prabhanshubhowal/natural_language_to_linux

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Perform white space safe deletion of files named core under /tmp	find /tmp -name core -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 /bin/rm -f
Output the specified path removing all containing directories and the .txt suffix, in this case "filename".	basename /path/to/dir/filename.txt .txt
create directory es if it is not exist and create direcoty LC_MESSAGES	mkdir -p es/LC_MESSAGES
Split "INPUT_FILE_NAME" into files of at most 500 MiB each with a numeric suffix of length 4 and prefix "input.part."	split -b 500M -d -a 4 INPUT_FILE_NAME input.part.
Prints current month calendar, without highlighting of a current date.	cal -h
find all the files in the root folder which have been modified in the last 24 hours and print them	find / -mtime -1 -print
Find all files/directories named file1 under current directory	find -name file1
Save the filename and hash of the md5 sum of "file" to bash array "md5"	md5=($)
Search file aaa from current direcoty downwards and print it .	find . -name aaa -print
Find with combine multiple search criterias , in this command serach files that begin with abc in there name and dont have .py extension .	find . -type f -name 'abc' ! -name '.py'
Find all fstab files under and below /etc	find /etc -name fstab
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 ${x} -type d -exec chmod ug=rwx,o= '{}' \;
Search the files from the current directory tree for "foo"	find . -exec grep foo {} +
Change file permissions on all regular files within a directory	find /path/to/directory -type f -exec chmod 644 {} +
Save all directories under the current directory as a comma separated list in variable "FOLDERS"	FOLDERS=$
Recursively and forcibly removes $TMP folder with all content.	rm -fR "${TMP}/";
Search for $SEARCH in all regular files under $DIR directory tree and display the number of bytes of the matched output	find $DIR -type f -exec grep $SEARCH /dev/null {} \; \| wc --bytes
find all the regular/normal files in the current folder which belong to the users with the user id's between 500 and 1000	find . -uid +500 -uid -1000 -type f
Find *.html files in the current directory tree that were modified less than 7 days ago	find . -mtime -7 -name "*.html" -print
Output the file name "file.txt' from the path "some/unknown/amount/of/sub/folder/file.txt"	basename "some/unknown/amount/of/sub/folder/file.txt"
Print 1 byte from "/dev/urandom" as a signed decimal value and no address radix	od -A n -t d -N 1 /dev/urandom
create a compressed archive "compressFileName.tar.gz" with verbose output	tar -zcvf compressFileName.tar.gz folderToCompress
List the current directory recursively ignoring the "dir1" subdirectory	find . -path ./dir1 -prune -o -print
Remove files modified at least five days ago in directory trees /path/to/files*	find /path/to/files* -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;
Remove all files containing 'sample' (case insensitive) in their names under '/home/user/Series' directory tree	find /home/user/Series/ -iname 'sample' -exec rm {} \;
Read the first line of "$sh_lock_file" into variable "sh_lock_lastPID"	read sh_lock_lastPID < $sh_lock_file
Find all files/directories under minimum 2 level down the current directory and set their permission to 700	find . -mindepth 2 \| xargs chmod 700
Search for the case insensitive regex expanded by $2 in all files named $1 (to be expanded) under current directory	find . -name "$1" -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 grep -i "$2"
display all regular/normal files in the current folder which are accessed in the last 7*24 hours	find . -type f -atime -7
display all the files in the current folder which have been modified in one hour ago	find . -newermt "1 hour ago"
display all files in the folder /usr and its sub directory(do not search beyond the sub directory)	find /usr -maxdepth 1 -print
Search the /etc/apache-perl directory tree for files newer than /etc/apache-perl/httpd.conf	find /etc/apache-perl -newer /etc/apache-perl/httpd.conf
Find files larger than 100MB in /var/www and exclude files with /download/ in their path from the output	find /var/www/ -type f -name "*" -size +100M -exec du -h '{}' \;\|grep -v /download/
find regular file named foo.txt under root / directory.	find / -name foo.txt -type f
Read a line from standard input into variable "REPLY" with prompt "$1 ([y]es or [N]o): "	read -p "$1 ([y]es or [N]o): "
Search directory $CURR_DIR for regular files that were changed, accessed, or modified $FTIME days ago	find ${CURR_DIR} -type f \( -ctime ${FTIME} -o -atime ${FTIME} -o -mtime ${FTIME} \) -printf "./%P\n"
Find all files/directories under current directory with null character as the delimiter and then replace the null characters with :	find -print0 \| tr "\0" ":"
search all undo files(ending with .undo) in the current folder and calculate the total size of them	find -name '*.undo' -exec wc -c {} + \| tail -n 1 \| cut -d' ' -f 1
Search for all files newer than file /tmp/t	find / -newer /tmp/t
Filters only directories from long file listing of the current directory	ls -l --color=always "$@" \| grep --color=never '^d'
Prints information about user $euids currently on machine and its processes, without printing header.	w -h $euids
Replace spaces in file names with underscores for all files in the current directory tree	find -name "* *" -type f \| rename 's/ /_/g'
Export variable "PS1" as the current username "@" the hostname	export PS1='$@$:'
find all the css files	find -name '*.css'
Find all files in the /home/ directory tree that were last modified less than 7 days ago	find /home -mtime -7
download contents from "http://www.example.com" using a proxy server	curl http://www.example.com --proxy http://125.119.175.48:8909
Find any file that has "disc" somewhere in its name in the current directory and all of its sub-directories.	find . -name disc
Recursively removes all files and folders named '.svn' in a current folder.	find . -name .svn \| xargs rm -fr
Replace each newline in input "1\n2\n3\n4\n5" with a comma	echo "1\n2\n3\n4\n5" \| paste -s -d, /dev/stdin
