prabhanshubhowal/natural_language_to_linux

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Rename file with inode number 31467125 to new_name.html	find . -type f -inum 31467125 -exec /bin/mv {} new_name.html \;
Remount "/dev/block/mtdblock3" on "/system" with read and write permission	mount -o remount,rw -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system
List all files named "filename" from the current directory tree, ignoring directory "FOLDER1"	find . -name FOLDER1 -prune -o -name filename -print
move all the files in the current folder to temp folder and search atleast in one subfolder	find . -mindepth 1 -exec mv -t /tmp {} +
Calculate md5 checksum of $KEY, take the 1st to 10th character, append them with the string '/tmp/command_cache.' and save the rsultant string to variable FILE	FILE="/tmp/command_cache.`echo -n "$KEY" \| md5sum \| cut -c -10`"
Sort numerically and compare files "ruby.test" and "sort.test"	diff <(sort -n ruby.test) <(sort -n sort.test)
Find all files/directories case insensitively containing 'xt' in their names under '/etc' directory tree	find /etc -iregex '.xt.'
find all the files that have been modified in the last 60 minutes	find -mmin -60
Forcibly removes all files like '.bak' and '~'	rm -f .bak ~
display the contents of all the regular/normal files in the entire file system with the name dummy and discard all the errors and save the output to the files tesst.txt	find / -type f -name dummy 2>/dev/null -exec cat {} \; >tesst.txt
Removes all files but $1 newest ones from current folder.	ls -tp \| grep -v '/' \| tail -n +"$1" \| xargs -I {} rm -- {}
search for the regular/normal file "Dateiname" in the entire file system	find / -type f -iname "Dateiname"
Delete all files/directories under current directory tree excluding '.gitignore' files/directories and files/directories matching the patterns '.git' or '.git/*' in their paths	find . ! -name '.gitignore' ! -path '.git' ! -path '.git/*' -exec rm -rf {} \;
Search the current directory recursively for files containing "needle text"	find . -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 grep -I "needle text"
Finds binaries names in a list of running processes and prints containing folder of first 10 binaries.	ps aux \| awk '{print $11}' \| grep -x -e "/.*" \| xargs dirname \| head
Try to determine the type of contents in "myfile" located in user's home directory.	file ~/myfile
Execute "1" and write output to standard output and file "${LOG_FILE}"	exec 1 \| tee ${LOG_FILE}
Find all regular files under ./Desktop directory	find ./Desktop -type f
Find files/directories named 'document' in 'ext2' partitions in entire filesystem	find / -fstype ext2 -name document -print
Find all 50MB files	find / -size 50M
find all jar files in current folder and search for a file in all these jar's and display the jar names along with searched file	find . -name "*.jar" -print -exec jar -tf {} \;\|egrep "jar$\|message_track.properties"
Find all *.m4a files/directories under /home/family/Music directory	find /home/family/Music -name '*.m4a' -print0
create directory aaa	mkdir aaa
Show the list of files modified more than 31 days ago	find / -mtime +31 -print
Find all files named 'file' in 1 level down the current directory whose status were changed more than 1 day ago	find . -maxdepth 1 -ctime +1 -name file
search for the word "foo" in all the regular/normal files in the directory "/path/to/dir"	find /path/to/dir -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 grep -l "foo"
Removes 'foo' file.	rm foo
Find all files/directories greater than 100MB and print their list along with their size in /root/big.txt file	find \
Find all files in the current directory tree ignoring the ".git" directory	find . -type d -name '.git*' -prune -o -type f -print
list any files modified since /bin/sh was last modified	find . -newer /bin/sh
Takes first text field from file 'file.txt' as a domain name and gets short A record for this one.	awk '{print $1}' file.txt \| xargs dig +short
Print the number of 'processors' less 1.	cat /proc/cpuinfo \| awk '/^processor/{print $3}' \| tail -1
Run the Java archive "program.jar" in the background and immune to SIGHUP sent to it.	nohup java -jar program.jar &
