prabhanshubhowal/natural_language_to_linux

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Change the owner of "destination_dir" to "user"	chown user destination_dir
Lists long format information about file '/bin/echo'.	ls -l /bin/echo
Delete all .svn files/directories under current directory	find . -name .svn \| xargs rm -fr
List all leaf directories of the current directory tree	find . -type d \| sort \| awk '$0 !~ last "/" {print last} {last=$0} END {print last}'
Write list of missing files in Subversion repository to file removedProjs.	svn status \| grep '\!' \| cut -d' ' -f2- > removedProjs
Send SIGTERM signal to any process which 'ps' lists as "python csp_build.py"	kill $
Print differences between files in directories folder1 and folder2 recursively, with unified context, ignoring changes in the amount of white space	diff -bur folder1/ folder2/
Convert *.doc files in the current directory tree to the .txt format and remove the original files	find . -name '*.doc' \| while read i; do antiword -i 1 "${i}" >"${i/doc/txt}" && rm "${i}"; done
Save the absolute path of "$path" to variable "full_path"	full_path=`readlink -fn -- $path`
search for all the regular files that have been changed in the last 48 hours and sync these to another folder	find /my/source/directory -ctime -2 -type f -printf "%P\n" \| xargs -IFILE rsync -avR /my/./source/directory/FILE /my/dest/directory/
Print the list of directories residing in the current directory tree	find . -type d -exec ls -ld {} \;
find all the files which end with ".deb" and display their base name	find . -name '*.deb' -exec basename {} \;
Mount all filesystems in /etc/fstab	sudo mount -a
Search all non-hidden files in the current directory and all non-hidden sub-directories for the file hi.dat.	find *-name hi.dat
Find all SGID files	find / -perm /g=s
List the names of the directories in current directory without going into sub-directories	find . -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d -printf '%f\n'
Find all index.* files/directories under current directory	find -name 'index.*'
Count the number of lines in "testfile" wrapped to fit in a width of "$COLUMNS" characters	fold -w "$COLUMNS" testfile \| wc -l
Find all directories starting from / that have permissions 777	find / -type d -perm 0777
Locate the httpd.conf file on the system	find / -name httpd.conf
Change permissions to u=rwx,g=rx,o= for all directories in the current directory tree	find . -type d -exec chmod u=rwx,g=rx,o= '{}' \;
Descend into every directory under /etc and print the file/directory names with relative paths	find /etc -execdir echo "{}" ';'
ssh into default vagrant host without running "vagrant ssh" and without an interactive ssh shell	vagrant ssh-config --host default \| ssh -F /dev/stdin default
Save the absolute path of the current script to variable "SELF"	SELF=$
Search for files/directories with a case insensitive .txt extension in entire file system	find / -iname '*.txt'
Find all files/directories under Mainfolder directory and redirect the output to outputfle	find Mainfolder > outputfile
Search in current directory downwards all files whose size is 10 bytes .	find . -size 10c -print
List all regular files in /var/www and below that have changed in the last 10 minutes	find /var/www -cmin -10 -type f -printf "%c %pn"
Takes folder name of file $0, changes backslashes to forward ones and saves result in $basedir variable.	basedir=$(dirname "$(echo "$0" \| sed -e 's,\\,/,g')")
searches through the root filesystem ("/") for the file named Chapter1, and prints the location	find / -name Chapter1 -type f
display all the files with the names "name1" and "name2" in the current folder and do not search in the sub directories	find . -maxdepth 1 -name "name1" -o -name "name2"
Find broken symlinks in the current directory tree	find -type l \| while read f; do if [ ! -e "$f" ]; then ls -l "$f"; fi; done
Find files and directories newer than CompareFile under current directory	find . -newer CompareFile -print
Find all files except files with '.gz' extension in the current directory non-recursively and compress them with gzip	find . -maxdepth 1 -type f ! -name '*.gz' -exec gzip "{}" \;
List PIDs of children processes	ps -o pid --no-headers --ppid $PARENT_PID
