prabhanshubhowal/natural_language_to_linux

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find all readme files in a folder	find /usr/share/doc -name README
Find all the files that were modified within the last day	find . -mtime -1
Request MX record of 'example.com' domain, and filter out all comment strings	dig mx example.com \| grep -v '^;' \| grep example.com
Remove all tmp/*.mp3 files	find tmp -maxdepth 1 -name '*.mp3' -maxdepth 1 \| xargs rm
Recursively finds string 'class foo' in all *.c files from current folder.	grep "class foo" */.c
Creates temporary folder in TMPDIR (if defined) or in '/tmp/', and stores path to created folder in 'tmpdir' variable.	tmpdir=$(mktemp -d)
search a url in all regular/normal files in a folder.	find ./ -type f -exec grep https://www.ksknet.net {} \;
search for all xml files in current folder and display them	find . -name "*.xml" -exec echo {} \;
Find empty files/directories under test directory	find test -empty
Print unique lines of "a" and "b"	comm -3 a b
find the file "foo.txt" in the current folder and assign the output to a variable	OUTPUT=`find . -name foo.txt`
Find all empty directories under /tmp	find /tmp -type d -empty
Report file systems inodes usage.	df -i
Prints date of first Tuesday in January, 2015	cal 01 2015 \| sed -n '1,2b;/^.\{6\} \{0,1\}\([0-9]\{1,2\}\) ./ {s//0\1/;s/.\([0-9]\{2\}\)$/\1/p;q;}'
Delete all files in the $DIR directory that have not been accessed in 5 or more days.	find "$DIR" -type f -atime +5 -exec rm {} \;
Find all directories under current directory and set read-write-execute permission for owner, read-execute permission for group and no permission for other for those directories	find . -type d -exec chmod u=rwx,g=rx,o= '{}' \;
Find all files under foldername directory and set their permission to 644	sudo find foldername -type f -exec chmod 644 {} ";"
Write the standard output and error of "ls" to standard output and "/tmp/ls.txt"	ls 2>&1 \| tee /tmp/ls.txt
long list the detials of all the shell scripts in current directory	find . -name "*.sh" -exec ls -ld {} \;
Print a space separated list of numbers from 1 to 10	seq 10 \| xargs
display the long listing detials of all the files in the folder junk which is in home folder.	find ~/junk -name "*" -exec ls -l {} \;
find all the *.conf files under /	find / -name "*.conf"
print all files which name is xyzzy followed by null and save to list	find / -name xyzzy -print0 > list
Find files/directories under current directory matching the posix-egrep type regex ".+\.(c\|cpp\|h)$" in their names	find . -regextype posix-egrep -regex ".+\.(c\|cpp\|h)$"
run command "cd /home/$USERNAME/$PROJECT; svn update" with a shell as user username2	sudo -u username2 -H sh -c "cd /home/$USERNAME/$PROJECT; svn update"
find all js files which path neither ./dir1 nor ./dir2	find . -name '*.js' -not \
Search for files/directories with the case insensitive pattern anaconda.* in var/log directory and create an archive (somefile.tar) of all the files found ensuring white space safety	find var/log -print0 -iname 'anaconda.*' \| tar -cvf somefile.tar -T -
Recursively change owner and group to "$JBOSS_AS_USER" of "$JBOSS_AS_DIR"	chown -R $JBOSS_AS_USER:$JBOSS_AS_USER $JBOSS_AS_DIR
List all files/directories under /myfiles directory	find /myfiles -exec ls -l {} ;
Find absolute path of command with PID "$pid"	readlink -f `ls --dereference /proc/$pid/exe`
Change symbolic link "$f" into a file	cp --remove-destination $(readlink $f) $f
Count the total number of lines in all HTML files under /usr/src that contain string "foo"	time find /usr/src -name "*.html" \| xargs /usr/bin/grep -l "foo" \| wc -l
Go to directory /cygdrive/c/Program Files /$dollarsign using single quotes to escape special characters, including dollar signs	cd '/cygdrive/c/Program Files /$dollarsign'
change the owner of all the files in folder /u/netinst to netinst	find /u/netinst -print \| xargs chown netinst
Print every 16 bytes of standard input in groups of two followed by a space	fold -b16 \| sed 's/../& /g'
Put the output of tty into a variable, then searches the output of "who" for TTY with "/dev/" removed and saves it to "WHOLINE"	TTY=$ WHOLINE=$
Find all links pointing to /path/to/foo.txt	find . -lname /path/to/foo.txt
show all the files in the folder /etc which have been modified in the last 24 hours	find /etc -mtime -1
