prabhanshubhowal/natural_language_to_linux

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Print file type of the command "c++"	file `which c++`
Search for files/directories which are writable by both their owner and their group	find . -perm -g+w,u+w
Find all files with the SUID bit set	find / -perm -u+s
Create symlinks to all /home/folder1/*.txt files with the same name in current directory	find /home/folder1/*.txt -type f -exec ln -s {} \;
Search the system for 'dead' symbolic links	find / -type l -print \| perl -nle '-e \|\| print';
Report total file systems disk usage.	df --total \| tail -n 1
Count the number of lines in all ".txt" files	cat *.txt \| wc -l
Archive the list of 1st level subdirectories in /fss/fin to /fss/fi/outfile.tar.gz	tar -czf /fss/fi/outfile.tar.gz `find /fss/fin -d 1 -type d -name "*" -print`
Find files starting with the word "file" in the current directory tree	find . -name "file*"
Find all 100MB+ files and delete them	find / -size +100M -exec rm -rf {} \;
Gets MAC address of en0 network interface.	ifconfig en0 \| grep -o -E '{5}[[:xdigit:]]{1,2}'
ssh into "hostname" as user "buck"	ssh buck@hostname
Search the current directory tree for files whose names contain "TextForRename"	find ./ -name "TextForRename"
Display a long listing of all the regular files in the file system which belong to user 'root' and which have suid bit set	find / -type f -user root -perm -4000 -exec ls -l {} \;
Print the file system "file/goes/here" is on	df -P file/goes/here \| tail -1 \| cut -d' ' -f 1
Create a symbolic link named "$HOME/bin/" to "$HOME/downloads/fnord"	ln -s $HOME/downloads/fnord $HOME/bin/
find all the regular/normal files in the current folder which belong to the group "flossblog"	find . -group flossblog -type f
Find all files under current directory and change their permission to 644	find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
find all .bak files in or below the current directory and move them to ~/.old.files directory:	find . -name "*.sh" -print0 \| xargs -0 -I {} mv {} ~/back.scripts
Find all '*~' files under current directory and delete them	find ./ -name '*~' \| xargs> rm
run command "/usr/bin/psql database -c \"SELECT 'DROP TABLE ' \|\| .... " as user postgres	su - postgres -c "/usr/bin/psql database -c \"SELECT 'DROP TABLE ' \|\| .... "
Create intermediate directories "x" and "p" as required and create "q"	mkdir -p x/p/q
Change permissions of ".git/hooks/pre-commit" to 777	sudo chmod 755 .git/hooks/pre-commit
Search *.x files from the current directory tree for string "fred"	find . -name ‘*.x’ -print0 \| xargs -0 grep fred
Save a nginx link to "/path/to/file" with the current user and system FQDN host name in variable "path"	path="http://$(whoami).$(hostname -f)/path/to/file"
Change permissions of ".bash_logout", ".bashrc", and ".profile" to 444	chmod 444 .bash_logout .bashrc .profile
Print the contents of "filename"	cat filename
Uncomment every entry in current user's cron job list which contains "test.sh"	crontab -l \| sed '/# \([^ ][^ ] \)\{5\}[^ ]test\.sh/s/^# *//' \| crontab -
Finds all logged in users.	w \| awk '{print $1}'
Print a list of most often changed files in git	git whatchanged --all \| \grep "\.\.\." \| cut -d' ' -f5- \| cut -f2- \| sort \| uniq -c \| sort
List the current directory recursively ignoring the "dir1" subdirectory	find . -path ./dir1\* -prune -o -print
Search for case-insensitive "string" in "log.tar.gz"	zcat log.tar.gz \| grep -a -i "string"
find all files in the current folder which have not been accessed in the last 30 days in the current folder	find . -atime +30 -print
delete all the log files in the current folder	find -name '*.log' -delete
search for all text files in the folder /home	find /home -name *.txt
Change owner to "$user" and group to "$group" of "$file"	chown -- "$user:$group" "$file"
Remove all .sh files in the current directory tree whose names begin with "t"	find . -name "t*.sh" -exec rm -vf '{}' \;
Find files on the system bigger than 50MB but smaller than 100MB	find / -type f -size +50M -size -100M
Write output of "ls -lR /" to standard output and append to "output.file"	ls -lR / \| tee -a output.file
Recursively finds and compresses all files in the directory '/path/to/dir'	find /path/to/dir -type f -exec bzip2 {} \;
Find files/directories in entire file system with at least 644 permission	find / -perm -644
List the current directory recursively ignoring the "dir1" subdirectory	find . -path ./dir1\* -o -print
Move "file.txt" to docker container "$COUNTAINER_ID" in path "/var/lib/docker/aufs/mnt/$CONTAINER_ID/rootfs/root/file.txt"	mv -f file.txt /var/lib/docker/aufs/mnt/$CONTAINER_ID/rootfs/root/file.txt
Find all directories under $x directory and set read-write-execute permission for owner and group and no permission for other for those directories	find ${x} -type d -exec chmod ug=rwx,o= '{}' \;
Perform a case insensitive search for *.jpg files which are greater than 500KB in size under /ftp/dir/ directory	find /ftp/dir/ -size +500k -iname "*.jpg"
Run 'chmod 0755' on all directories in the current directory tree	find . -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} \;
split file data.csv into pieces per 100 lines	split -l 100 date.csv
Find all directories matching the regex '.texturedata' in their names under '/path/to/look/in/' directory tree	find /path/to/look/in/ -type d \| grep .texturedata
Find directories in the current directory and print them appended with a string literal 'Directory: '	find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -print \| xargs -I "^" echo Directory: "^"
find all the files in the current directory which have been modified in the last 30 days and display the contents.	find . -atime +30 -exec ls \;
