prabhanshubhowal/natural_language_to_linux

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create directory /tmp/foo	mkdir /tmp/foo
Search the system for the file “testfile.txt” ignoring the case	find / -iname "testfile.txt"
Print a list of all files and directories in the /var/log directory tree	find /var/log/
display all the regular/normal files in a folder	find ./subdirectory/ -type f
Change owner to "$1" and group to "httpd" of ".htaccess"	chown $1:httpd .htaccess
Delete all files in the /myDir directory tree that were last modfied more than 7 days ago	find /myDir -mindepth 1 -mtime +7 -delete
Delete files in the DIR directory tree whose names begin with "2015" and contain "album" or "picture"	find DIR \( -name 2015\* -a \( -name \album\ -o -name \picture\ \) \) -delete
Read a line from standard input with prompt "<Your Friendly Message here> : y/n/cancel" and save the response to variable "CONDITION"	read -p "<Your Friendly Message here> : y/n/cancel" CONDITION;
display all files in the current folder which start with met	find -name met*
Ping every address from 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.254 with a timeout of 1 second and filter out no responses	echo $(seq 254) \| xargs -P255 -I% -d" " ping -W 1 -c 1 192.168.0.% \| grep -E "[0-1].*?:"
find for a word in all the regular files in the current directory	find . -type f -exec grep -li '/bin/ksh' {} \;
Move all Emacs backup files from the current directory tree to ~/backups/	find . -name '*~' -print 0 \| xargs -0 -I % cp % ~/backups
Find a directory named 'project.images' case insensitively in the entire filesystem and show it in long listing format	find / -type d -iname "project.images" -ls
Delete all directories in the /myDir directory tree	find /myDir -type d -delete
Find all directories in the /data1/realtime directory tree that were modified within the last 60 minutes	find /data1/realtime -mmin -60 -type d
find all the html files in the current folder which have been modified exactly 7 days ago	find . -mtime 7 -name "*.html" -print
Create a named screen session	screen -x main -p oldwindow -X title blah
Change to directory listed in file '$HOME/.lastdir'	cd `cat $HOME/.lastdir`
search for files starting with memo and which belong to the user ann in the folder /work	find /work -name 'memo*' -user ann -print
search for a files "cart1" in the folder junk which is in home folder and move the folder to ~/junk/A.	find ~/junk -name 'cart1' -exec mv {} ~/junk/A \;
display all the files in the file system which have been modified in the last 10 minutes	find / -mmin -10
Find all files/directories named 'file' and print them with null character as the delimiter instead of newline	find -name file -print0
Find all files/directories named orm.properties under current directory	find . -name "orm.properties"
Find files that were modified more than 7 days ago and archive them	find . -type f -mtime +7 \| xargs tar -cvf `date '+%d%m%Y'_archive.tar`
Saves value '1' in the $PIPESTATUS variable and returns 0.	false \| tee /dev/null
Read a line from standard input into variable "a" without backslash escapes	read -r a
Remove trailing whitespaces in .txt files from the current directory tree	find . -type f -name ".txt" -exec sh -c 'for i;do sed 's/[[:space:]]$//' "$i">/tmp/.$$ && cat /tmp/.$$ > "$i";done' arg0 {} +
display a long listing of all the files in the current folder that have been accessed in today from the start of the day	find -daystart -atime 0 -ls
display all the C files or Python files in the folder "euler"	find euler/ -iname ".c" -exec echo {} \; -or -iname "*.py" -exec echo {} \;
Archive "source" to "destination" via ssh on port "PORT_NUMBER"	rsync -azP -e "ssh -p PORT_NUMBER" source destination
Display the sizes and filepaths of all files/directories sorted in descending order of size	du -a -h --max-depth=1 \| sort -hr
Copy the executable "python2.7" in $PATH to "myenv/bin/python"	cp `which python2.7` myenv/bin/python
Find all files matching "abc*" in the current directory and append "\tok"	find . -name 'abc*' \| sed 's/$/\tok/' \| column -t
