prabhanshubhowal/natural_language_to_linux

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show all regular/normal the files in the current folder whose size is bigger than 0 bytes excluding everything	find * -prune -type f -size +0c -print
Extract any line in "set1" which does not appear in "set2"	comm -23 <(sort set1) <(sort set2)
Find all empty files in /tmp	find /tmp -type f -empty
find all the log files in the file system which are present in the current partition	find / -xdev -name "*.log"
Find all files in entire file system which are larger than 20000KB	find / -type f -size +20000k
display all the files in the folder "/Users/Me/Desktop" which belong to the user "popo" and which have the permission 777	find /Users/Me/Desktop -user popo -perm 777
find all the files ending with ".foo" in the folder /usr	find /usr -name '*.foo' -print
Find all *.md files in entire file system and convert them to HTML files	find / -name "*.md" -type f -exec markdown -o {}.html {} \;
Remove gitlab.site.org from root's known hosts file.	ssh-keygen -f "/root/.ssh/known_hosts" -R gitlab.site.org
Concatenate with a space every other line in "input.txt"	paste -s -d' \n' input.txt
find all the video files in the home folder	find ~ -type f -exec file -i {} + \| grep video
Find all MP3s in the /home directory tree	find /home -type f -name '*.mp3'
Count total number of lines in all *.txt file in cuuent directory .	find . -type f -name '*.txt' -exec wc -l {} \; \| awk '{total += $1} END{print total}'
Find all files larger than 100M and delete them	find / -size +100M -exec rm -rf {} \;
Find x* files/directories under /tmp directory whose status was changed less than 1 day ago and move them to ~/play	find /tmp/ -ctime -1 -name "x*" -exec mv '{}' ~/play/
Change the owner to "owner" and group to "nobody" of "public_html"	chown owner:nobody public_html
Creates temporary file with name formatted like 'emacs-manager.XXXXXX' in '/tmp/' folder and saves path to it in 'tmp_file' variable.	tmp_file=`mktemp --tmpdir=/tmp emacs-manager.XXXXXX`
Search for all files not newer than file /tmp/t	find / -not -newer /tmp/t
SSH using parameters in $@ in master mode in the background without executing any commands and set the ControlPath to "$MASTERSOCK"	ssh -o ControlPath="$MASTERSOCK" -MNf "$@"
find all files in the file system which belong to no user or which have no user	find / -nouser
Recursively copy everything in /source/path whose name doesn't begin with a period, to /destination/path, without overwriting existing files, and outputting a line for each file copied or skipped.	cp -Rvn /source/path/* /destination/path/
Search all files called "abc" that reside in the current directory tree for string "xyz"	find . -name abc \| xargs grep xyz
find all the files in the current folder which end with .o or with the name a.out and display them.	find . ( -name a.out -o -name *.o ) -print
Display all lines containing "IP_MROUTE" in the current kernel's compile-time config file.	cat /boot/config-`uname -r` \| grep IP_MROUTE
List all environment variables whose name starts with GOROOT	env \| grep '^GOROOT'
search for a word in all the fies in the current folder	find . -type f -exec grep some_string {} \;
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
Prints ten latest modified files within the current directory.	find . -type f -printf '%T@ %p\n' \| sort -n -r \| head -${numl} \| cut -f2- -d" " \| sed -e 's,^\./,,' \| xargs ls -U -l
Find files in the current directory tree whose size is greater than 24000 bytes	find . -size +24000c
Find *.java files in the current directory and replace foo with bar in those files	find . -name "*.java" -exec sed -i '' s/foo/bar/g \;
Sort and remove duplicate lines in the output of "finger"	finger \| sort -u
Move *wp-admin/index.php files under /var/www/ to ./index_disabled	find /var/www/ -path '*wp-admin/index.php' -exec mv {} $/index_disabled
Create a full path symbolic link "$newlink" from a relative path symbolic link "$origlink"	ln -s $ $newlink
Display an infinite number of lines consisting of "y", until the user presses the Q key.	yes \| more