find all the files ending with emlx in a folder and save the output to a list file	find /path/to/folders/ -name \*.emlx -print0 > filelist
Look for "testfile.txt" in the "/" directory and 1 level below	find / -maxdepth 2 -name testfile.txt
Removes 'folderName', and removes all content within if 'folderName' is folder.	rm -rf folderName
Print as many dots as there are files named "file.ext" in the /home/kibab directory tree	find /home/kibab -name file.ext -exec echo . ';'
Print the unique lines from standard input preserving the order they appear	nl -n ln \| sort -u -k 2\| sort -k 1n \| cut -f 2-
Find all *.csv files under /foot/bar/ and move them to some_dir	find /foot/bar/ -name '*.csv' -print0 \| xargs -0 mv -t some_dir
Send every 130 characters of "file" as input to "..."	fold -w130 file \| ...
Locate the httpd.conf file on the system	find / -name httpd.conf
Takes path list from '.exportfiles.text' file, cuts off first two path segments and last one.	cut -d / -f 4- .exportfiles.text \| xargs -n 1 dirname
Change permissions for all PHP files under the current directory tree to 755 and print the number of files changed	find . -name "*.php" -exec chmod 755 {} + -printf '.' \| wc -c
find all the php files in current folder using regular expressions	find . -regex '.+\.php'
Find and remove all .txt regular files under the current directory and below	find . -type f -name "*.txt" -exec rm -f {} \;
Find all *.ogg (case insensitive) files under your home directory that are less than 100MB in size	find $HOME -iname '*.ogg' -type f -size -100M
Search the /Path/bar* directories recursively for files matching pattern "file_name*"	find /Path/bar* -name "file_name*"
Find all *.ogg (case insensitive) files/directories under your home directory	find $HOME -iname '*.ogg'
Send email with subject "Backup" and attachment "mysqldbbackup.sql" and message in "message.txt" to "[email protected]"	cat message.txt \| mail -s "Backup" -a mysqldbbackup.sql [email protected]
search for all the mp3 files in the current folder and change the character encoding of them to <source-encoding>	$ find . -name "*mp3" -print0 \| xargs -0 mid3iconv -e <source-encoding> -d
Find all files that aren't owned by user www-data	find -not -user www-data
Search for the Perl regex "[\x80-\xFF]" in *.xml files under current directory tree	find . -name *.xml \| xargs grep -P "[\x80-\xFF]"
print the last word in a.txt	tac a.txt \| awk 'NF{print $NF; exit}'
Search the current directory recursively for files whose size is between 10 and 50 MB	find . -size +10M -size -50M -print
List all aliencoders.[0-9]+ files/directories under /home/jassi/ directory	find /home/jassi/ -name "aliencoders.[0-9]+" 2>&1 \| xargs ls -lrt \| awk '{print $9}'
display all the text files in a folder	find $1 -type f -name '*'$n'.txt'
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 *.mp3 files under current directory	find . -name *.mp3
Print all files with a '-' after their name if they are regular files, and a '+' otherwise	find / -type f -exec echo {} - ';' -o -exec echo {} + ';'
Unzip and merge all "small-*.gz" files into files of 2000000 lines	zcat small-*.gz \| split -d -l2000000 -a 3 - large_
display a long list and delete all the regular/normal files in the current folder starting with the word k which have been modified in the last 4 hours	find . -type f -name “k.” -mmin -360 -exec ls -l ‘{}’ ; \| xargs -0 /bin/rm -f
Print the files to which symbolic links in the current directory point	find . -type l -print \| xargs ls -ld \| awk '{print $10}'
find all the core files in the entire file system and delete them	find / -name core -exec rm -f {} \;
Report file system containing the current directory disk usage	df .
Find all files in the current directory tree whose names are ".DS_STORE"	find . -name ".DS_STORE"
Find regular files with permissions less than 111	find -perm -111 -type f
Find all files/directories under current directory tree wihout descending into './src/emacs' directory	find . -path './src/emacs' -prune -o -print
sleep for 10 seconds	sleep 10
Find files/directories writable by group and others under the /path directory	find /path -perm -go+w
Find all the files in the current directory	find * -type f -print -o -type d -prune
Search the /usr/local/doc directory tree for .texi files	find /usr/local/doc -name '*.texi'
find the type of all the regular/normal files in the current folder	find . -type f -exec file {} \;
Search the /path directory tree for files having permissions 777	find /path -perm ugo+rwx
Print all business days in the current month without column titles	cal -h \| cut -c 4-17 \| tail -n +3
Find recursively all files in the "." directory tree whose names end with ".class" and delete them	find . -type f -name "*.class" -exec rm -vf {} \;
Locate logo.gif in the /var/www directory tree	find /var/www -name logo.gif
Print 3 space separated '%'	echo $(yes % \| head -n3)
Automatically log into "SOME_SITE.COM" on port 2400 as user "YOUR_USERNAME" using password "YOUR_PASSWORD"	sshpass -p "YOUR_PASSWORD" ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no YOUR_USERNAME@SOME_SITE.COM:2400
List screen IDs	screen -ls
Find all the files whose permissions are 777 in the current directory	find . -type f -perm 0777 -print
Find all directories with space in their names under current directory and rename them by replacing all spaces with _	find -name "* *" -type d \| rename 's/ /_/g'
Get the disk space used by all *.txt (case insensitive) files/directories under current directory	find . -iname "*.txt" -exec du -b {} + \| awk '{total += $1} END {print total}'
Find files modified more recently than file poop	find . -newer poop

