prabhanshubhowal/natural_language_to_linux

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Find all .* files excluding list_files under current directory	find . -iname ".*" \! -iname 'list_files'
Write output and error of "bash myscript.sh" to standard output and to "output.log"	bash myscript.sh 2>&1 \| tee output.log
find the oldest normal file in the current directory and display its contents	find -type f -printf "%T+ %p\0" \| sort -z \| grep -zom 1 ".*" \| cat
Find all *.tar.gz files/directories under /directory/whatever which were modified more than $DAYS ago and show a message if no files were found	find /directory/whatever -name '*.tar.gz' -mtime +$DAYS \| grep 'tar.gz' \|\| echo "You don't have files older than $DAYS days"
Print a colon-separated list of all directories from the ~/code directory tree, except hidden ones	find ~/code -type d -name '[^\.]*' \| tr '\n' ':' \| sed 's/:$//'
Print a sorted list of unique directory paths in entire file system that match the pattern '<name_pattern>' in their names	find / -name '<name_pattern>' -type d \| sort \| uniq
Find all directories under /home/username/public_html/themes and set their permission to 750	find /home/username/public_html/themes -type d -exec chmod 750 {} +
Find all files/directories under 'A' directory tree excluding directory 'A/a' and all of it's contents	find A \! -path "A/a/*" -a \! -path "A/a"
Search the home directory tree for .tar.gz files newer than file "filename"	find ~/ -name *.tar.gz -newer filename
Rename all .html files under and below the current directory to .var	find -name '*.html' -print0 \| xargs -0 rename 's/\.html$/.var/'
search for the file "process.txt" in the entire file system	find / -name "process.txt"
Search directory trees /tmp and /var/tmp for "testfile.txt"	find /tmp /var/tmp -iname "testfile.txt"
display all the files in the current folder excluding the files with the name mmm	find . -name mmm -prune -o -print
display all the ip addresses in all the files that are present in /etc folder	find /etc -type f -exec cat '{}' \; \| tr -c '.[:digit:]' '\n' \| grep '^[^.][^.]\.[^.][^.]\.[^.][^.]\.[^.][^.]$'
Execute "ps -C java -o pcpu,state,cputime,etimes" every second	watch -n 1 ps -C java -o pcpu,state,cputime,etimes
Recursively list all files on smbfs mounts	mount -v \| grep smbfs \| awk '{print $3}' \| xargs ls -lsR
Make directories and parents for each line in "infile" excluding the file name	while read line; do mkdir -p "${line%/*}"; done < infile
find all normal/regular files in the folder "//path/to/source/Directory" and calculate the md5sum of them and save the output to file Output.txt	find //path/to/source/Directory -type f -exec md5sum {} + \| awk '{print $0}' > Output.txt
Make directories and parents for each file path in "somefile.txt" excluding the file name	xargs -n 1 dirname <somefile.txt \| xargs mkdir -p
Find all files in the current directory tree that are newer than some_file	find . -newer some_file
find files with pattern` '*.h' and print comparison between file and /tmp/master directory	find . -name '*.h' -execdir diff -u '{}' /tmp/master ';'
Find all files/directories under current directory excluding the paths that match the POSIX extended regex ".def/incoming.\|.456/incoming."	find . -regex-type posix-extended -regex ".def/incoming.\|.456/incoming." -prune -o -print
recall the second argument from a previous command by pressing alt-shift-y	bind '"\eY": "\e2\e."'
find all the text files in the current folder expect those which are in the path "sk"	find . -path "./sk" -prune -o -name "*.txt" -print
Print file system disk space usage with a grand total	df --total
Display inputfile all on one line (replace newlines by spaces)	awk '{printf "%s ", $0} END {printf "\n"}' inputfile
display all files in the current folder after pruning those in the current folder	find . -prune -print
search for a word in all the files in the entire filesystem and display the matched fline along with the file name	find / -type f -exec grep -Hi 'the brown dog' {} +
Find all directories under /home/me/"$d"	find /home/me/"$d" -type d
Change all files in the current directory tree to owner "xx"	find . \
Find all regular files under current directory	find . -type f