find all ".flac" files starting with "cmn-" and search for files having CJK characters using unicodes	find . -name 'cmn-*\.flac' -print \| grep -P './cmn-[\x4e00-\x9fa5]\.flac'
Copy all regular files from the current directory tree to directory `TARGET'	find . -type f -exec cp -t TARGET {} \+
Set permissions to 500 for directories under the current directory	find . -type d -exec chmod 500 {} \;
find all files that names are game	find / -name game
Filters unique lines by matching against the first column of a .csv file	tac a.csv \| sort -u -t, -r -k1,1 \|tac
Remount "/system" with read and write permission	mount -o rw,remount /system
Force create a symbolc link named "softlink_name" to "source_file_or_directory_name" without dereferencing "softlink_name"	ln -sfn source_file_or_directory_name softlink_name
find all PDFs owned by user “seamstress”	find / -user seamstress -iname “*.pdf”
Remove trailing white spaces from all *.rb files under current directory	find . -name '.rb' \| xargs -I{} sed -i '' 's/[[:space:]]$//g' {}
Pair side-by-side content of the 'file' and its side-mirrored content	paste -d ' ' file <(rev file)
Find all files/directories with 644 permission in entire file system	find / -perm 644
Removes resursively all files and folders named "Thumbs.db", ignoring case distincts.	find . -iname "Thumbs.db" -print0 \| xargs -0 rm -rf
Delete the commands 1006 through 1008 from history	for h in $; do history -d $h; done
display all executable files in the folder /home	find /home -perm /a=x
Find all regular .mp3 files larger than 10M and delete them	find / -type f -name *.mp3 -size +10M -exec rm {} \;
Read a line from standard input in an interactive shell with prompt in variable "myprompt" interpreted as PS1 is interpreted	read -e -p "${myprompt@P}"
Copy all files and directories under the current directory into "../new" preserving relative paths	find -print0 \| sort -z \| cpio -pdv0 ../new
Delete all __temp__* directories under maximum 1 level down the current directory tree	find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -name '__temp__*' -print0 \| xargs -0 rm -rf
Output two lines of "-tcp"	yes -- "-tcp" \| head -n 2
Find files that end in ".gz" and execute "awk -F, '$1 ~ /F$/'" on their unzipped contents	find . -maxdepth 1 -name \*.gz -print0 \| xargs -0 zcat \| awk -F, '$1 ~ /F$/'
find all the directories in the current folder excluding search in the sub directories and create these directories in another path	find . -maxdepth 1 -type d \| xargs -I X mkdir '/new/directory/X'
Copies all files under the current directory like any-cased 'foobar' to the '~/foo/bar' directory.	find . -iname "foobar" -exec cp "{}" ~/foo/bar \;
Search non-recursively directory tree `MyApp.app' for directories whose name is 'Headers' and delete them in an optimized way	find MyApp.app -name Headers -type d -prune -exec rm -rf {} +
remote copy all text files from one location to another	find . -name '*.txt' -exec rsync -R {} path/to/dext \;
Search PATH for utilities called "rename", display the type of file (script, executable, ...) for each match found.	which -a rename \| xargs file -L
Find all *.gz files in the current directory and decompress them using gunzip	find . -name '*.gz' -print0 \| xargs -0 gunzip
find files in /dir/path/look/up directory that names are dir-name-here	find /dir/path/look/up -name "dir-name-here" -print
find symbolic links with pattern` '*sysdep.c'	find . -lname '*sysdep.c'
Search the current directory tree for files whose names end in "rb" or "js"	find . -regextype posix-egrep -regex ".*$"
List all files and directories residing in the current directory and below	find -print0 \| xargs -0 ls
find all the php files	find -name '*.php'
Print sorted list of unique users logged in followed by a total count	who \| awk '{ print $1; }' \| sort -u \| awk '{print $1; u++} END{ print "users: " u}'
search for text files in the folders /home/hobbes/ /home/calvin/	find /home/hobbes/ /home/calvin/ -name “*.txt”
Change the permission of all regular files under current directory tree to 644	find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
