prabhanshubhowal/natural_language_to_linux

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Report file system containing path to the current working directory inodes usage.	df -i $PWD
Recursively move all files in "/path/to/srcdir" to "dest/"	find /path/to/srcdir -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 -i% mv % dest/
Calculate the sum of all the numbers from 1 to 100000	seq 100000 \| paste -sd+ \| bc -l
list names of bind functions containing "/"	bind -l \| grep /
Display hardware platform, ie. x86_64 even if current kernel uses 32-bit addressing.	uname -i
Search the current directory recursively for text files containing at least one character	find . -type f -exec grep -Iq . {} \; -and -print
Search for first match of the case insensitive regex 're' in all *.coffee files under current directory and print the file paths along with the matches	find . -print0 -name '*.coffee'\|xargs -0 grep -m1 -ri 're'
Pipe output of "yes" to "more" and append the first 3 lines to "file"	yes \| awk 'FNR<4 {print >>"file"; close("file")} 1' \| more
Find files/directories named 'foo.bar' in the root filesystem partition	find / -name foo.bar -print -xdev
Find all files in the current directory tree whose pathnames match pattern '*/1/lang/en.css'	find . -path ‘*/1/lang/en.css’ -print
Calculate the md5 sum of all files in the current directory with the filename printed first	find -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec md5sum {} \; \| awk '{s=$2; $2=$1; $1=s;}1'
Mount "/path/to/device" on "/path/to/mount/location" as a loop back device	mount /path/to/device /path/to/mount/location -o loop
Show the list of all files on the system whose names do not end in ".c"	find / \! -name "*.c" -print
Simulate a full login	su -
Change the owner of "/var/www/html/mysite/images/" to "nobody"	sudo chown nobody /var/www/html/mysite/images/
Add "Line of text here" on top of each *.py files under current directory	find . -name \*.py -print0 \| xargs -0 sed -i '1a Line of text here'
Find all files/directories under current directory tree excluding files/directories with name 'query_to_avoid'	find -not -name "query_to_avoid"
Display differences between files dir1.txt and dir2.txt.	diff dir1.txt dir2.txt
Find all *.zip files under current directory and unzip them in the same directory as the files	find . -name '*.zip' -execdir unzip '{}' ';'
Creates path as current folder path and folder that contains $0 file, and saves result in 'script_dir' variable.	set script_dir = `pwd`/`dirname $0`
display all files in current folder excluding those that have the word "git" in their name and display files that have git in their path names	find . ! -name 'git' \| grep git
Print the IP addresses for the current host name	hostname -i
Search the current directory tree for files whose names do not end in ".exe" and ".dll"	find . -not -name ".exe" -not -name ".dll" -not -type d
Find all files/directories under current directory	find ./
Send SIGTERM signal to all 'firefox' processes, requesting them to terminate.	kill `pidof firefox`
Read a line from standard input into variable "ans" without backslash escapes	read -r ans
find all instances of a specific file in the entire file system and discard the errors	find / -name expect 2>/dev/null
Search for 'string_to_find' in all files under current directory	find -type f \| sed 's/./\\&/g' \| xargs grep string_to_find
Set variable 'path' to name of current directory (without the containing directories) converted to lowercase.	path=$(basename $(pwd) \| awk '{print tolower($0)}')
change the permissions of all the regular/normal files in the folder "/path/to/someDirectory" to 644	sudo find /path/to/someDirectory -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 sudo chmod 644
Find files/directories named 'file.txt' that belong to user 'tutonics' in the entire filesystem	find / -user tutonics -name "file.txt"
split the file "file" into pieces per 2 lines	split -n2 infile
list files found under the current directory ending in "txt" or ending in "html"	find . -name '.txt' -o -name '.html'
Search for 'some string' in all *.axvw files under current directory and show the matched lines with line numbers	find . -name '*.axvw' -print0 \| xargs -0 grep -n 'some string'
Read a line from standard input into variable "a" without backslash escapes	read -r a
search for the folder .dummy and remove it from the folder "Test folder"	find "Test Folder" -type d -name '.dummy' -delete
Find the directories whose pathnames contain "New Parts" at level 3 of the current directory tree and create symlinks to them in /cygdrive/c/Views	find -mindepth 3 -maxdepth 3 -type d \| grep "New Parts" \| tr '\012' '\000' \| xargs -0 ln -s -t /cygdrive/c/Views
list all java file that StringBuff in context.	find . -type f -name "*.java" -exec grep -l StringBuffer {} \;
Recursively removes all files and folders named '.svn' in a current folder.	find . -name .svn -exec rm -rf {} \;
Find all Company files/directories under /root/of/where/files/are directory	find /root/of/where/files/are -name Company
search for the file "foo.txt" in the entire file system	find / -name foo.txt
Find all socket files in the current directory and its sub-directories.	find . -type s
Save the absolute path of the current script to variable "SELF"	script="`readlink -f "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}"`"
Find all files and directories that have been modified in the last seven days.	find . -mtime -7
Disables shell option 'dotglob'.	shopt -u dotglob
Redirect the current process's standard error to standard out and write to console and append to "$HOME/logfile"	exec > > 2>&1
Get a recursive file list of directory $dir	find "$dir" -type f
Saves 'tmux' version in the 'tmux_version' variable.	tmux_version="$"
Save hexadecimal byte 9 in binary file "file.moi" to variable "month"	month=$(od -t x1 --skip-bytes=8 --read-bytes=1 file.moi \| head -1 \| awk '{print $2}')
Calculate md5 sum of empty string	echo -n "" \| md5sum