Search file /etc/logs/Server.log for lines containing "Error"	find /etc/logs/Server.log -exec grep Error {} \; -print
Lists all files in a current folder, separating names with space.	ls -1 \| awk 'ORS=" "'
Find all regular files in the "aaa" directory	find aaa/ -maxdepth 1 -type f
Removes all files like 'A*.pdf' from current folder without prompting.	rm -f A*.pdf
List the current directory recursively ignoring the "dir1" subdirectory's content	find . -print -name dir -prune
Find all PHP files under current directory that contain only one line	find . -type f -name '*.php' -exec grep -Hcm2 $ {} + \| sed -n '/:1$/{s///;p}'
Print A record for domain 'domain.' from 'some.other.ip.address' nameserver	dig @some.other.ip.address domain. a
Print 'infile' content with line numbers	cat -n infile
Locate python interpreter and show its human-readable file type description, resolving any symlinks.	file -L $(python -c 'import sys; print')
Count the number of files named 'job.history' under '/data/SpoolIn' directory tree that match 'FAIL' in their contents	find /data/SpoolIn -name job.history -exec grep -l FAIL {} \; \| wc -l
Search the /dir directory tree for files whose names match regular expression '.2015.\(album.\\|picture.\)'	find /dir -regex '.2015.\(album.\\|picture.\)'
Find all files in current directory and execute command1 and command2 for each file	find . -type f \
delete all the files ending with "~" in current folder	find -name '*~' -print0 \| xargs -0 rm
Print the list of the subdirectories of /path/to/dir	find /path/to/dir/ -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d
Find files/directories that are owned by the user 'syslog' in entire filesystem	find / -user syslog
find all the wav files in the current folder and do not search in the sub directories	find . -name '*.wav' -maxdepth 1
Find all *.ogg files on the system ignoring the case	find / -iname '*.ogg'
Remove all files and directories called "test" from the current directory tree	find . -name test -delete
set alias "h" for command "history"	alias h='history'
Assign a name when starting a screen session	screen -S 'name' 'application'
search for text files in the current folder which do not have write access to others	find . -type f \( -iname "*.txt" -not -perm -o=w \)
display all the text files in current folder	find . -name "*.txt"
find all the files in the file system which have read permission to the user and display the ten files	find / -perm /u=r \| head
Print a list of all the files in entire file system whose inode has been modified no later than one minute ago	find / -newerct '1 minute ago' -print
Find all *.txt files under the current directory whose names are not "File.txt"	find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -regex '.*\.txt' -not -name File.txt
Search directories /opt, /usr, /var for regular file foo	find /opt /usr /var -name foo -type f
compress all the non-compressed files in the current directory.	find . \! -name "*.Z" -exec compress -f {} \;
find all the file that have been modified exactly 3 days ago	find ./ -daystart -mtime -3
Search all non-hidden files in the current directory and all non-hidden sub-directories for the file hi.dat.	find *-name hi.dat
display all the users in the current folder that belong to the group "sunk"	find . -type f -group sunk
Find all regular files with name pattern $filename under $fileloc directory tree	find "$fileloc" -type f -prune -name "$filename" -print
Keep the last 4 ASCII characters (bytes) of a string.	echo "0a.00.1 usb controller some text device 4dc9" \| rev \| cut -b1-4 \| rev
Mount "vfat" filesystem "/dev/sda7" to "/mnt/my_partition" with read and write permission, umask of files and directories set to "0000", and save in fstab and allow ordinary users to mount	sudo mount -t vfat -o rw,auto,user,fmask=0000,dmask=0000 /dev/sda7 /mnt/my_partition
Create a rsa key of 2048 bits with comment "michael" and store it in file "key".	ssh-keygen -b 2048 -t rsa -f key -C michael
Dry run making directories in "/TARGET_FOLDER_ROOT/" for each ".mov" file in the current directory tree	find . -type f -iname \*.mov -printf '%h\n' \| sort \| uniq \| xargs -n 1 -d '\n' -I '{}' echo mkdir -vp "/TARGET_FOLDER_ROOT/{}"
Print a welcome message with the current user's user name	echo "Welcome $!"