Find List of directory with non-zero file count	find -maxdepth 1 -type d \| sort \| while read -r dir; do n=$; if [ $n -gt 0 ]; then printf "%4d : %s\n" $n "$dir"; fi; done
Find all files in /home/kos and below whose names end in ".tmp"	find /home/kos -name *.tmp -print
delete a hard link and create a symbolic link to file named "$link"	ln -sf "$" "$link"
Give all files in the /path/to/base/dir tree read privileges	find /path/to/base/dir -type f -exec chmod 644 {} +
Split "/usr/bin/firefox" into 1000 files of about equal size	split -n 1000 /usr/bin/firefox
display a long listing of all regular files in current folder which have been modified in the last 60 minutes	find . -mmin -60 -type f -ls
Remove all files from the system whose path names contain "GUI"	find / -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 grep -liwZ GUI \| xargs -0 rm -f
Calculate md5 sum of file ${my_iso_file} and save it to variable 'md5'	md5=`md5sum ${my_iso_file} \| cut -b-32`
Send each byte in "/home/cscape/Desktop/file" to awk script "x.awk"	fold -1 /home/cscape/Desktop/file \| awk -f x.awk
Add a date time stamp to every line of output in "ping google.com"	ping google.com \| xargs -L 1 -I '{}' date '+%c: {}'
Force pseudo-terminal allocation to run "sudo <cmd>" on "remotehost"	ssh -t remotehost "sudo <cmd>"
Print the empty directories and files under current directory	find -empty
Search the current directory tree for files whose names match regular expression '.packet.', ignoring the case	find . -iregex ".packet."
Compress regular files in the current directory tree that were last modified more than 7 days ago	find . -type f -mtime +7 \| tee compressedP.list \| xargs compress
View lines 116 through 120 of history	history \| head -n 120 \| tail -n 5
Search directory tree `MyApp.app' for directories whose name is 'Headers' and delete them	find -d MyApp.app -name Headers -type d -exec rm -rf "{}" \;
Find text files modified less than 5 days ago	find . –name "*.txt" –mtime 5
Connect to host "$USER_AT_HOST" in master mode in the background without executing any commands and set the ControlPath to "$SSHSOCKET"	ssh -M -f -N -o ControlPath="$SSHSOCKET" "$USER_AT_HOST"
Find all files/directories under current directory tree that belong to the user 'tom'	find ./ -user tom
Print the names of the directories from the paths expanded by the glob pattern /path/to/directory/*	find /path/to/directory/* -maxdepth 0 -type d -exec basename -a {} +
Create a symbolic link named ".bash_profile" to ".bashrc"	ln -s .bashrc .bash_profile
Delete and count files in $DIR_TO_CLEAN that are older than $DAYS_TO_SAVE days	find "$DIR_TO_CLEAN" -type -f -mtime "+$DAYS_TO_SAVE" -exec rm {} \; -exec printf '.' \; \| wc -c
Search for all files with either "sitesearch" or "demo" in their path names	find . \| grep -i demo \| grep -i sitesearch
List all hidden regular files from the current directory separating them with zeroes	find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '.*' -printf '%f\0'
Find all *.rb (regular) files under current directory and count their line numbers	find . -name "*.rb" -type f \| xargs wc -l
find StringBuffer in all *.java files, ignoring case	find . -type f -name "*.java" -exec grep -il string {} \;
Show logged in users with idle time of each one	w \| tr -s " " \| cut -d" " -f1,5 \| tail -n+3
Determine the user associated with stdin	who -m
Print '-okdir is an action so an implicit -print is not applied' for each file/directory found by the name 'file' under current directory tree	find -name file -okdir echo '-okdir is an action so an implicit -print is not applied' \;
Execute "./my_script.sh" every 3 seconds and highlight the differences in successive runs	watch -n 3 -d ./my_script.sh
Move all foo directories under current directory to new paths obtained by replacing all occurrences of 'foo' with 'Bar' in their paths	find . -type d -iname 'foo' -exec bash -O nocasematch -c '[[ $1 =~ ]] && mv "$1" "${1//${BASH_REMATCH[1]}/Bar}"' -- {} \;
Find all l files in the 'foo' folder but ones with name like 'Music' to the 'bar' folder.	find foo -type f ! -name 'Music' -exec cp {} bar \;

