prabhanshubhowal/natural_language_to_linux

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Find all files beneath the current directory that end with the extension .java and contain the characters String ignoring case. Print the name of the file where a match is found.	find . -type f -name "*.java" -exec grep -il string {} \;
Print the full path directory name of each "file.ext" found under the current directory	find . -name "file.ext" -execdir pwd ';'
Concatenate all files under the current directory and below that contain "test" in their names	find . -iname 'test' -exec cat {} \;
Recursively lists all .py and .html files in a current folder.	ls */.py */.html
Move all files in "/path/subfolder" to "/path" without clobbering any destination files	find /path/subfolder -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*' -exec mv -n {} /path \;
Find all regular files under '/home/john' directory tree that start with 'landof' in their names	find /home/john -name "landof*" -type f -print
Force the group stickiness for directories under /var/www	find /var/www -type d -print0 \| xargs -0 chmod g+s
create backup of all the text files present in the current folder	find -name "*.txt" cp {} {}.bkup \;
display all the text files in the current folder except readme files	find . -type f -name "*.txt" ! -name README.txt -print
Find all first occurrences of directories named '.texturedata' under '/path/to/look/in' directory tree	find /path/to/look/in/ -type d -name '.texturedata' -prune
List all cron jobs for current user.	crontab -l
Print unique lines of sorted file "a" compared with sorted file "b"	comm -23 a b
Save Maven project version to variable "version"	version=$
Search the current directory tree for .rb files ignoring .vendor directories	find . -name .vendor -prune -o -name '*.rb' -print
Find all .gz archives in the /path/to/dir directory tree	find /path/to/dir -name "*.gz" -type f
Forward port 8000 bound on localhost to port 22 in 'clusternode' via 'user@bridge'	ssh -L localhost:8000:clusternode:22 user@bridge
Enables shell option 'failglob'.	shopt -s failglob
Find all empty files under /tmp and below	find /tmp -type f -empty
Print last four bytes of string '0a.00.1 usb controller some text device 4dc9'	echo 0a.00.1 usb controller some text device 4dc9 \| rev \| cut -b1-4 \| rev
Save hexadecimal byte 10 in binary file "file.moi" to variable "day"	day=$
Find all files/directories under '/usr/local/games' directory tree that contain the string 'xpilot' in their names	find /usr/local/games -name "xpilot"
List .conf files residing in the /etc/nginx/ directory tree	find /etc/nginx -name '*.conf' -exec echo {} ;
Search the current user's home directory and its sub-directories for any files accessed after alldata.tar was last accessed and add them to that same tar archive.	find ~/ -newer alldata.tar -exec tar uvf alldata.tar {} \;
Find all regular files in the current directory and search them for "example"	find -maxdepth 1 -type f \| xargs grep -F 'example'
Replace all newlines from standard input except the last with spaces	sed -e ':a' -e 'N' -e '$!ba' -e 's/\n/ /g'
find all the jpg images in the folder /path/to/files which have been modified after after the file "timestamp" and convert them into pdf.	find /path/to/files -iname '*.jpg' -newer timestamp -exec mogrify -format pdf {} +; touch timestamp
view the manual page of find	man find
Changes group ownership of /sys/class/gpio/export and /sys/class/gpio/unexport to 'gpio'.	sudo chgrp gpio /sys/class/gpio/export /sys/class/gpio/unexport
set a crontab to create or update the timestamp of "washere1" in the current directory every minute.	echo "* * * * * touch $/washere1" \| crontab
find all the files in the home folder which are empty (Size 0 bytes)	find ~ -empty
Print unique lines of sorted file "A.txt" compared to sorted file "B.txt"	comm -2 -3 < <
Show the explanation of find's debugging options	find -D help
display all html files in current folder	find -name "*.htm" -print
Change the ownership of all files in the current directory tree from root to www-data	find -user root -exec chown www-data {} \;
Find all file.ext files/directories under /home/kibab directory and print . for each of them	find /home/kibab -name file.ext -exec echo . ';'
Find regular files named 'findme.txt' under '/usr' and '/home' directory tree	find /usr /home -name findme.txt -type f -print
Display the sizes and filepaths of all files/directories sorted in ascending order of size	du -a --max-depth=1 \| sort -n
Finds all the log* files recursively in /myDir that are more than 7 days older and compresses them.	find /myDir -name "log*" -ctime +7 -exec bzip2 -zv {} \;
Copy the entire contents of the current directory preserving ownership, permissions, and times	find . \| cpio -pdumv /path/to/destination/dir
find case-insentive example.com file, and whole dose not contain beta	find -iname example.com \| grep -v beta
Remove all vmware-*.log files/directories under current directory	find . -name vmware-*.log \| xargs -i rm -rf {}
Locate all *.csv files under the current directory tree	find . -name "*.csv"
Print bash environment variable array "fields" and its values	set \| grep ^fields=\\\\|^var=
Display the entire contents of 'file', replacing only the very first instance of "old" with "new".	grep -E -m 1 -n 'old' file \| sed 's/:.*$//' - \| sed 's/$/s\/old\/new\//' - \| sed -f - file
Gets IP address of first listed network interface in system.	ifconfig \| grep 'inet addr:' \| grep -v 127.0.0.1 \| head -n1 \| cut -f2 -d: \| cut -f1 -d ' '
Change permissions to 644 for all regular files under the /path/to/dir/ tree	find /path/to/dir/ -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 chmod 644
Print file type of the executable file of command "foo"	file $
Search the current directory tree for file `teste.tex'	find -name teste.tex