Print file type of the command "c++"

file `which c++`

Search for files/directories which are writable by both their owner and their group

find . -perm -g+w,u+w

Find all files with the SUID bit set

find / -perm -u+s

Create symlinks to all /home/folder1/*.txt files with the same name in current directory

find /home/folder1/*.txt -type f -exec ln -s {} \;

Search the system for 'dead' symbolic links

find / -type l -print | perl -nle '-e || print';

Report total file systems disk usage.

df --total | tail -n 1

Count the number of lines in all ".txt" files

cat *.txt | wc -l

Archive the list of 1st level subdirectories in /fss/fin to /fss/fi/outfile.tar.gz

tar -czf /fss/fi/outfile.tar.gz `find /fss/fin -d 1 -type d -name "*" -print`

Find files starting with the word "file" in the current directory tree

find . -name "file*"

Find all 100MB+ files and delete them

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

Gets MAC address of en0 network interface.

ifconfig en0 | grep -o -E '{5}[[:xdigit:]]{1,2}'

ssh into "hostname" as user "buck"

ssh buck@hostname

Search the current directory tree for files whose names contain "TextForRename"

find ./ -name "*TextForRename*"

Display a long listing of all the regular files in the file system which belong to user 'root' and which have suid bit set

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

Print the file system "file/goes/here" is on

df -P file/goes/here | tail -1 | cut -d' ' -f 1

Create a symbolic link named "$HOME/bin/" to "$HOME/downloads/fnord"

ln -s $HOME/downloads/fnord $HOME/bin/

find all the regular/normal files in the current folder which belong to the group "flossblog"

find . -group flossblog -type f

Find all files under current directory and change their permission to 644

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

find all .bak files in or below the current directory and move them to ~/.old.files directory:

find . -name "*.sh" -print0 | xargs -0 -I {} mv {} ~/back.scripts

Find all '*~' files under current directory and delete them

find ./ -name '*~' | xargs> rm

run command "/usr/bin/psql database -c \"SELECT 'DROP TABLE ' || .... " as user postgres

su - postgres -c "/usr/bin/psql database -c \"SELECT 'DROP TABLE ' || .... "

