prabhanshubhowal/natural_language_to_linux

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List all files/directories under current directory ensuring white space safety	find -print0 \| xargs --null
display all the files and directories with the name "CVS" from /usr/src folder that are at least seven levels deep and do not descend onto the folders	find /usr/src -name CVS -prune -o -depth +6 -print
Interpret all lines containing an equal sign in myfile	grep "=" myfile \| source /dev/stdin
Prints long listing of directory $var sorted from oldest to newest, with appended indicators.	$ ls -Fltr $var
List all files in the current directory tree that were last modified between "mar 03, 2010 09:00" and "mar 11, 2010"	find -newermt "mar 03, 2010 09:00" -not -newermt "mar 11, 2010" -ls
Search the current directory tree for directories lacking execute permissions for user, group, or others	find . -type d ! -perm -111
Exclude directory from find . command	find ./ -path ./beta/* -prune -o -iname example.com -print
Monitor 3 specific process IDs: 18884, 18892, and 18919 (GNU specific)	top -p 18884 -p 18892 -p 18919
Copy a file xyz.c to all the directories below the current one whose names begin with "temp"	find . -type d -name "temp*" \| xargs -n1 cp xyz.c
Copy all files in the current directory except those containing 'Music' to '/target_directory'.	cp `ls \| grep -v Music` /target_directory
Print file type information of the "java" executable	cat `which java` \| file -
find all files with pattern` '*.mp3'	find / -name *.mp3
Go to /tmp directory.	cd /tmp
Find all files and directories under current directory without crossing over to other partitions and archive them into path_to_save.cpio.gz	find . -xdev -print0 \| cpio -oa0V \| gzip > path_to_save.cpio.gz
Lists all subdirectories in a current folder, removing trailing slash.	ls -d */ \| cut -f1 -d'/'
Copy all files that match 'FooBar' in their paths under current directory tree to the '~/foo/bar' directory	find . \| grep "FooBar" \| tr \\n \\0 \| xargs -0 -I{} cp "{}" ~/foo/bar
find all case-insensitive php or pthml files, which whole path does not contain /some/directory case-insensitivily , and excute xgettext which whole name as parameter	find /project/directory -iname '.php' -or -iname '.phtml' \| grep -iv '/some/directory' \| xargs xgettext
Print the contents of "numbers.txt"	cat numbers.txt
rename all the text files in the current folder to html files	find -name "*.txt" -exec mv {} `basename {} .htm`.html \;
Saves in 'result' variable list of groups which user $line belongs to, and not matching pattern "_unknown\|sciences\|everyone\|netaccounts"	result=$
find httpd.conf file in /etc directory	find /etc -name "httpd.conf"
Change to the directory of the executable "python"	cd `dirname $`
Find all xml files under current directory and archive them to .bz2 archives	for i in `find . \| grep ".xml$"`; do bzip2 $i; done
Change the owner of "process" to "root"	sudo chown root process
Find all files under current directory and rename them by replacing all white spaces with _	find ./ -name "* *" -type f -d 1 \| perl -ple '$file = $_; $file =~ s/\s+/_/g; rename;'
Search /usr/local for subdirectories whose names end with a number 0-9	find /usr/local -maxdepth 1 -type d -name '*[0-9]'
List the entire cron job list of user "apache".	crontab -u apache -l
Mount the "vboxsf" filesystem "myFileName" on "~/destination"	sudo mount -t vboxsf myFileName ~/destination
Find all regular files in the the user's home/mail directory and search for the word "Linux".	find ~/mail -type f \| xargs grep "Linux"
Split "file.tar.gz" into files of size 1024 MB with a prefix of "file.tar.gz.part-"	split -b 1024m "file.tar.gz" "file.tar.gz.part-"
update the permission of all the php files in current directory and save the output to a file	find . -name '*.php' -exec chmod 755 {} \; > logfile.txt
search for a pattern in all the python files in the current folder. and save the output to output.txt file. print0 is used to handle files with newlines in their names	find . -name '*.py' -print0 \| xargs -0 grep 'something' > output.txt
Search the ~/Books directory recursively for files named "Waldo"	find ~/Books -name Waldo
Format the contents of "[file]" in a neat table	cat file \| column -t
