs -I {} echo {}, \| xargs echo
Change owner and group of "script.sh" to "root"	chown root:root script.sh
Recursively removes all files and folders like 'FILE-TO-FIND' from current folder.	find . -name "FILE-TO-FIND" -exec rm -rf {} \;
Force delete all jpg files in current directory which are less than 50KB and do not search in the sub directories	find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*.jpg" -size -50k -exec rm {} \;
List all files/directories with spaces in their names under ~/Library directory	find ~/Library -name '* *' -exec ls {} \;
Prints process tree for the current process with ASCII line drawing characters.	pstree -A -s $$
Save absolute path of "/home/nohsib/dvc/../bop" in variable "absolute_path"	absolute_path=$
List regular files in current directory with read, write and execute permission for all users and also show the permissions	find . -type f -perm 777 -exec ls -l {} \;
Unzip "archive.tgz" and extract all archives excluding ones matching "apri/fls/filename"	zcat archive.tgz \| tar -x --wildcards apri/fls/filename
find all directory list which have empty list in /tmp directory .	find /tmp -type d -empty
Changes group ownership of 'public' to 'pub'.	chgrp pub public
List directories under current directory	find . -type d
Find .txt files on the system whose size is greater than 12000 bytes	find / -name "*.txt" -size +12000c
Copy all files in the current directory except those containing 'Music' to '/target_directory'.	cp `ls \| grep -v Music` /target_directory
Invoke a trusted X11 forwarding SSH connection with server "192.168.0.14" on port 222 as user "phil"	ssh -v -Y [email protected] -p 222
Find all empty directories under $somedir and copy /my/configfile into those directories	find "$somedir" -type d -empty -exec cp /my/configfile {} \;
Calculate the total disk usage for each ".jpg" file on the system and prepend the system host name to the output	find "$PWD" / -iname '*.jpg' -exec du -s {} + \| sed "s/^/$: /"
Get a list of files and directories in the current directory tree	find . -print0 \| xargs -0 echo
Search the current directory tree for bash files	find . -name "bash"
change permission of all the files in the entire file system which have the permissions 777.	find / -type f -perm 0777 -print -exec chmod 644 {} \;
Split "your_file" into files with at most 9 lines each	split -l9 your_file
Find all regular files under current directory tree whose names end with 'cache' or 'xml' or 'html'	find . -type f \( -name "cache" -o -name "xml" -o -name "*html" \)
Print only digits in variable "$name"	echo $name \| tr -c -d 0-9
List all of the subdirectories in the current directory with no trailing slash.	ls -d */ \| cut -f1 -d'/'
Print canonical filename of "/path/there/../../" even if it does not exist	readlink -m /path/there/../../
Prepend the reverse history number as negative values to the output of the history command with arguments "$@"	history "$@" \| tac \| nl \| tac \| sed 's/^\\/\1-\2/'
Remove the last 2 tab-separated fields of each line in file pointed to by filename	cat $filename \| rev \| cut -c 3- \| rev
Prints yesterday's date information	date --date yesterday "+%a %d/%m/%Y"
Delete history entry at offset, defined in first argument of executed script	history -d "$1"
Copy all directories recursively from "source/" to "destination/" excluding all files	rsync -a -f"+ /" -f"- " source/ destination/
Find all files under and below the current working directory with the word California in the file, and count the number of lines in the output	find . -type f -exec grep California {} \; -print \| wc -l
Search the current directory tree for files last accessed more than 10 days ago	find . -atime +10
Do not immediately exit the shell if a command fails	set +e