Create intermediate directories "x" and "p" as required and create "q"

mkdir -p x/p/q

Change permissions of ".git/hooks/pre-commit" to 777

sudo chmod 755 .git/hooks/pre-commit

Search *.x files from the current directory tree for string "fred"

find . -name ‘*.x’ -print0 | xargs -0 grep fred

Save a nginx link to "/path/to/file" with the current user and system FQDN host name in variable "path"

path="http://$(whoami).$(hostname -f)/path/to/file"

Change permissions of ".bash_logout", ".bashrc", and ".profile" to 444

chmod 444 .bash_logout .bashrc .profile

Print the contents of "filename"

cat filename

Uncomment every entry in current user's cron job list which contains "test.sh"

crontab -l | sed '/# *$[^ ][^ ]* *$\{5\}[^ ]*test\.sh/s/^# *//' | crontab -

Finds all logged in users.

w | awk '{print $1}'

Print a list of most often changed files in git

List the current directory recursively ignoring the "dir1" subdirectory

find . -path ./dir1\* -prune -o -print

Search for case-insensitive "string" in "log.tar.gz"

zcat log.tar.gz | grep -a -i "string"

find all files in the current folder which have not been accessed in the last 30 days in the current folder

find . -atime +30 -print

delete all the log files in the current folder

find -name '*.log' -delete

search for all text files in the folder /home

find /home -name *.txt

Change owner to "$user" and group to "$group" of "$file"

chown -- "$user:$group" "$file"

Remove all .sh files in the current directory tree whose names begin with "t"

find . -name "t*.sh" -exec rm -vf '{}' \;

Find files on the system bigger than 50MB but smaller than 100MB

find / -type f -size +50M -size -100M

Write output of "ls -lR /" to standard output and append to "output.file"

ls -lR / | tee -a output.file

Recursively finds and compresses all files in the directory '/path/to/dir'

find /path/to/dir -type f -exec bzip2 {} \;

Find files/directories in entire file system with at least 644 permission

find / -perm -644

List the current directory recursively ignoring the "dir1" subdirectory

find . -path ./dir1\* -o -print

Move "file.txt" to docker container "$COUNTAINER_ID" in path "/var/lib/docker/aufs/mnt/$CONTAINER_ID/rootfs/root/file.txt"

mv -f file.txt /var/lib/docker/aufs/mnt/$CONTAINER_ID/rootfs/root/file.txt

Find all directories under $x directory and set read-write-execute permission for owner and group and no permission for other for those directories

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

Perform a case insensitive search for *.jpg files which are greater than 500KB in size under /ftp/dir/ directory

find /ftp/dir/ -size +500k -iname "*.jpg"

Run 'chmod 0755' on all directories in the current directory tree

find . -type d -exec chmod 0755 {} \;

split file data.csv into pieces per 100 lines

split -l 100 date.csv

Find all directories matching the regex '.texturedata' in their names under '/path/to/look/in/' directory tree

find /path/to/look/in/ -type d | grep .texturedata

Find directories in the current directory and print them appended with a string literal 'Directory: '

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -print | xargs -I "^" echo Directory: "^"

find all the files in the current directory which have been modified in the last 30 days and display the contents.

find . -atime +30 -exec ls \;

find all the files ending with emlx in a folder and save the output to a list file

find /path/to/folders/ -name \*.emlx -print0 > filelist

Look for "testfile.txt" in the "/" directory and 1 level below

find / -maxdepth 2 -name testfile.txt

Removes 'folderName', and removes all content within if 'folderName' is folder.

rm -rf folderName

Print as many dots as there are files named "file.ext" in the /home/kibab directory tree

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

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

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

Find all *.csv files under /foot/bar/ and move them to some_dir

find /foot/bar/ -name '*.csv' -print0 | xargs -0 mv -t some_dir

Send every 130 characters of "file" as input to "..."

fold -w130 file | ...

