prabhanshubhowal/natural_language_to_linux

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display a long listing of the files in current folder which have been modified in the last 60 minutes	find . -mmin -60 -type f -exec ls -l {} +
Find *.java files under current directory and compress them to myfile.tar	find . -type f -name "*.java" \| xargs> tar rvf myfile.tar
Subtract each column in File2 from matching column in File1, output the result in a similarly formatted table	awk 'FNR==NR { for(i=2;i<=NF;i++) a[$1][i]=$i; next } { for(j=2;j<=NF;j++) $j-=a[$1][j] }1' File2 File1 \| rev \| column -t \| rev
Counts all files in a current folder and subfolders.	find `pwd` -type f -exec ls -l {} \; \| wc -l
find all the files in the file system which have been modified in the last 10 minutes	find / -mmin -10
Find all regular files named postgis-2.0.0 under current directory	find . -type f -name "postgis-2.0.0"
Raise an error for using uninitialized variables	set -u
Print numbers from 1 to 30 with 0 padding to a width of 2	seq -f "%02g" 30
Lists long format information about file '/bin/echo'.	ls -l /bin/echo
List files in the current directory and below that are exactly 1234 bytes in size	find . -size 1234c
Print 'file' file, splitting lines into pieces with no more that 3 words in each one.	cat file \| xargs -n3
Write "deb blah ... blah" to standard output and append to "/etc/apt/sources.list" as root	echo 'deb blah ... blah' \| sudo tee --append /etc/apt/sources.list
Search the /etc directory tree for symbolic links	find /etc -type l -print
Find regular files under '/somefolder' directory tree satisfying the options/conditions/operations provided in ${ARGS[@]} array with find command	find /somefolder -type f '(' "${ARGS[@]}" ')'
Number every line of standard input as zero padded to 6 characters followed by "-"	nl -s- -ba -nrz
Recursively copy all regular files below current directory to directory /tmp on hostname, connecting as ssh user matching current username on local host.	find . -type f -exec scp {} hostname:/tmp/{} \;
display the contents of all the files in the current folder which start with test	find . -iname 'test' -exec cat {} \;
Find all files/directories under current directory and print their paths	find . -exec echo {} ";"
Remove all files from the current directory tree whose names do not match regular expression "excluded files criteria"	find . \| grep -v "excluded files criteria" \| xargs rm
Display standard input as printable characters or backslash escapes with no addressing radix	od -cAn;
display the count of total number of non empty files in the current folder	find . -type f -not -empty \| wc -l
Find a single file called FindCommandExamples.txt under current directory and remove it	find . -type f -name "FindCommandExamples.txt" -exec rm -f {} \;
find all the text files in the current folder starting with "somefiles-" and prepend the first line	find . -name "somefiles-*-.txt" -type f -exec sed -i 'iText that gets prepended (dont remove the i)' -- '{}' \;
Search through the /usr/local directory for files that end with the extension .html, and print the file locations.	find /usr/local -name "*.html" -type f
Find regular files in the current directory that are writable by their owner	find -maxdepth 1 -type f -perm /200
Change the ownership of "file.sh" to "root"	sudo chown root file.sh
Create symbolic links in the current directory for all files excluding "CONFIGFILE" located in "/your/project"	find /your/project -maxdepth 1 ! -name "CONFIGFILE" -exec ln -s \{\} ./ \;
Search the *.cc files in the current directory tree for string "xxx"	find . -name "*.cc" \| xargs grep "xxx"
Print only second from the end field from slash-separated string in file 'datafile'	cat datafile \| rev \| cut -d '/' -f 2 \| rev
List all regular file owned by root with permissions 4000	find / -type f -user root -perm -4000 -exec ls -l {} \;
List all files/directories under current directory using comma (,) as the delimiter for different fields in the output	find . -ls \| awk '{printf( "%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s %s %s,%s\n", $1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, $8, $9, $10, $11 )}'
set alias "vv" for command "$"	alias -g vv="$"