Find all pdf files excluding *_signed.pdf files under /some/dir with null character as the delimiter	find /some/dir -name ".pdf" ! -name "_signed.pdf" -print0
Find all "YourProgramName" regular files in the current directory tree and print the full paths to the directories containing them	find . -type f -name YourProgramName -execdir pwd \;
print command for alias "list" with low priority command	nice -10 `alias list \| sed "s/^\\?[^=]\+='//; s/'$//;"`
Find all files under current directory whose status was changed less than 3 days ago, sort them and show last 5 lines of output with only their paths	find . -type f -ctime -3 -printf "%C@ %p\n" \| sort \| tail -n 5 \| sed 's/[^ ]* \/\1/'
Create intermediate directories "full", "path" as required and directory "to"	mkdir -p `dirname /full/path/to/file.txt`
find all files under the current directory that end in "foo" and execute somecommand on each quoted filename	find . -name "*.foo" -exec somecommand "{}" \;
Find all broken symlinks under /path/to/search directory	find /path/to/search -xtype l
Stores date of last month day in the 'lastdaymonth' variable.	set lastdaymonth=`cal $month $year \|tr -s " " "\n"\|tail -1`
Removes first and last parts of path $path and saves the result in 'finalName' variable.	finalName=$(basename -- "$(dirname -- "$path")")
find all the files in the current folder which do not have the execute permission	find . -type d ! -perm -111
Change onwer of "file" to "user_name"	chown user_name file
Find all *.zip files under current directory and unzip them in the same directory as the files	find . -name '*.zip' -exec sh -c 'unzip -d `dirname {}` {}' ';'
Allow all users to execute "myscript.sh"	chmod a+x myscript.sh
Print the unique lines from standard input preserving the order they appear	nl -n ln \| sort -u -k 2\| sort -k 1n \| cut -f 2-
Format contents of "file" as a table	paste -d" " - - < file \| column -t
Sort strings of 'test.txt' file by second from the end field	rev test.txt \| sort -k2 \| rev
Find all regular files with permissions 777 under and below /home/user/demo/	find /home/user/demo -type f -perm 777 -print
Find all files under current directory that are read less than 1 minute ago	find . -amin -1
Find command will list of all files & directories from current directory , before listing echo command will display ' List of files & Directory '	find . -exec echo ' List of files & Direcoty' {} \;
delete all the files in the current folder which end with ".bak" or ".backup" and which have not been accessed in the last 30 days	find . -type f -atime +30 -exec rm '{}' ;
Create tar.gz files older than one day logs	find /home/testuser/log/ -mtime +1 \| xargs tar -czvPf /opt/older_log_$(date +%F).tar.gz
Print which files differ in "dir1" and "dir2" recursively	diff -qr dir1 dir2
find all the directories with the name "uploads" in current folder	find . -type d -name 'uploads'
search the word "MySearchStr" in all the regular/normal files in the current folder and display the line number and the file name	find . -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 -e grep -nH -e MySearchStr
find all the mp3 files in the current folder and move them to another folder	find . -name "*.mp3" -exec mv {} "/Users/sir/Music//iTunes/iTunes Media/Automatically Add to iTunes.localized/" \;
Copies all files like "FooBar" under the current directory to the '~/foobar' directory.	find . -name 'FooBar' -exec cp -t ~/foobar -- {} +
Return a list of files newer than file poop	find . -mnewer poop
display all the directories in the current folder which start with processor followed by digit and ends with .1 or .2	find . -type d -regextype posix-egrep -regex '\./processor[0-9]*/10\.'
Find all executable symlinks or upvoter-* files under maximum 1 level down the {} directory	find {} -name 'upvoter-*' -type f -or -type l -maxdepth 1 -perm +111
Selects a job from list and get it back to the foreground .	fg `jobs \| iselect -a \| grep -o [0-9]*`
Split "$INFILE" into files of at most "$SPLITLIMT" with a numeric suffix and a prefix "x_"	split -d -l $SPLITLIMT $INFILE x_
Find all *.mov files under current directory and run an ffmpeg command with the path and the name for each file	find . -iname "*.mov" -printf "%p %f\n" \| xargs -r -n2 ffmpeg -f flv -i
Find all the files whose name is tecmint.txt	find . -name tecmint.txt