Locate the httpd.conf file on the system

find / -name httpd.conf

Takes path list from '.exportfiles.text' file, cuts off first two path segments and last one.

cut -d / -f 4- .exportfiles.text | xargs -n 1 dirname

Change permissions for all PHP files under the current directory tree to 755 and print the number of files changed

find . -name "*.php" -exec chmod 755 {} + -printf '.' | wc -c

find all the php files in current folder using regular expressions

find . -regex '.+\.php'

Find and remove all .txt regular files under the current directory and below

find . -type f -name "*.txt" -exec rm -f {} \;

Find all *.ogg (case insensitive) files under your home directory that are less than 100MB in size

find $HOME -iname '*.ogg' -type f -size -100M

Search the /Path/bar* directories recursively for files matching pattern "file_name*"

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

Find all *.ogg (case insensitive) files/directories under your home directory

find $HOME -iname '*.ogg'

Send email with subject "Backup" and attachment "mysqldbbackup.sql" and message in "message.txt" to "[email protected]"

cat message.txt | mail -s "Backup" -a mysqldbbackup.sql [email protected]

search for all the mp3 files in the current folder and change the character encoding of them to <source-encoding>

$ find . -name "*mp3" -print0 | xargs -0 mid3iconv -e <source-encoding> -d

Find all files that aren't owned by user www-data

find -not -user www-data

Search for the Perl regex "[\x80-\xFF]" in *.xml files under current directory tree

find . -name *.xml | xargs grep -P "[\x80-\xFF]"

print the last word in a.txt

tac a.txt | awk 'NF{print $NF; exit}'

Search the current directory recursively for files whose size is between 10 and 50 MB

find . -size +10M -size -50M -print

List all aliencoders.[0-9]+ files/directories under /home/jassi/ directory

find /home/jassi/ -name "aliencoders.[0-9]+" 2>&1 | xargs ls -lrt | awk '{print $9}'

display all the text files in a folder

find $1 -type f -name '*'$n'.txt'

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 *.mp3 files under current directory

find . -name *.mp3

Print all files with a '-' after their name if they are regular files, and a '+' otherwise

find / -type f -exec echo {} - ';' -o -exec echo {} + ';'

Unzip and merge all "small-*.gz" files into files of 2000000 lines

zcat small-*.gz | split -d -l2000000 -a 3 - large_

display a long list and delete all the regular/normal files in the current folder starting with the word k which have been modified in the last 4 hours

find . -type f -name “k*.*” -mmin -360 -exec ls -l ‘{}’ ; | xargs -0 /bin/rm -f

Print the files to which symbolic links in the current directory point

find . -type l -print | xargs ls -ld | awk '{print $10}'

find all the core files in the entire file system and delete them

find / -name core -exec rm -f {} \;

Report file system containing the current directory disk usage

df .

Find all files in the current directory tree whose names are ".DS_STORE"

find . -name ".DS_STORE"

Find regular files with permissions less than 111

find -perm -111 -type f

Find all files/directories under current directory tree wihout descending into './src/emacs' directory

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

sleep for 10 seconds

sleep 10

Find files/directories writable by group and others under the /path directory

find /path -perm -go+w

Find all the files in the current directory

find * -type f -print -o -type d -prune

Search the /usr/local/doc directory tree for .texi files

find /usr/local/doc -name '*.texi'

find the type of all the regular/normal files in the current folder

find . -type f -exec file {} \;

Search the /path directory tree for files having permissions 777

find /path -perm ugo+rwx

Print all business days in the current month without column titles

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

Find recursively all files in the "." directory tree whose names end with ".class" and delete them

find . -type f -name "*.class" -exec rm -vf {} \;

Locate logo.gif in the /var/www directory tree

find /var/www -name logo.gif

Print 3 space separated '%'

echo $(yes % | head -n3)

Automatically log into "SOME_SITE.COM" on port 2400 as user "YOUR_USERNAME" using password "YOUR_PASSWORD"

sshpass -p "YOUR_PASSWORD" ssh -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no YOUR_USERNAME@SOME_SITE.COM:2400

List screen IDs

screen -ls

Find all the files whose permissions are 777 in the current directory

find . -type f -perm 0777 -print

Find all directories with space in their names under current directory and rename them by replacing all spaces with _

find -name "* *" -type d | rename 's/ /_/g'

Get the disk space used by all *.txt (case insensitive) files/directories under current directory

find . -iname "*.txt" -exec du -b {} + | awk '{total += $1} END {print total}'

Find files modified more recently than file poop

find . -newer poop