Gets MAC address of eth0 network interface.	ifconfig eth0 \| awk '/HWaddr/ {print $5}'
Remove all files/directories in the current directory without '.git' and '.gitignore'	find -mindepth 1 -depth -print0 \| grep -vEzZ '(\.git(/\|$)\|/\.gitignore$)' \| xargs -0 rm -rvf
Find all regular files starting from the current directory	find . -type f
Find all *.mp4 files under /foo/bar and move them to /some/path	find /foo/bar -name '*.mp4' -print0 \| xargs -I{} -0 mv -t /some/path {}
Exclude directory from find . command	find -name ".js" -not -path "./directory/"
list the regular files in your home directory that were modified yesterday	find ~/ -daystart -type f -mtime 1
Turns on network interface eth0.	ifconfig eth0 up
display all the files in the home folder which have not been modified in the last 365*24 hours	find $HOME -mtime +365
Archive "src-dir" to "dest-dir" on "remote-user@remote-host" and delete any files in "dest-dir" not found in "src-dir"	rsync -av --delete src-dir remote-user@remote-host:dest-dir
Count the number of areas that differ in "file1" and "file2" with 0 lines of unified context	diff -U 0 file1 file2 \| grep ^@ \| wc -l
Print the path to the pipe created for process substitution	echo <
Find the "param1" string in regular files under and below /var	find /var -type f -exec grep "param1" {} \; -print
find all the files that have the word "fstab" in their name in a folder	find /etc -name fstab
find all files in the current folder that are modified exactly 2 minutes ago	find -mmin 2 -print
Create 5 empty .txt files	echo "a.txt b.txt c.txt d.txt z.txt" \| xargs touch
Print IP addresses of the host name	hostname -i
Delete all hard links to the physical file with inode number 2655341	find /home -xdev -inum 2655341 \| xargs rm
Archive all files specified on standard input under "/path/to/files" to "/path" on host "targethost" as user "user" with escalated privileges	rsync -av --files-from=- --rsync-path="sudo rsync" /path/to/files user@targethost:/path
Calculate the SHA1 sum for the contents of the path/to/folder directory tree, including permissions	find path/to/folder -type f -print0 \| sort -z \| xargs -0 sha1sum; find path/to/folder \ -print0 \| sort -z \| xargs -0 stat -c '%n %a' \| sha1sum
Backup all PHP files under the current directory tree	find -name "*.php" –exec cp {} {}.bak \;
Print the last 10 commands in history	history \| tail -10
Display the contents of 'your_file' wrapping lines to maximum 80 characters, and waiting for user interaction after each page.	fold -80 your_file \| more
Remove files matching pattern '-x.' from the current directory tree	find -name '-x.' \| xargs rm -f
Sort a file 'file' preserving only unique lines and change the file in-place	sort -u -o file !#$
Find all directories under minimum 1 level down the current directory excluding directories (along with their contents) that start with a . (dot) in their names	find . -mindepth 1 -name '.*' -prune -o \( -type d -print \)
Enables shell option 'lastpipe'.	shopt -s lastpipe
Recursively change owner and group to "tomcat7" of "webapps", "temp", "logs", "work", and "conf"	chown -R tomcat7:tomcat7 webapps temp logs work conf
find files which full path name like '/config' at current directory and print	find . -path '/config'
Use "/var/log/wtmp" and print IPs and search for "^msw.*127.0.0.1"	who --ips /var/log/wtmp \| grep '^msw.*127.0.0.1'
sort based on size and display top ten small normal/regular files in the current folder	find . -type f -exec ls -s {} \; \| sort -n \| head -10
Remove all files from the current directory tree whose names contain whitespaces	find . -name "* *" -exec rm -f {} \;
Execute "${MD5}" on all files found under "${1}", numerically sort the results, and save to variable "DATA"	DATA=$( find "${1}" -type f -exec ${MD5} {} ';' \| sort -n )
Find .txt files in the current directory tree, ignoring paths ./Movies/, ./Downloads/, and ./Music/	find . -type f -name ".txt" ! -path "./Movies/" ! -path "./Downloads/" ! -path "./Music/"
Remove containing directories and suffix ".wiki" from specified path, output the result.	basename /home/jsmith/base.wiki .wiki
Move all files that contain "Subject: \[SPAM\]" to "your_file"	mv $ your_file
