prabhanshubhowal/natural_language_to_linux

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Silently read a line into variable "passwd" with prompt "Enter your password: "	read -s -p "Enter your password: " passwd
Find all of jzb's files	find -user jzb
Recursively finds all files containing text 'OPEN' and prints folder where they are placed.	grep -r OPEN * \| awk '{split($1, path, ":"); print path[1]}' \| xargs -I{} dirname {}
Find all *.rb files under current directory and count their line numbers	find . -name "*.rb" -type f -exec wc -l \{\} \;
Find all files/directories named modules under current directory and list them twice	find . -name modules \! -exec sh -c 'find -name modules' \;
prints last part of a logfile since timestamp 423	tac file.log \| awk '{ if print; else exit; }' \| tac
Remove files under current directory with inode number $inum	find . -inum $inum -exec rm {} \;
Find files under [directory] that match 'pattern_to_INCLUDE' in their names without descending into directories that match 'pattern_to_exclude' and 'another_pattern_to_exclude', then search for 'pattern' in those files	find [directory] -name "pattern_to_exclude" -prune -o -name "another_pattern_to_exclude" -prune -o -name "pattern_to_INCLUDE" -print0 \| xargs -0 -I FILENAME grep -IR "pattern" FILENAME
find all regex ".*/[a-f0-9\-]\{36\}\.jpg" files	find . -regextype sed -regex ".*/[a-f0-9\-]\{36\}\.jpg"
change the permissions of all the regular/normal files to 644 in the folder /home/nobody/public_html	find /home/nobody/public_html -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
display the count of total number of empty files in the current folder	find . -type f -empty \| wc -l
Set read, write and execute permission for all for the files/directories in foldername directory tree	sudo find foldername -exec chmod a+rwx {} ";"
Counts lines in file 'file1' and shows progress bar while doing.	pv file1 \| wc -l
Creates temporary file with name formatted like '.script.XXXXXX' in '/tmp/' folder and saves path to it in 'script2' variable.	script2=`mktemp /tmp/.script.XXXXXX`;
Compare text "hello" and "goodbye" line by line	diff <(echo hello) <(echo goodbye)
Print numbered list of all third-level files under the current directory	ls -d -1 $PWD/*//* \| cat -n
Remove leading and trailing spaces or tabs from " wordA wordB wordC "	echo " wordA wordB wordC " \| sed -e 's/^[ \t]//' \| sed -e 's/[ \t]$//'
Find all files under current directory and set read-write permission for owner and group and no permission for other for those directories	find . -type f -exec chmod ug=rw,o= {} \;
Remove files in the current directory tree modified more than 31 days ago recursively	find . -type f -mtime +31 -print0 \| xargs -0 -r rm -f
search for the file job.hostory in the folder "/data/Spoolln"	find /data/SpoolIn -name job.history
Print lines in the sorted contents of "file1" that are not in the sorted contents of "file2"	comm -23 < <
download file "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.31.0/install.sh" and execute it	curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.31.0/install.sh \| bash
Synchronize "xxx-files" to "different-stuff/xxx-files" recursively preserving metadata with a bandwidth limit of 2000 KiB/s	rsync -pogtEtvr --progress --bwlimit=2000 xxx-files different-stuff
Delete all files under $INTRANETDESTINATION/weekly directory tree that were modified more than 32 days ago	find $INTRANETDESTINATION/weekly -mtime +32 -exec rm {} \;
Print file size with the file name	find . -name '*.ear' -exec du -h {} \;
find all the files in the current directory which are bigger than 1000MB	find . -size +1000M
List every symbolic link in every home directory's subdirectory owned by group `staff'	find `pwd` -group staff -exec find {} -type l -print ;
View gzip's help documentation	gzip --help \| less
Find all directories that start with stat	find . -type d –iname stat*
find all the files in the current folder that end with the word bar	find -name *bar
Search for 'It took' in all $srch1* files under current directory	find . -iname "$srch1*" -exec grep "It took" {} \; -print
Execute /usr/bin/find with $* arguments where current directory is the first argument	/usr/bin/find ./ $*