show all regular/normal the files in the current folder whose size is bigger than 0 bytes excluding everything

find * -prune -type f -size +0c -print

Extract any line in "set1" which does not appear in "set2"

comm -23 <(sort set1) <(sort set2)

Find all empty files in /tmp

find /tmp -type f -empty

find all the log files in the file system which are present in the current partition

find / -xdev -name "*.log"

Find all files in entire file system which are larger than 20000KB

find / -type f -size +20000k

display all the files in the folder "/Users/Me/Desktop" which belong to the user "popo" and which have the permission 777

find /Users/Me/Desktop -user popo -perm 777

find all the files ending with ".foo" in the folder /usr

find /usr -name '*.foo' -print

Find all *.md files in entire file system and convert them to HTML files

find / -name "*.md" -type f -exec markdown -o {}.html {} \;

Remove gitlab.site.org from root's known hosts file.

ssh-keygen -f "/root/.ssh/known_hosts" -R gitlab.site.org

Concatenate with a space every other line in "input.txt"

paste -s -d' \n' input.txt

find all the video files in the home folder

find ~ -type f -exec file -i {} + | grep video

Find all MP3s in the /home directory tree

find /home -type f -name '*.mp3'

Count total number of lines in all *.txt file in cuuent directory .

find . -type f -name '*.txt' -exec wc -l {} \; | awk '{total += $1} END{print total}'

Find all files larger than 100M and delete them

find / -size +100M -exec rm -rf {} \;

Find x* files/directories under /tmp directory whose status was changed less than 1 day ago and move them to ~/play

find /tmp/ -ctime -1 -name "x*" -exec mv '{}' ~/play/

Change the owner to "owner" and group to "nobody" of "public_html"

chown owner:nobody public_html

Creates temporary file with name formatted like 'emacs-manager.XXXXXX' in '/tmp/' folder and saves path to it in 'tmp_file' variable.

tmp_file=`mktemp --tmpdir=/tmp emacs-manager.XXXXXX`

Search for all files not newer than file /tmp/t

find / -not -newer /tmp/t

SSH using parameters in $@ in master mode in the background without executing any commands and set the ControlPath to "$MASTERSOCK"

ssh -o ControlPath="$MASTERSOCK" -MNf "$@"

find all files in the file system which belong to no user or which have no user

find / -nouser

Recursively copy everything in /source/path whose name doesn't begin with a period, to /destination/path, without overwriting existing files, and outputting a line for each file copied or skipped.

cp -Rvn /source/path/* /destination/path/

Search all files called "abc" that reside in the current directory tree for string "xyz"

find . -name abc | xargs grep xyz

find all the files in the current folder which end with .o or with the name a.out and display them.

find . ( -name a.out -o -name *.o ) -print

Display all lines containing "IP_MROUTE" in the current kernel's compile-time config file.

cat /boot/config-`uname -r` | grep IP_MROUTE

List all environment variables whose name starts with GOROOT

env | grep '^GOROOT'

search for a word in all the fies in the current folder

find . -type f -exec grep some_string {} \;

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

Prints ten latest modified files within the current directory.

find . -type f -printf '%T@ %p\n' | sort -n -r | head -${numl} | cut -f2- -d" " | sed -e 's,^\./,,' | xargs ls -U -l

Find files in the current directory tree whose size is greater than 24000 bytes

find . -size +24000c

Find *.java files in the current directory and replace foo with bar in those files

find . -name "*.java" -exec sed -i '' s/foo/bar/g \;

Sort and remove duplicate lines in the output of "finger"

finger | sort -u

Move *wp-admin/index.php files under /var/www/ to ./index_disabled

find /var/www/ -path '*wp-admin/index.php' -exec mv {} $/index_disabled

Create a full path symbolic link "$newlink" from a relative path symbolic link "$origlink"

ln -s $ $newlink

Display an infinite number of lines consisting of "y", until the user presses the Q key.