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 -print0 \| awk -v RS='\0' -v ORS='\0' '{ print } END { print NR }' \| xargs -0 rm
Find all files in the current directory tree whose names are ".DS_STORE"	find . -name ".DS_STORE"
SSH into user@server and run command ${SSH_COMMAND}	ssh user@server "${SSH_COMMAND}"
search for a word in all the files in the current directory	find . -type f -exec grep 'needle' {} \;
display all the normal/regular files in the directory FOLDER1	find FOLDER1 -type f -print0
Search my_folder recursively for text files containing "needle text"	find my_folder -type f -exec grep -l "needle text" {} \; -exec file {} \; \| grep text
Print "yes" 4 times followed by 1 "no"	yes yes \| sed -e 5s/yes/no/ -e 5q
find all the files in the current folder which have been modified after the file disk.log	find . -newer disk.log -print
Replace all spaces with underscores in file paths under current directory.	find -name "* *" -type f \| rename 's/ /_/g'
Find all image.pdf files under ./polkadots	find ./polkadots -type f -name "image.pdf"
Print NS record for domain 'domain.' from 8.8.8.8 nameserver	dig @8.8.8.8 domain. ns
Copy the owner and group of "originalfile" to "newfile"	chown `stat -c %U originalfile`:`stat -c %G originalfile` newfile
Find all *.tar.gz files/directories under /directory/whatever which were modified more than $DAYS ago	find /directory/whatever -name '*.tar.gz' -mtime +$DAYS
run command "cd /home/$USERNAME/$PROJECT ; svn update" as user named as value of the variable $USERNAME	su -c "cd /home/$USERNAME/$PROJECT ; svn update" -m "$USERNAME"
Forcefully delete all files in the current directory	find . -name '*' \| xargs rm
display the count of number html files in the current folder	find . -name "*.html" -print \| xargs -l -i wc {}
find all the regular/normal files in the /path folder and delete them	find /path -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 rm
display list of all the regular/normal files in the home folder which are bigger than 512 kb	find /home/ -type f -size +512k -exec ls -lh {} \;
Find all files under /home/mywebsite/public_html/sites/all/modules and set their permission to 640	find /home/mywebsite/public_html/sites/all/modules -type f -exec chmod 640 {} +
Counts the number of lines in each file in a git repository.	wc -l --files0-from=<
Make DNS lookup requests for domain list in file '/path/to/host-list.txt'	dig -f /path/to/host-list.txt
Dynamically defines tmux session name to attach to.	tmux attach -t "$"
Counts lines in each *.php file.	wc -l $(find . -name "*.php")
Force create a symbolic link without dereferencing named "$SYMLINK_PATH" to "$lastModified"	ln -nsf $lastModified $SYMLINK_PATH
Delete characters in columns 36 through 40 from the output of "finger"	finger \| cut --complement -c36-40
Search for a pattern "can't" in all the files with the name "file-containing-can't" in the current directory tree	find . -name "file-containing-can't" -exec grep "can't" '{}' \; -print
Back up all *.txt files/directories in new files/directories with a .bak extension in their names under /etc directory	find /etc -name "*.txt" \| xargs -I {} mv {} {}.bak
Replace "_" with newlines in "Testing\r\nTested_Hello_World" and display the named characters	echo -e "Testing\r\nTested_Hello_World" \| awk -v RS="_" '{ print $0; }' \| od -a
Search all files in the current directory tree that are named "whatever" for "you_search_for_it"	find -name whatever -exec grep --with-filename you_search_for_it {} \;
find all files in the current folder and search for a word in them.	find . -type f -exec grep "applicationX" {} \;
Print unique lines of "second-file-sorted.txt" compared to "first-file-sorted.txt"	comm -23 second-file-sorted.txt first-file-sorted.txt
Measure the disk space taken up by all *.txt files in the current directory tree	find . -name "*.txt" -print0 \|xargs -0 du -ch \| tail -n1
Find all files under current directory	find "`pwd`" -type f
Search the current directory tree for regular files omitting directory `omit-directory'	find . \( -name omit-directory -prune \) -o \( -type f -print \)
Find all files/directories that contain the string literal '$VERSION' in their names under current directory tree	find . -name '$VERSION'
list the files with a name ending with '.mp3' or '.jpg' and beginning with 'foo'	find . \ -name 'foo*' -print
Find files/directories under current directory that matches './projects/insanewebproject' in their paths	find -ipath './projects/insanewebproject'
Find all files under /mountpoint and below which have hard links	find /mountpoint -type f -links +1
Find all files in the current directory tree ignoring the ".git" directory	find . -type d -name '.git*' -prune -o -type f -print
Join columns in "file1" and "file2" if their first field matches and format the output as a table	join file1 file2 \| column -t
Find all files under directory tree /path/to/dir whose permissions are not 644	find /path/to/dir ! -perm 0644
Gets domain name from dig reverse lookup.	$dig -x 8.8.8.8 \| grep PTR \| grep -o google.*
Search all files under and below /etc for IP addresses	find /etc -exec grep '[0-9][0-9][.][0-9][0-9][.][0-9][0-9][.][0-9][0-9]' {} \;
change the permissions of all the directories in the current folder	find . -type d -exec chmod 2775 {} \;
Search for files/directories with the case insensitive pattern anaconda.* in /var/log directory and create an archive (file.tar) of the last file found	find /var/log/ -iname anaconda.* -exec tar -cvf file.tar {} \;
Rename all "thumbs" directories to "thumb" in the current directory and 1 level below	find . -maxdepth 2 -type d \| sed 'p;s/thumbs/thumb/' \| xargs -n2 mv
remove all the log files which have not been modified in the last 5 days	find /logs -type f -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;
Change owner to "root" and group to "www-data" of "/foobar/test_file"	sudo chown root:www-data /foobar/test_file
display all the files in the kat folder	find kat -printf "%f\n"
Find files in the current directory whose names begin with "file" and remove them	find . -name file* -maxdepth 1 -exec rm {} \;
Find all files under $dir	find "$dir" -type f

