prabhanshubhowal/natural_language_to_linux

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Search the regular files of the current directory tree for string "whatever"	find . -type f \| xargs -L 100 grep whatever
Rename "file.txt" in directories "v_1", "v_2", and "v_3" each to "v_1.txt", "v_2.txt", and "v_3.txt" respectively and print the conversion	rename -v 's#/file##' v_{1,2,3}/file.txt
Page through the contents of 'file', but excess from lines that don't fit within the screen/window width is cut.	less -S file
Recursively changes group ownership of every file in '/var/tmp/jinfo' to 'www-data'.	chgrp -R www-data /var/tmp/jinfo
Copy all files from the current directory tree to /path/to/destination/dir preserving their times, permissions, and ownership	find . \| cpio -pdumv /path/to/destination/dir
display all the directories in the current folder for the files which have not been accessed in the last 48 hours	find . -type d -atime +2
Move files older than 1 day to directory TMP	find . -atime +1 -type f -exec mv {} TMP \;
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 '.*\.\(avi\\|flv\)' -exec cp {} /path/to/specific/folder \;
Md5sum the last 5 files in /directory1/directory2/	find /directory1/directory2/ -maxdepth 1 -type f \| sort \| tail -n 5 \| xargs md5sum
Find all files in current directory excluding hidden files, archive them and put the output into variable full_backup_dir	full_backup_dir="$(find . -depth \ -prune -o -print \| cpio -oav)"
force remove all the regular/normal files which begin with sess in the temp folder	find /tmp -type f -name sess* -exec rm -f {} \;
Find all .jpg files in /201111 paths	find /201111 -name ".jpg"
Find files with pattern "*[!0-9][1-9].txt" and execute chmod and ls command with AND condition then sort the output	sudo find -name "[!0-9][1-9].txt" -exec chmod 744 '' {} \; -a -exec ls -l {} \; \| sort \| parallel ls -l
Find all catalina* files/directories under /path/to/search/in	find /path/to/search/in -name 'catalina*'
download content from "http://127.0.0.1:8000" and output to "index.html"	curl http://127.0.0.1:8000 -o index.html
Archive "/source/backup" to "/destination" with compression during transfer	rsync -ravz /source/backup /destination
display all the .sh scripts in the folder /usr	find /usr -name \*.sh
List all files/directories under current directory matching the posix-egrep type regex ".+\.$" in their names excluding the files that contain 'generated' or 'deploy' in their paths	find . -regextype posix-egrep -regex '.+\.$' -print0 \| grep -vzZ generated \| grep -vzZ deploy \| xargs -0 ls -1Ld
List all files under current directory matching the regex '.*\.\'	find . -type f -regex '.*\.\' -exec ls {} \;
Gets list of folders containing files with changes.	git diff --name-only \| xargs dirname \| uniq
Calculate the total size of all *.jpg files in the directory tree	find . -name "*jpg" -exec du -k {} \; \| awk '{ total += $1 } END { print total/1024 " Mb total" }'
Copy all files matching ".sh" in "$from/" to "root@$host:/home/tmp/" compressing data during transmission	rsync -zvr --include=".sh" --exclude="" $from/* root@$host:/home/tmp/
display all files which have been modified between two dates in current folder	find . -type f -newermt "2014-01-01" ! -newermt "2014-06-01"
Force create a symbolic link without dereferencing named "alpha" to "alpha_2"	ln -nsf alpha_2 alpha
change owner of the file /home/bob to user root	sudo chown root /home/bob
Find all files/directories under '/home/user/' directory tree whose status were changed 10 minutes ago	find /home/user/ -cmin 10 -print
Find all *.mov files under current directory and run an ffmpeg command with the path and the name for each file	find . -iname "*.mov" -print0 \| xargs -0 -i sh -c 'ffmpeg -i {} -f flv `basename {}`'
Find all regular files with name pattern $filename under $fileloc directory tree	find "$fileloc" -type f -prune -name "$filename" -print
Find files on the system created during the last 50 days	find / -ctime -50
Copy recursively "tata/" to "tata2/" and remove read, write, and execute permission for other	rsync -avz --chmod=o-rwx -p tata/ tata2/
find all the findme.txt files in the file system	find / -name findme.txt -type f -print
Count all the lines of all files with names ending with 'php' in current directory recursively	find -name '*php' \| xargs cat \| wc -l
Search for all the directories in directories taken from the glob pattern '/path/to/folders/*' and add the extension ".mbox" to all and create directories named 'Messages' inside them	find /path/to/folders/* -type d -exec mv {} {}.mbox \; -exec mkdir {}.mbox/Messages \;
search for all text files in the directory "/path/to/inputfiles" and pass them as input to the shell script in exec command and save the output to the file out.txt	find /path/to/inputfiles -name "*.txt" -exec /path/to/myprogram.sh {} \; > Out.txt
Look for `regexp' in binary files	find . -type f -print\|xargs file\|grep -i text\|cut -fl -d: \| xargs grep regexp
search for all regular/normal files in current folder and display all the files which contain 16 lines	find . -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 grep -cH '' \| awk -F: '$2==16'
Check if process ID 1 exists and current user has permission to send it signals.	kill -0 1
display all the text and pdf files in the current folder	find . -regex ".*\(\.txt\\|\.pdf\)$"
Print the contents of "${SPOOL_FILE}" file to the console and append to "${LOG_FILE}" file	cat ${SPOOL_FILE} \| tee -a ${LOG_FILE}
Find all files that have wrong permission	find / \ \ -ls
Print the type of the current shell	echo $
Mount "proc" file system on "/var/snmp3/proc"	mount -t proc none /var/snmp3/proc
Find all *.mp3 files in entire file system greater than 10MB and delete them	find / -type f -name *.mp3 -size +10M -exec rm {} \;
find all the video files in the home folder	find ~ -type f -exec file -i {} + \| grep video
Set 644 permission to all regular files under current directory	find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
Creates temporary file and saves path to it in 'fif2' variable.	fif2=$(mktemp -u)