Count and show the number of lines for each PHP files in the current directory tree	find . -name '*.php' \| xargs wc -l
change the permissions of all the regular/normal files in the folder "/path/to/someDirectory" to 644	sudo find /path/to/someDirectory -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 sudo chmod 644
Find all files/directories under /export/home/someone directory in a remote host and upload the files/directories to ftp://somehost/tmp/	ssh someone@somehost 'cd /export/home/someone && find . -name "*" -print\| '
find all files that do not have execute permission to all	find . -type d ! -perm -111
display the count of number of files in the current folder	find \| wc -l
Find all files under the current directory and copy their permissions to the same file in "../version1"	find . -type f \| xargs -I {} chmod --reference {} ../version1/{}
Delete all regular files that have not been modified in the last 60 weeks under $DIR directory tree	find $DIR -type f -mtime +60w -exec rm {} \;
Print the path names of all .png files in the /home/kibab directory tree	find /home/kibab -name '*.png' -exec echo '{}' ';'
Recursively change the owner and group of "subdir2" to "user2"	chown user2:user2 -R subdir2
Find all files residing in /home/dm/Video or below that were changed less than 7 days ago	find /home/dm/Video -mtime -7
Execute all commands in "commands-to-execute-remotely.sh" on server "blah_server"	cat commands-to-execute-remotely.sh \| ssh blah_server
Print the home folder of "$USER_NAME"	finger $USER_NAME \| grep Directory \| expand \| cut -d ' ' -f 2
Find all regular files named postgis-2.0.0 under your home directory	find ~/ -type f -name "postgis-2.0.0"
Numerically sort each line in file "bb" and output the result to console from greatest value to least value	sort -nr bb
Create a symbolic link named "foo" to "/var/cache/apt/archives/bash_4.3-14ubuntu1_amd64.deb"	ln -s /var/cache/apt/archives/bash_4.3-14ubuntu1_amd64.deb foo
Find all - files under current directory	find . -type f -name '-'
display all the directories in the current folder	find . -type d -print
Clear the in-memory history and read from the current history file	history -cr
Count number of occurences of "123" in the string "123 123 123" (ie. 3)	echo "123 123 123" \| grep -o 123 \| wc -l
Changes group ownership of '/etc/btsync/[prefered conf name].conf' to 'btsync'.	chgrp btsync /etc/btsync/[prefered conf name].conf
display the name and size of all the regular/normal files in the current folder which are bigger than 50MB	find . -type f -size +50000k -exec ls -lh {} \; \| awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'
Print all the file/directory paths under current directory	find \| xargs
Find all files on smbfs mounts and print its information and file type	find $(mount -t smbfs \| awk '{print $3}') -mount -type f -ls -execdir file {} \;
Find recursively all files that match "pattern" starting from the directory "dir"	find dir -name "pattern" 2>/dev/null
Change all cron jobs running "anm.sh" to be run every 10 minutes instead of 5 minutes.	crontab -l \| sed '/anm\.sh/s#\/5#\/10#' \| crontab -
Set the bash prompt to "username@hostname"	PS1="`whoami`@`hostname \| sed 's/\..*//'`"
Remove filetype suffix (last dot and following characters if any) from filename	echo $filename \| rev \| cut -f 2- -d '.' \| rev
Change owner to "$FUID" and group to "$FGID" of "$FILE2"	chown $FUID:$FGID "$FILE2"
Verbosely compresses all files on fourth and fifth depth level keeping original files in place.	bzip2 -kv ////*
Find all regular files under and below dir/ and change their names from UTF8 to the ASCII/TRANSLIT encoding	find dir/ -type f -exec mv {} $ \;
Remove all .tmp files in and below /tmp	find /tmp -name "*.tmp" \| xargs rm
Remove all tmp/*.mp3 files	find tmp -maxdepth 1 -name *.mp3 -print0 \| xargs -0 rm
Finds $a pattern in a $b string, and returns exit code 0 if found, suppressing any visible output.	echo $b\|grep -q $a
Find all files starting from / whose names end with ".rpm" and change their permissions to 755	find / -name *.rpm -exec chmod 755 '{}' \;