Print a count of all unique lines in "ports.txt" sorted from most frequent to least frequent	sort ports.txt \| uniq -c \| sort -r
display all the details of empty files in current folder	find . -size 0 -printf '%M %n %u %g %s %Tb\n \b%Td %Tk:%TM %p\n'
Get the total size of all files under dir1 directory	find dir1 ! -type d -printf "%s\n" \| awk '{sum += $1} END{print sum}'
Make directories as needed in "dest" for every directory found under "src/"	find src/ -type d -exec mkdir -p dest/{} \;
Find all HTML files starting with letter 'a' in the current directory and below	find . -name a\*.html
Saves value '1' in the $PIPESTATUS variable and returns 0.	false \| tee /dev/null
List all *.jar files/directories under /usr, /home and /tmp directory	find /usr /home /tmp -name "*.jar"
Prints path to the target of symbolic link 'relative/path/to/file'	dirname `readlink -e relative/path/to/file`
Creates temporary file in a current folder with name formatted like 'templateXXXXXX', and saves path to it in 'tempfile' variable.	tempfile=$(mktemp $(pwd)/templateXXXXXX)
set alias "my_command" for command "$oldalias --fail-if-command-contains=$bad_string"	alias my_command="$oldalias --fail-if-command-contains=$bad_string"
Find all directories and for each of them, print an mv command to move it to /new/location	find . -type d -execdir echo /bin/mv {} /new/location \;
Find all the SGID files in the current directory tree	find . -perm /g+s
Print lines 10000 to 10010 from input "seq 1 100000"	seq 1 100000 \| tail -n +10000 \| head -n 10
Find all files excluding files ending with 'gz', 'tmp' and 'xftp' in their names in the current directory tree and compress them with gzip not preserving timestamp and original name	find . -type f ! \ -exec gzip -n '{}' \;
Find directories modified in last 7 days	find . -mtime -7 -type d
display all the text files in the current folder which have been modified in the last half minute	find . -mmin 0.5
Search the current directory tree for regular files that were modified $FTIME days ago	find . -type f -mtime $FTIME
Print out ln commands for each file in /home/folder1/*.txt that can be run to create symlinks appending '_CUSTOM_TEXT.txt' in their names	find /home/folder1/*.txt -type f \| awk -F '.txt' '{printf "ln -s %s %s_CUSTOM_TEXT.txt\n", $0, $1}'
Changes group ownership of 'public' and 'private' to 'god'.	chgrp god public private
Recursively change owner to "tomcat6" of "webapps", "temp", "logs", "work", and "conf"	chown -R tomcat6 webapps temp logs work conf
search for a cpp directory in current folder and display all its files	find . -type d -name "cpp" -exec find {} -type f \;
Generates default-formatted file name of temporary file in a /dev/mapper folder, and saves path to it in a variable 'MAPPER'.	MAPPER=$(mktemp -up /dev/mapper)
Search the .c files residing in the Lib/ directory tree for lines beginning with "PyErr"	find Lib/ -name '*.c' -print0 \| xargs -0 grep ^PyErr
Remove all files and directories under '/home/foo' directory tree that match with one of the name patterns '.DS_Store', '._.DS_Store' , '._*', '.TemporaryItems' or '.apdisk'	find /home/foo \ -exec rm -rf {} \;
Copy all files in "/var/spool/mail" to "/home/username/mail" preserving the directory hierarchy and modification times	find /var/spool/mail -type f \| cpio -pvdmB /home/username/mail
Find all files throughout the entire file hierarchy with the optional constraints of опция_поиска, значение and/or опция_действия.	find / [опция_поиска] [значение] [опция_действия]
find all the swap files (files ending with ~) in the current folder and delete them	find . -name "*~" -delete
use regex with find command	find . * \| grep -P "[a-f0-9\-]{36}\.jpg"
List files under current directory which were modified, accessed or whose status were changed $FTIME ago and sort them and remove duplicate entries	\| sort \| uniq
Print full path of command "python"	which python
Creates temporary folder within TMPDIR, with name like current shell name and 10-letter suffix.	mktemp -dt "$(basename $0).XXXXXXXXXX"
Disable jobs running in their own process group in the shell	set +m
Find all files in /dir1 and print only the filenames (not paths)	find /dir1 -type f -printf "%f\n"