Search through the /usr/local directory for files that end with the extension .html, and print the file locations.	find /usr/local -name "*.html" -type f
Go into the first directory whose name contains 1670	cd `find . -maxdepth 1 -type d \| grep 1670`
Find files/directories under current directory and print them as null terminated strings.	find -print0
Dump "/dev/ttySomething" in both hex and text	od -t x1 -t a /dev/ttySomething
Counts sum of non-empty lines from all .php files in a current folder.	find . -name "*.php" \| xargs grep -v -c '^$' \| awk 'BEGIN {FS=":"} { cnt = cnt + $2} END {print cnt}'
search for the files in the current folder which begin with the word "kt" followed by a digit	find . -name 'kt[0-9] '
Find the passwd file in the current directory and one level down	find -maxdepth 2 -name passwd
Execute all commands in "commands-to-execute-remotely.sh" on server "blah_server"	cat commands-to-execute-remotely.sh \| ssh blah_server
Move all files matching patterns ".old", ".old", "..old" from the current directory to directory "../old/"	find . ! -name . -prune -name '*.old' -exec sh -c 'mv "$@" ../old/' sh {} +
Rename '.mkv' extension to '.avi' for all files/directories under '/volume1/uploads' directory tree	find /volume1/uploads -name "*.mkv" -exec rename 's/\.mkv$/.avi/' \{\} \;
Prints total number of lines of all *.php files in a current folder and subfolders.	cat `find . -name "*.php"` \| wc -l
Search for 'example' in all regular files from the current directory tree	find -type f -print0 \| xargs -r0 grep -F 'example'
Delete all files throughout the entire filesystem that are no longer owned by a valid user.	find / -nouser \| xargs -0 rm
find all text files in the folder "FFF" and find the md5sum for them	find FFF -name "*.txt" -exec md5sum '{}' \;
Gets IP address of 'en0' network interface.	ifconfig en0 \| awk '$1 == "inet" {print $2}'
Print the top 10 commands with their use count	history \| awk '{ print $2 }' \| sort \| uniq -c \|sort -rn \| head
Find all file1 and file9 files/directories under current directory	find . -name file1 -or -name file9
Replace all occurrences of "StringA" with "StringB" in the .php and .html files residing in the current directory tree	find . \( -name ".php" -or -name ".html" \) \| xargs grep -l StringA \| xargs sed -i -e 's/StringA/StringB/g'
Source executable "virtualenvwrapper.sh" found in $PATH	source `which virtualenvwrapper.sh`
Find all subdirectories of the current directory except hidden ones	find -maxdepth 1 -type d ! -name ".*"
find md5sum of content from "www.google.com"	curl -s www.google.com \| md5
find directories in the folder /usr/spool/uucp	find /usr/spool/uucp -type d -print
Filters out strings, using the extended regexp pattern '^#\|^$\|no crontab for\|cannot use this program' from "$USERTAB"	echo "$USERTAB"\| grep -vE '^#\|^$\|no crontab for\|cannot use this program'
change the permissions of all regular/normal files in the current directory	find . -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;
Find all HTML files starting with letter 'a' in the current directory and below	find . -name a\*.html
Save the user name of the current user to variable "me"	me=$
Print each unique entry in "ip_addresses" followed by a count	cat ip_addresses \| sort \| uniq -c \| sort -nr \| awk '{print $2 " " $1}'
Print type of the file system containing path $dir.	df -T $dir \| tail -1 \| awk '{print $2;}'
Split the sorted and unique lines in files "emails_*.txt" into files with at most 200 lines each with numeric suffixes of length 4	sort --unique emails_*.txt \| split --numeric-suffixes --lines=200 --suffix-length=4 --verbose
Counts lines with all-cased word 'null' in file 'myfile.txt'.	grep -n -i null myfile.txt \| wc -l
Change permissions to 755 for all subdirectories of the current directory	find . -type d -print \| sed -e 's/^/"/' -e 's/$/"/' \| xargs chmod 755
Search the current directory recursively for files last modified within the past 24 hours ignoring .swp files and "en" and "es" directories	find . \ -prune , -mtime 0 ! -name "*.swp"
Read yesterday's date with format "%a %d/%m/%Y" into variable "dt" in a subshell	date --date yesterday "+%a %d/%m/%Y" \| read dt
find all directory list which have empty list in /tmp directory	find /tmp -type d -empty