Replace all newlines from the contents of "file" except the last with spaces	sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/ /g' file
Change owner to "bob" and group to "sftponly" of "/home/bob/writable"	sudo chown bob:sftponly /home/bob/writable
Find all *.txt files that reside under and below /home/wsuNID/	find /home/wsuNID/ -name "*.txt"
Search for regular file foo ignoring case	find . -iname foo -type f
Find all files/directories under current directory and print their paths	find . -exec echo {} ';'
Find all directories under current directory	find . -type d -print
Extract path and query part from URL	echo "$url" \| cut -d'/' -f4-
Find all files/directories under current directory with null character as the delimiter	find -print0
Set variable "b" to the first word of "a" converted to lowercase.	b=`echo "$a" \| awk '{ print tolower($1) }'`
List all files in entire file system that belong to the user wnj or modified later than the ttt file	find / \( -newer ttt -or -user wnj \) -print
Run `command' on each file from the current directory tree	find . -exec command {} \;
Start "xeyes" in the background on the remote server and exit the SSH session	ssh user@server 'DISPLAY=:0 nohup xeyes < /dev/null > std.out 2> std.err &'
Print the average time of 4 ping requests to "www.stackoverflow.com"	ping -c 4 www.stackoverflow.com \| tail -1\| awk '{print $4}' \| cut -d '/' -f 2
Save the "Pictures" directory in the current user's home directory on the directory stack	pushd /home/`whoami`/Pictures
Save the absolute path of the current script to variable "SELF"	actual_path=$(readlink -f "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")
Find all files under current directory and show their file information	find . -type f -exec file {} \;
Create a symbolic link in directory "new" for each file in "original" directory tree	find original -type f -exec ln -s {} new/{} \;
recursively change owner of the directory testproject and all files into it to user ftpuser	chown ftpuser testproject/ -R
find regular/normal files in the current folder	find -type f
List all regular files in the current directory tree modified within the last 24 hours	find . -mtime 0 -type f -ls
Execute 'bash -c "python -m unittest discover \|& pyrg"' every second and display with color support	watch -n 1 --color 'bash -c "python -m unittest discover \|& pyrg"'
Find all PNG and JPG files and append them to archive `images.tar'	find . \( -iname ".png" -o -iname ".jpg" \) -print -exec tar -rf images.tar {} \;
Save all directories under the current directory as a comma separated list in variable "FOLDERS"	FOLDERS=$(find . -type d \| paste -d, -s)
Print "deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu precise main" and append to file "/etc/apt/sources.list"	echo "deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu precise main" \| tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
delete all normal/regular files in the current folder which are empty	find . -type f -empty -delete
Shows only IP4, not IP6 address of network interface eth0.	/usr/bin/ifconfig eth0 \| grep --word-regexp inet \| awk '{print $2}'
find all the links in the current folder which are broken	find /target -type l -xtype l
Print the most repeated line in "list2.txt" that exists in "list1.txt" prefixed by the number of occurrences	grep -Ff list1.txt list2.txt \| sort \| uniq -c \| sort -n \| tail -n1
Resolve symbolic link of file "FILE" even if the file does not exist	readlink -m FILE
Extracts 258 lines beginning from line 16482 of in.sql and saves them to out.sql	head -16482 in.sql \| tail -258 > out.sql
Print the current user name associated with standard input	who -m \| awk '{print $1;}'
Find all files/directories matching the regex .sql.	find -regex .sql.
Recursively finds all files older than 7 minutes under the current directory, saves list of found files, and compresses them, executing at most 10 compress process at a time.	find . -type f -mtime +7 \| tee compressedP.list \| xargs -I{} -P10 compress {} &
find all jar files in current folder and search for a file in all these jar's and display the jar names along with searched file	find . -name "*.jar" -exec unzip -l {} \;\|grep -E "Archive:\|message_track.properties"
Print the lines of file "strings" not specified in file "index"	join -v 2 index <(nl strings)