Find all files/directories under current directory without descending into './bookshop/mediaimg', '/CVS', './files', './images/cms', './internal', './limesurvey171plus_build5638' and './gallery2' paths, then run cvs command with 'status' and each path as arguments and redirect the output to output.txt fle	for i in `find . -not \ -path './bookshop/mediaimg' -prune -o -path '/CVS' -prune -o -path './files' -prune -o -path './images/cms' -prune -o -path './internal' -prune -o -path './limesurvey171plus_build5638' -prune -o -path './gallery2' -prune -o -print `; do cvs status "$i" \|grep Status ; done &>~/output.txt
List all the file links	find . -type l
Continuously send "y" as input to "cat" which outputs to "more"	yes \| cat \| more
Page through the output of 'some_command' positioning the view at the first occurrence of regular expression 'regex'.	some_command \| less -p regex
Find all the files/directories in '/path/to/files' directory tree which have not been modified in the last 2 hours	find "/path/to/files" -mmin +120
Recursively finds strings with the whole word 'word-1' or 'word-2' in any file under 'directory-path', following symlinks, and prints found strings.	egrep -w -R "word-1\|word-2” directory-path
Duplicate directory tree under /mnt/usr/lib to /usr but creating symlinks to files instead of copying them.	cp -rs /mnt/usr/lib /usr/
Find all files in /home/user/ that were created or changed 10 minutes ago	find /home/user/ -cmin 10 -print
Creates temporary folder in TMPDIR or in '/tmp/', and stores path to created folder in 'tmpdir' variable.	tmpdir=$
Print all user names and terminals of users who are logged in	who \| cut -d " " -f1,2
Recursively remove all "*.txt" files and answer "n" to any prompt	yes n \| rm -r *.txt
Cut all remote paths from HTTP URLs received from standard input (one per line) keeping only the protocol identifier, host name, and trailing slash, of the form http://example.com/	sed -n 's;\(http://[^/]/\).;\1;p'
Find all *.plist files/directories under current directory	find . -name \*.plist
Search the current directory recursively for regular files last modified more than 2 days ago	find . type -f -mtime +2
Find all *.txt files/directories under current directory and execute process for each of them	find . -name \*.txt -print0 \| xargs -0 -I{} process {} argument
Print the list of the current directory's subdirectories	find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -printf '%f\n'
Format "$line" as a table	echo "$line" \| column -t
change owner of the files into directory dir_to_start except directory dir_to_exclude to user owner	find dir_to_start -name dir_to_exclude -prune -o -print0 \| xargs -0 chown owner
print the names of all of the unstripped binaries in the /usr/local directory tree. Builtin tests avoid running file on files that are not regular files or are not executable	find /usr/local -type f -perm /a=x \| xargs file \| grep 'not stripped' \| cut -d: -f1
Use 'less' to nicely display control characters from the outupt of 'grep'.	grep -b -o $'\x0c' filename \| less
Search for files/directories with the case insensitive pattern anaconda.* in var/log directory and create an archive of the last file found	find var/log/ -iname anaconda.* -exec tar -cvf file.tar {} \;
Find all the files in file system which are modified more than 50 days back and less than 100 days	find / -mtime +50 –mtime -100
Search for all files that end in ".conf"	find / -type f -name "*.conf"
Split "foo.txt" into files with 1 line each and use a suffix length of 5	split --suffix-length=5 --lines=1 foo.txt
Find files readable only by the group	find . -perm g=r -type f -exec ls -l {} \;
display all the files in current folder which start with "file2015-0"	find . -name "file2015-0*"
Search the current user's home directory and its sub-directories for any file that was modified less than 2 days ago or was modified after filename was last modified.	find ~/ -mtime -2 -o -newer filename
Sort lines in "FILE" to standard output preserving only unique lines	sort -u FILE
Print 3 space separated '%'	echo $
Make directory "foo" and do not cause an error if it exists	mkdir -p foo
Find all .java files starting from the current folder	find * -name "*.java"
display all the configuration files in the current folder which are in the current tree structure	find . -path '/config'