show a count of the number of filenames ending in .txt in the current directory, without descending into sub-directories	find . -maxdepth 1 -name \*.txt -print0 \| grep -cz .
List all files in the current directory tree that were last modified in March 2007	find ! -newermt "apr 01 2007" -newermt "mar 01 2007" -ls
Find all executables under /path directory	find /path -perm /ugo+x
display list of all the hidden files in the directory "/dir/to/search/"	find /dir/to/search/ -name ".*" -ls
Find text files modified less than 5 days ago	find . –name "*.txt" –mtime 5
search all the files in the current folder excluding those that are present in the folder test and using regex	find . -name test -prune -regex "./my.p.$"
Display a list of files with sizes in decreasing order of size of all the regular files under $dir directory tree that are bigger than $size in size	find $dir -type -f size +$size -print0 \| xargs -0 ls -1hsS
find case-insentive example.com file, and whole dose not contain beta	find -iname example.com \| grep -v beta
Lookup information for user "vivek"	finger vivek
Change the owner and group of "uid_demo" to "root"	sudo chown root:root uid_demo
Find files/directories modified within the last hour under current directory	find . -mtime -1
find all the files in the home folder which have been modified in 1 year or more ( which are not modified in the last 1 year ).	find $HOME -mtime +365
Replace newline with "_" in "file" then search for "_foo_" and output with "_" characters deleted	grep -o "_foo_" <(paste -sd_ file) \| tr -d '_'
Append all regular files modified in the last 24 hours to the "$archive.tar" tar archive	find . -mtime -1 -type f -exec tar rvf "$archive.tar" '{}' \;
Find all files/directories under current directory that were modified exactly 30 minutes ago	find . -mmin 30
Change the file extension from '.txt' to '.bak' for all files/directories under current directory tree	find . -name "*.txt" \| sed "s/\.txt$//" \| xargs -i echo mv {}.txt {}.bak \| sh
Find all files under $1 directory excluding hidden files and append a null character at the end of each of their paths	find "$1" -path "/." -prune -o \
find all the files that have not been modified in the last hours.	find . -mtime +7
Find all regular files in the current directory tree that do not contain a whitespace	find . -type f \
find files that were accessed within the last 24 hours	find / -atime -1
Rotates the dirs stack so that the second directory (counting from the right of the list shown by `dirs', starting with zero) is at the top.	pushd -2
display all the ".c" files in the folder "/home/david" which have been accessed in the last 48 hours	find /home/david -atime -2 -name '*.c'
Find all directories that have been modified in the last seven days.	find . -mtime -7 -type d
Search for first match of the case insensitive regex 'oyss' in all *.txt files under current directory and print the file paths along with the matches	find . -name '*.txt'\|xargs grep -m1 -ri 'oyss'
display all the files in the current folder and do not search in sub directories and move them to the directory /directory1/directory2.	find . -maxdepth 1 -type f \| xargs -I ‘{}’ sudo mv {} /directory1/directory2
Copies 'libgtest_main.so' and 'libgtest.so' to '/usr/lib/', preserving all attributes, and copying symlinks as symlinks, without following in source files.	sudo cp -a libgtest_main.so libgtest.so /usr/lib/
Find all files under var/ directory and change their permission to 600	find var/ -type f -exec chmod 600 {} \;
list files that the user does not have permissions to read, do not try to descend into directories that cannot be read.	find . ! -perm -g+r,u+r,o+r -prune
Find all files named 'foo' under current directory tree without descending into directories named 'foo'	find . -name foo -type d -prune -o -name foo -print
Write "ee" to standard output on "/dev/pty/2" and as input to command "foo"	echo ee \| tee /dev/pty/2 \| foo
Replace all ' ' with '-' from standard input	tr ' ' '-'
Find all the files recursively in directories or files taken from the glob pattern /tmp/test/* that have been modified today	find /tmp/test/* -mtime -0
display all soft links in current folder	find . -type l
Find the process id of mysql	ps aux \| grep mysql \| grep -v grep