Find all *.sql files in maximum 1 level down the current directory, process it with sed and then send the output to a mysql command	find -maxdepth 1 -name '*.sql' -exec sed -e 's/ , );/1,1);/g' '{}' + \| mysql -D ootp
Remove all files under /home/user/Maildir/.SPAM/cur	find /home/user/Maildir/.SPAM/cur -type f -exec rm -f '{}' '+'
Prints full path of a 'cat.wav' file in a current folder.	ls $PWD/cat.wav
Recursively change ownership of "/usr/local/lib/node_modules" to the current user	sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local/lib/node_modules
Read a line from standard input into variable "password" without echoing the input	read -s password
Save system information appended with the current date in 'filename' variable	filename="$$"
For each line of the sorted output of both file1 and file2, print lines whose first field of file2 does not appear as first field of file1.	join -v1 <(sort file1) <(sort file2)
split listing of the current directory into pieces per 500 lines named "outputXYZNNN"	ls \| split -l 500 - outputXYZ.
Find all files under $root_dir	find $root_dir -type f
Find all 1234.56789 files/directories under current directory	find . -name '1234.56789'
find files in the current directory and sub-directories, whose content was updated within the last hour	find . -mmin -60
Find all directories in maximum 2 levels down the /tmp/test directory	find /tmp/test/ -maxdepth 2 -mindepth 1 -type d
Compress $file file using gzip	gzip "$file"
search for the word hello in all the text files in the temp folder and delete them	find /tmp -type f -name ‘.txt’ \| sed -e ‘s/./\”&\”/’ \|xargs -n 1 grep -l hello\|sed -e ‘s/./\”&\”/’\|xargs -n 1 rm -f
Delete all 1US* files under current directory	find . -iname "1US*" -exec rm {} \;
List file information of the full path of command "c++"	ls -ald `which c++`
Remove everything in a current folder without prompting.	find -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -print0 \| xargs -0 rm -rf
dispaly all the empty regular/normal files in the current folder	find . -type f -empty
get all the files that have been modified within the last 30 days	find . -mtime -30 -print
Move all files that contain "Subject: \[SPAM\]" to "your_file"	grep -L -r 'Subject: \[SPAM\]' . \| while read f; do mv "$f" out; done
Counts all business days in a current month.	cal -h \| cut -c 4-17 \| tail -n +3 \| wc -w
Search the current directory tree for files whose name is ".note", case insensitive	find . -iname '.note' \| sort -r
display all files in current directory and save the output to a file	find . > files_and_folders
Find files with 002 permission in entire file system with the null character as the delimiter	find / -type f -perm -002 -print0
Change directory to the directory containing the "oracle" executable	cd "$(dirname $)"
Find all $1 files/directories under current directory and enter into the parent directory of the first one found	cd $
remove all the core files from /usr folder which have not been accessed in the last 7*24 hours	find /usr -name core -atime +7 -exec rm "{}" \;
list all regular files under the directory "$directory"	find $directory -type f -name '*'
Make "bar" executable	chmod +x bar
Recursively changes group ownership on every file in the ${WP_ROOT}/wp-content directory to ${WS_GROUP} group.	find ${WP_ROOT}/wp-content -exec chgrp ${WS_GROUP} {} \;
search for the files "foo.txt" in the current folder	find . -name foo.txt
Find all directories named CVS, and deletes them and their contents.	find . -type d -name CVS -exec rm -r {} \;
Find all files/directories under current directory with 'foobar' in their names and copy them to ~/foo/bar	find . -iname "foobar" -exec cp "{}" ~/foo/bar \;
Search the current directory tree for files AAA and BBB	find . \ -print
Search the /root directory recursively for the regular file named "myfile" ignoring /root/work/	find /root/ -path '/root/work' -prune -o -name myfile -type f -print
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 -printf '%f\n'
Save a space separated list of process ids of currently running jobs to variable 'bgxjobs'	bgxjobs=" $"
Search the current directory tree for all regular non-hidden files except *.o	find ./ -type f -name "" -not -name ".o"
Recursively removes all files like '*.pyc' in a current folder.	find . -name '*.pyc' -print0 \| xargs -0 rm
Move all files that contain "Subject: \[SPAM\]" to "DIR"	grep -L -Z -r 'Subject: \[SPAM\]' . \| xargs -0 -I{} mv {} DIR
Print each line in "file", "file2", and "file3" and replace any tabs with spaces	paste file file2 file3 \| sed 's/\t/ /'
Perform a default Plesk configuration	find /var/www/vhosts//httpdocs -type f -iwholename “/wp-includes/version.php” -exec grep -H “\$wp_version =” {} \;
Set permissions to ug=rw,o= for files under the $d directory tree	find $d -type f -exec chmod ug=rw,o= '{}' \;
List unique MD5 digests of all files in the current directory ending in .txt	md5sum *.txt \| cut -d ' ' -f 1 \| sort -u
Make a list of all files in the current directory tree, except .png and .class, and view it in the vim editor	find . \| grep -v "\.png$" \| grep -v "\.class$" \| vim -
Find files in the current directory and below that are newer than /bin/sh	find . -newer /bin/sh
Print all files/directories under ... directory by terminating their paths with a null character	find ... -print0
Unsets all environment variables.	unset $
Finds all folders that contain 'ssh' file and have 'bin' in path.	find / -name ssh\|grep bin\|xargs dirname
search for files that are readable for everybody, have at least on write bit set but are not executable for anybody	find . -perm -a+r -perm /a+w ! -perm /a+x
Find all executables in the current directory tree	find ./ -executable
Prints long listing of content in a root folder, including hidden files, with human-readable sizes, and stores output to '/root/test.out' file.	echo 'ls -hal /root/ > /root/test.out' \| sudo bash