Find all .* files excluding list_files under current directory

find . -iname ".*" \! -iname 'list_files'

Write output and error of "bash myscript.sh" to standard output and to "output.log"

bash myscript.sh 2>&1 | tee output.log

find the oldest normal file in the current directory and display its contents

find -type f -printf "%T+ %p\0" | sort -z | grep -zom 1 ".*" | cat

Find all *.tar.gz files/directories under /directory/whatever which were modified more than $DAYS ago and show a message if no files were found

find /directory/whatever -name '*.tar.gz' -mtime +$DAYS | grep 'tar.gz' || echo "You don't have files older than $DAYS days"

Print a colon-separated list of all directories from the ~/code directory tree, except hidden ones

find ~/code -type d -name '[^\.]*' | tr '\n' ':' | sed 's/:$//'

Print a sorted list of unique directory paths in entire file system that match the pattern '<name_pattern>' in their names

find / -name '<name_pattern>' -type d | sort | uniq

Find all directories under /home/username/public_html/themes and set their permission to 750

find /home/username/public_html/themes -type d -exec chmod 750 {} +

Find all files/directories under 'A' directory tree excluding directory 'A/a' and all of it's contents

find A \! -path "A/a/*" -a \! -path "A/a"

Search the home directory tree for .tar.gz files newer than file "filename"

find ~/ -name *.tar.gz -newer filename

Rename all *.html files under and below the current directory to *.var

find -name '*.html' -print0 | xargs -0 rename 's/\.html$/.var/'

search for the file "process.txt" in the entire file system

find / -name "process.txt"

Search directory trees /tmp and /var/tmp for "testfile.txt"

find /tmp /var/tmp -iname "testfile.txt"

display all the files in the current folder excluding the files with the name mmm

find . -name mmm -prune -o -print

display all the ip addresses in all the files that are present in /etc folder

find /etc -type f -exec cat '{}' \; | tr -c '.[:digit:]' '\n' | grep '^[^.][^.]*\.[^.][^.]*\.[^.][^.]*\.[^.][^.]*$'

Execute "ps -C java -o pcpu,state,cputime,etimes" every second

watch -n 1 ps -C java -o pcpu,state,cputime,etimes

Recursively list all files on smbfs mounts

mount -v | grep smbfs | awk '{print $3}' | xargs ls -lsR

Make directories and parents for each line in "infile" excluding the file name

while read line; do mkdir -p "${line%/*}"; done < infile

find all normal/regular files in the folder "//path/to/source/Directory" and calculate the md5sum of them and save the output to file Output.txt

find //path/to/source/Directory -type f -exec md5sum {} + | awk '{print $0}' > Output.txt

Make directories and parents for each file path in "somefile.txt" excluding the file name

xargs -n 1 dirname <somefile.txt | xargs mkdir -p

Find all files in the current directory tree that are newer than some_file

find . -newer some_file

find files with pattern` '*.h' and print comparison between file and /tmp/master directory

find . -name '*.h' -execdir diff -u '{}' /tmp/master ';'

Find all files/directories under current directory excluding the paths that match the POSIX extended regex ".*def/incoming.*|.*456/incoming.*"

find . -regex-type posix-extended -regex ".*def/incoming.*|.*456/incoming.*" -prune -o -print

recall the second argument from a previous command by pressing alt-shift-y

bind '"\eY": "\e2\e."'

find all the text files in the current folder expect those which are in the path "sk"

find . -path "./sk" -prune -o -name "*.txt" -print

Print file system disk space usage with a grand total

df --total

Display inputfile all on one line (replace newlines by spaces)

awk '{printf "%s ", $0} END {printf "\n"}' inputfile

display all files in the current folder after pruning those in the current folder

find . -prune -print

search for a word in all the files in the entire filesystem and display the matched fline along with the file name

find / -type f -exec grep -Hi 'the brown dog' {} +

Find all directories under /home/me/"$d"

find /home/me/"$d" -type d

Change all files in the current directory tree to owner "xx"

find . \

Find all regular files under current directory

find . -type f

Search file /etc/logs/Server.log for lines containing "Error"

find /etc/logs/Server.log -exec grep Error {} \; -print

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

ls -1 | awk 'ORS=" "'