display a long listing of the files in current folder which have been modified in the last 60 minutes

find . -mmin -60 -type f -exec ls -l {} +

Find *.java files under current directory and compress them to myfile.tar

find . -type f -name "*.java" | xargs> tar rvf myfile.tar

Subtract each column in File2 from matching column in File1, output the result in a similarly formatted table

awk 'FNR==NR { for(i=2;i<=NF;i++) a[$1][i]=$i; next } { for(j=2;j<=NF;j++) $j-=a[$1][j] }1' File2 File1 | rev | column -t | rev

Counts all files in a current folder and subfolders.

find `pwd` -type f -exec ls -l {} \; | wc -l

find all the files in the file system which have been modified in the last 10 minutes

find / -mmin -10

Find all regular files named postgis-2.0.0 under current directory

find . -type f -name "postgis-2.0.0"

Raise an error for using uninitialized variables

set -u

Print numbers from 1 to 30 with 0 padding to a width of 2

seq -f "%02g" 30

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

ls -l /bin/echo

List files in the current directory and below that are exactly 1234 bytes in size

find . -size 1234c

Print 'file' file, splitting lines into pieces with no more that 3 words in each one.

cat file | xargs -n3

Write "deb blah ... blah" to standard output and append to "/etc/apt/sources.list" as root

echo 'deb blah ... blah' | sudo tee --append /etc/apt/sources.list

Search the /etc directory tree for symbolic links

find /etc -type l -print

Find regular files under '/somefolder' directory tree satisfying the options/conditions/operations provided in ${ARGS[@]} array with find command

find /somefolder -type f '(' "${ARGS[@]}" ')'

Number every line of standard input as zero padded to 6 characters followed by "-"

nl -s- -ba -nrz

Recursively copy all regular files below current directory to directory /tmp on hostname, connecting as ssh user matching current username on local host.

find . -type f -exec scp {} hostname:/tmp/{} \;

display the contents of all the files in the current folder which start with test

find . -iname '*test*' -exec cat {} \;

Find all files/directories under current directory and print their paths

find . -exec echo {} ";"

Remove all files from the current directory tree whose names do not match regular expression "excluded files criteria"

find . | grep -v "excluded files criteria" | xargs rm

Display standard input as printable characters or backslash escapes with no addressing radix

od -cAn;

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

find . -type f -not -empty | wc -l

Find a single file called FindCommandExamples.txt under current directory and remove it

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

find all the text files in the current folder starting with "somefiles-" and prepend the first line

find . -name "somefiles-*-.txt" -type f -exec sed -i 'iText that gets prepended (dont remove the i)' -- '{}' \;

Search through the /usr/local directory for files that end with the extension .html, and print the file locations.

find /usr/local -name "*.html" -type f

Find regular files in the current directory that are writable by their owner

find -maxdepth 1 -type f -perm /200

Change the ownership of "file.sh" to "root"

sudo chown root file.sh

Create symbolic links in the current directory for all files excluding "CONFIGFILE" located in "/your/project"

find /your/project -maxdepth 1 ! -name "CONFIGFILE" -exec ln -s \{\} ./ \;

Search the *.cc files in the current directory tree for string "xxx"

find . -name "*.cc" | xargs grep "xxx"

Print only second from the end field from slash-separated string in file 'datafile'

cat datafile | rev | cut -d '/' -f 2 | rev

List all regular file owned by root with permissions 4000

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

List all files/directories under current directory using comma (,) as the delimiter for different fields in the output

find . -ls | awk '{printf( "%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s,%s %s %s,%s\n", $1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, $8, $9, $10, $11 )}'

set alias "vv" for command "$"

alias -g vv="$"