Save the full path of command "~/f" to variable "foo"	foo=`which ~/f`
Test if files named 'something' were found in YOUR_DIR	[[ ! -z `find 'YOUR_DIR/' -name 'something'` ]] && echo "found" \|\| echo "not found"
looks for all files larger than 10 megabytes within /home	find /home -type f -size +10485760c -print
search for MP3 files in the current folder and subfolders exclude dir1 AND dir2	find ! -path "dir1" ! -path "dir2" -iname "*.mp3"
search for all the regular/normal files in the /etc folder which have been modified in the last 24 hours	find /etc/ -type f -mtime -1
Display PHP info one page at a time, pausing for user interaction after each page.	php -i \| more
Print input "your, text, here" formatted to fit 70 characters per line breaking at spaces	echo 'your, text, here' \| fold -sw 70
Change all directories under "./storage/" to owner "apache" and group "laravel"	sudo find ./storage/ -type d -exec chown apache:laravel {} \;
Search for .bam files anywhere in the current directory recursively	find . -name "*.bam"
Look for any files that have not been modified in the last two days	find -mtime +2
Finds recursively and following symlinks from root folder all files that contain "text-to-find-here" and prints files names.	grep -Ril "text-to-find-here" /
Print lines containing string TEXT from all log files in the current directory.	grep -e TEXT *.log \| cut -d':' --complement -s -f1
Find all regular files in the current directory tree ignoring GIT and SVN directories	find . \( -type d -regex '^.*/\.\(git\\|svn\)$' -prune -false \) -o -type f -print0
find all the jpg files in the entire file system and discard all the errors.	find / -name *.jpg 2>/dev/null
Find all directories starting from root that contain the string "99966" in their names	find / -type d -name "99966" -print 2>/dev/null
Find empty files and directories	find . -empty
search for the host "slc02oxm.us.oracle.com" in all the xml files in the current folder and display the files which has the matched content	find -name “*.xml” -exec grep -l “slc02oxm.us.oracle.com” {} \;
Find files in /var/tmp/stuff and below that have not been modified in over 90 days	find /var/tmp/stuff -mtime +90 -print
find the oldest normal file in the current directory	find . -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 ls -ltr \| head -n 1
Exclude directory from find . command	find . -type d -name proc -prune -o -name '*.js'
set alisa "py" for command "$EDITOR"	alias -s py=$EDITOR
Find all orm* files/directories under current directory	find . -name 'orm*'
Add execute permission to all files ending in ".sh"	chmod +x *.sh
Perform white space safe deletion of files named core under /tmp	find /tmp -name core -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 /bin/rm -f
Find all regular files under ${S} directory	find "${S}" -type f
Search for 'ireg' in all PHP files under 'project' directory tree and show only the files that match	find project -name '*.php' -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 grep -l ireg
Print numbers from 1 to 10 with 2 values per line	seq 10 \| paste -sd" \n" -
Lists enabled repositories along with debugging information.	yum -v repolist enabled
display all the files on the current folder excluding those that are present in the folder "./src/emacs"	find . -path ./src/emacs -prune -o -print
Recursively change the owner of all files in "/home/test" to "test"	sudo chown -R test /home/test
Finds every folder with file 'header.php' within, and copies file 'topscripts.php' to every one of them.	find -type f -name 'header.php' \| xargs -n 1 dirname \| xargs -n 1 cp -f topscripts.php
find all files in the current folder which have only the write permission for the others	find . -perm -0002 -print
Rename "new" to "old" and backup to "old.old" if "old" exists	mv new old -b -S .old
Find all files under current directory	find . -type f -print
Set 644 permission to all regular files under current directory	find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
find all the files in the file system that belong to the user www	find / -user www -print
Print file type of the executable file of command "file"	file `which file`
search for the word "search-pattern" in all the regular/normal files in the current folder and display the matched file name	find . -type f \| xargs grep -l "search-pattern"
Write a random list of numbers to /tmp/lst and stdout.	seq 1 10 \| sort -R \| tee /tmp/lst \|cat <(cat /tmp/lst) <(echo '-------') ...
Show all lines as they are executed and stop at the first command returning nonzero	set -ex
Find all *.txt files/directories under current directory	find -name '*.txt'
Create a tar file containing all the files in ~/Library folder that contain spaces in their names	find ~/Library -name '* *' -print0 \| xargs -0 tar rf blah.tar
change group of the file myfile to group friends	chown :friends myfile
Find all *.so files/directories under current directory and run myCommand with the file/directory paths as its argument then search for ExpectedResult in the output of myCommand	find . -name *.so -print0 \| xargs -0 -I % sh -c 'echo % ; myCommand "%" \| grep ExpectedResult'
Executes 'echo "$ret"' in a subshell that is opened by command 'true'.	true \| echo "$ret"
Append "deb blah ... blah" to "/etc/apt/sources.list" as root	echo 'deb blah ... blah' \| sudo tee --append /etc/apt/sources.list > /dev/null
display all the files in the current directory excluding the paths "targert", "tools", "git"	find . \( ! -path "target" -a ! -path "tools" -a ! -path ".git" -print \)
Compress the base64 encoded first 200 characters of "/dev/urandom" as input to uuencode	uuencode <
Remove all .mpg files in the /home/luser directory tree	find /home/luser -type f -name '*.mpg' -print0 \| xargs -0 rm -f
Moves window from 4 place to 3.	tmux movew -s 4 -t 3
Send SIGKILL signal to all processes using TCP port 8080, terminating them instantly.	kill -9 $
List files in the current directory tree using echo	find . -exec echo {} ;
Find all the SGID bit files whose permissions set to 644 in the file system	find / -perm 2644
Lists content of compressed text file.	zless MyFile