Change permissions to 755 for all subdirectories of the current directory	find . -type d -print \| sed -e 's/^/"/' -e 's/$/"/' \| xargs chmod 755
Locate all files in the current directory and below that have "testfile" in their names regardless of the case	find -iname "TESTFILE"
Finds all the log* files in /myDir recursively that are more than 7 days older, skipping already created .bz2 archives and compresses them.	find /myDir -name 'log' -and -not -name '.bz2' -ctime +7 -exec bzip2 -zv {} \;
Find all .mp3, .aif, .m4p, .wav, .flac files under $musicdir directory	find "$musicdir" -type f -print \| egrep -i '\.(mp3\|aif*\|m4p\|wav\|flac)$'
search for the file, filename.txt in the current folder	find . -name filename.txt
Find all files named "file.ext" in the current directory tree and print the path names of the directories they are in	find `pwd` -name file.ext \|xargs -l1 dirname
find all the files from root folder which have nogroup or noname and dispaly their details.	find / \( -nogroup -o -noname \) -ls
Print every three lines of "file" as a comma separated line	paste -sd',,\n' file
Find all *.txt files under current directory, change their permission to 666 and copy them to /dst/ directory	find . -name \*.txt -exec chmod 666 {} \; -exec cp {} /dst/ \;
display all the directories in the current folder excluding those that are present in the folder secret	find . -name secret -type d -prune -o -print
Recursively finds all *.dbf files from the root folder and prints list of folders with such files.	find / -name "*.dbf" -exec dirname {} \; 2> /dev/null \| sort -u
display a long list of all regular/normal files in the file system which belong to the root and with suid bit set	find / -type f -user root -perm -4000 -exec ls -l {} \;
Search the current directory tree for files whose names do not end in "1" and "2"	find . -type f ! -name "1" ! -name "2" -print
Execute "du -s path" every 300 seconds	watch -n 300 du -s path
List the largest file in long list format of all the files under the current directory	find . -type f -ls \| sort -nrk7 \| head -1 #unformatted
Prints all child processes of a process with id 20238.	pstree -p 20238 \| sed 's/(/\n(/g' \| grep '(' \| sed 's/(\(.\))./\1/'
Delete files containing whitespaces without recursion	find . -name '[+{;"\\=?~<>&\|$ ]*' -maxdepth 0 -exec rm -f '{}' \;
Find .avi and .flv files in /path/to/your/directory and below and copy them to /path/to/specific/folder	find /path/to/your/directory -regex '.*\.\' -exec cp {} /path/to/specific/folder \;
Uncompress "archive.tar.gz" and extract the archive to "/destination"	gzip -dc archive.tar.gz \| tar -xf - -C /destination
Find all regular files named 'Waldo' under 'Books' directory tree that is located in user's home directory	find ~/Books -type f -name Waldo
Print the first 24 alphanumeric characters from "/dev/urandom", determining C locale for all categories	cat /dev/urandom \| LC_ALL=C tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' \| fold -w 24 \| head -n 1
List all files 2 levels deep in the current directory tree	tree -L 2 -fi
Find all directories under current directory and set their permission to 775	find -type d exec chmod 775 {} +
Report file systems disk usage in kilobytes.	df -k
Find all files in the current directory tree that match pattern 'a(b*'	find . -name 'a(b*' -print
Creates temporary file, replacing XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX with equal length suffix.	mktemp /tmp/banana.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.mp3
find all the files which have the write permission to the group and remove the write permission.	find . -perm -20 -exec chmod g-w {} ;
List all cron jobs where the minute part is either * or a number from 0 to 14.	crontab -l \| awk '$1 == "*" \|\| $1 ~ /^[0-9]+$/ && $1 < 15 {print}'
Copies newest file under the current folder to the '/tmp/'	cp $ /tmp/
Find all *.dbf files/directories in entire file system	find / -name "*.dbf"
create a backup of all the files which have been modified in the last 48 hours	find source/directory -ctime -2 \| cpio -pvdm /my/dest/directory
Dump "filename" as 2 byte wide hexadecimal and printable characters	od -xc filename
Pair side-by-side content of the 'file' and its side-mirrored content	paste -d ' ' file <