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

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

Output the specified path removing all containing directories and the .txt suffix, in this case "filename".

basename /path/to/dir/filename.txt .txt

create directory es if it is not exist and create direcoty LC_MESSAGES

mkdir -p es/LC_MESSAGES

Split "INPUT_FILE_NAME" into files of at most 500 MiB each with a numeric suffix of length 4 and prefix "input.part."

split -b 500M -d -a 4 INPUT_FILE_NAME input.part.

Prints current month calendar, without highlighting of a current date.

cal -h

find all the files in the root folder which have been modified in the last 24 hours and print them

find / -mtime -1 -print

Find all files/directories named file1 under current directory

find -name file1

Save the filename and hash of the md5 sum of "file" to bash array "md5"

md5=($)

Search file aaa from current direcoty downwards and print it .

find . -name aaa -print

Find with combine multiple search criterias , in this command serach files that begin with abc in there name and dont have .py extension .

find . -type f -name 'abc*' ! -name '*.py'

Find all *fstab* files under and below /etc

find /etc -name *fstab*

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= '{}' \;

Search the files from the current directory tree for "foo"

find . -exec grep foo {} +

Change file permissions on all regular files within a directory

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

Save all directories under the current directory as a comma separated list in variable "FOLDERS"

FOLDERS=$

Recursively and forcibly removes $TMP folder with all content.

rm -fR "${TMP}/";

Search for $SEARCH in all regular files under $DIR directory tree and display the number of bytes of the matched output

find $DIR -type f -exec grep $SEARCH /dev/null {} \; | wc --bytes

find all the regular/normal files in the current folder which belong to the users with the user id's between 500 and 1000

find . -uid +500 -uid -1000 -type f

Find *.html files in the current directory tree that were modified less than 7 days ago

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

Output the file name "file.txt' from the path "some/unknown/amount/of/sub/folder/file.txt"

basename "some/unknown/amount/of/sub/folder/file.txt"