Replace newline with "_" in "file" then search for "_foo_" and output with "_" characters deleted	grep -o "_foo_" < \| tr -d '_'
search for all the files in current folder which start with "file2015-0" and move them to another folder	find . -name "file2015-0*" -exec mv {} .. \;
Find all *.html files under current directory and for each file replace the first occurrence of STRING and previous lines with the content of common_header file	find . -type f -name '*.html' -exec sed -i -e '1r common_header' -e '1,/STRING/d' {} \;
Search for files/directories with the case insensitive pattern anaconda.* in var/log directory and create an archive (file.tar) of the last file found	find var/log/ -iname anaconda.* -exec tar -cvf file.tar {} \;
check if named screen session exists	screen -list \| grep -q "myscreen"
Write the shell's input to standard error as it is read	set -v
Search the current directory tree for *.wav files that have "export" in their pathnames	find -type f -name "*.wav" \| grep export
search for a file in the current folder and prepend the first line	find ./ -name somename.txt -exec sed -e '1i My new text here` {} \;
find all the files in the current folder which do not belong to any user	find . -nouser -ls
find all the files ending with ".coffee" in the current folder and search for the words "re" in each line	find . -name \*.coffee -exec grep -m1 -i 're' {} \;
Search the current directory and directories below for .sql files	find . -name \*.sql
Unzip "$ip" as input to "pax -r"	gunzip -c -d $ip \| pax -r
Find all or single file called tecmint.txt under the / directory of owner root	find / -user root -name tecmint.txt
delete all text files from current folder	find . -type f ! -iname "*.txt" -delete
Count the number of regular files with case insensitive name pattern $srchfor under 'teste2' directory tree	find teste2 -type f -iname "$srchfor"\|wc -l
display all files in the current folder	find . -print
Returns 0 exit status despite of 'somecommand' execution result.	somecommand \| true
find all the text files in the file system and search only in the disk partition of the root.	find / -xdev -name "*.txt"
Remove all directories called "test" from the /path/to/dir directory tree	find /path/to/dir -name "test" -type d -delete
display all the files along with their group name in the folder /home which do not belong to the group test	find /home ! -group test -printf "%p:%g\n"
Find and list all files on your current directory and show a few lines of output from the beginning	find \| head
Show the explanation of find's debugging options	find -D help
Rename "original.filename" to "new.original.filename"	mv original.filename new.original.filename
Assign the alias rm2g to a find command that removes any .tar file larger than 2 gigabytes.	alias rm2g="find / -type f -name *.tar -size +2G -exec rm -i {} \;"
Search the /Path directory tree for files matching pattern "file_name*" and containing "bar" in their pathnames	find /Path -name "file_name*" \| grep "bar"
Synchronize "/path/to/dir_a" with files in "/path/to/dir_b/" if the files are newer	rsync -rtuv /path/to/dir_b/* /path/to/dir_a
Find all files/directories named 'com.apple.syncedpreferences.plist' under ~/Library directory tree	find ~/Library/ -iname "com.apple.syncedpreferences.plist"
Display process information twice, waiting one second between each, filtering out the header line.	top -b -d2 -s1 \| sed -e '1,/USERNAME/d' \| sed -e '1,/^$/d'
Save the absolute path of the current script to variable "SELF"	script="`readlink -f "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}"`"
Output success.txt omitting lines whose first field appears in fail.txt - lines in fail.txt must appear in the same order as they do in success.txt.	join -v1 success.txt fail.txt
Counts lines of 'file' file.	wc -l file
Check if a drive with UUID "$UUID" is mounted	mount \| grep $(readlink -f /dev/disk/by-uuid/$UUID )
Finds recursively all files having extension .c, .h in '/path/' that contain 'pattern', and prints matched strings with string number and file name.	grep --include=\*.{c,h} -rnw '/path/to/somewhere/' -e "pattern"