Make directories "project/{lib/ext,bin,src,doc/{html,info,pdf},demo/stat/a}" as needed and do not cause an error if it exists	mkdir -p project/{lib/ext,bin,src,doc/{html,info,pdf},demo/stat/a}
Find all *.mp3 (case insensitive) files/directories under /tmp and remove them	find /tmp -iname '*.mp3' -print0 \| xargs -0 rm
Attempt to connect as root to localhost and copy /home/reportuser/dailyReport.doc to directory /root/dailyReports/20150105/ - this will normally fail because ssh won't accept root connections by default.	scp -p /home/reportuser/dailyReport.doc root@localhost:/root/dailyReports/20150105/
Find all *.htm files under current directory and print the changed names by appending 3 levels of parent directory names at the beginning and modifying the actual name to dd-nnn format	find -type f -name "*.htm" \| sed 's@^./@@g;s@/@-@g' \| awk -F'-' '{print $1 "-" $2 "-" $3 "-" substr "-" $5}'
Remove the "^M" characters from all *.ext files under /home directory	find /home -type f -name "*.ext" -exec sed -i -e "s/\x0D$//g" {} \;
Push the current directory path to the dirs stack	pushd `pwd`
find the most recently changed files under current directory	find . -type f -printf '%TY-%Tm-%Td %TT %p\n' \| sort
Keep only the last two hyphen-separated sections of "abc-def-ghi-jkl"	echo "abc-def-ghi-jkl" \| rev \| cut -d- -f-2 \| rev
Copy current working directory to clipboard	pwd \| xsel -i
Find all regular files under current directory and replace every occurrences of 'toreplace' with 'replace' in those files	find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 sed -i 's/toreplace/replaced/g'
Compose filepath as folder path where file $f is located, and lowercase filename of $f file, and save it in 'g' variable	g=`dirname "$f"`/`basename "$f" \| tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`
Count the number of times that a single "-----------\n" separated record contains both "A=2" and "dummy=2" in compressed file "file.gz"	zcat file.gz \| awk -v RS="-----------\n" '/A=2[ ,\n]/ && /dummy=2[ ,\n]/{count++} END{print "Final counter value=",count}'
Find files/directories greater than 10MB in your home directory	find ~ -size +10M
Display all files in a folder	find man5 -print
Search the current directory tree for files last accessed more than 10 days ago	find . -atime +10
Find all regular files on the system whose names are 'myfile'	find / -name myfile -type f -print
Gets list of IP addresses of all network interfaces.	ifconfig \| grep -Eo 'inet ?{3}[0-9]' \| grep -Eo '{3}[0-9]' \| grep -v '127.0.0.1'
Search the current directory for all files with no 'read' privilege for 'others'	find . -maxdepth 1 ! -perm -o=r
Copies file 'index.html' to each top-level directory in the current directory.	find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d\| xargs -n 1 cp -i index.html
Print file information of command "bash"	echo $(ls -l $)
find all the files that have been modified today	find /tmp/test/* -mtime +0
Count case insensitive absolute paths recursively from the current directory	find -type f -exec readlink -m {} \; \| gawk 'BEGIN{FS="/";OFS="/"}{$NF=tolower;print}' \| uniq -c
Find all *.xml.bz2 files under current directory and run the command find_graph with -build_graph, $i.graph and $i as it's arguments where $i is expanded to each file path	for i in `find . \| grep ".xml.bz2$"`; do find_graph -build_graph $i.graph $i; done
display all the regular/normal files ending with ".mod" in a folder	find "$dir" -name "*.mod" -type f -print0
Search for all files and directories named foo, FOO, or any other combination of uppercase and lowercase characters beneath the current directory.	find . -iname foo
Search in current directory downwards all files whic have permission 777 .	find . -perm 777 -print
Find all regular files under $SOURCE directory tree that were modified more than $KEEP days ago and show only the names without the paths	find $SOURCE -type f -mtime +$KEEP \| sed ‘s#.*/##'
Find recursively the files named "file" in the current directory ignoring all .git directories	find . -name .git -prune -o -name file -print
Copies file '/boot/config-`uname -r`' to the '.config', printing info message and prompting before owerwriting files.	cp -vi /boot/config-`uname -r` .config