Search for occurrences of string "main(" in the .c files from the current directory tree	find . -type f -name "*.c" -print -exec grep -s "main(" {} \;
Find sqlite3 databases in the current directory tree, execute query 'SELECT * FROM table WHERE column1="value"' on all of them, and search the result for "value"	find . -name ".db" -type f \| while read file ; do sqlite3 $file "SELECT FROM table WHERE column1='value'" \| grep value ; if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then echo $file ; fi done
copy all java files from current folder to another folder	find . -name "*.java" -print0 \| xargs -0 -J % cp % destinationFolder
search for the word "slrn" in all the files in the folder $HOME/html/andrews-corner	find $HOME/html/andrews-corner -exec grep -q 'slrn' '{}' \; -print
List all *.txt files/directories under /etc	find /etc -name "*.txt" \| xargs ls -l
Recursively removes all files with name like "*.war" in /home/ubuntu/wars folder.	find /home/ubuntu/wars -type f -name "*.war" -exec rm {} \\;
Immediately kill all processes using TCP port 3000 on the system.	kill -9 $
Print only unique lines in files 'set1' and 'set2'	cat set1 set2 \| sort -u
Search the current directory recursively for files last modified within the past 24 hours ignoring .swp files and paths ./es* and ./en*	find . -mtime 0 \| grep -v '^\./en' \| grep -v '^\./es' \| grep -v .swp
Update the archive '2009.tar' with the files from the data/ directory tree that match pattern 'filepattern-2009'	find data/ -name filepattern-2009 -exec tar uf 2009.tar {} ;
Read a line from standard input into variable "message" with escaped prompt "Please Enter a Message: \n\b"	read -p "$" message
List all directories under current directory	find . -type d -exec ls -dlrt {} \;
List all leaf directories of the current directory tree	find . -type d -links 2
display all text files in the folder /user/directory which have been modified in today	find /user/directory/* -name "*txt" -mtime 0 -type f
Recursively change the user and group of all files in "/var/log/jenkins" to "root"	chown -R root:root /var/log/jenkins
Find recursively all files matching pattern 'file??' in the xargstest/ directory and print a sorted list of them	find xargstest/ -name 'file??' \| sort
Find all files in the current directory recursively that were last modified more than 5 days ago	find ./* -mtime +5
Delete all files under '/home/backups' directory tree with '.tgz' or '.gz' extension that were modified more thant 60 days ago	find /home/backups -type f -iregex '.*\.t?gz$' -mtime +60 -exec rm {} \;
Show a listing of files not modified in over 20 days or not accessed in over 40 days	find /mydir \ -exec ls -l {} \;
change user and group of the file /usr/bin/aws to user amzadm and group root	chown amzadm.root /usr/bin/aws
Update timestamps of all files and directories under current directory.	find . -print0 \| xargs -0 touch
Find all directories under /home/username/tmp and set their permission to 770	find /home/username/tmp -type d -exec chmod 770 {} +
Find all README's in /usr/share	find /usr/share -name README
Find grub.conf files in entire file system discarding errors in csh or tcsh shell	find / -name grub.conf >& /dev/null
Find files belonging to the given owner	find /path/to/search -user owner
Format bash array "${arr}" in columns	echo " ${arr[@]/%/$'\n'}" \| column
Search for 'specific string' in all files matching the name pattern '“*.[txt\|TXT]”' under current directory tree	find . -name “*.[txt\|TXT]” -print \| xargs grep “specific string”
Create intermediate directories as required and directory project/{lib/ext,bin,src,doc/{html,info,pdf},demo/stat/a}	mkdir -p project/{lib/ext,bin,src,doc/{html,info,pdf},demo/stat/a}
Find all PHP files under current directory that contain only one non-blank line	find . -type f -name '*.php' -exec grep -Hcm2 '[^[:space:]]' {} + \| sed -n '/:1$/{s///;p}'