yes | more

find all ".flac" files starting with "cmn-" and search for files having CJK characters using unicodes

find . -name 'cmn-*\.flac' -print | grep -P './cmn-[\x4e00-\x9fa5]\.flac'

Copy all regular files from the current directory tree to directory `TARGET'

find . -type f -exec cp -t TARGET {} \+

Set permissions to 500 for directories under the current directory

find . -type d -exec chmod 500 {} \;

find all files that names are game

find / -name game

Filters unique lines by matching against the first column of a .csv file

tac a.csv | sort -u -t, -r -k1,1 |tac

Remount "/system" with read and write permission

mount -o rw,remount /system

Force create a symbolc link named "softlink_name" to "source_file_or_directory_name" without dereferencing "softlink_name"

ln -sfn source_file_or_directory_name softlink_name

find all PDFs owned by user “seamstress”

find / -user seamstress -iname “*.pdf”

Remove trailing white spaces from all *.rb files under current directory

find . -name '*.rb' | xargs -I{} sed -i '' 's/[[:space:]]*$//g' {}

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

paste -d ' ' file <(rev file)

Find all files/directories with 644 permission in entire file system

find / -perm 644

Removes resursively all files and folders named "Thumbs.db", ignoring case distincts.

find . -iname "Thumbs.db" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

Delete the commands 1006 through 1008 from history

for h in $; do history -d $h; done

display all executable files in the folder /home

find /home -perm /a=x

Find all regular .mp3 files larger than 10M and delete them

find / -type f -name *.mp3 -size +10M -exec rm {} \;

Read a line from standard input in an interactive shell with prompt in variable "myprompt" interpreted as PS1 is interpreted

read -e -p "${myprompt@P}"

Copy all files and directories under the current directory into "../new" preserving relative paths

find -print0 | sort -z | cpio -pdv0 ../new

Delete all __temp__* directories under maximum 1 level down the current directory tree

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -name '__temp__*' -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

Output two lines of "-tcp"

yes -- "-tcp" | head -n 2

Find files that end in ".gz" and execute "awk -F, '$1 ~ /F$/'" on their unzipped contents

find . -maxdepth 1 -name \*.gz -print0 | xargs -0 zcat | awk -F, '$1 ~ /F$/'

find all the directories in the current folder excluding search in the sub directories and create these directories in another path

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d | xargs -I X mkdir '/new/directory/X'

Copies all files under the current directory like any-cased '*foobar*' to the '~/foo/bar' directory.

find . -iname "*foobar*" -exec cp "{}" ~/foo/bar \;

Search non-recursively directory tree `MyApp.app' for directories whose name is 'Headers' and delete them in an optimized way

find MyApp.app -name Headers -type d -prune -exec rm -rf {} +

remote copy all text files from one location to another

find . -name '*.txt' -exec rsync -R {} path/to/dext \;

Search PATH for utilities called "rename", display the type of file (script, executable, ...) for each match found.

which -a rename | xargs file -L

Find all *.gz files in the current directory and decompress them using gunzip

find . -name '*.gz' -print0 | xargs -0 gunzip

find files in /dir/path/look/up directory that names are dir-name-here

find /dir/path/look/up -name "dir-name-here" -print

find symbolic links with pattern` '*sysdep.c'

find . -lname '*sysdep.c'

Search the current directory tree for files whose names end in "rb" or "js"

find . -regextype posix-egrep -regex ".*$"

List all files and directories residing in the current directory and below

find -print0 | xargs -0 ls

find all the php files

find -name '*.php'

Print sorted list of unique users logged in followed by a total count

who | awk '{ print $1; }' | sort -u | awk '{print $1; u++} END{ print "users: " u}'

search for text files in the folders /home/hobbes/ /home/calvin/

find /home/hobbes/ /home/calvin/ -name “*.txt”

Change the permission of all regular files under current directory tree to 644

find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

Find List of directory with non-zero file count

find -maxdepth 1 -type d | sort | while read -r dir; do n=$; if [ $n -gt 0 ]; then printf "%4d : %s\n" $n "$dir"; fi; done