Find all files beneath the current directory that end with the extension .java and contain the characters String ignoring case. Print the name of the file where a match is found.

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

Print the full path directory name of each "file.ext" found under the current directory

find . -name "file.ext" -execdir pwd ';'

Concatenate all files under the current directory and below that contain "test" in their names

find . -iname '*test*' -exec cat {} \;

Recursively lists all *.py and *.html files in a current folder.

ls **/*.py **/*.html

Move all files in "/path/subfolder" to "/path" without clobbering any destination files

find /path/subfolder -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*' -exec mv -n {} /path \;

Find all regular files under '/home/john' directory tree that start with 'landof' in their names

find /home/john -name "landof*" -type f -print

Force the group stickiness for directories under /var/www

find /var/www -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod g+s

create backup of all the text files present in the current folder

find -name "*.txt" cp {} {}.bkup \;

display all the text files in the current folder except readme files

find . -type f -name "*.txt" ! -name README.txt -print

Find all first occurrences of directories named '.texturedata' under '/path/to/look/in' directory tree

find /path/to/look/in/ -type d -name '.texturedata' -prune

List all cron jobs for current user.

crontab -l

Print unique lines of sorted file "a" compared with sorted file "b"

comm -23 a b

Save Maven project version to variable "version"

version=$

Search the current directory tree for .rb files ignoring .vendor directories

find . -name .vendor -prune -o -name '*.rb' -print

Find all .gz archives in the /path/to/dir directory tree

find /path/to/dir -name "*.gz" -type f

Forward port 8000 bound on localhost to port 22 in 'clusternode' via 'user@bridge'

ssh -L localhost:8000:clusternode:22 user@bridge

Enables shell option 'failglob'.