Calculate the md5 sum of all the file metadata in the current directory tree excluding ".svn"	find . -name '.svn' -prune -o -type f -printf '%m%c%p' \| md5sum
Counts lines in file file1 and shows progress bar while doing.	tail -n 100 file1 \| bar \| wc -l
Find all regular files in .git and replace every occurrences of 'subdomainB.example.com' with 'subdomainA.example.com' in those files	find .git -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 sed -i 's/subdomainB\.example\.com/subdomainA.example.com/g'
Delete all contents form the files that contain the case insensitive regex 'stringtofind' in maximum 1 level down the / directory excluding other partitions	find / -maxdepth 1 -xdev -type f -exec grep -i "stringtofind" -q "{}" \; -print0 \| xargs -0 sed '/./d'
display all the hidden files in the directory "/dir/to/search/"	find /dir/to/search/ -name ".*" -print
Find all 'test' directories in the current directory tree and remove them	find . -type d -name 'test' -exec rm -rf {} \;
Print "RDBMS exit code : $RC " to the console and append to "${LOG_FILE}"	echo " RDBMS exit code : $RC " \| tee -a ${LOG_FILE}
Display differences between /tmp/test1 and /tmp/test2.	diff /tmp/test1 /tmp/test2
display all the files in the current folder and traverse from the sub directories	find . -type d -depth
Searches for 'something' in a large file and prints the matching line	grep -n 'something' HUGEFILE \| head -n 1
Find all files named "filename" in the current directory tree, not descending into "FOLDER1" directories	find . -name FOLDER1 -prune -o -name filename
Print unique lines in sorted file "A" when compared to sorted files "B", "C", and "D"	comm -2 -3 A B \| comm -2 -3 - C \| comm -2 -3 - D
Find files that were modified second last week and archive them	find . -type f -mtime +7 -mtime -14 \| xargs tar -cvf `date ‘+%d%m%Y’_archive.tar`
Find all files that were last accessed less than7 days ago under /home	find /home -mtime -7
Count the number of the regular files residing under and below ./randfiles/	find ./randfiles/ -type f \| wc -l
Find all files/directories starting with 'readme' (case insensitive) under '/usr/share/doc' directory tree	find /usr/share/doc -name '[Rr][Ee][Aa][Dd][Mm][Ee]*'
Find all directories under ${1:-.} directory without descending into any sub-directories	find ${1:-.} -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d
Find the files in the current directory that match pattern '.ISOLATE..txt' and move them to folder ./ISOLATE	find . -name '.ISOLATE..txt' -maxdepth 1 -print0 \| xargs -0 -IFILE mv FILE ./ISOLATE
Run 'make -e' with an environment variable 'HOSTNAME' set to the system hostname	HOSTNAME=$(hostname) make -e
Prints total number of lines of all .m and .h files in a current folder and subfolders.	find ./ -type f -name ".[mh]" -exec wc -l {} \; \| sed -e 's/[ ]//g' \| cut -d"." -f1 \| paste -sd+ - \| bc
Store content of uncompressed file "$file.fastq" in variable "reads"	reads=$(zcat $file.fastq)
Display differences between directories repos1 and repos2, ignoring changes due to tab expansion, white spaces and treating absent files as empty.	diff -ENwbur repos1/ repos2/
Delete empty files and print their names	find . -empty -delete -print
Create a symbolic link named "$1/link" to the current working directory	ln -s "`pwd`" $1/link
Exits the entire bash script with defined status code N.	exit N
Search for all the files in man pages and return the manual page for grep	find /usr/share/man/ -regex ./grep
display all the files in the file system which have been modified in the last 10 minutes	find / -mmin -10
Find and print all PDF files in the current directory and its sub-directories except for any found in the ./pdfs directory.	find . -name "*.pdf" -print \| grep -v "^\./pdfs/"
Find files ending in "*macs"	find -name '*macs'