create directory /tmp/foo

mkdir /tmp/foo

Search the system for the file “testfile.txt” ignoring the case

find / -iname "testfile.txt"

Print a list of all files and directories in the /var/log directory tree

find /var/log/

display all the regular/normal files in a folder

find ./subdirectory/ -type f

Change owner to "$1" and group to "httpd" of ".htaccess"

chown $1:httpd .htaccess

Delete all files in the /myDir directory tree that were last modfied more than 7 days ago

find /myDir -mindepth 1 -mtime +7 -delete

Delete files in the DIR directory tree whose names begin with "2015" and contain "album" or "picture"

find DIR $ -name 2015\* -a \( -name \*album\* -o -name \*picture\* $ \) -delete

Read a line from standard input with prompt "<Your Friendly Message here> : y/n/cancel" and save the response to variable "CONDITION"

read -p "<Your Friendly Message here> : y/n/cancel" CONDITION;

display all files in the current folder which start with met

find -name met*

Ping every address from 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.254 with a timeout of 1 second and filter out no responses

echo $(seq 254) | xargs -P255 -I% -d" " ping -W 1 -c 1 192.168.0.% | grep -E "[0-1].*?:"

find for a word in all the regular files in the current directory

find . -type f -exec grep -li '/bin/ksh' {} \;

Move all Emacs backup files from the current directory tree to ~/backups/

find . -name '*~' -print 0 | xargs -0 -I % cp % ~/backups

Find a directory named 'project.images' case insensitively in the entire filesystem and show it in long listing format

find / -type d -iname "project.images" -ls

Delete all directories in the /myDir directory tree

find /myDir -type d -delete

Find all directories in the /data1/realtime directory tree that were modified within the last 60 minutes

find /data1/realtime -mmin -60 -type d

find all the html files in the current folder which have been modified exactly 7 days ago

find . -mtime 7 -name "*.html" -print

Create a named screen session

screen -x main -p oldwindow -X title blah

Change to directory listed in file '$HOME/.lastdir'

cd `cat $HOME/.lastdir`

search for files starting with memo and which belong to the user ann in the folder /work

find /work -name 'memo*' -user ann -print

search for a files "cart1" in the folder junk which is in home folder and move the folder to ~/junk/A.

find ~/junk -name 'cart1' -exec mv {} ~/junk/A \;

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

find / -mmin -10

Find all files/directories named 'file' and print them with null character as the delimiter instead of newline

find -name file -print0

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

find . -name "orm.properties"

Find files that were modified more than 7 days ago and archive them

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

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

false | tee /dev/null

Read a line from standard input into variable "a" without backslash escapes

read -r a

Remove trailing whitespaces in .txt files from the current directory tree

find . -type f -name "*.txt" -exec sh -c 'for i;do sed 's/[[:space:]]*$//' "$i">/tmp/.$$ && cat /tmp/.$$ > "$i";done' arg0 {} +

display a long listing of all the files in the current folder that have been accessed in today from the start of the day

find -daystart -atime 0 -ls

display all the C files or Python files in the folder "euler"

find euler/ -iname "*.c*" -exec echo {} \; -or -iname "*.py" -exec echo {} \;

Archive "source" to "destination" via ssh on port "PORT_NUMBER"

rsync -azP -e "ssh -p PORT_NUMBER" source destination

Display the sizes and filepaths of all files/directories sorted in descending order of size

du -a -h --max-depth=1 | sort -hr

Copy the executable "python2.7" in $PATH to "myenv/bin/python"

cp `which python2.7` myenv/bin/python

Find all files matching "abc*" in the current directory and append "\tok"

find . -name 'abc*' | sed 's/$/\tok/' | column -t

Count and show the number of lines for each PHP files in the current directory tree

find . -name '*.php' | xargs wc -l

change the permissions of all the regular/normal files in the folder "/path/to/someDirectory" to 644

sudo find /path/to/someDirectory -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sudo chmod 644