Find all orm* files/directories under current directory	find . -name 'orm*'
Find all *.jpg files under current directory and print only unique names	find . -name *.jpg \| uniq -u
Find all *.foo files under current directory and print their contents	cat $(find . -name '*.foo')
Search the current directory recursively for directories with the execute permission set for everybody	find -type d ! -perm -111
List all *.txt files/directories under /etc	ls -l $
search for all the files in the current directory which have been modified in the last 24 hours.	find . -mtime -1
move all the files in the current folder to temp folder and search atleast in one subfolder	find . -mindepth 1 -print0\|xargs -0 -I, mv , /tmp
Sets shell options 'globstar' and 'nullglob'.	shopt -s globstar nullglob
Evaluate the output of recursively changing the owner and group of "/data/*" to "mongodb"	`sudo chown -R mongodb:mongodb /data/*`
search for all the directories in the current folder and save the output to a variable	dirs=($)
change owner and group of the file dir1 to user root and group specialusers	chown root:specialusers dir1
List all files in maximum 2 levels down the current directory	find . -maxdepth 2 -type f -exec ls -l {} \;
set variable "uname_m" to machine architecture, ie. x86_64	uname_m=`uname -m`
Delete interactively all the files/directories with inode number 782263 under current directory tree	find . -inum 782263 -exec rm -i {} \;
Print all filenames under /proc and below	find /proc -print0 \| xargs -0
Search the current directory tree for all files except SVN ones	find . \| grep -v \.svn
Search for a line starting with 'use strict' in all files with '.pl' extension under current directory tree and show the unmatched files only	find . -name '*.pl' \| xargs grep -L '^use strict'
Find all *.txt file in the entire system and copy them to /tmp/txt	find / -iname '*.txt' \| xargs --replace=@ cp @ /tmp/txt
Execute 'echo -e "\tHello World"' every 2 seconds	watch 'echo -e "\tHello World"'
delete all the php files in the folder /var/www	find /var/www/*.php -type f -exec rm {} \;
display all the soft links in a folder which are not broken	find -L /target ! -type l
search for the file "myfile" in the current folder and display all errors apart from permission denied error	find . -name myfile \|& grep -v 'Permission denied'
Counts the number of lines in each file in a git repository, if file names may contain spaces.	git ls-files -z \| xargs -0 wc -l
Forcefully remove files *~important-file	rm -rf *~important-file
Find all .java files starting from the current folder	find * -name "*.java"
search for al cpp files in current folder and display distinct parent directory of these files in sorted order	find . -name "*.cpp" -exec dirname {} + \| sort -u
Display the number of sub-directories for all directories under current directory tree, sort them according to the decreasing order of the number and show only the first 10 of them	find . -type d -ls \| awk '{print $4 - 2, $NF}' \| sort -rn \| head
Remove all files whose names end with "~" in the /home/peter directory tree	find /home/peter -name *~ -print0 \|xargs -0 rm
find all the normal files in the home directory which have been accesed in the last 30 days with the size greater than or equal to 100k.	find $HOME -type f -atime +30 -size 100k
Add cron lists from "filename" to list of cron jobs, giving errors for any lines that cannot be parsed by crontab.	crontab filename
search for a word in all the php files in the current folder and display the matching lines	find . -name \*.php -type f -exec grep -Hn '$test' {} \;
Find all files starting from the current directory that match regular expression '.Message.\.java'	find . -print \| grep '.Message.\.java'
Print numbered list of all third-level files under the current directory	ls -d -1 $PWD/*//* \| cat -n
Installs all packages from a '/home/pkglist.txt' list, answering 'yes' on all questions.	cat /home/pkglist.txt \| xargs yum -y install
search the file "myfile.txt" in home folder	find "$HOME/" -name myfile.txt -print
find regular files in the "mail" folder under the user's home directory, displaying filenames and lines that contain the text "Linux"	find ~/mail -type f \| xargs grep "Linux"