display all the files in the current folder excluding search in the paths containing the folder having the word "mmm"

find . ! -path *mmm*

Find all the files that end with the extension “.java” in the current directoy tree

find . -name "*.java"

Find all *.txt files/directories under current directory

find . -name '*.txt'

search for MP3 files in the current folder and subfolders exclude dir1 AND dir2

find ! -path "dir1" ! -path "dir2" -iname "*.mp3"

Changes group ownership of '/home/www-user/php_user.sh' to 'www-data'.

chgrp www-data /home/www-user/php_user.sh

Request changing the passphrase of key file "private.key"

ssh-keygen -pf private.key

Find all files/directories named orm.properties under /eserver6 directory

find /eserver6 -name "orm.properties"

Change mode of all files ending with ".php" under the current folder to 755 and write the output to the console and "logfile.txt" file

find . -name '*.php' -exec chmod 755 {} \; | tee logfile.txt

Search directory tree $DIR for *.txt files

find "${DIR}" -name "*.txt"

Lists all files in a current folder, separating names with comma.

ls | xargs -I {} echo {}, | xargs echo

Change owner and group of "script.sh" to "root"

chown root:root script.sh

Recursively removes all files and folders like 'FILE-TO-FIND' from current folder.

find . -name "FILE-TO-FIND" -exec rm -rf {} \;

Force delete all jpg files in current directory which are less than 50KB and do not search in the sub directories

find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*.jpg" -size -50k -exec rm {} \;

List all files/directories with spaces in their names under ~/Library directory

find ~/Library -name '* *' -exec ls {} \;

Prints process tree for the current process with ASCII line drawing characters.

pstree -A -s $$

Save absolute path of "/home/nohsib/dvc/../bop" in variable "absolute_path"

absolute_path=$

List regular files in current directory with read, write and execute permission for all users and also show the permissions

find . -type f -perm 777 -exec ls -l {} \;

Unzip "archive.tgz" and extract all archives excluding ones matching "apri/fls/filename"

zcat archive.tgz | tar -x --wildcards apri/fls/filename

find all directory list which have empty list in /tmp directory .

find /tmp -type d -empty

Changes group ownership of 'public' to 'pub'.

chgrp pub public

List directories under current directory

find . -type d

Find .txt files on the system whose size is greater than 12000 bytes

find / -name "*.txt" -size +12000c

Copy all files in the current directory except those containing 'Music' to '/target_directory'.

cp `ls | grep -v Music` /target_directory

Invoke a trusted X11 forwarding SSH connection with server "192.168.0.14" on port 222 as user "phil"

ssh -v -Y [email protected] -p 222

Find all empty directories under $somedir and copy /my/configfile into those directories

find "$somedir" -type d -empty -exec cp /my/configfile {} \;

Calculate the total disk usage for each ".jpg" file on the system and prepend the system host name to the output

find "$PWD" / -iname '*.jpg' -exec du -s {} + | sed "s/^/$: /"

Get a list of files and directories in the current directory tree

find . -print0 | xargs -0 echo

Search the current directory tree for *bash* files

find . -name "*bash*"

change permission of all the files in the entire file system which have the permissions 777.

find / -type f -perm 0777 -print -exec chmod 644 {} \;

Split "your_file" into files with at most 9 lines each

split -l9 your_file

Find all regular files under current directory tree whose names end with 'cache' or 'xml' or 'html'

find . -type f $ -name "*cache" -o -name "*xml" -o -name "*html" $

Print only digits in variable "$name"

echo $name | tr -c -d 0-9

List all of the subdirectories in the current directory with no trailing slash.

ls -d */ | cut -f1 -d'/'

Print canonical filename of "/path/there/../../" even if it does not exist

readlink -m /path/there/../../

Prepend the reverse history number as negative values to the output of the history command with arguments "$@"

history "$@" | tac | nl | tac | sed 's/^\\/\1-\2/'

Remove the last 2 tab-separated fields of each line in file pointed to by filename

cat $filename | rev | cut -c 3- | rev

Prints yesterday's date information

date --date yesterday "+%a %d/%m/%Y"

Delete history entry at offset, defined in first argument of executed script

history -d "$1"