Search the regular files of the current directory tree for string "whatever"

find . -type f | xargs -L 100 grep whatever

Rename "file.txt" in directories "v_1", "v_2", and "v_3" each to "v_1.txt", "v_2.txt", and "v_3.txt" respectively and print the conversion

rename -v 's#/file##' v_{1,2,3}/file.txt

Page through the contents of 'file', but excess from lines that don't fit within the screen/window width is cut.

less -S file

Recursively changes group ownership of every file in '/var/tmp/jinfo' to 'www-data'.

chgrp -R www-data /var/tmp/jinfo

Copy all files from the current directory tree to /path/to/destination/dir preserving their times, permissions, and ownership

find . | cpio -pdumv /path/to/destination/dir

display all the directories in the current folder for the files which have not been accessed in the last 48 hours

find . -type d -atime +2

Move files older than 1 day to directory TMP

find . -atime +1 -type f -exec mv {} TMP \;

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 '.*\.$avi\|flv$' -exec cp {} /path/to/specific/folder \;

Md5sum the last 5 files in /directory1/directory2/

find /directory1/directory2/ -maxdepth 1 -type f | sort | tail -n 5 | xargs md5sum

Find all files in current directory excluding hidden files, archive them and put the output into variable full_backup_dir

full_backup_dir="$(find . -depth \ -prune -o -print | cpio -oav)"

force remove all the regular/normal files which begin with sess in the temp folder

find /tmp -type f -name sess* -exec rm -f {} \;

Find all *.jpg files in */201111 paths

find */201111 -name "*.jpg"

Find files with pattern "*[!0-9][1-9].txt" and execute chmod and ls command with AND condition then sort the output

sudo find -name "*[!0-9][1-9].txt" -exec chmod 744 '*' {} \; -a -exec ls -l {} \; | sort | parallel ls -l