Find all files/directories under /export/home/someone directory in a remote host and upload the files/directories to ftp://somehost/tmp/

ssh someone@somehost 'cd /export/home/someone && find . -name "*" -print| '

find all files that do not have execute permission to all

find . -type d ! -perm -111

display the count of number of files in the current folder

find | wc -l

Find all files under the current directory and copy their permissions to the same file in "../version1"

find . -type f | xargs -I {} chmod --reference {} ../version1/{}

Delete all regular files that have not been modified in the last 60 weeks under $DIR directory tree

find $DIR -type f -mtime +60w -exec rm {} \;

Print the path names of all .png files in the /home/kibab directory tree

find /home/kibab -name '*.png' -exec echo '{}' ';'

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

chown user2:user2 -R subdir2

Find all files residing in /home/dm/Video or below that were changed less than 7 days ago

find /home/dm/Video -mtime -7

Execute all commands in "commands-to-execute-remotely.sh" on server "blah_server"

cat commands-to-execute-remotely.sh | ssh blah_server

Print the home folder of "$USER_NAME"

finger $USER_NAME | grep Directory | expand | cut -d ' ' -f 2

Find all regular files named postgis-2.0.0 under your home directory

find ~/ -type f -name "postgis-2.0.0"

Numerically sort each line in file "bb" and output the result to console from greatest value to least value

sort -nr bb

Create a symbolic link named "foo" to "/var/cache/apt/archives/bash_4.3-14ubuntu1_amd64.deb"

ln -s /var/cache/apt/archives/bash_4.3-14ubuntu1_amd64.deb foo

Find all *-* files under current directory

find . -type f -name '*-*'

display all the directories in the current folder

find . -type d -print

Clear the in-memory history and read from the current history file

history -cr

Count number of occurences of "123" in the string "123 123 123" (ie. 3)

echo "123 123 123" | grep -o 123 | wc -l

Changes group ownership of '/etc/btsync/[prefered conf name].conf' to 'btsync'.

chgrp btsync /etc/btsync/[prefered conf name].conf

display the name and size of all the regular/normal files in the current folder which are bigger than 50MB

find . -type f -size +50000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'

Print all the file/directory paths under current directory

find | xargs

Find all files on smbfs mounts and print its information and file type

find $(mount -t smbfs | awk '{print $3}') -mount -type f -ls -execdir file {} \;

Find recursively all files that match "pattern" starting from the directory "dir"

find dir -name "pattern" 2>/dev/null

Change all cron jobs running "anm.sh" to be run every 10 minutes instead of 5 minutes.

crontab -l | sed '/anm\.sh/s#\/5#\/10#' | crontab -

Set the bash prompt to "username@hostname"

PS1="`whoami`@`hostname | sed 's/\..*//'`"

Remove filetype suffix (last dot and following characters if any) from filename

echo $filename | rev | cut -f 2- -d '.' | rev

Change owner to "$FUID" and group to "$FGID" of "$FILE2"

chown $FUID:$FGID "$FILE2"

Verbosely compresses all files on fourth and fifth depth level keeping original files in place.

bzip2 -kv */*/*/*/*

Find all regular files under and below dir/ and change their names from UTF8 to the ASCII/TRANSLIT encoding

find dir/ -type f -exec mv {} $ \;

Remove all .tmp files in and below /tmp

find /tmp -name "*.tmp" | xargs rm

Remove all tmp/*.mp3 files

find tmp -maxdepth 1 -name *.mp3 -print0 | xargs -0 rm

Finds $a pattern in a $b string, and returns exit code 0 if found, suppressing any visible output.