Find all files in the /myfiles directory tree following symbolic links	find -L /myfiles
Numerically sort each line in file "out" and print the result to console	sort -n out
find all the files in the current folder which are writable	find . -writable
Print all filenames under /proc and below	find /proc \| xargs
Find the directories whose names contain "New Parts" at level 3 of the current directory tree and create symlinks to them in /cygdrive/c/Views	find -mindepth 3 -maxdepth 3 -type d -name "New Parts" -exec ln -s -t /cygdrive/c/Views {} \;
Recursively search for all files with names ending with "_test.rb", renaming them to end with "_spec.rb", using at most 4 concurrent processes.	find . -name "*_test.rb" \| xargs -P 4 rename s/_test/_spec/
Find all regular files in the the user's home/mail directory and search for the word "Linux".	find ~/mail -type f \| xargs grep "Linux"
Removes all listed folders with content in sudo mode.	sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/npm /usr/local/share/man/man1/node* /usr/local/lib/dtrace/node.d ~/.npm ~/.node-gyp /opt/local/bin/node opt/local/include/node /opt/local/lib/node_modules
Create a copy of index.html in all directories in current directory whose name contains Va, pausing for confirmation before overwriting any existing files - names may not contain spaces.	find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d\| grep \/a \|xargs -n 1 cp -i index.html
Find all files in the current directory tree whose names begin with '-'	find . -name '[-]*'
Search the specified user for the given "filename"	find / -user pat -iname "filename"
Creates temporary folder and saves path to it in 'td' variable.	td=$( mktemp -d )
Find all files/directories under '/usr/local/games' directory tree that contain the string 'xpilot' in their names	find /usr/local/games -name "xpilot"
Compute difference between two dates	date -ujf%s $(($ - $)) +%T
search for the word "foo" in all the regular/normal files with the name "file-pattern" in the directory "/path/to/dir"	find /path/to/dir/ -type f -name "file-pattern" -print0 \| xargs -I {} -0 grep -l "foo" "{}"
find all the files in the file system which are bigger than 3 bytes	find / -size +3 -print
Counts the number of lines in each file in a git repository.	wc -l $
Lookup information for user "vivek"	finger vivek
Recursively prints .txt files in current directory	find $(pwd) -name \*.txt -print
Delete the text matched by the regex '<script>if(window.*<\/script>' in all index.html files under current directory	find index.html \| xargs -rt sed -i 's/<script>if(window.*<\/script>//g'
Find all files/directories under current directory tree excluding hidden files/directories	find . -not -path '/\.'
Print a NULL-separated list of all directories of the current directory tree	find . -type d -print0
Rename all .jpg files to _MED.jpg files under temp/medium directory	find temp/medium -iname "*.jpg" -printf 'mv %p %p\n' \| sed 's/\.jpg$/_MED\.jpg/' \| while read l; do eval $l; done
Find all files/directories with '.tar.gz' extension under $DIR/tmp/daily/ directory tree, sort them numerically and show the last 3 of them	find $DIR/tmp/daily/ -name '*.tar.gz' \| sort -n \| tail -3
find all files in home folder which have been modified exactly 1 day before	find ~ -mtime 1 -daystart
Unzip every ".gz" file in the current directory tree	find . -name '*.gz' -exec gunzip '{}' \;
Prints list of user 'myuser' groups in a format: 'groups: [comma-separated groups list]'.	echo "groups: [ $(groups myuser \| sed -e 's/.\+\s\+:\s\+\/\1/g' -e 's/\/, /g') ]"
Print the list of files in the current directory tree skipping Git files	find . -path './.git' -prune -o -type f
list all files under .performance_test directory except .performance_test/prune_me directory	find ".performance_test" -not \ -exec bash -c 'echo "$0"' {} \;
find all the files ending with "rb" and display the first 10000 lines from these files.	find . -name "*rb" -print0 \| xargs -0 head -10000
find all the files in the current folder which have been modified in the 10 minutes ago	find -mmin +15 -mmin -25
Change all files with no user under "/var/www" to have owner "root" and group "apache"	sudo find /var/www -nouser -exec chown root:apache {} \;