Change the owner of "destination_dir" to "user"

chown user destination_dir

Lists long format information about file '/bin/echo'.

ls -l /bin/echo

Delete all .svn files/directories under current directory

find . -name .svn | xargs rm -fr

List all leaf directories of the current directory tree

find . -type d | sort | awk '$0 !~ last "/" {print last} {last=$0} END {print last}'

Write list of missing files in Subversion repository to file removedProjs.

svn status | grep '\!' | cut -d' ' -f2- > removedProjs

Send SIGTERM signal to any process which 'ps' lists as "python csp_build.py"

kill $

Print differences between files in directories folder1 and folder2 recursively, with unified context, ignoring changes in the amount of white space

diff -bur folder1/ folder2/

Convert *.doc files in the current directory tree to the .txt format and remove the original files

find . -name '*.doc' | while read i; do antiword -i 1 "${i}" >"${i/doc/txt}" && rm "${i}"; done

Save the absolute path of "$path" to variable "full_path"

full_path=`readlink -fn -- $path`

search for all the regular files that have been changed in the last 48 hours and sync these to another folder

find /my/source/directory -ctime -2 -type f -printf "%P\n" | xargs -IFILE rsync -avR /my/./source/directory/FILE /my/dest/directory/

Print the list of directories residing in the current directory tree

find . -type d -exec ls -ld {} \;

find all the files which end with ".deb" and display their base name

find . -name '*.deb' -exec basename {} \;

Mount all filesystems in /etc/fstab

sudo mount -a

Search all non-hidden files in the current directory and all non-hidden sub-directories for the file hi.dat.

find *-name hi.dat

Find all SGID files

find / -perm /g=s

List the names of the directories in current directory without going into sub-directories

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

Find all index.* files/directories under current directory

find -name 'index.*'

Count the number of lines in "testfile" wrapped to fit in a width of "$COLUMNS" characters

fold -w "$COLUMNS" testfile | wc -l

Find all directories starting from / that have permissions 777

find / -type d -perm 0777

Locate the httpd.conf file on the system

find / -name httpd.conf

Change permissions to u=rwx,g=rx,o= for all directories in the current directory tree

find . -type d -exec chmod u=rwx,g=rx,o= '{}' \;

Descend into every directory under /etc and print the file/directory names with relative paths

find /etc -execdir echo "{}" ';'

ssh into default vagrant host without running "vagrant ssh" and without an interactive ssh shell

vagrant ssh-config --host default | ssh -F /dev/stdin default

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

SELF=$

Search for files/directories with a case insensitive .txt extension in entire file system

find / -iname '*.txt'

Find all files/directories under Mainfolder directory and redirect the output to outputfle

find Mainfolder > outputfile

Search in current directory downwards all files whose size is 10 bytes .

find . -size 10c -print

List all regular files in /var/www and below that have changed in the last 10 minutes

find /var/www -cmin -10 -type f -printf "%c %pn"

Takes folder name of file $0, changes backslashes to forward ones and saves result in $basedir variable.

basedir=$(dirname "$(echo "$0" | sed -e 's,\\,/,g')")

searches through the root filesystem ("/") for the file named Chapter1, and prints the location

find / -name Chapter1 -type f

display all the files with the names "name1" and "name2" in the current folder and do not search in the sub directories

find . -maxdepth 1 -name "name1" -o -name "name2"

Find broken symlinks in the current directory tree

find -type l | while read f; do if [ ! -e "$f" ]; then ls -l "$f"; fi; done

Find files and directories newer than CompareFile under current directory

find . -newer CompareFile -print

Find all files except files with '.gz' extension in the current directory non-recursively and compress them with gzip

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f ! -name '*.gz' -exec gzip "{}" \;