Remove empty directories from the current directory tree	find . -depth -empty -type d -delete
Find all files/directories startring with 'onlyme' in their names under current directory without going into sub-directories	find . -maxdepth 1 -name 'onlyme*'
Find & replace broken symbolic links	find -L . -type l -delete -exec ln -s new_target {} \;
Run "./configure" with a new environment variable CC set to the full path of the command 'cc'	CC=$(which cc) ./configure
Find files/directories under '/dir' directory tree that are newer than 'yesterday.ref' file and older than 'today.ref' file by modification time	find /dir -newer yesterday.ref -a \! -newer today.ref -print
Find all files/directories with '.c' or '.h' extension under current directory tree and search for the regex provided by first positional argument and show the output by paging through one screenful at a time	find . -name '*.[ch]' \| xargs grep $1 \| less
Executes command 'cd ~/server' in an opened tmux session 'cf'.	tmux send-keys -t cf 'cd ~/server' C-m
search for all the files in the folder /data/images which are modified after /tmp/foo	find /data/images -newer /tmp/foo
Kills all child process and process itself having id 24901.	kill `pstree -p 24901 \| sed 's/(/\n(/g' \| grep '(' \| sed 's/(\).*/\1/' \| tr "\n" " "`
View manual page of find utility	man find
See what files are executable by the file's owner and group	find -type f -perm -110
find all the ".jpg" files in current folder and display their count	find ./ -name '*.jpg' -type f \| wc -l
Find all .sh files in or below the current directory and move them to folder ~/back.scripts	find . -name "*.sh" -print0 \| xargs -0 -I file mv file ~/back.scripts
Resolve any symlinks in working directory, and go to resulting pathname.	cd "`pwd -P`"
Search the file system for regular files whose names are shorter than 25 characters	find / -type f \| egrep '.*/.{1,24}$'
Change directory to the directory containing the executable file of command "oracle"	cd $(which oracle \| xargs dirname)
download contents from "https://raw.github.com/creationix/nvm/master/install.sh" and execute	curl https://raw.github.com/creationix/nvm/master/install.sh \| sh
Set the variable "me" to the name of the running script, or shell, login shells have a hyphen appended to the beginning of the name, such as "-bash".	me=`basename -- "$0"`
Search for the regex \s1$ in all files under current directory	find . -type f -exec perl -wnl -e '/\s1$/ and print' {} +
Print name of the block device containing the file system containing $path.	df -P "$path" \| awk 'BEGIN {FS="[ ]*[0-9]+%?[ ]+"}; NR==2 {print $1}'
run command 'ls -hal /root/ > /root/test.out' as user root	sudo su -c 'ls -hal /root/ > /root/test.out'
Find all files in ~/clang+llvm-3.3/bin/ and print 'basename /file/path' for each file	find ~/clang+llvm-3.3/bin/ -type f -exec echo basename {} \;
display list of all the hidden files in the home folder	find $HOME -name ".*" -ls
Counts lines of /dir/file.txt file.	wc -l /dir/file.txt
Display unique names of logged in users	finger \| sed 's/\t/ /' \| sed 's/pts\/[0-9]* [0-9]//' \| awk '{print $2"\t\t"$3" "$4" "$5}' \| sort \| uniq
Search the /Applications directory tree for *.app directories	find /Applications -type d -name "*.app"
Show manual for the find command	man find
display all the files in the file system which belong to the user "user1"	find / -user user1
Put the absolute directory path to the current script to MY_DIR variable	MY_DIR=$(dirname $)
Recursively change the user and group of all files in "/var/cache/jenkins" to "root"	chown -R root:root /var/cache/jenkins
Report all files starting in the directories /mydir1 and /mydir2 larger than 2,000 blocks that have not been accessed in over 30 days	find /mydir1 /mydir2 -size +2000 -atime +30 -print
Find all files that aren't owned by user www-data	find -not -user www-data
Show the current UTC date in '%Y-%m-%dT%k:%M:%S%z' format	date -u '+%Y-%m-%dT%k:%M:%S%z'
Move "/usr/bin/openssl" to directory "/root/"	mv /usr/bin/openssl /root/
Find all files starting from the current directory which are owned by the user tommye	find . -user tommye
Find all directories in current directory excluding . and print a sorted list in the file a	find . -maxdepth 1 -type d ! -name . \| sort > a