Print 1 byte from "/dev/urandom" as a signed decimal value and no address radix

od -A n -t d -N 1 /dev/urandom

create a compressed archive "compressFileName.tar.gz" with verbose output

tar -zcvf compressFileName.tar.gz folderToCompress

List the current directory recursively ignoring the "dir1" subdirectory

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

Remove files modified at least five days ago in directory trees /path/to/files*

find /path/to/files* -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;

Remove all files containing 'sample' (case insensitive) in their names under '/home/user/Series' directory tree

find /home/user/Series/ -iname '*sample*' -exec rm {} \;

Read the first line of "$sh_lock_file" into variable "sh_lock_lastPID"

read sh_lock_lastPID < $sh_lock_file

Find all files/directories under minimum 2 level down the current directory and set their permission to 700

find . -mindepth 2 | xargs chmod 700

Search for the case insensitive regex expanded by $2 in all files named $1 (to be expanded) under current directory

find . -name "$1" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -i "$2"

display all regular/normal files in the current folder which are accessed in the last 7*24 hours

find . -type f -atime -7

display all the files in the current folder which have been modified in one hour ago

find . -newermt "1 hour ago"

display all files in the folder /usr and its sub directory(do not search beyond the sub directory)

find /usr -maxdepth 1 -print

Search the /etc/apache-perl directory tree for files newer than /etc/apache-perl/httpd.conf

find /etc/apache-perl -newer /etc/apache-perl/httpd.conf

Find files larger than 100MB in /var/www and exclude files with /download/ in their path from the output

find /var/www/ -type f -name "*" -size +100M -exec du -h '{}' \;|grep -v /download/

find regular file named foo.txt under root / directory.

find / -name foo.txt -type f

Read a line from standard input into variable "REPLY" with prompt "$1 ([y]es or [N]o): "

read -p "$1 ([y]es or [N]o): "

Search directory $CURR_DIR for regular files that were changed, accessed, or modified $FTIME days ago

find ${CURR_DIR} -type f $ -ctime ${FTIME} -o -atime ${FTIME} -o -mtime ${FTIME} $ -printf "./%P\n"

Find all files/directories under current directory with null character as the delimiter and then replace the null characters with :

find -print0 | tr "\0" ":"

search all undo files(ending with .undo) in the current folder and calculate the total size of them

find -name '*.undo' -exec wc -c {} + | tail -n 1 | cut -d' ' -f 1

Search for all files newer than file /tmp/t

find / -newer /tmp/t

Filters only directories from long file listing of the current directory

ls -l --color=always "$@" | grep --color=never '^d'

Prints information about user $euids currently on machine and its processes, without printing header.

w -h $euids

Replace spaces in file names with underscores for all files in the current directory tree

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

Export variable "PS1" as the current username "@" the hostname

export PS1='$@$:'

find all the css files

find -name '*.css'

Find all files in the /home/ directory tree that were last modified less than 7 days ago

find /home -mtime -7

download contents from "http://www.example.com" using a proxy server

curl http://www.example.com --proxy http://125.119.175.48:8909

Find any file that has "disc" somewhere in its name in the current directory and all of its sub-directories.

find . -name *disc*

Recursively removes all files and folders named '.svn' in a current folder.

find . -name .svn | xargs rm -fr

Replace each newline in input "1\n2\n3\n4\n5" with a comma

echo "1\n2\n3\n4\n5" | paste -s -d, /dev/stdin

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 -print0 | awk -v RS='\0' -v ORS='\0' '{ print } END { print NR }' | xargs -0 rm

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

find . -name ".DS_STORE"

SSH into user@server and run command ${SSH_COMMAND}

ssh user@server "${SSH_COMMAND}"

search for a word in all the files in the current directory

find . -type f -exec grep 'needle' {} \;

display all the normal/regular files in the directory FOLDER1

find FOLDER1 -type f -print0

Search my_folder recursively for text files containing "needle text"

find my_folder -type f -exec grep -l "needle text" {} \; -exec file {} \; | grep text

Print "yes" 4 times followed by 1 "no"

yes yes | sed -e 5s/yes/no/ -e 5q

find all the files in the current folder which have been modified after the file disk.log

find . -newer disk.log -print

Replace all spaces with underscores in file paths under current directory.