Copy all directories recursively from "source/" to "destination/" excluding all files

rsync -a -f"+ */" -f"- *" source/ destination/

Find all files under and below the current working directory with the word California in the file, and count the number of lines in the output

find . -type f -exec grep California {} \; -print | wc -l

Search the current directory tree for files last accessed more than 10 days ago

find . -atime +10

Do not immediately exit the shell if a command fails

set +e

Search for occurrences of string "main(" in the .c files from the current directory tree

find . -type f -name "*.c" -print -exec grep -s "main(" {} \;

Find sqlite3 databases in the current directory tree, execute query 'SELECT * FROM table WHERE column1="value"' on all of them, and search the result for "value"

find . -name "*.db" -type f | while read file ; do sqlite3 $file "SELECT * FROM table WHERE column1='value'" | grep value ; if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then echo $file ; fi done

copy all java files from current folder to another folder

find . -name "*.java" -print0 | xargs -0 -J % cp % destinationFolder

search for the word "slrn" in all the files in the folder $HOME/html/andrews-corner

find $HOME/html/andrews-corner -exec grep -q 'slrn' '{}' \; -print

List all *.txt files/directories under /etc

find /etc -name "*.txt" | xargs ls -l

Recursively removes all files with name like "*.war" in /home/ubuntu/wars folder.

find /home/ubuntu/wars -type f -name "*.war" -exec rm {} \\;

Immediately kill all processes using TCP port 3000 on the system.

kill -9 $

Print only unique lines in files 'set1' and 'set2'

cat set1 set2 | sort -u

Search the current directory recursively for files last modified within the past 24 hours ignoring .swp files and paths ./es* and ./en*

find . -mtime 0 | grep -v '^\./en' | grep -v '^\./es' | grep -v .swp

Update the archive '2009.tar' with the files from the data/ directory tree that match pattern 'filepattern-*2009*'

find data/ -name filepattern-*2009* -exec tar uf 2009.tar {} ;

Read a line from standard input into variable "message" with escaped prompt "Please Enter a Message: \n\b"

read -p "$" message

List all directories under current directory

find . -type d -exec ls -dlrt {} \;

List all leaf directories of the current directory tree

find . -type d -links 2

display all text files in the folder /user/directory which have been modified in today

find /user/directory/* -name "*txt" -mtime 0 -type f

Recursively change the user and group of all files in "/var/log/jenkins" to "root"

chown -R root:root /var/log/jenkins

Find recursively all files matching pattern 'file??' in the xargstest/ directory and print a sorted list of them

find xargstest/ -name 'file??' | sort

Find all files in the current directory recursively that were last modified more than 5 days ago

find ./* -mtime +5

Delete all files under '/home/backups' directory tree with '.tgz' or '.gz' extension that were modified more thant 60 days ago

find /home/backups -type f -iregex '.*\.t?gz$' -mtime +60 -exec rm {} \;

Show a listing of files not modified in over 20 days or not accessed in over 40 days

find /mydir \ -exec ls -l {} \;

change user and group of the file /usr/bin/aws to user amzadm and group root

chown amzadm.root /usr/bin/aws

Update timestamps of all files and directories under current directory.

find . -print0 | xargs -0 touch

Find all directories under /home/username/tmp and set their permission to 770

find /home/username/tmp -type d -exec chmod 770 {} +

Find all README's in /usr/share

find /usr/share -name README

Find grub.conf files in entire file system discarding errors in csh or tcsh shell

find / -name grub.conf >& /dev/null

Find files belonging to the given owner

find /path/to/search -user owner

Format bash array "${arr}" in columns

echo " ${arr[@]/%/$'\n'}" | column

Search for 'specific string' in all files matching the name pattern '“*.[txt|TXT]”' under current directory tree

find . -name “*.[txt|TXT]” -print | xargs grep “specific string”

Create intermediate directories as required and directory project/{lib/ext,bin,src,doc/{html,info,pdf},demo/stat/a}

mkdir -p project/{lib/ext,bin,src,doc/{html,info,pdf},demo/stat/a}

Find all PHP files under current directory that contain only one non-blank line

find . -type f -name '*.php' -exec grep -Hcm2 '[^[:space:]]' {} + | sed -n '/:1$/{s///;p}'