Find all catalina* files/directories under /path/to/search/in

find /path/to/search/in -name 'catalina*'

download content from "http://127.0.0.1:8000" and output to "index.html"

curl http://127.0.0.1:8000 -o index.html

Archive "/source/backup" to "/destination" with compression during transfer

rsync -ravz /source/backup /destination

display all the .sh scripts in the folder /usr

find /usr -name \*.sh

List all files/directories under current directory matching the posix-egrep type regex ".+\.$" in their names excluding the files that contain 'generated' or 'deploy' in their paths

find . -regextype posix-egrep -regex '.+\.$' -print0 | grep -vzZ generated | grep -vzZ deploy | xargs -0 ls -1Ld

List all files under current directory matching the regex '.*\.\'

find . -type f -regex '.*\.\' -exec ls {} \;

Gets list of folders containing files with changes.

git diff --name-only | xargs dirname | uniq

Calculate the total size of all *.jpg files in the directory tree

find . -name "*jpg" -exec du -k {} \; | awk '{ total += $1 } END { print total/1024 " Mb total" }'

Copy all files matching "*.sh" in "$from/*" to "root@$host:/home/tmp/" compressing data during transmission

rsync -zvr --include="*.sh" --exclude="*" $from/* root@$host:/home/tmp/

display all files which have been modified between two dates in current folder

find . -type f -newermt "2014-01-01" ! -newermt "2014-06-01"

Force create a symbolic link without dereferencing named "alpha" to "alpha_2"

ln -nsf alpha_2 alpha

change owner of the file /home/bob to user root

sudo chown root /home/bob

Find all files/directories under '/home/user/' directory tree whose status were changed 10 minutes ago

find /home/user/ -cmin 10 -print

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

find . -iname "*.mov" -print0 | xargs -0 -i sh -c 'ffmpeg -i {} -f flv `basename {}`'

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

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

Find files on the system created during the last 50 days

find / -ctime -50

Copy recursively "tata/" to "tata2/" and remove read, write, and execute permission for other

rsync -avz --chmod=o-rwx -p tata/ tata2/

find all the findme.txt files in the file system

find / -name findme.txt -type f -print

Count all the lines of all files with names ending with 'php' in current directory recursively

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

Search for all the directories in directories taken from the glob pattern '/path/to/folders/*' and add the extension ".mbox" to all and create directories named 'Messages' inside them

find /path/to/folders/* -type d -exec mv {} {}.mbox \; -exec mkdir {}.mbox/Messages \;

search for all text files in the directory "/path/to/inputfiles" and pass them as input to the shell script in exec command and save the output to the file out.txt

find /path/to/inputfiles -name "*.txt" -exec /path/to/myprogram.sh {} \; > Out.txt

Look for `regexp' in binary files

find . -type f -print|xargs file|grep -i text|cut -fl -d: | xargs grep regexp

search for all regular/normal files in current folder and display all the files which contain 16 lines

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -cH '' | awk -F: '$2==16'

Check if process ID 1 exists and current user has permission to send it signals.

kill -0 1

display all the text and pdf files in the current folder

find . -regex ".*$\.txt\|\.pdf$$"

Print the contents of "${SPOOL_FILE}" file to the console and append to "${LOG_FILE}" file

cat ${SPOOL_FILE} | tee -a ${LOG_FILE}

Find all files that have wrong permission

find / \ \ -ls

Print the type of the current shell

echo $

Mount "proc" file system on "/var/snmp3/proc"

mount -t proc none /var/snmp3/proc

Find all *.mp3 files in entire file system greater than 10MB and delete them

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

find all the video files in the home folder

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

Set 644 permission to all regular files under current directory

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

Creates temporary file and saves path to it in 'fif2' variable.

fif2=$(mktemp -u)

Save the full path of command "~/f" to variable "foo"

foo=`which ~/f`

Test if files named 'something' were found in YOUR_DIR

[[ ! -z `find 'YOUR_DIR/' -name 'something'` ]] && echo "found" || echo "not found"

looks for all files larger than 10 megabytes within /home

find /home -type f -size +10485760c -print

search for MP3 files in the current folder and subfolders exclude dir1 AND dir2

find ! -path "dir1" ! -path "dir2" -iname "*.mp3"

search for all the regular/normal files in the /etc folder which have been modified in the last 24 hours

find /etc/ -type f -mtime -1

Display PHP info one page at a time, pausing for user interaction after each page.

php -i | more

Print input "your, text, here" formatted to fit 70 characters per line breaking at spaces

echo 'your, text, here' | fold -sw 70

Change all directories under "./storage/" to owner "apache" and group "laravel"

sudo find ./storage/ -type d -exec chown apache:laravel {} \;

Search for .bam files anywhere in the current directory recursively

find . -name "*.bam"