List all files/directories under current directory ensuring white space safety

find -print0 | xargs --null

display all the files and directories with the name "CVS" from /usr/src folder that are at least seven levels deep and do not descend onto the folders

find /usr/src -name CVS -prune -o -depth +6 -print

Interpret all lines containing an equal sign in myfile

grep "=" myfile | source /dev/stdin

Prints long listing of directory $var sorted from oldest to newest, with appended indicators.

$ ls -Fltr $var

List all files in the current directory tree that were last modified between "mar 03, 2010 09:00" and "mar 11, 2010"

find -newermt "mar 03, 2010 09:00" -not -newermt "mar 11, 2010" -ls

Search the current directory tree for directories lacking execute permissions for user, group, or others

find . -type d ! -perm -111

Exclude directory from find . command

find ./ -path ./beta/* -prune -o -iname example.com -print

Monitor 3 specific process IDs: 18884, 18892, and 18919 (GNU specific)

top -p 18884 -p 18892 -p 18919

Copy a file xyz.c to all the directories below the current one whose names begin with "temp"

find . -type d -name "temp*" | xargs -n1 cp xyz.c

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

cp `ls | grep -v Music` /target_directory

Print file type information of the "java" executable

cat `which java` | file -

find all files with pattern` '*.mp3'

find / -name *.mp3

Go to /tmp directory.

cd /tmp

Find all files and directories under current directory without crossing over to other partitions and archive them into path_to_save.cpio.gz

find . -xdev -print0 | cpio -oa0V | gzip > path_to_save.cpio.gz

Lists all subdirectories in a current folder, removing trailing slash.

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

Copy all files that match 'FooBar' in their paths under current directory tree to the '~/foo/bar' directory

find . | grep "FooBar" | tr \\n \\0 | xargs -0 -I{} cp "{}" ~/foo/bar

find all case-insensitive php or pthml files, which whole path does not contain /some/directory case-insensitivily , and excute xgettext which whole name as parameter

find /project/directory -iname '*.php' -or -iname '*.phtml' | grep -iv '/some/directory' | xargs xgettext

Print the contents of "numbers.txt"

cat numbers.txt

rename all the text files in the current folder to html files

find -name "*.txt" -exec mv {} `basename {} .htm`.html \;

Saves in 'result' variable list of groups which user $line belongs to, and not matching pattern "_unknown|sciences|everyone|netaccounts"

result=$

find httpd.conf file in /etc directory

find /etc -name "httpd.conf"

Change to the directory of the executable "python"

cd `dirname $`

Find all xml files under current directory and archive them to .bz2 archives

for i in `find . | grep ".xml$"`; do bzip2 $i; done

Change the owner of "process" to "root"

sudo chown root process

Find all files under current directory and rename them by replacing all white spaces with _

find ./ -name "* *" -type f -d 1 | perl -ple '$file = $_; $file =~ s/\s+/_/g; rename;'

Search /usr/local for subdirectories whose names end with a number 0-9

find /usr/local -maxdepth 1 -type d -name '*[0-9]'

List the entire cron job list of user "apache".

crontab -u apache -l

Mount the "vboxsf" filesystem "myFileName" on "~/destination"

sudo mount -t vboxsf myFileName ~/destination

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"

Split "file.tar.gz" into files of size 1024 MB with a prefix of "file.tar.gz.part-"

split -b 1024m "file.tar.gz" "file.tar.gz.part-"

update the permission of all the php files in current directory and save the output to a file