Search through the /usr/local directory for files that end with the extension .html, and print the file locations.

find /usr/local -name "*.html" -type f

Go into the first directory whose name contains 1670

cd `find . -maxdepth 1 -type d | grep 1670`

Find files/directories under current directory and print them as null terminated strings.

find -print0

Dump "/dev/ttySomething" in both hex and text

od -t x1 -t a /dev/ttySomething

Counts sum of non-empty lines from all .php files in a current folder.

find . -name "*.php" | xargs grep -v -c '^$' | awk 'BEGIN {FS=":"} { cnt = cnt + $2} END {print cnt}'

search for the files in the current folder which begin with the word "kt" followed by a digit

find . -name 'kt[0-9] '

Find the passwd file in the current directory and one level down

find -maxdepth 2 -name passwd

Execute all commands in "commands-to-execute-remotely.sh" on server "blah_server"

cat commands-to-execute-remotely.sh | ssh blah_server

Move all files matching patterns "*.old", ".old", ".*.old" from the current directory to directory "../old/"

find . ! -name . -prune -name '*.old' -exec sh -c 'mv "$@" ../old/' sh {} +

Rename '.mkv' extension to '.avi' for all files/directories under '/volume1/uploads' directory tree

find /volume1/uploads -name "*.mkv" -exec rename 's/\.mkv$/.avi/' \{\} \;

Prints total number of lines of all *.php files in a current folder and subfolders.

cat `find . -name "*.php"` | wc -l

Search for 'example' in all regular files from the current directory tree

find -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 grep -F 'example'

Delete all files throughout the entire filesystem that are no longer owned by a valid user.

find / -nouser | xargs -0 rm

find all text files in the folder "FFF" and find the md5sum for them

find FFF -name "*.txt" -exec md5sum '{}' \;

Gets IP address of 'en0' network interface.

ifconfig en0 | awk '$1 == "inet" {print $2}'

Print the top 10 commands with their use count

history | awk '{ print $2 }' | sort | uniq -c |sort -rn | head

Find all file1 and file9 files/directories under current directory

find . -name file1 -or -name file9

Replace all occurrences of "StringA" with "StringB" in the *.php and *.html files residing in the current directory tree

find . $ -name "*.php" -or -name "*.html" $ | xargs grep -l StringA | xargs sed -i -e 's/StringA/StringB/g'

Source executable "virtualenvwrapper.sh" found in $PATH

source `which virtualenvwrapper.sh`

Find all subdirectories of the current directory except hidden ones

find -maxdepth 1 -type d ! -name ".*"

find md5sum of content from "www.google.com"

curl -s www.google.com | md5

find directories in the folder /usr/spool/uucp

find /usr/spool/uucp -type d -print

Filters out strings, using the extended regexp pattern '^#|^$|no crontab for|cannot use this program' from "$USERTAB"

echo "$USERTAB"| grep -vE '^#|^$|no crontab for|cannot use this program'

change the permissions of all regular/normal files in the current directory

find . -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;

Find all HTML files starting with letter 'a' in the current directory and below

find . -name a\*.html

Save the user name of the current user to variable "me"

me=$

Print each unique entry in "ip_addresses" followed by a count

cat ip_addresses | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | awk '{print $2 " " $1}'

Print type of the file system containing path $dir.

df -T $dir | tail -1 | awk '{print $2;}'

Split the sorted and unique lines in files "emails_*.txt" into files with at most 200 lines each with numeric suffixes of length 4

sort --unique emails_*.txt | split --numeric-suffixes --lines=200 --suffix-length=4 --verbose

Counts lines with all-cased word 'null' in file 'myfile.txt'.

grep -n -i null myfile.txt | wc -l

Change permissions to 755 for all subdirectories of the current directory

find . -type d -print | sed -e 's/^/"/' -e 's/$/"/' | xargs chmod 755

Search the current directory recursively for files last modified within the past 24 hours ignoring .swp files and "en" and "es" directories

find . \ -prune , -mtime 0 ! -name "*.swp"

Read yesterday's date with format "%a %d/%m/%Y" into variable "dt" in a subshell

date --date yesterday "+%a %d/%m/%Y" | read dt

find all directory list which have empty list in /tmp directory

find /tmp -type d -empty

show a count of the number of filenames ending in .txt in the current directory, without descending into sub-directories

find . -maxdepth 1 -name \*.txt -print0 | grep -cz .