Find all regular files in the "aaa" directory

find aaa/ -maxdepth 1 -type f

Removes all files like 'A*.pdf' from current folder without prompting.

rm -f A*.pdf

List the current directory recursively ignoring the "dir1" subdirectory's content

find . -print -name dir -prune

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

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

Print A record for domain 'domain.' from 'some.other.ip.address' nameserver

dig @some.other.ip.address domain. a

Print 'infile' content with line numbers

cat -n infile

Locate python interpreter and show its human-readable file type description, resolving any symlinks.

file -L $(python -c 'import sys; print')

Count the number of files named 'job.history' under '/data/SpoolIn' directory tree that match 'FAIL' in their contents

find /data/SpoolIn -name job.history -exec grep -l FAIL {} \; | wc -l

Search the /dir directory tree for files whose names match regular expression '.*2015.*$album.*\|picture.*$'

find /dir -regex '.*2015.*$album.*\|picture.*$'

Find all files in current directory and execute command1 and command2 for each file

find . -type f \

delete all the files ending with "~" in current folder

find -name '*~' -print0 | xargs -0 rm

Print the list of the subdirectories of /path/to/dir

find /path/to/dir/ -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d

Find files/directories that are owned by the user 'syslog' in entire filesystem

find / -user syslog

find all the wav files in the current folder and do not search in the sub directories

find . -name '*.wav' -maxdepth 1

Find all *.ogg files on the system ignoring the case

find / -iname '*.ogg'

Remove all files and directories called "test" from the current directory tree

find . -name test -delete

set alias "h" for command "history"

alias h='history'

Assign a name when starting a screen session

screen -S 'name' 'application'

search for text files in the current folder which do not have write access to others

find . -type f $ -iname "*.txt" -not -perm -o=w $

display all the text files in current folder

find . -name "*.txt"

find all the files in the file system which have read permission to the user and display the ten files

find / -perm /u=r | head

Print a list of all the files in entire file system whose inode has been modified no later than one minute ago

find / -newerct '1 minute ago' -print

Find all *.txt files under the current directory whose names are not "File.txt"

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -regex '.*\.txt' -not -name File.txt

Search directories /opt, /usr, /var for regular file foo

find /opt /usr /var -name foo -type f

compress all the non-compressed files in the current directory.

find . \! -name "*.Z" -exec compress -f {} \;

find all the file that have been modified exactly 3 days ago

find ./ -daystart -mtime -3

Search all non-hidden files in the current directory and all non-hidden sub-directories for the file hi.dat.

find *-name hi.dat

display all the users in the current folder that belong to the group "sunk"

find . -type f -group sunk

Find all regular files with name pattern $filename under $fileloc directory tree

find "$fileloc" -type f -prune -name "$filename" -print

Keep the last 4 ASCII characters (bytes) of a string.

echo "0a.00.1 usb controller some text device 4dc9" | rev | cut -b1-4 | rev

Mount "vfat" filesystem "/dev/sda7" to "/mnt/my_partition" with read and write permission, umask of files and directories set to "0000", and save in fstab and allow ordinary users to mount

sudo mount -t vfat -o rw,auto,user,fmask=0000,dmask=0000 /dev/sda7 /mnt/my_partition

Create a rsa key of 2048 bits with comment "michael" and store it in file "key".

ssh-keygen -b 2048 -t rsa -f key -C michael

Dry run making directories in "/TARGET_FOLDER_ROOT/" for each ".mov" file in the current directory tree

find . -type f -iname \*.mov -printf '%h\n' | sort | uniq | xargs -n 1 -d '\n' -I '{}' echo mkdir -vp "/TARGET_FOLDER_ROOT/{}"

Print a welcome message with the current user's user name

echo "Welcome $!"