Silently read a line into variable "passwd" with prompt "Enter your password: "

read -s -p "Enter your password: " passwd

Find all of jzb's files

find -user jzb

Recursively finds all files containing text 'OPEN' and prints folder where they are placed.

grep -r OPEN * | awk '{split($1, path, ":"); print path[1]}' | xargs -I{} dirname {}

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

find . -name "*.rb" -type f -exec wc -l \{\} \;

Find all files/directories named modules under current directory and list them twice

find . -name modules \! -exec sh -c 'find -name modules' \;

prints last part of a logfile since timestamp 423

tac file.log | awk '{ if print; else exit; }' | tac

Remove files under current directory with inode number $inum

find . -inum $inum -exec rm {} \;

Find files under [directory] that match 'pattern_to_INCLUDE' in their names without descending into directories that match 'pattern_to_exclude' and 'another_pattern_to_exclude', then search for 'pattern' in those files

find [directory] -name "pattern_to_exclude" -prune -o -name "another_pattern_to_exclude" -prune -o -name "pattern_to_INCLUDE" -print0 | xargs -0 -I FILENAME grep -IR "pattern" FILENAME

find all regex ".*/[a-f0-9\-]\{36\}\.jpg" files

find . -regextype sed -regex ".*/[a-f0-9\-]\{36\}\.jpg"

change the permissions of all the regular/normal files to 644 in the folder /home/nobody/public_html

find /home/nobody/public_html -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

display the count of total number of empty files in the current folder

find . -type f -empty | wc -l

Set read, write and execute permission for all for the files/directories in foldername directory tree

sudo find foldername -exec chmod a+rwx {} ";"

Counts lines in file 'file1' and shows progress bar while doing.

pv file1 | wc -l

Creates temporary file with name formatted like '.script.XXXXXX' in '/tmp/' folder and saves path to it in 'script2' variable.

script2=`mktemp /tmp/.script.XXXXXX`;

Compare text "hello" and "goodbye" line by line

diff <(echo hello) <(echo goodbye)

Print numbered list of all third-level files under the current directory

ls -d -1 $PWD/**/*/* | cat -n

Remove leading and trailing spaces or tabs from " wordA wordB wordC "

echo " wordA wordB wordC " | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//' | sed -e 's/[ \t]*$//'

Find all files under current directory and set read-write permission for owner and group and no permission for other for those directories

find . -type f -exec chmod ug=rw,o= {} \;

Remove files in the current directory tree modified more than 31 days ago recursively

find . -type f -mtime +31 -print0 | xargs -0 -r rm -f

search for the file job.hostory in the folder "/data/Spoolln"

find /data/SpoolIn -name job.history

Print lines in the sorted contents of "file1" that are not in the sorted contents of "file2"

comm -23 < <

download file "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.31.0/install.sh" and execute it

curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.31.0/install.sh | bash

Synchronize "xxx-files" to "different-stuff/xxx-files" recursively preserving metadata with a bandwidth limit of 2000 KiB/s

rsync -pogtEtvr --progress --bwlimit=2000 xxx-files different-stuff

Delete all files under $INTRANETDESTINATION/weekly directory tree that were modified more than 32 days ago

find $INTRANETDESTINATION/weekly -mtime +32 -exec rm {} \;

Print file size with the file name

find . -name '*.ear' -exec du -h {} \;

find all the files in the current directory which are bigger than 1000MB

find . -size +1000M

List every symbolic link in every home directory's subdirectory owned by group `staff'

find `pwd` -group staff -exec find {} -type l -print ;

View gzip's help documentation

gzip --help | less

Find all directories that start with stat

find . -type d –iname stat*

find all the files in the current folder that end with the word bar

find -name *bar

Search for 'It took' in all $srch1* files under current directory

find . -iname "$srch1*" -exec grep "It took" {} \; -print

Execute /usr/bin/find with $* arguments where current directory is the first argument