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

search for a pattern in all the python files in the current folder. and save the output to output.txt file. print0 is used to handle files with newlines in their names

find . -name '*.py' -print0 | xargs -0 grep 'something' > output.txt

Search the ~/Books directory recursively for files named "Waldo"

find ~/Books -name Waldo

Format the contents of "[file]" in a neat table

cat file | column -t

Find all pdf files excluding *_signed.pdf files under /some/dir with null character as the delimiter

find /some/dir -name "*.pdf" ! -name "*_signed.pdf" -print0

Find all "YourProgramName" regular files in the current directory tree and print the full paths to the directories containing them

find . -type f -name YourProgramName -execdir pwd \;

print command for alias "list" with low priority command

nice -10 `alias list | sed "s/^\\?[^=]\+='//; s/'$//;"`

Find all files under current directory whose status was changed less than 3 days ago, sort them and show last 5 lines of output with only their paths

find . -type f -ctime -3 -printf "%C@ %p\n" | sort | tail -n 5 | sed 's/[^ ]* \/\1/'

Create intermediate directories "full", "path" as required and directory "to"

mkdir -p `dirname /full/path/to/file.txt`

find all files under the current directory that end in "foo" and execute somecommand on each quoted filename

find . -name "*.foo" -exec somecommand "{}" \;

Find all broken symlinks under /path/to/search directory

find /path/to/search -xtype l

Stores date of last month day in the 'lastdaymonth' variable.

set lastdaymonth=`cal $month $year |tr -s " " "\n"|tail -1`

Removes first and last parts of path $path and saves the result in 'finalName' variable.

finalName=$(basename -- "$(dirname -- "$path")")

find all the files in the current folder which do not have the execute permission

find . -type d ! -perm -111

Change onwer of "file" to "user_name"

chown user_name file

Find all *.zip files under current directory and unzip them in the same directory as the files

find . -name '*.zip' -exec sh -c 'unzip -d `dirname {}` {}' ';'

Allow all users to execute "myscript.sh"

chmod a+x myscript.sh

Print the unique lines from standard input preserving the order they appear

nl -n ln | sort -u -k 2| sort -k 1n | cut -f 2-

Format contents of "file" as a table

paste -d" " - - < file | column -t

Sort strings of 'test.txt' file by second from the end field

rev test.txt | sort -k2 | rev

Find all regular files with permissions 777 under and below /home/user/demo/

find /home/user/demo -type f -perm 777 -print

Find all files under current directory that are read less than 1 minute ago

find . -amin -1

Find command will list of all files & directories from current directory , before listing echo command will display ' List of files & Directory '

find . -exec echo ' List of files & Direcoty' {} \;

delete all the files in the current folder which end with ".bak" or ".backup" and which have not been accessed in the last 30 days

find . -type f -atime +30 -exec rm '{}' ;

Create tar.gz files older than one day logs

find /home/testuser/log/ -mtime +1 | xargs tar -czvPf /opt/older_log_$(date +%F).tar.gz

Print which files differ in "dir1" and "dir2" recursively

diff -qr dir1 dir2

find all the directories with the name "uploads" in current folder

find . -type d -name 'uploads'

search the word "MySearchStr" in all the regular/normal files in the current folder and display the line number and the file name

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -e grep -nH -e MySearchStr

find all the mp3 files in the current folder and move them to another folder

find . -name "*.mp3" -exec mv {} "/Users/sir/Music//iTunes/iTunes Media/Automatically Add to iTunes.localized/" \;

Copies all files like "*FooBar*" under the current directory to the '~/foobar' directory.

find . -name '*FooBar*' -exec cp -t ~/foobar -- {} +

Return a list of files newer than file poop

find . -mnewer poop

display all the directories in the current folder which start with processor followed by digit and ends with .1 or .2

find . -type d -regextype posix-egrep -regex '\./processor[0-9]*/10\.'

Find all executable symlinks or upvoter-* files under maximum 1 level down the {} directory

find {} -name 'upvoter-*' -type f -or -type l -maxdepth 1 -perm +111

Selects a job from list and get it back to the foreground .

fg `jobs | iselect -a | grep -o [0-9]*`

Split "$INFILE" into files of at most "$SPLITLIMT" with a numeric suffix and a prefix "x_"

split -d -l $SPLITLIMT $INFILE x_

Find all *.mov files under current directory and run an ffmpeg command with the path and the name for each file

find . -iname "*.mov" -printf "%p %f\n" | xargs -r -n2 ffmpeg -f flv -i

Find all the files whose name is tecmint.txt

find . -name tecmint.txt

Change permissions to 755 for all subdirectories of the current directory

find . -type d -print | sed -e 's/^/"/' -e 's/$/"/' | xargs chmod 755

Locate all files in the current directory and below that have "testfile" in their names regardless of the case

find -iname "*TESTFILE*"