Look for any files that have not been modified in the last two days

find -mtime +2

Finds recursively and following symlinks from root folder all files that contain "text-to-find-here" and prints files names.

grep -Ril "text-to-find-here" /

Print lines containing string TEXT from all log files in the current directory.

grep -e TEXT *.log | cut -d':' --complement -s -f1

Find all regular files in the current directory tree ignoring GIT and SVN directories

find . $ -type d -regex '^.*/\.\(git\|svn$$' -prune -false \) -o -type f -print0

find all the jpg files in the entire file system and discard all the errors.

find / -name *.jpg 2>/dev/null

Find all directories starting from root that contain the string "99966" in their names

find / -type d -name "*99966*" -print 2>/dev/null

Find empty files and directories

find . -empty

search for the host "slc02oxm.us.oracle.com" in all the xml files in the current folder and display the files which has the matched content

find -name “*.xml” -exec grep -l “slc02oxm.us.oracle.com” {} \;

Find files in /var/tmp/stuff and below that have not been modified in over 90 days

find /var/tmp/stuff -mtime +90 -print

find the oldest normal file in the current directory

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -ltr | head -n 1

Exclude directory from find . command

find . -type d -name proc -prune -o -name '*.js'

set alisa "py" for command "$EDITOR"

alias -s py=$EDITOR

Find all orm* files/directories under current directory

find . -name 'orm*'

Add execute permission to all files ending in ".sh"

chmod +x *.sh

Perform white space safe deletion of files named core under /tmp

find /tmp -name core -type f -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm -f

Find all regular files under ${S} directory

find "${S}" -type f

Search for 'ireg' in all PHP files under 'project' directory tree and show only the files that match

find project -name '*.php' -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l ireg

Print numbers from 1 to 10 with 2 values per line

seq 10 | paste -sd" \n" -

Lists enabled repositories along with debugging information.

yum -v repolist enabled

display all the files on the current folder excluding those that are present in the folder "./src/emacs"

find . -path ./src/emacs -prune -o -print

Recursively change the owner of all files in "/home/test" to "test"

sudo chown -R test /home/test

Finds every folder with file 'header.php' within, and copies file 'topscripts.php' to every one of them.

find -type f -name 'header.php' | xargs -n 1 dirname | xargs -n 1 cp -f topscripts.php

find all files in the current folder which have only the write permission for the others

find . -perm -0002 -print

Rename "new" to "old" and backup to "old.old" if "old" exists

mv new old -b -S .old

Find all files under current directory

find . -type f -print

Set 644 permission to all regular files under current directory

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

find all the files in the file system that belong to the user www

find / -user www -print

Print file type of the executable file of command "file"

file `which file`

search for the word "search-pattern" in all the regular/normal files in the current folder and display the matched file name

find . -type f | xargs grep -l "search-pattern"

Write a random list of numbers to /tmp/lst and stdout.

seq 1 10 | sort -R | tee /tmp/lst |cat <(cat /tmp/lst) <(echo '-------') **...**

Show all lines as they are executed and stop at the first command returning nonzero

set -ex

Find all *.txt files/directories under current directory

find -name '*.txt'

Create a tar file containing all the files in ~/Library folder that contain spaces in their names

find ~/Library -name '* *' -print0 | xargs -0 tar rf blah.tar

change group of the file myfile to group friends

chown :friends myfile

Find all *.so files/directories under current directory and run myCommand with the file/directory paths as its argument then search for ExpectedResult in the output of myCommand

find . -name *.so -print0 | xargs -0 -I % sh -c 'echo % ; myCommand "%" | grep ExpectedResult'

Executes 'echo "$ret"' in a subshell that is opened by command 'true'.

true | echo "$ret"

Append "deb blah ... blah" to "/etc/apt/sources.list" as root

echo 'deb blah ... blah' | sudo tee --append /etc/apt/sources.list > /dev/null

display all the files in the current directory excluding the paths "targert", "tools", "git"

find . $ ! -path "*target*" -a ! -path "*tools*" -a ! -path "*.git*" -print $

Compress the base64 encoded first 200 characters of "/dev/urandom" as input to uuencode

uuencode <

Remove all .mpg files in the /home/luser directory tree

find /home/luser -type f -name '*.mpg' -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f

Moves window from 4 place to 3.

tmux movew -s 4 -t 3

Send SIGKILL signal to all processes using TCP port 8080, terminating them instantly.

kill -9 $

List files in the current directory tree using echo

find . -exec echo {} ;

Find all the SGID bit files whose permissions set to 644 in the file system

find / -perm 2644

Lists content of compressed text file.

zless MyFile