List all files in the current directory tree that were last modified in March 2007

find ! -newermt "apr 01 2007" -newermt "mar 01 2007" -ls

Find all executables under /path directory

find /path -perm /ugo+x

display list of all the hidden files in the directory "/dir/to/search/"

find /dir/to/search/ -name ".*" -ls

Find text files modified less than 5 days ago

find . –name "*.txt" –mtime 5

search all the files in the current folder excluding those that are present in the folder test and using regex

find . -name test -prune -regex ".*/my.*p.$"

Display a list of files with sizes in decreasing order of size of all the regular files under $dir directory tree that are bigger than $size in size

find $dir -type -f size +$size -print0 | xargs -0 ls -1hsS

find case-insentive example.com file, and whole dose not contain beta

find -iname example.com | grep -v beta

Lookup information for user "vivek"

finger vivek

Change the owner and group of "uid_demo" to "root"

sudo chown root:root uid_demo

Find files/directories modified within the last hour under current directory

find . -mtime -1

find all the files in the home folder which have been modified in 1 year or more ( which are not modified in the last 1 year ).

find $HOME -mtime +365

Replace newline with "_" in "file" then search for "_foo_" and output with "_" characters deleted

grep -o "_foo_" <(paste -sd_ file) | tr -d '_'

Append all regular files modified in the last 24 hours to the "$archive.tar" tar archive

find . -mtime -1 -type f -exec tar rvf "$archive.tar" '{}' \;

Find all files/directories under current directory that were modified exactly 30 minutes ago

find . -mmin 30

Change the file extension from '.txt' to '.bak' for all files/directories under current directory tree

find . -name "*.txt" | sed "s/\.txt$//" | xargs -i echo mv {}.txt {}.bak | sh

Find all files under $1 directory excluding hidden files and append a null character at the end of each of their paths

find "$1" -path "*/.*" -prune -o \

find all the files that have not been modified in the last hours.

find . -mtime +7

Find all regular files in the current directory tree that do not contain a whitespace

find . -type f \

find files that were accessed within the last 24 hours

find / -atime -1

Rotates the dirs stack so that the second directory (counting from the right of the list shown by `dirs', starting with zero) is at the top.

pushd -2

display all the ".c" files in the folder "/home/david" which have been accessed in the last 48 hours

find /home/david -atime -2 -name '*.c'

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

find . -mtime -7 -type d

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

find . -name '*.txt'|xargs grep -m1 -ri 'oyss'

display all the files in the current folder and do not search in sub directories and move them to the directory /directory1/directory2.

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f | xargs -I ‘{}’ sudo mv {} /directory1/directory2

Copies 'libgtest_main.so' and 'libgtest.so' to '/usr/lib/', preserving all attributes, and copying symlinks as symlinks, without following in source files.

sudo cp -a libgtest_main.so libgtest.so /usr/lib/

Find all files under var/ directory and change their permission to 600

find var/ -type f -exec chmod 600 {} \;

list files that the user does not have permissions to read, do not try to descend into directories that cannot be read.

find . ! -perm -g+r,u+r,o+r -prune

Find all files named 'foo' under current directory tree without descending into directories named 'foo'

find . -name foo -type d -prune -o -name foo -print

Write "ee" to standard output on "/dev/pty/2" and as input to command "foo"

echo ee | tee /dev/pty/2 | foo

Replace all ' ' with '-' from standard input

tr ' ' '-'

Find all the files recursively in directories or files taken from the glob pattern /tmp/test/* that have been modified today

find /tmp/test/* -mtime -0

display all soft links in current folder

find . -type l

Find the process id of mysql

ps aux | grep mysql | grep -v grep