List PIDs of children processes

ps -o pid --no-headers --ppid $PARENT_PID

Make directories "project/{lib/ext,bin,src,doc/{html,info,pdf},demo/stat/a}" as needed and do not cause an error if it exists

mkdir -p project/{lib/ext,bin,src,doc/{html,info,pdf},demo/stat/a}

Find all *.mp3 (case insensitive) files/directories under /tmp and remove them

find /tmp -iname '*.mp3' -print0 | xargs -0 rm

Attempt to connect as root to localhost and copy /home/reportuser/dailyReport.doc to directory /root/dailyReports/20150105/ - this will normally fail because ssh won't accept root connections by default.

scp -p /home/reportuser/dailyReport.doc root@localhost:/root/dailyReports/20150105/

Find all *.htm files under current directory and print the changed names by appending 3 levels of parent directory names at the beginning and modifying the actual name to dd-nnn format

find -type f -name "*.htm" | sed 's@^./@@g;s@/@-@g' | awk -F'-' '{print $1 "-" $2 "-" $3 "-" substr "-" $5}'

Remove the "^M" characters from all *.ext files under /home directory

find /home -type f -name "*.ext" -exec sed -i -e "s/\x0D$//g" {} \;

Push the current directory path to the dirs stack

pushd `pwd`

find the most recently changed files under current directory

find . -type f -printf '%TY-%Tm-%Td %TT %p\n' | sort

Keep only the last two hyphen-separated sections of "abc-def-ghi-jkl"

echo "abc-def-ghi-jkl" | rev | cut -d- -f-2 | rev

Copy current working directory to clipboard

pwd | xsel -i

Find all regular files under current directory and replace every occurrences of 'toreplace' with 'replace' in those files

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/toreplace/replaced/g'

Compose filepath as folder path where file $f is located, and lowercase filename of $f file, and save it in 'g' variable

g=`dirname "$f"`/`basename "$f" | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`

Count the number of times that a single "-----------\n" separated record contains both "A=2" and "dummy=2" in compressed file "file.gz"

zcat file.gz | awk -v RS="-----------\n" '/A=2[ ,\n]/ && /dummy=2[ ,\n]/{count++} END{print "Final counter value=",count}'

Find files/directories greater than 10MB in your home directory

find ~ -size +10M

Display all files in a folder

find man5 -print

Search the current directory tree for files last accessed more than 10 days ago

find . -atime +10

Find all regular files on the system whose names are 'myfile'

find / -name myfile -type f -print

Gets list of IP addresses of all network interfaces.

ifconfig | grep -Eo 'inet ?{3}[0-9]*' | grep -Eo '{3}[0-9]*' | grep -v '127.0.0.1'

Search the current directory for all files with no 'read' privilege for 'others'

find . -maxdepth 1 ! -perm -o=r

Copies file 'index.html' to each top-level directory in the current directory.

find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d| xargs -n 1 cp -i index.html

Print file information of command "bash"

echo $(ls -l $)

find all the files that have been modified today

find /tmp/test/* -mtime +0

Count case insensitive absolute paths recursively from the current directory

find -type f -exec readlink -m {} \; | gawk 'BEGIN{FS="/";OFS="/"}{$NF=tolower;print}' | uniq -c

Find all *.xml.bz2 files under current directory and run the command find_graph with -build_graph, $i.graph and $i as it's arguments where $i is expanded to each file path

for i in `find . | grep ".xml.bz2$"`; do find_graph -build_graph $i.graph $i; done

display all the regular/normal files ending with ".mod" in a folder

find "$dir" -name "*.mod" -type f -print0

Search for all files and directories named foo, FOO, or any other combination of uppercase and lowercase characters beneath the current directory.

find . -iname foo

Search in current directory downwards all files whic have permission 777 .

find . -perm 777 -print

Find all regular files under $SOURCE directory tree that were modified more than $KEEP days ago and show only the names without the paths

find $SOURCE -type f -mtime +$KEEP | sed ‘s#.*/##'