Rename file with inode number 31467125 to new_name.html

find . -type f -inum 31467125 -exec /bin/mv {} new_name.html \;

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

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

List all files named "filename" from the current directory tree, ignoring directory "FOLDER1"

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

move all the files in the current folder to temp folder and search atleast in one subfolder

find . -mindepth 1 -exec mv -t /tmp {} +

Calculate md5 checksum of $KEY, take the 1st to 10th character, append them with the string '/tmp/command_cache.' and save the rsultant string to variable FILE

FILE="/tmp/command_cache.`echo -n "$KEY" | md5sum | cut -c -10`"

Sort numerically and compare files "ruby.test" and "sort.test"

diff <(sort -n ruby.test) <(sort -n sort.test)

Find all files/directories case insensitively containing 'xt' in their names under '/etc' directory tree

find /etc -iregex '.*xt.*'

find all the files that have been modified in the last 60 minutes

find -mmin -60

Forcibly removes all files like '*.bak' and '*~'

rm -f *.bak *~

display the contents of all the regular/normal files in the entire file system with the name dummy and discard all the errors and save the output to the files tesst.txt

find / -type f -name dummy 2>/dev/null -exec cat {} \; >tesst.txt

Removes all files but $1 newest ones from current folder.

ls -tp | grep -v '/' | tail -n +"$1" | xargs -I {} rm -- {}

search for the regular/normal file "Dateiname" in the entire file system

find / -type f -iname "Dateiname"

Delete all files/directories under current directory tree excluding '.gitignore' files/directories and files/directories matching the patterns '.git' or '.git/*' in their paths

find . ! -name '.gitignore' ! -path '.git' ! -path '.git/*' -exec rm -rf {} \;

Search the current directory recursively for files containing "needle text"

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -I "needle text"

Finds binaries names in a list of running processes and prints containing folder of first 10 binaries.

ps aux | awk '{print $11}' | grep -x -e "/.*" | xargs dirname | head

Try to determine the type of contents in "myfile" located in user's home directory.

file ~/myfile

Execute "1" and write output to standard output and file "${LOG_FILE}"

exec 1 | tee ${LOG_FILE}

Find all regular files under ./Desktop directory

find ./Desktop -type f

Find files/directories named 'document' in 'ext2' partitions in entire filesystem

find / -fstype ext2 -name document -print

Find all 50MB files

find / -size 50M

find all jar files in current folder and search for a file in all these jar's and display the jar names along with searched file

find . -name "*.jar" -print -exec jar -tf {} \;|egrep "jar$|message_track.properties"

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

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

create directory aaa

mkdir aaa

Show the list of files modified more than 31 days ago

find / -mtime +31 -print

Find all files named 'file' in 1 level down the current directory whose status were changed more than 1 day ago

find . -maxdepth 1 -ctime +1 -name file

search for the word "foo" in all the regular/normal files in the directory "/path/to/dir"

find /path/to/dir -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l "foo"

Removes 'foo' file.

rm foo

Find all files/directories greater than 100MB and print their list along with their size in /root/big.txt file

find \

Find all files in the current directory tree ignoring the ".git" directory

find . -type d -name '.git*' -prune -o -type f -print

list any files modified since /bin/sh was last modified

find . -newer /bin/sh

Takes first text field from file 'file.txt' as a domain name and gets short A record for this one.

awk '{print $1}' file.txt | xargs dig +short

Print the number of 'processors' less 1.

cat /proc/cpuinfo | awk '/^processor/{print $3}' | tail -1

Run the Java archive "program.jar" in the background and immune to SIGHUP sent to it.

nohup java -jar program.jar &

Gets MAC address of eth0 network interface.

ifconfig eth0 | awk '/HWaddr/ {print $5}'