Calculate the md5 sum of all the file metadata in the current directory tree excluding ".svn"

find . -name '.svn' -prune -o -type f -printf '%m%c%p' | md5sum

Counts lines in file file1 and shows progress bar while doing.

tail -n 100 file1 | bar | wc -l

Find all regular files in .git and replace every occurrences of 'subdomainB.example.com' with 'subdomainA.example.com' in those files

find .git -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/subdomainB\.example\.com/subdomainA.example.com/g'

Delete all contents form the files that contain the case insensitive regex 'stringtofind' in maximum 1 level down the / directory excluding other partitions

find / -maxdepth 1 -xdev -type f -exec grep -i "stringtofind" -q "{}" \; -print0 | xargs -0 sed '/./d'

display all the hidden files in the directory "/dir/to/search/"

find /dir/to/search/ -name ".*" -print

Find all 'test' directories in the current directory tree and remove them

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

Print "RDBMS exit code : $RC " to the console and append to "${LOG_FILE}"

echo " RDBMS exit code : $RC " | tee -a ${LOG_FILE}

Display differences between /tmp/test1 and /tmp/test2.

diff /tmp/test1 /tmp/test2

display all the files in the current folder and traverse from the sub directories

find . -type d -depth

Searches for 'something' in a large file and prints the matching line

grep -n 'something' HUGEFILE | head -n 1

Find all files named "filename" in the current directory tree, not descending into "FOLDER1" directories

find . -name FOLDER1 -prune -o -name filename

Print unique lines in sorted file "A" when compared to sorted files "B", "C", and "D"

comm -2 -3 A B | comm -2 -3 - C | comm -2 -3 - D

Find files that were modified second last week and archive them

find . -type f -mtime +7 -mtime -14 | xargs tar -cvf `date ‘+%d%m%Y’_archive.tar`

Find all files that were last accessed less than7 days ago under /home

find /home -mtime -7

Count the number of the regular files residing under and below ./randfiles/

find ./randfiles/ -type f | wc -l

Find all files/directories starting with 'readme' (case insensitive) under '/usr/share/doc' directory tree

find /usr/share/doc -name '[Rr][Ee][Aa][Dd][Mm][Ee]*'

Find all directories under ${1:-.} directory without descending into any sub-directories

find ${1:-.} -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d

Find the files in the current directory that match pattern '*.ISOLATE.*.txt' and move them to folder ./ISOLATE

find . -name '*.ISOLATE.*.txt' -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0 -IFILE mv FILE ./ISOLATE

Run 'make -e' with an environment variable 'HOSTNAME' set to the system hostname

HOSTNAME=$(hostname) make -e

Prints total number of lines of all *.m and *.h files in a current folder and subfolders.

find ./ -type f -name "*.[mh]" -exec wc -l {} \; | sed -e 's/[ ]*//g' | cut -d"." -f1 | paste -sd+ - | bc

Store content of uncompressed file "$file.fastq" in variable "reads"

reads=$(zcat $file.fastq)

Display differences between directories repos1 and repos2, ignoring changes due to tab expansion, white spaces and treating absent files as empty.

diff -ENwbur repos1/ repos2/

Delete empty files and print their names

find . -empty -delete -print

Create a symbolic link named "$1/link" to the current working directory

ln -s "`pwd`" $1/link

Exits the entire bash script with defined status code N.

exit N

Search for all the files in man pages and return the manual page for grep

find /usr/share/man/ -regex .*/grep*

display all the files in the file system which have been modified in the last 10 minutes

find / -mmin -10

Find and print all PDF files in the current directory and its sub-directories except for any found in the ./pdfs directory.

find . -name "*.pdf" -print | grep -v "^\./pdfs/"

Find files ending in "*macs"

find -name '*macs'