search for all the directories in a folder and give them as input to the python script	find /stuff -type d -exec script.py {} +
Search the regular files of the current directory tree for string "whatever"	find . -type f \| xargs -L 100 grep whatever
Get the disk space used by all *.txt (case insensitive) files under /home/d directory	find /home/d -type f -name "*.txt" -printf "%s\n" \| awk '{s+=$0}END{print "total: "s" bytes"}'
Find all SGID files in entire file system	find / -perm +2000
Merge colon-separated information from standard input and file1.txt where the first field of both files matches, print unpairable lines from standard input, replace missing fields with "no-match", and output the second field from standard input and the second and third field from file1.txt	join -t, -o 1.2,2.2,2.3 -a 1 -e 'no-match' - <(sort file1.txt)
search for the file ".user.log" in a folder	find /nfs/office -name .user.log -print
Find all files/directories with '.o' extension under '/lib/modules' directory tree	find /lib/modules -name '*.o'
Unzip and untar "file.tar.gz"	zcat file.tar.gz \|tar x
Prints path location of $BASH_SOURCE file.	echo this dir: `dirname $BASH_SOURCE`
Print a list of all duplicate case insensitive file paths in the current directory tree	find . \| sort -f \| uniq -i -d
Identify CMS version/releases accross all your Wordpress websites	find /home//public_html/ -type f -iwholename "/wp-includes/version.php" -exec grep -H "\$wp_version =" {} \;
Save the system host name in variable "HOSTNAME"	HOSTNAME=$(hostname)
Find files in two different directories (esofthub and esoft) having the "test" string and list them	find esofthub esoft -name "test" -type f -ls
Print the contents of "xx.sh"	cat xx.sh
Exclude directory from find . command	find ./ -path ./beta/* -prune -o -iname example.com -print
search for a word in all the .C files( those having the extension "c") in current directory	find . -type f \( -iname “*.c” \) \|grep -i -r “keyword”
find StringBuffer in all *.java files, ignoring case	find . -type f -name "*.java" -exec grep -il string {} \;
Find all files under /path/to/base/dir and change their permission to 644	chmod 644 $(find /path/to/base/dir -type f)
Add content of "filename" to the existing cron jobs of user "user", without removing the previously existing cron jobs.	crontab -l -u user \| cat - filename \| crontab -u user -
find all the text files which are present in the current directory excludinghidden files.	find . -type f \
Gets IP address of a primary network interface.	/sbin/ifconfig $ \| awk -F: '/inet /{print $2}' \| cut -f1 -d ' '
Search the files from directory tree "dirname" for string "foo"	find dirname -exec grep foo {} +
Find files/directories in entire file system that were accessed in less than a day ago	find / -atime -1
Remove all files named tmp or ending in .xx that have not been accessed for seven or more 24-hour periods	find / \ -atime +7 -exec rm {} \;
Find the process currently taking the most CPU time.	top -b -n1 -c \| awk '/PID *USER/{print;getline;print}'
display a long listing of all the files that begin with the name "Metallica" in the entire file system	find / -name 'Metallica*' -exec ls -l {} \;
Prints the length, line number, and contents of the longest line in myfile	perl -ne 'print length." line $. $_"' myfile \| sort -nr \| head -n 1
Clean the current directory from all subversion directories recursively	find . -type d -name ".svn" -print \| xargs rm -rf
Find files containing string "#!/bin/ksh" and append their names and matching strings to /tmp/allfiles	find . -type f -print \| xargs /usr/bin/grep -il 'bin/ksh' \| tee /tmp/allfiles
Print source of the file system containing $path.	df -P $path \| tail -1 \| cut -d' ' -f 1
Move server.log to 'logs' directory with new name as the current date formatted as "%Y%m%d%H%M" and with '.log' extension	mv server.log logs/$(date -d "today" +"%Y%m%d%H%M").log
Read one character from standard input into variable "REPLY"	read -n1
search for all files ending with ".mkv" in current folder	find /volume1/uploads -name "*.mkv"
Create a ssh key with no passphrase and store it in "outfile".	ssh-keygen -f outfile -N ''
Print the average time of 4 ping requests to "www.stackoverflow.com"	ping -c 4 www.stackoverflow.com \| awk -F '/' 'END {print $5}'
Find files in the current directory and below that are newer than /bin/sh	find . -newer /bin/sh
Find all files/directories with '.bar' extension in maximum 2 levels down the current directory	find . -name *.bar -maxdepth 2 -print
Finds users with X session in system and puts the result into USERS variable	USERS=$(awk '/\/X/ {print $1}' <)
Find all files under /myfiles with read-write access for others	find /myfiles -type f -perm -o+rw
Find all files in the file system with the SUID bit	find / -perm -u+s -print
Searches manual pages which descriptions contain 'postscript', and prints name and description of only ones that contain any-cased 'png' pattern.	apropos postscript \| grep -i png
change the extension of all the files in the current folder to html excluding those html files and those which are present in another disk partition	find . -xtype f \! -iname *.html -exec mv -iv "{}" "{}.html" \;
Execute 'echo -e "\033[31mHello World\033[0m"' every without color support 2 seconds	watch 'echo -e "\033[31mHello World\033[0m"'
Finds if environment variable like 'DUALCASE' exists in environment.	env \| grep DUALCASE
display all the jars in the current folder	find . -iname '*.jar'
Run script `deslash.sh' on all thumb.png files in the current directory tree	find -type f -name thumb.png -exec ./deslash.sh {} ";"
Read a line from standard input into variable "i" with the prompt " Again? Y/n "	read -p " Again? Y/n " i
To match only hidden dot directories	find /nas01/backups/home/user/ -type d -name ".*" -print0 -exec ls -lrt {} \;
Find all *.m4a files/directories under /home/family/Music directory	find /home/family/Music -name *.m4a -print0
Change the owner of "/var/www/html/mysite/images/" to "nobody"	sudo chown nobody /var/www/html/mysite/images/