shopt -s failglob

Find all empty files under /tmp and below

find /tmp -type f -empty

Print last four bytes of string '0a.00.1 usb controller some text device 4dc9'

echo 0a.00.1 usb controller some text device 4dc9 | rev | cut -b1-4 | rev

Save hexadecimal byte 10 in binary file "file.moi" to variable "day"

day=$

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

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

List .conf files residing in the /etc/nginx/ directory tree

find /etc/nginx -name '*.conf' -exec echo {} ;

Search the current user's home directory and its sub-directories for any files accessed after alldata.tar was last accessed and add them to that same tar archive.

find ~/ -newer alldata.tar -exec tar uvf alldata.tar {} \;

Find all regular files in the current directory and search them for "example"

find -maxdepth 1 -type f | xargs grep -F 'example'

Replace all newlines from standard input except the last with spaces

sed -e ':a' -e 'N' -e '$!ba' -e 's/\n/ /g'

find all the jpg images in the folder /path/to/files which have been modified after after the file "timestamp" and convert them into pdf.

find /path/to/files -iname '*.jpg' -newer timestamp -exec mogrify -format pdf {} +; touch timestamp

view the manual page of find

man find

Changes group ownership of /sys/class/gpio/export and /sys/class/gpio/unexport to 'gpio'.

sudo chgrp gpio /sys/class/gpio/export /sys/class/gpio/unexport

set a crontab to create or update the timestamp of "washere1" in the current directory every minute.

echo "* * * * * touch $/washere1" | crontab

find all the files in the home folder which are empty (Size 0 bytes)

find ~ -empty

Print unique lines of sorted file "A.txt" compared to sorted file "B.txt"

comm -2 -3 < <

Show the explanation of find's debugging options

find -D help

display all html files in current folder

find -name "*.htm" -print

Change the ownership of all files in the current directory tree from root to www-data

find -user root -exec chown www-data {} \;

Find all file.ext files/directories under /home/kibab directory and print . for each of them

find /home/kibab -name file.ext -exec echo . ';'

Find regular files named 'findme.txt' under '/usr' and '/home' directory tree

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

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

du -a --max-depth=1 | sort -n

Finds all the log* files recursively in /myDir that are more than 7 days older and compresses them.

find /myDir -name "log*" -ctime +7 -exec bzip2 -zv {} \;

Copy the entire contents of the current directory preserving ownership, permissions, and times

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

find case-insentive example.com file, and whole dose not contain beta

find -iname example.com | grep -v beta

Remove all vmware-*.log files/directories under current directory

find . -name vmware-*.log | xargs -i rm -rf {}

Locate all *.csv files under the current directory tree

find . -name "*.csv"

Print bash environment variable array "fields" and its values

set | grep ^fields=\\\|^var=

Display the entire contents of 'file', replacing only the very first instance of "old" with "new".

grep -E -m 1 -n 'old' file | sed 's/:.*$//' - | sed 's/$/s\/old\/new\//' - | sed -f - file

Gets IP address of first listed network interface in system.

Change permissions to 644 for all regular files under the /path/to/dir/ tree

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

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

file $

Search the current directory tree for file `teste.tex'

find -name teste.tex

Find all *.sql files in maximum 1 level down the current directory, process it with sed and then send the output to a mysql command

find -maxdepth 1 -name '*.sql' -exec sed -e 's/ , );/1,1);/g' '{}' + | mysql -D ootp

Remove all files under /home/user/Maildir/.SPAM/cur

find /home/user/Maildir/.SPAM/cur -type f -exec rm -f '{}' '+'

Prints full path of a 'cat.wav' file in a current folder.

ls $PWD/cat.wav

Recursively change ownership of "/usr/local/lib/node_modules" to the current user

sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local/lib/node_modules

Read a line from standard input into variable "password" without echoing the input

read -s password

Save system information appended with the current date in 'filename' variable

filename="$$"

For each line of the sorted output of both file1 and file2, print lines whose first field of file2 does not appear as first field of file1.

join -v1 <(sort file1) <(sort file2)

split listing of the current directory into pieces per 500 lines named "outputXYZNNN"

ls | split -l 500 - outputXYZ.