Finds all the log* files in /myDir recursively that are more than 7 days older, skipping already created .bz2 archives and compresses them.

find /myDir -name 'log*' -and -not -name '*.bz2' -ctime +7 -exec bzip2 -zv {} \;

Find all *.mp3, *.aif*, *.m4p, *.wav, *.flac files under $musicdir directory

find "$musicdir" -type f -print | egrep -i '\.(mp3|aif*|m4p|wav|flac)$'

search for the file, filename.txt in the current folder

find . -name filename.txt

Find all files named "file.ext" in the current directory tree and print the path names of the directories they are in

find `pwd` -name file.ext |xargs -l1 dirname

find all the files from root folder which have nogroup or noname and dispaly their details.

find / $ -nogroup -o -noname $ -ls

Print every three lines of "file" as a comma separated line

paste -sd',,\n' file

Find all *.txt files under current directory, change their permission to 666 and copy them to /dst/ directory

find . -name \*.txt -exec chmod 666 {} \; -exec cp {} /dst/ \;

display all the directories in the current folder excluding those that are present in the folder secret

find . -name secret -type d -prune -o -print

Recursively finds all *.dbf files from the root folder and prints list of folders with such files.

find / -name "*.dbf" -exec dirname {} \; 2> /dev/null | sort -u

display a long list of all regular/normal files in the file system which belong to the root and with suid bit set

find / -type f -user root -perm -4000 -exec ls -l {} \;

Search the current directory tree for files whose names do not end in "1" and "2"

find . -type f ! -name "*1" ! -name "*2" -print

Execute "du -s path" every 300 seconds

watch -n 300 du -s path

List the largest file in long list format of all the files under the current directory

find . -type f -ls | sort -nrk7 | head -1 #unformatted

Prints all child processes of a process with id 20238.

pstree -p 20238 | sed 's/(/\n(/g' | grep '(' | sed 's/($.*$).*/\1/'

Delete files containing whitespaces without recursion

find . -name '*[+{;"\\=?~<>&*|$ ]*' -maxdepth 0 -exec rm -f '{}' \;

Find *.avi and *.flv files in /path/to/your/directory and below and copy them to /path/to/specific/folder

find /path/to/your/directory -regex '.*\.\' -exec cp {} /path/to/specific/folder \;

Uncompress "archive.tar.gz" and extract the archive to "/destination"

gzip -dc archive.tar.gz | tar -xf - -C /destination

Find all regular files named 'Waldo' under 'Books' directory tree that is located in user's home directory

find ~/Books -type f -name Waldo

Print the first 24 alphanumeric characters from "/dev/urandom", determining C locale for all categories

cat /dev/urandom | LC_ALL=C tr -dc 'a-zA-Z0-9' | fold -w 24 | head -n 1

List all files 2 levels deep in the current directory tree

tree -L 2 -fi

Find all directories under current directory and set their permission to 775

find -type d exec chmod 775 {} +

Report file systems disk usage in kilobytes.

df -k

Find all files in the current directory tree that match pattern 'a(b*'

find . -name 'a(b*' -print

Creates temporary file, replacing XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX with equal length suffix.

mktemp /tmp/banana.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.mp3

find all the files which have the write permission to the group and remove the write permission.

find . -perm -20 -exec chmod g-w {} ;

List all cron jobs where the minute part is either * or a number from 0 to 14.

crontab -l | awk '$1 == "*" || $1 ~ /^[0-9]+$/ && $1 < 15 {print}'

Copies newest file under the current folder to the '/tmp/'

cp $ /tmp/

Find all *.dbf files/directories in entire file system

find / -name "*.dbf"

create a backup of all the files which have been modified in the last 48 hours

find source/directory -ctime -2 | cpio -pvdm /my/dest/directory

Dump "filename" as 2 byte wide hexadecimal and printable characters

od -xc filename

Pair side-by-side content of the 'file' and its side-mirrored content

paste -d ' ' file <