Report file system containing path to the current working directory inodes usage.

df -i $PWD

Recursively move all files in "/path/to/srcdir" to "dest/"

find /path/to/srcdir -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -i% mv % dest/

Calculate the sum of all the numbers from 1 to 100000

seq 100000 | paste -sd+ | bc -l

list names of bind functions containing "/"

bind -l | grep /

Display hardware platform, ie. x86_64 even if current kernel uses 32-bit addressing.

uname -i

Search the current directory recursively for text files containing at least one character

find . -type f -exec grep -Iq . {} \; -and -print

Search for first match of the case insensitive regex 're' in all *.coffee files under current directory and print the file paths along with the matches

find . -print0 -name '*.coffee'|xargs -0 grep -m1 -ri 're'

Pipe output of "yes" to "more" and append the first 3 lines to "file"

yes | awk 'FNR<4 {print >>"file"; close("file")} 1' | more

Find files/directories named 'foo.bar' in the root filesystem partition

find / -name foo.bar -print -xdev

Find all files in the current directory tree whose pathnames match pattern '*/1/lang/en.css'

find . -path ‘*/1/lang/en.css’ -print

Calculate the md5 sum of all files in the current directory with the filename printed first

find -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec md5sum {} \; | awk '{s=$2; $2=$1; $1=s;}1'

Mount "/path/to/device" on "/path/to/mount/location" as a loop back device

mount /path/to/device /path/to/mount/location -o loop

Show the list of all files on the system whose names do not end in ".c"

find / \! -name "*.c" -print

Simulate a full login

su -

Change the owner of "/var/www/html/mysite/images/" to "nobody"

sudo chown nobody /var/www/html/mysite/images/

Add "Line of text here" on top of each *.py files under current directory

find . -name \*.py -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i '1a Line of text here'

Find all files/directories under current directory tree excluding files/directories with name 'query_to_avoid'

find -not -name "query_to_avoid"

Display differences between files dir1.txt and dir2.txt.