Remove all files/directories in the current directory without '.git' and '.gitignore'

find -mindepth 1 -depth -print0 | grep -vEzZ '(\.git(/|$)|/\.gitignore$)' | xargs -0 rm -rvf

Find all regular files starting from the current directory

find . -type f

Find all *.mp4 files under /foo/bar and move them to /some/path

find /foo/bar -name '*.mp4' -print0 | xargs -I{} -0 mv -t /some/path {}

Exclude directory from find . command

find -name "*.js" -not -path "./directory/*"

list the regular files in your home directory that were modified yesterday

find ~/ -daystart -type f -mtime 1

Turns on network interface eth0.

ifconfig eth0 up

display all the files in the home folder which have not been modified in the last 365*24 hours

find $HOME -mtime +365

Archive "src-dir" to "dest-dir" on "remote-user@remote-host" and delete any files in "dest-dir" not found in "src-dir"

rsync -av --delete src-dir remote-user@remote-host:dest-dir

Count the number of areas that differ in "file1" and "file2" with 0 lines of unified context

diff -U 0 file1 file2 | grep ^@ | wc -l

Print the path to the pipe created for process substitution

echo <

Find the "param1" string in regular files under and below /var

find /var -type f -exec grep "param1" {} \; -print

find all the files that have the word "fstab" in their name in a folder

find /etc -name *fstab*

find all files in the current folder that are modified exactly 2 minutes ago

find -mmin 2 -print

Create 5 empty .txt files

echo "a.txt b.txt c.txt d.txt z.txt" | xargs touch

Print IP addresses of the host name

hostname -i

Delete all hard links to the physical file with inode number 2655341

find /home -xdev -inum 2655341 | xargs rm

Archive all files specified on standard input under "/path/to/files" to "/path" on host "targethost" as user "user" with escalated privileges

rsync -av --files-from=- --rsync-path="sudo rsync" /path/to/files user@targethost:/path

Calculate the SHA1 sum for the contents of the path/to/folder directory tree, including permissions

Backup all PHP files under the current directory tree

find -name "*.php" –exec cp {} {}.bak \;

Print the last 10 commands in history

history | tail -10

Display the contents of 'your_file' wrapping lines to maximum 80 characters, and waiting for user interaction after each page.

fold -80 your_file | more

Remove files matching pattern '*-*x*.*' from the current directory tree

find -name '*-*x*.*' | xargs rm -f

Sort a file 'file' preserving only unique lines and change the file in-place

sort -u -o file !#$

Find all directories under minimum 1 level down the current directory excluding directories (along with their contents) that start with a . (dot) in their names

find . -mindepth 1 -name '.*' -prune -o $ -type d -print $

Enables shell option 'lastpipe'.

shopt -s lastpipe

Recursively change owner and group to "tomcat7" of "webapps", "temp", "logs", "work", and "conf"

chown -R tomcat7:tomcat7 webapps temp logs work conf

find files which full path name like '*/*config' at current directory and print

find . -path '*/*config'

Use "/var/log/wtmp" and print IPs and search for "^msw.*127.0.0.1"

who --ips /var/log/wtmp | grep '^msw.*127.0.0.1'

sort based on size and display top ten small normal/regular files in the current folder

find . -type f -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n | head -10

Remove all files from the current directory tree whose names contain whitespaces

find . -name "* *" -exec rm -f {} \;

Execute "${MD5}" on all files found under "${1}", numerically sort the results, and save to variable "DATA"

DATA=$( find "${1}" -type f -exec ${MD5} {} ';' | sort -n )

Find *.txt files in the current directory tree, ignoring paths ./Movies/*, ./Downloads/*, and ./Music/*

find . -type f -name "*.txt" ! -path "./Movies/*" ! -path "./Downloads/*" ! -path "./Music/*"

Remove containing directories and suffix ".wiki" from specified path, output the result.