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

Find all image.pdf files under ./polkadots

find ./polkadots -type f -name "image.pdf"

Print NS record for domain 'domain.' from 8.8.8.8 nameserver

dig @8.8.8.8 domain. ns

Copy the owner and group of "originalfile" to "newfile"

chown `stat -c %U originalfile`:`stat -c %G originalfile` newfile

Find all *.tar.gz files/directories under /directory/whatever which were modified more than $DAYS ago

find /directory/whatever -name '*.tar.gz' -mtime +$DAYS

run command "cd /home/$USERNAME/$PROJECT ; svn update" as user named as value of the variable $USERNAME

su -c "cd /home/$USERNAME/$PROJECT ; svn update" -m "$USERNAME"

Forcefully delete all files in the current directory

find . -name '*' | xargs rm

display the count of number html files in the current folder

find . -name "*.html" -print | xargs -l -i wc {}

find all the regular/normal files in the /path folder and delete them

find /path -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm

display list of all the regular/normal files in the home folder which are bigger than 512 kb

find /home/ -type f -size +512k -exec ls -lh {} \;

Find all files under /home/mywebsite/public_html/sites/all/modules and set their permission to 640

find /home/mywebsite/public_html/sites/all/modules -type f -exec chmod 640 {} +

Counts the number of lines in each file in a git repository.

wc -l --files0-from=<

Make DNS lookup requests for domain list in file '/path/to/host-list.txt'

dig -f /path/to/host-list.txt

Dynamically defines tmux session name to attach to.

tmux attach -t "$"

Counts lines in each *.php file.

wc -l $(find . -name "*.php")

Force create a symbolic link without dereferencing named "$SYMLINK_PATH" to "$lastModified"

ln -nsf $lastModified $SYMLINK_PATH

Delete characters in columns 36 through 40 from the output of "finger"

finger | cut --complement -c36-40

Search for a pattern "can't" in all the files with the name "file-containing-can't" in the current directory tree

find . -name "file-containing-can't" -exec grep "can't" '{}' \; -print

Back up all *.txt files/directories in new files/directories with a .bak extension in their names under /etc directory

find /etc -name "*.txt" | xargs -I {} mv {} {}.bak

Replace "_" with newlines in "Testing\r\nTested_Hello_World" and display the named characters

echo -e "Testing\r\nTested_Hello_World" | awk -v RS="_" '{ print $0; }' | od -a

Search all files in the current directory tree that are named "whatever" for "you_search_for_it"

find -name whatever -exec grep --with-filename you_search_for_it {} \;

find all files in the current folder and search for a word in them.

find . -type f -exec grep "applicationX" {} \;

Print unique lines of "second-file-sorted.txt" compared to "first-file-sorted.txt"

comm -23 second-file-sorted.txt first-file-sorted.txt

Measure the disk space taken up by all *.txt files in the current directory tree

find . -name "*.txt" -print0 |xargs -0 du -ch | tail -n1

Find all files under current directory

find "`pwd`" -type f

Search the current directory tree for regular files omitting directory `omit-directory'

find . $ -name omit-directory -prune $ -o $ -type f -print $

Find all files/directories that contain the string literal '$VERSION' in their names under current directory tree

find . -name '*$VERSION*'

list the files with a name ending with '.mp3' or '.jpg' and beginning with 'foo'

find . \ -name 'foo*' -print

Find files/directories under current directory that matches './projects/insanewebproject' in their paths

find -ipath './projects/insanewebproject'

Find all files under /mountpoint and below which have hard links

find /mountpoint -type f -links +1

Find all files in the current directory tree ignoring the ".git" directory

find . -type d -name '.git*' -prune -o -type f -print

Join columns in "file1" and "file2" if their first field matches and format the output as a table

join file1 file2 | column -t

Find all files under directory tree /path/to/dir whose permissions are not 644

find /path/to/dir ! -perm 0644

Gets domain name from dig reverse lookup.

$dig -x 8.8.8.8 | grep PTR | grep -o google.*

Search all files under and below /etc for IP addresses

find /etc -exec grep '[0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9][0-9]*' {} \;

change the permissions of all the directories in the current folder

find . -type d -exec chmod 2775 {} \;

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

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

Rename all "thumbs" directories to "thumb" in the current directory and 1 level below

find . -maxdepth 2 -type d | sed 'p;s/thumbs/thumb/' | xargs -n2 mv

remove all the log files which have not been modified in the last 5 days

find /logs -type f -mtime +5 -exec rm {} \;

Change owner to "root" and group to "www-data" of "/foobar/test_file"

sudo chown root:www-data /foobar/test_file

display all the files in the kat folder

find kat -printf "%f\n"

Find files in the current directory whose names begin with "file" and remove them

find . -name file* -maxdepth 1 -exec rm {} \;

Find all files under $dir

find "$dir" -type f