diff dir1.txt dir2.txt

Find all *.zip files under current directory and unzip them in the same directory as the files

find . -name '*.zip' -execdir unzip '{}' ';'

Creates path as current folder path and folder that contains $0 file, and saves result in 'script_dir' variable.

set script_dir = `pwd`/`dirname $0`

display all files in current folder excluding those that have the word "git" in their name and display files that have git in their path names

find . ! -name '*git*' | grep git

Print the IP addresses for the current host name

hostname -i

Search the current directory tree for files whose names do not end in ".exe" and ".dll"

find . -not -name "*.exe" -not -name "*.dll" -not -type d

Find all files/directories under current directory

find ./

Send SIGTERM signal to all 'firefox' processes, requesting them to terminate.

kill `pidof firefox`

Read a line from standard input into variable "ans" without backslash escapes

read -r ans

find all instances of a specific file in the entire file system and discard the errors

find / -name expect 2>/dev/null

Search for 'string_to_find' in all files under current directory

find -type f | sed 's/./\\&/g' | xargs grep string_to_find

Set variable 'path' to name of current directory (without the containing directories) converted to lowercase.

path=$(basename $(pwd) | awk '{print tolower($0)}')

change the permissions of all the regular/normal files in the folder "/path/to/someDirectory" to 644

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

Find files/directories named 'file.txt' that belong to user 'tutonics' in the entire filesystem

find / -user tutonics -name "file.txt"

split the file "file" into pieces per 2 lines

split -n2 infile

list files found under the current directory ending in "txt" or ending in "html"

find . -name '*.txt' -o -name '*.html'

Search for 'some string' in all *.axvw files under current directory and show the matched lines with line numbers

find . -name '*.axvw' -print0 | xargs -0 grep -n 'some string'

Read a line from standard input into variable "a" without backslash escapes

read -r a

search for the folder .dummy and remove it from the folder "Test folder"

find "Test Folder" -type d -name '.dummy' -delete

Find the directories whose pathnames contain "New Parts" at level 3 of the current directory tree and create symlinks to them in /cygdrive/c/Views

find -mindepth 3 -maxdepth 3 -type d | grep "New Parts" | tr '\012' '\000' | xargs -0 ln -s -t /cygdrive/c/Views

list all java file that StringBuff in context.

find . -type f -name "*.java" -exec grep -l StringBuffer {} \;

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

find . -name .svn -exec rm -rf {} \;

Find all *Company* files/directories under /root/of/where/files/are directory

find /root/of/where/files/are -name *Company*

search for the file "foo.txt" in the entire file system

find / -name foo.txt

Find all socket files in the current directory and its sub-directories.

find . -type s

Save the absolute path of the current script to variable "SELF"

script="`readlink -f "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}"`"

Find all files and directories that have been modified in the last seven days.

find . -mtime -7

Disables shell option 'dotglob'.

shopt -u dotglob

Redirect the current process's standard error to standard out and write to console and append to "$HOME/logfile"

exec > > 2>&1

Get a recursive file list of directory $dir

find "$dir" -type f

Saves 'tmux' version in the 'tmux_version' variable.

tmux_version="$"

Save hexadecimal byte 9 in binary file "file.moi" to variable "month"

month=$(od -t x1 --skip-bytes=8 --read-bytes=1 file.moi | head -1 | awk '{print $2}')

Calculate md5 sum of empty string

echo -n "" | md5sum

search for all the directories in a folder and give them as input to the python script

find /stuff -type d -exec script.py {} +

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

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

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

find /home/d -type f -name "*.txt" -printf "%s\n" | awk '{s+=$0}END{print "total: "s" bytes"}'

Find all SGID files in entire file system

find / -perm +2000

Merge colon-separated information from standard input and file1.txt where the first field of both files matches, print unpairable lines from standard input, replace missing fields with "no-match", and output the second field from standard input and the second and third field from file1.txt

join -t, -o 1.2,2.2,2.3 -a 1 -e 'no-match' - <(sort file1.txt)

search for the file ".user.log" in a folder

find /nfs/office -name .user.log -print

Find all files/directories with '.o' extension under '/lib/modules' directory tree

find /lib/modules -name '*.o'

Unzip and untar "file.tar.gz"

zcat file.tar.gz |tar x

Prints path location of $BASH_SOURCE file.

echo this dir: `dirname $BASH_SOURCE`

Print a list of all duplicate case insensitive file paths in the current directory tree

find . | sort -f | uniq -i -d

Identify CMS version/releases accross all your Wordpress websites

find /home/*/public_html/ -type f -iwholename "*/wp-includes/version.php" -exec grep -H "\$wp_version =" {} \;