basename /home/jsmith/base.wiki .wiki

Move all files that contain "Subject: \[SPAM\]" to "your_file"

mv $ your_file

Find all files in the /myfiles directory tree following symbolic links

find -L /myfiles

Numerically sort each line in file "out" and print the result to console

sort -n out

find all the files in the current folder which are writable

find . -writable

Print all filenames under /proc and below

find /proc | xargs

Find the directories whose names contain "New Parts" at level 3 of the current directory tree and create symlinks to them in /cygdrive/c/Views

find -mindepth 3 -maxdepth 3 -type d -name "*New Parts*" -exec ln -s -t /cygdrive/c/Views {} \;

Recursively search for all files with names ending with "_test.rb", renaming them to end with "_spec.rb", using at most 4 concurrent processes.

find . -name "*_test.rb" | xargs -P 4 rename s/_test/_spec/

Find all regular files in the the user's home/mail directory and search for the word "Linux".

find ~/mail -type f | xargs grep "Linux"

Removes all listed folders with content in sudo mode.

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/npm /usr/local/share/man/man1/node* /usr/local/lib/dtrace/node.d ~/.npm ~/.node-gyp /opt/local/bin/node opt/local/include/node /opt/local/lib/node_modules

Create a copy of index.html in all directories in current directory whose name contains Va, pausing for confirmation before overwriting any existing files - names may not contain spaces.

find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d| grep \/a |xargs -n 1 cp -i index.html

Find all files in the current directory tree whose names begin with '-'

find . -name '[-]*'

Search the specified user for the given "filename"

find / -user pat -iname "filename"

Creates temporary folder and saves path to it in 'td' variable.

td=$( mktemp -d )

Find all files/directories under '/usr/local/games' directory tree that contain the string 'xpilot' in their names

find /usr/local/games -name "*xpilot*"

Compute difference between two dates

date -ujf%s $(($ - $)) +%T

search for the word "foo" in all the regular/normal files with the name "file-pattern" in the directory "/path/to/dir"

find /path/to/dir/ -type f -name "file-pattern" -print0 | xargs -I {} -0 grep -l "foo" "{}"

find all the files in the file system which are bigger than 3 bytes

find / -size +3 -print

Counts the number of lines in each file in a git repository.

wc -l $

Lookup information for user "vivek"

finger vivek

Recursively prints .txt files in current directory

find $(pwd) -name \*.txt -print

Delete the text matched by the regex '<script>if(window.*<\/script>' in all index.html files under current directory

find index.html | xargs -rt sed -i 's/<script>if(window.*<\/script>//g'

Find all files/directories under current directory tree excluding hidden files/directories

find . -not -path '*/\.*'

Print a NULL-separated list of all directories of the current directory tree

find . -type d -print0

Rename all *.jpg files to *_MED.jpg files under temp/medium directory

find temp/medium -iname "*.jpg" -printf 'mv %p %p\n' | sed 's/\.jpg$/_MED\.jpg/' | while read l; do eval $l; done

Find all files/directories with '.tar.gz' extension under $DIR/tmp/daily/ directory tree, sort them numerically and show the last 3 of them

find $DIR/tmp/daily/ -name '*.tar.gz' | sort -n | tail -3

find all files in home folder which have been modified exactly 1 day before

find ~ -mtime 1 -daystart

Unzip every ".gz" file in the current directory tree

find . -name '*.gz' -exec gunzip '{}' \;

Prints list of user 'myuser' groups in a format: 'groups: [comma-separated groups list]'.

echo "groups: [ $(groups myuser | sed -e 's/.\+\s\+:\s\+\/\1/g' -e 's/\/, /g') ]"

Print the list of files in the current directory tree skipping Git files

find . -path './.git' -prune -o -type f

list all files under .performance_test directory except .performance_test/prune_me directory

find ".performance_test" -not \ -exec bash -c 'echo "$0"' {} \;

find all the files ending with "rb" and display the first 10000 lines from these files.

find . -name "*rb" -print0 | xargs -0 head -10000

find all the files in the current folder which have been modified in the 10 minutes ago

find -mmin +15 -mmin -25

Change all files with no user under "/var/www" to have owner "root" and group "apache"

sudo find /var/www -nouser -exec chown root:apache {} \;