Find all files under $root_dir

find $root_dir -type f

Find all *1234.56789* files/directories under current directory

find . -name '*1234.56789*'

find files in the current directory and sub-directories, whose content was updated within the last hour

find . -mmin -60

Find all directories in maximum 2 levels down the /tmp/test directory

find /tmp/test/ -maxdepth 2 -mindepth 1 -type d

Compress $file file using gzip

gzip "$file"

search for the word hello in all the text files in the temp folder and delete them

find /tmp -type f -name ‘*.txt*’ | sed -e ‘s/.*/\”&\”/’ |xargs -n 1 grep -l hello|sed -e ‘s/.*/\”&\”/’|xargs -n 1 rm -f

Delete all 1US* files under current directory

find . -iname "1US*" -exec rm {} \;

List file information of the full path of command "c++"

ls -ald `which c++`

Remove everything in a current folder without prompting.

find -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

dispaly all the empty regular/normal files in the current folder

find . -type f -empty

get all the files that have been modified within the last 30 days

find . -mtime -30 -print

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

grep -L -r 'Subject: \[SPAM\]' . | while read f; do mv "$f" out; done

Counts all business days in a current month.

cal -h | cut -c 4-17 | tail -n +3 | wc -w

Search the current directory tree for files whose name is ".note", case insensitive

find . -iname '.note' | sort -r

display all files in current directory and save the output to a file

find . > files_and_folders

Find files with 002 permission in entire file system with the null character as the delimiter

find / -type f -perm -002 -print0

Change directory to the directory containing the "oracle" executable

cd "$(dirname $)"

Find all $1 files/directories under current directory and enter into the parent directory of the first one found

cd $

remove all the core files from /usr folder which have not been accessed in the last 7*24 hours

find /usr -name core -atime +7 -exec rm "{}" \;

list all regular files under the directory "$directory"

find $directory -type f -name '*'

Make "bar" executable

chmod +x bar

Recursively changes group ownership on every file in the ${WP_ROOT}/wp-content directory to ${WS_GROUP} group.

find ${WP_ROOT}/wp-content -exec chgrp ${WS_GROUP} {} \;

search for the files "foo.txt" in the current folder

find . -name foo.txt

Find all directories named CVS, and deletes them and their contents.

find . -type d -name CVS -exec rm -r {} \;

Find all files/directories under current directory with 'foobar' in their names and copy them to ~/foo/bar

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

Search the current directory tree for files AAA and BBB

find . \ -print

Search the /root directory recursively for the regular file named "myfile" ignoring /root/work/

find /root/ -path '/root/work' -prune -o -name myfile -type f -print

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 -printf '%f\n'

Save a space separated list of process ids of currently running jobs to variable 'bgxjobs'

bgxjobs=" $"

Search the current directory tree for all regular non-hidden files except *.o

find ./ -type f -name "*" -not -name "*.o"

Recursively removes all files like '*.pyc' in a current folder.

find . -name '*.pyc' -print0 | xargs -0 rm

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

grep -L -Z -r 'Subject: \[SPAM\]' . | xargs -0 -I{} mv {} DIR

Print each line in "file", "file2", and "file3" and replace any tabs with spaces

paste file file2 file3 | sed 's/\t/ /'

Perform a default Plesk configuration

find /var/www/vhosts/*/httpdocs -type f -iwholename “*/wp-includes/version.php” -exec grep -H “\$wp_version =” {} \;

Set permissions to ug=rw,o= for files under the $d directory tree

find $d -type f -exec chmod ug=rw,o= '{}' \;

List unique MD5 digests of all files in the current directory ending in .txt

md5sum *.txt | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | sort -u

Make a list of all files in the current directory tree, except *.png and *.class, and view it in the vim editor

find . | grep -v "\.png$" | grep -v "\.class$" | vim -

Find files in the current directory and below that are newer than /bin/sh

find . -newer /bin/sh

Print all files/directories under ... directory by terminating their paths with a null character

find ... -print0

Unsets all environment variables.

unset $

Finds all folders that contain 'ssh' file and have 'bin' in path.

find / -name ssh|grep bin|xargs dirname

search for files that are readable for everybody, have at least on write bit set but are not executable for anybody

find . -perm -a+r -perm /a+w ! -perm /a+x

Find all executables in the current directory tree

find ./ -executable

Prints long listing of content in a root folder, including hidden files, with human-readable sizes, and stores output to '/root/test.out' file.

echo 'ls -hal /root/ > /root/test.out' | sudo bash