Save the system host name in variable "HOSTNAME"

HOSTNAME=$(hostname)

Find files in two different directories (esofthub and esoft) having the "test" string and list them

find esofthub esoft -name "*test*" -type f -ls

Print the contents of "xx.sh"

cat xx.sh

Exclude directory from find . command

find ./ -path ./beta/* -prune -o -iname example.com -print

search for a word in all the .C files( those having the extension "c") in current directory

find . -type f $ -iname “*.c” $ |grep -i -r “keyword”

find StringBuffer in all *.java files, ignoring case

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

Find all files under /path/to/base/dir and change their permission to 644

chmod 644 $(find /path/to/base/dir -type f)

Add content of "filename" to the existing cron jobs of user "user", without removing the previously existing cron jobs.

crontab -l -u user | cat - filename | crontab -u user -

find all the text files which are present in the current directory excludinghidden files.

find . -type f \

Gets IP address of a primary network interface.

/sbin/ifconfig $ | awk -F: '/inet /{print $2}' | cut -f1 -d ' '

Search the files from directory tree "dirname" for string "foo"

find dirname -exec grep foo {} +

Find files/directories in entire file system that were accessed in less than a day ago

find / -atime -1

Remove all files named tmp or ending in .xx that have not been accessed for seven or more 24-hour periods

find / \ -atime +7 -exec rm {} \;

Find the process currently taking the most CPU time.

top -b -n1 -c | awk '/PID *USER/{print;getline;print}'

display a long listing of all the files that begin with the name "Metallica" in the entire file system

find / -name 'Metallica*' -exec ls -l {} \;

Prints the length, line number, and contents of the longest line in myfile

perl -ne 'print length." line $. $_"' myfile | sort -nr | head -n 1

Clean the current directory from all subversion directories recursively

find . -type d -name ".svn" -print | xargs rm -rf

Find files containing string "#!/bin/ksh" and append their names and matching strings to /tmp/allfiles

find . -type f -print | xargs /usr/bin/grep -il 'bin/ksh' | tee /tmp/allfiles

Print source of the file system containing $path.

df -P $path | tail -1 | cut -d' ' -f 1

Move server.log to 'logs' directory with new name as the current date formatted as "%Y%m%d%H%M" and with '.log' extension

mv server.log logs/$(date -d "today" +"%Y%m%d%H%M").log

Read one character from standard input into variable "REPLY"

read -n1

search for all files ending with ".mkv" in current folder

find /volume1/uploads -name "*.mkv"

Create a ssh key with no passphrase and store it in "outfile".

ssh-keygen -f outfile -N ''

Print the average time of 4 ping requests to "www.stackoverflow.com"

ping -c 4 www.stackoverflow.com | awk -F '/' 'END {print $5}'

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

find . -newer /bin/sh

Find all files/directories with '.bar' extension in maximum 2 levels down the current directory

find . -name *.bar -maxdepth 2 -print

Finds users with X session in system and puts the result into USERS variable

USERS=$(awk '/\/X/ {print $1}' <)

Find all files under /myfiles with read-write access for others

find /myfiles -type f -perm -o+rw

Find all files in the file system with the SUID bit

find / -perm -u+s -print

Searches manual pages which descriptions contain 'postscript', and prints name and description of only ones that contain any-cased 'png' pattern.

apropos postscript | grep -i png

change the extension of all the files in the current folder to html excluding those html files and those which are present in another disk partition

find . -xtype f \! -iname *.html -exec mv -iv "{}" "{}.html" \;

Execute 'echo -e "\033[31mHello World\033[0m"' every without color support 2 seconds

watch 'echo -e "\033[31mHello World\033[0m"'

Finds if environment variable like 'DUALCASE' exists in environment.

env | grep DUALCASE

display all the jars in the current folder

find . -iname '*.jar'

Run script `deslash.sh' on all thumb.png files in the current directory tree

find -type f -name thumb.png -exec ./deslash.sh {} ";"

Read a line from standard input into variable "i" with the prompt " Again? Y/n "

read -p " Again? Y/n " i

To match only hidden dot directories

find /nas01/backups/home/user/ -type d -name ".*" -print0 -exec ls -lrt {} \;

Find all *.m4a files/directories under /home/family/Music directory

find /home/family/Music -name *.m4a -print0

Change the owner of "/var/www/html/mysite/images/" to "nobody"

sudo chown nobody /var/www/html/mysite/images/