/usr/bin/find ./ $*

Find all files/directories under current directory without descending into './bookshop/mediaimg', '*/CVS*', './files', './images/cms', './internal', './limesurvey171plus_build5638' and './gallery2' paths, then run cvs command with 'status' and each path as arguments and redirect the output to output.txt fle

for i in `find . -not \ -path './bookshop/mediaimg' -prune -o -path '*/CVS*' -prune -o -path './files' -prune -o -path './images/cms' -prune -o -path './internal' -prune -o -path './limesurvey171plus_build5638' -prune -o -path './gallery2' -prune -o -print `; do cvs status "$i" |grep Status ; done &>~/output.txt

List all the file links

find . -type l

Continuously send "y" as input to "cat" which outputs to "more"

yes | cat | more

Page through the output of 'some_command' positioning the view at the first occurrence of regular expression 'regex'.

some_command | less -p regex

Find all the files/directories in '/path/to/files' directory tree which have not been modified in the last 2 hours

find "/path/to/files" -mmin +120

Recursively finds strings with the whole word 'word-1' or 'word-2' in any file under 'directory-path', following symlinks, and prints found strings.

egrep -w -R "word-1|word-2” directory-path

Duplicate directory tree under /mnt/usr/lib to /usr but creating symlinks to files instead of copying them.

cp -rs /mnt/usr/lib /usr/

Find all files in /home/user/ that were created or changed 10 minutes ago

find /home/user/ -cmin 10 -print

Creates temporary folder in TMPDIR or in '/tmp/', and stores path to created folder in 'tmpdir' variable.

tmpdir=$

Print all user names and terminals of users who are logged in

who | cut -d " " -f1,2

Recursively remove all "*.txt" files and answer "n" to any prompt

yes n | rm -r *.txt

Cut all remote paths from HTTP URLs received from standard input (one per line) keeping only the protocol identifier, host name, and trailing slash, of the form http://example.com/

sed -n 's;$http://[^/]*/$.*;\1;p'

Find all *.plist files/directories under current directory

find . -name \*.plist

Search the current directory recursively for regular files last modified more than 2 days ago

find . type -f -mtime +2

Find all *.txt files/directories under current directory and execute process for each of them

find . -name \*.txt -print0 | xargs -0 -I{} process {} argument

Print the list of the current directory's subdirectories

find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -printf '%f\n'

Format "$line" as a table

echo "$line" | column -t

change owner of the files into directory dir_to_start except directory dir_to_exclude to user owner

find dir_to_start -name dir_to_exclude -prune -o -print0 | xargs -0 chown owner

print the names of all of the unstripped binaries in the /usr/local directory tree. Builtin tests avoid running file on files that are not regular files or are not executable

find /usr/local -type f -perm /a=x | xargs file | grep 'not stripped' | cut -d: -f1

Use 'less' to nicely display control characters from the outupt of 'grep'.

grep -b -o $'\x0c' filename | less

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

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

Find all the files in file system which are modified more than 50 days back and less than 100 days

find / -mtime +50 –mtime -100

Search for all files that end in ".conf"

find / -type f -name "*.conf"

Split "foo.txt" into files with 1 line each and use a suffix length of 5

split --suffix-length=5 --lines=1 foo.txt

Find files readable only by the group

find . -perm g=r -type f -exec ls -l {} \;

display all the files in current folder which start with "file2015-0"

find . -name "file2015-0*"

Search the current user's home directory and its sub-directories for any file that was modified less than 2 days ago or was modified after filename was last modified.

find ~/ -mtime -2 -o -newer filename

Sort lines in "FILE" to standard output preserving only unique lines

sort -u FILE

Print 3 space separated '%'

echo $

Make directory "foo" and do not cause an error if it exists

mkdir -p foo

Find all .java files starting from the current folder

find * -name "*.java"

display all the configuration files in the current folder which are in the current tree structure

find . -path '*/*config'