Find recursively the files named "file" in the current directory ignoring all .git directories

find . -name .git -prune -o -name file -print

Copies file '/boot/config-`uname -r`' to the '.config', printing info message and prompting before owerwriting files.

cp -vi /boot/config-`uname -r` .config

Find all orm* files/directories under current directory

find . -name 'orm*'

Find all *.jpg files under current directory and print only unique names

find . -name *.jpg | uniq -u

Find all *.foo files under current directory and print their contents

cat $(find . -name '*.foo')

Search the current directory recursively for directories with the execute permission set for everybody

find -type d ! -perm -111

List all *.txt files/directories under /etc

ls -l $

search for all the files in the current directory which have been modified in the last 24 hours.

find . -mtime -1

move all the files in the current folder to temp folder and search atleast in one subfolder

find . -mindepth 1 -print0|xargs -0 -I, mv , /tmp

Sets shell options 'globstar' and 'nullglob'.

shopt -s globstar nullglob

Evaluate the output of recursively changing the owner and group of "/data/*" to "mongodb"

`sudo chown -R mongodb:mongodb /data/*`

search for all the directories in the current folder and save the output to a variable

dirs=($)

change owner and group of the file dir1 to user root and group specialusers

chown root:specialusers dir1

List all files in maximum 2 levels down the current directory

find . -maxdepth 2 -type f -exec ls -l {} \;

set variable "uname_m" to machine architecture, ie. x86_64

uname_m=`uname -m`

Delete interactively all the files/directories with inode number 782263 under current directory tree

find . -inum 782263 -exec rm -i {} \;

Print all filenames under /proc and below

find /proc -print0 | xargs -0

Search the current directory tree for all files except SVN ones

find . | grep -v \.svn

Search for a line starting with 'use strict' in all files with '.pl' extension under current directory tree and show the unmatched files only

find . -name '*.pl' | xargs grep -L '^use strict'

Find all *.txt file in the entire system and copy them to /tmp/txt

find / -iname '*.txt' | xargs --replace=@ cp @ /tmp/txt

Execute 'echo -e "\tHello World"' every 2 seconds

watch 'echo -e "\tHello World"'

delete all the php files in the folder /var/www

find /var/www/*.php -type f -exec rm {} \;

display all the soft links in a folder which are not broken

find -L /target ! -type l

search for the file "myfile" in the current folder and display all errors apart from permission denied error

find . -name myfile |& grep -v 'Permission denied'

Counts the number of lines in each file in a git repository, if file names may contain spaces.

git ls-files -z | xargs -0 wc -l

Forcefully remove files *~important-file

rm -rf *~important-file

Find all .java files starting from the current folder

find * -name "*.java"

search for al cpp files in current folder and display distinct parent directory of these files in sorted order

find . -name "*.cpp" -exec dirname {} + | sort -u

Display the number of sub-directories for all directories under current directory tree, sort them according to the decreasing order of the number and show only the first 10 of them

find . -type d -ls | awk '{print $4 - 2, $NF}' | sort -rn | head

Remove all files whose names end with "~" in the /home/peter directory tree

find /home/peter -name *~ -print0 |xargs -0 rm

find all the normal files in the home directory which have been accesed in the last 30 days with the size greater than or equal to 100k.

find $HOME -type f -atime +30 -size 100k

Add cron lists from "filename" to list of cron jobs, giving errors for any lines that cannot be parsed by crontab.

crontab filename

search for a word in all the php files in the current folder and display the matching lines

find . -name \*.php -type f -exec grep -Hn '$test' {} \;

Find all files starting from the current directory that match regular expression '.*Message.*\.java'

find . -print | grep '.*Message.*\.java'

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

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

Installs all packages from a '/home/pkglist.txt' list, answering 'yes' on all questions.

cat /home/pkglist.txt | xargs yum -y install

search the file "myfile.txt" in home folder

find "$HOME/" -name myfile.txt -print

find regular files in the "mail" folder under the user's home directory, displaying filenames and lines that contain the text "Linux"

find ~/mail -type f | xargs grep "Linux"