Print a count of all unique lines in "ports.txt" sorted from most frequent to least frequent

sort ports.txt | uniq -c | sort -r

display all the details of empty files in current folder

find . -size 0 -printf '%M %n %u %g %s %Tb\n \b%Td %Tk:%TM %p\n'

Get the total size of all files under dir1 directory

find dir1 ! -type d -printf "%s\n" | awk '{sum += $1} END{print sum}'

Make directories as needed in "dest" for every directory found under "src/"

find src/ -type d -exec mkdir -p dest/{} \;

Find all HTML files starting with letter 'a' in the current directory and below

find . -name a\*.html

Saves value '1' in the $PIPESTATUS variable and returns 0.

false | tee /dev/null

List all *.jar files/directories under /usr, /home and /tmp directory

find /usr /home /tmp -name "*.jar"

Prints path to the target of symbolic link 'relative/path/to/file'

dirname `readlink -e relative/path/to/file`

Creates temporary file in a current folder with name formatted like 'templateXXXXXX', and saves path to it in 'tempfile' variable.

tempfile=$(mktemp $(pwd)/templateXXXXXX)

set alias "my_command" for command "$oldalias --fail-if-command-contains=$bad_string"

alias my_command="$oldalias --fail-if-command-contains=$bad_string"

Find all directories and for each of them, print an mv command to move it to /new/location

find . -type d -execdir echo /bin/mv {} /new/location \;

Find all the SGID files in the current directory tree

find . -perm /g+s

Print lines 10000 to 10010 from input "seq 1 100000"

seq 1 100000 | tail -n +10000 | head -n 10

Find all files excluding files ending with 'gz', 'tmp' and 'xftp' in their names in the current directory tree and compress them with gzip not preserving timestamp and original name

find . -type f ! \ -exec gzip -n '{}' \;

Find directories modified in last 7 days

find . -mtime -7 -type d

display all the text files in the current folder which have been modified in the last half minute

find . -mmin 0.5

Search the current directory tree for regular files that were modified $FTIME days ago

find . -type f -mtime $FTIME

Print out ln commands for each file in /home/folder1/*.txt that can be run to create symlinks appending '_CUSTOM_TEXT.txt' in their names

find /home/folder1/*.txt -type f | awk -F '.txt' '{printf "ln -s %s %s_CUSTOM_TEXT.txt\n", $0, $1}'

Changes group ownership of 'public' and 'private' to 'god'.

chgrp god public private

Recursively change owner to "tomcat6" of "webapps", "temp", "logs", "work", and "conf"

chown -R tomcat6 webapps temp logs work conf

search for a cpp directory in current folder and display all its files

find . -type d -name "cpp" -exec find {} -type f \;

Generates default-formatted file name of temporary file in a /dev/mapper folder, and saves path to it in a variable 'MAPPER'.

MAPPER=$(mktemp -up /dev/mapper)

Search the .c files residing in the Lib/ directory tree for lines beginning with "PyErr"

find Lib/ -name '*.c' -print0 | xargs -0 grep ^PyErr

Remove all files and directories under '/home/foo' directory tree that match with one of the name patterns '.DS_Store', '._.DS_Store' , '._*', '.TemporaryItems' or '.apdisk'

find /home/foo \ -exec rm -rf {} \;

Copy all files in "/var/spool/mail" to "/home/username/mail" preserving the directory hierarchy and modification times

find /var/spool/mail -type f | cpio -pvdmB /home/username/mail

Find all files throughout the entire file hierarchy with the optional constraints of опция_поиска, значение and/or опция_действия.

find / [опция_поиска] [значение] [опция_действия]

find all the swap files (files ending with ~) in the current folder and delete them

find . -name "*~" -delete

use regex with find command

find . * | grep -P "[a-f0-9\-]{36}\.jpg"

List files under current directory which were modified, accessed or whose status were changed $FTIME ago and sort them and remove duplicate entries

| sort | uniq

Print full path of command "python"

which python

Creates temporary folder within TMPDIR, with name like current shell name and 10-letter suffix.

mktemp -dt "$(basename $0).XXXXXXXXXX"

Disable jobs running in their own process group in the shell

set +m

Find all files in /dir1 and print only the filenames (not paths)

find /dir1 -type f -printf "%f\n"