echo $b|grep -q $a

Find all files starting from / whose names end with ".rpm" and change their permissions to 755

find / -name *.rpm -exec chmod 755 '{}' \;

Replace newline with "_" in "file" then search for "_foo_" and output with "_" characters deleted

grep -o "_foo_" < | tr -d '_'

search for all the files in current folder which start with "file2015-0" and move them to another folder

find . -name "file2015-0*" -exec mv {} .. \;

Find all *.html files under current directory and for each file replace the first occurrence of STRING and previous lines with the content of common_header file

find . -type f -name '*.html' -exec sed -i -e '1r common_header' -e '1,/STRING/d' {} \;

Search for files/directories with the case insensitive pattern anaconda.* in var/log directory and create an archive (file.tar) of the last file found

find var/log/ -iname anaconda.* -exec tar -cvf file.tar {} \;

check if named screen session exists

screen -list | grep -q "myscreen"

Write the shell's input to standard error as it is read

set -v

Search the current directory tree for *.wav files that have "export" in their pathnames

find -type f -name "*.wav" | grep export

search for a file in the current folder and prepend the first line

find ./ -name somename.txt -exec sed -e '1i My new text here` {} \;

find all the files in the current folder which do not belong to any user

find . -nouser -ls

find all the files ending with ".coffee" in the current folder and search for the words "re" in each line

find . -name \*.coffee -exec grep -m1 -i 're' {} \;

Search the current directory and directories below for .sql files

find . -name \*.sql

Unzip "$ip" as input to "pax -r"

gunzip -c -d $ip | pax -r

Find all or single file called tecmint.txt under the / directory of owner root

find / -user root -name tecmint.txt

delete all text files from current folder

find . -type f ! -iname "*.txt" -delete

Count the number of regular files with case insensitive name pattern $srchfor under 'teste2' directory tree

find teste2 -type f -iname "$srchfor"|wc -l

display all files in the current folder

find . -print

Returns 0 exit status despite of 'somecommand' execution result.

somecommand | true

find all the text files in the file system and search only in the disk partition of the root.

find / -xdev -name "*.txt"

Remove all directories called "test" from the /path/to/dir directory tree

find /path/to/dir -name "test" -type d -delete

display all the files along with their group name in the folder /home which do not belong to the group test

find /home ! -group test -printf "%p:%g\n"

Find and list all files on your current directory and show a few lines of output from the beginning

find | head

Show the explanation of find's debugging options

find -D help

Rename "original.filename" to "new.original.filename"

mv original.filename new.original.filename

Assign the alias rm2g to a find command that removes any .tar file larger than 2 gigabytes.

alias rm2g="find / -type f -name *.tar -size +2G -exec rm -i {} \;"

Search the /Path directory tree for files matching pattern "file_name*" and containing "bar" in their pathnames

find /Path -name "file_name*" | grep "bar"

Synchronize "/path/to/dir_a" with files in "/path/to/dir_b/" if the files are newer

rsync -rtuv /path/to/dir_b/* /path/to/dir_a

Find all files/directories named 'com.apple.syncedpreferences.plist' under ~/Library directory tree

find ~/Library/ -iname "com.apple.syncedpreferences.plist"

Display process information twice, waiting one second between each, filtering out the header line.

top -b -d2 -s1 | sed -e '1,/USERNAME/d' | sed -e '1,/^$/d'

Save the absolute path of the current script to variable "SELF"

script="`readlink -f "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}"`"

Output success.txt omitting lines whose first field appears in fail.txt - lines in fail.txt must appear in the same order as they do in success.txt.

join -v1 success.txt fail.txt

Counts lines of 'file' file.

wc -l file

Check if a drive with UUID "$UUID" is mounted

mount | grep $(readlink -f /dev/disk/by-uuid/$UUID )

Finds recursively all files having extension .c, .h in '/path/' that contain 'pattern', and prints matched strings with string number and file name.

grep --include=\*.{c,h} -rnw '/path/to/somewhere/' -e "pattern"