Remove empty directories from the current directory tree

find . -depth -empty -type d -delete

Find all files/directories startring with 'onlyme' in their names under current directory without going into sub-directories

find . -maxdepth 1 -name 'onlyme*'

Find & replace broken symbolic links

find -L . -type l -delete -exec ln -s new_target {} \;

Run "./configure" with a new environment variable CC set to the full path of the command 'cc'

CC=$(which cc) ./configure

Find files/directories under '/dir' directory tree that are newer than 'yesterday.ref' file and older than 'today.ref' file by modification time

find /dir -newer yesterday.ref -a \! -newer today.ref -print

Find all files/directories with '.c' or '.h' extension under current directory tree and search for the regex provided by first positional argument and show the output by paging through one screenful at a time

find . -name '*.[ch]' | xargs grep $1 | less

Executes command 'cd ~/server' in an opened tmux session 'cf'.

tmux send-keys -t cf 'cd ~/server' C-m

search for all the files in the folder /data/images which are modified after /tmp/foo

find /data/images -newer /tmp/foo

Kills all child process and process itself having id 24901.

kill `pstree -p 24901 | sed 's/(/\n(/g' | grep '(' | sed 's/(\).*/\1/' | tr "\n" " "`

View manual page of find utility

man find

See what files are executable by the file's owner and group

find -type f -perm -110

find all the ".jpg" files in current folder and display their count

find ./ -name '*.jpg' -type f | wc -l

Find all .sh files in or below the current directory and move them to folder ~/back.scripts

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

Resolve any symlinks in working directory, and go to resulting pathname.

cd "`pwd -P`"

Search the file system for regular files whose names are shorter than 25 characters

find / -type f | egrep '.*/.{1,24}$'

Change directory to the directory containing the executable file of command "oracle"

cd $(which oracle | xargs dirname)

download contents from "https://raw.github.com/creationix/nvm/master/install.sh" and execute

curl https://raw.github.com/creationix/nvm/master/install.sh | sh

Set the variable "me" to the name of the running script, or shell, login shells have a hyphen appended to the beginning of the name, such as "-bash".

me=`basename -- "$0"`

Search for the regex \s1$ in all files under current directory

find . -type f -exec perl -wnl -e '/\s1$/ and print' {} +

Print name of the block device containing the file system containing $path.

df -P "$path" | awk 'BEGIN {FS="[ ]*[0-9]+%?[ ]+"}; NR==2 {print $1}'

run command 'ls -hal /root/ > /root/test.out' as user root

sudo su -c 'ls -hal /root/ > /root/test.out'

Find all files in ~/clang+llvm-3.3/bin/ and print 'basename /file/path' for each file

find ~/clang+llvm-3.3/bin/ -type f -exec echo basename {} \;

display list of all the hidden files in the home folder

find $HOME -name ".*" -ls

Counts lines of /dir/file.txt file.

wc -l /dir/file.txt

Display unique names of logged in users

finger | sed 's/\t/ /' | sed 's/pts\/[0-9]* *[0-9]*//' | awk '{print $2"\t\t"$3" "$4" "$5}' | sort | uniq

Search the /Applications directory tree for *.app directories

find /Applications -type d -name "*.app"

Show manual for the find command

man find

display all the files in the file system which belong to the user "user1"

find / -user user1

Put the absolute directory path to the current script to MY_DIR variable

MY_DIR=$(dirname $)

Recursively change the user and group of all files in "/var/cache/jenkins" to "root"

chown -R root:root /var/cache/jenkins

Report all files starting in the directories /mydir1 and /mydir2 larger than 2,000 blocks that have not been accessed in over 30 days

find /mydir1 /mydir2 -size +2000 -atime +30 -print

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

find -not -user www-data

Show the current UTC date in '%Y-%m-%dT%k:%M:%S%z' format

date -u '+%Y-%m-%dT%k:%M:%S%z'

Move "/usr/bin/openssl" to directory "/root/"

mv /usr/bin/openssl /root/

Find all files starting from the current directory which are owned by the user tommye

find . -user tommye

Find all directories in current directory excluding . and print a sorted list in the file a

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d ! -name . | sort > a