Find all files in /home/kos and below whose names end in ".tmp"

find /home/kos -name *.tmp -print

delete a hard link and create a symbolic link to file named "$link"

ln -sf "$" "$link"

Give all files in the /path/to/base/dir tree read privileges

find /path/to/base/dir -type f -exec chmod 644 {} +

Split "/usr/bin/firefox" into 1000 files of about equal size

split -n 1000 /usr/bin/firefox

display a long listing of all regular files in current folder which have been modified in the last 60 minutes

find . -mmin -60 -type f -ls

Remove all files from the system whose path names contain "GUI"

find / -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -liwZ GUI | xargs -0 rm -f

Calculate md5 sum of file ${my_iso_file} and save it to variable 'md5'

md5=`md5sum ${my_iso_file} | cut -b-32`

Send each byte in "/home/cscape/Desktop/file" to awk script "x.awk"

fold -1 /home/cscape/Desktop/file | awk -f x.awk

Add a date time stamp to every line of output in "ping google.com"

ping google.com | xargs -L 1 -I '{}' date '+%c: {}'

Force pseudo-terminal allocation to run "sudo <cmd>" on "remotehost"

ssh -t remotehost "sudo <cmd>"

Print the empty directories and files under current directory

find -empty

Search the current directory tree for files whose names match regular expression '.*packet.*', ignoring the case

find . -iregex ".*packet.*"

Compress regular files in the current directory tree that were last modified more than 7 days ago

find . -type f -mtime +7 | tee compressedP.list | xargs compress

View lines 116 through 120 of history

history | head -n 120 | tail -n 5

Search directory tree `MyApp.app' for directories whose name is 'Headers' and delete them

find -d MyApp.app -name Headers -type d -exec rm -rf "{}" \;

Find text files modified less than 5 days ago

find . –name "*.txt" –mtime 5

Connect to host "$USER_AT_HOST" in master mode in the background without executing any commands and set the ControlPath to "$SSHSOCKET"

ssh -M -f -N -o ControlPath="$SSHSOCKET" "$USER_AT_HOST"

Find all files/directories under current directory tree that belong to the user 'tom'

find ./ -user tom

Print the names of the directories from the paths expanded by the glob pattern /path/to/directory/*

find /path/to/directory/* -maxdepth 0 -type d -exec basename -a {} +

Create a symbolic link named ".bash_profile" to ".bashrc"

ln -s .bashrc .bash_profile

Delete and count files in $DIR_TO_CLEAN that are older than $DAYS_TO_SAVE days

find "$DIR_TO_CLEAN" -type -f -mtime "+$DAYS_TO_SAVE" -exec rm {} \; -exec printf '.' \; | wc -c

Search for all files with either "sitesearch" or "demo" in their path names

find . | grep -i demo | grep -i sitesearch

List all hidden regular files from the current directory separating them with zeroes

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '.*' -printf '%f\0'

Find all *.rb (regular) files under current directory and count their line numbers

find . -name "*.rb" -type f | xargs wc -l

find StringBuffer in all *.java files, ignoring case

find . -type f -name "*.java" -exec grep -il string {} \;

Show logged in users with idle time of each one

w | tr -s " " | cut -d" " -f1,5 | tail -n+3

Determine the user associated with stdin

who -m

Print '-okdir is an action so an implicit -print is not applied' for each file/directory found by the name 'file' under current directory tree

find -name file -okdir echo '-okdir is an action so an implicit -print is not applied' \;

Execute "./my_script.sh" every 3 seconds and highlight the differences in successive runs

watch -n 3 -d ./my_script.sh

Move all *foo* directories under current directory to new paths obtained by replacing all occurrences of 'foo' with 'Bar' in their paths

find . -type d -iname '*foo*' -exec bash -O nocasematch -c '[[ $1 =~ ]] && mv "$1" "${1//${BASH_REMATCH[1]}/Bar}"' -- {} \;

Find all l files in the 'foo' folder but ones with name like '*Music*' to the 'bar' folder.

find foo -type f ! -name '*Music*' -exec cp {} bar \;