Print a hex dump byte to byte of the output of "echo Aa"	echo Aa \| od -t x1
Find all directories named "D" in the current directory tree	find . -name "D" -type d
Find all files inside all directories in /tmp/test directory and print the number of files in each directory and also print the file name and directory paths	find . -type d -print0 \| xargs -0 -I {} sh -c ' echo "{}: \c" ; find {} -maxdepth 1 -type f \| wc -l ; find {} -maxdepth 1 -type f -print \| sed "s#.*/##" '
Find and print the names of all files found in the current directory and all of its sub-directories.	find .
Interactively display all lines containing 'word' in all files whose name ends with .properties in the current directory, waiting for user input after each page.	grep -R 'word' *.properties \| more
Resolve all symlinks in path to "firefox" binary if it exists in path, resulting in absolute path with no symlinks.	readlink -f $(which firefox)
use find command to search for .png and .jpg files	find ./ -type f \( -iname \.jpg -o -iname \.png \)
Find all *.err files under current directory that are larger than 5120 bytes in size	find . -type f -size +10 -name "*.err"
search for all the php files in the folder "/home/mywebsite" which have been changed in the last 30*24 hours	find /home/mywebsite -type f -name "*.php" -ctime -30
Find all *.txt files under current directory that match the regex c\|d\|z in their names	find . -name '*.txt' \| perl -lne 'print if /c\|d\|z/'
Change permissions to 755 for all directories in the current directory tree	find . -type d \| xargs chmod -v 755
find all the symbolic links in the current folder	find /etc -type l -print
search for a file "file" in current folder and if the file is found quit !	find -name file -quit
For all users in the system who have their cron jobs display user name and crontab.	getent passwd \| cut -d: -f1 \| perl -e'while{chomp;$l = `crontab -u $_ -l 2>/dev/null`;print "$_\n$l\n" if $l}'
Locate files with user permissions rwx owned by my_user	find . -user my_user -perm -u+rwx
Find all files/directories named 'foo.rb' under current directory tree	find . -name foo.rb
Find all TXT files on the system and copy them to /tmp/txt	find / -iname '*.txt' \| xargs --replace=@ cp @ /tmp/txt
display all the files in the current folder excluding those ending with ".disabled" in sorted order	find /target/ \| grep -v '\.disabled$' \| sort
Find all files/directories under current directory tree that belong to the group 'compta'	find -group compta
Display the content of YourFile.txt, waiting for user input at each page.	cat YourFile.txt \| more
search for all the files in the current folder which start with "my"	find . -name 'my*'
search for the word echo all the bash files(files ending with .bash) in the current folder	find . -name "*.bash" \|xargs grep "echo"
find all the files in the current folder which have been modified in the last 60 minutes	find . -mmin -60
search for a word in all the regular files in the current folder.	find -type f -print0 \| xargs -r0 grep -F 'example'
Archive all filepattern-2009 files/directories under data/ into 2009.tar	find data/ -name filepattern-2009 -exec tar uf 2009.tar {} ;
Remove trailing tabs in .java files from the current directory tree	find . -type f -name "*.java" -exec perl -p -i -e "s/[ \t]$//g" {} \;
Change permissions to 777 for all directories in the current directory tree	find . -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \;

find all readme files in a folder

find /usr/share/doc -name README

Find all the files that were modified within the last day

find . -mtime -1

Request MX record of 'example.com' domain, and filter out all comment strings

dig mx example.com | grep -v '^;' | grep example.com

Remove all tmp/*.mp3 files

find tmp -maxdepth 1 -name '*.mp3' -maxdepth 1 | xargs rm

Recursively finds string 'class foo' in all *.c files from current folder.

grep "class foo" **/*.c

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

tmpdir=$(mktemp -d)

search a url in all regular/normal files in a folder.

find ./ -type f -exec grep https://www.ksknet.net {} \;

search for all xml files in current folder and display them

find . -name "*.xml" -exec echo {} \;

Find empty files/directories under test directory

find test -empty

Print unique lines of "a" and "b"

comm -3 a b

find the file "foo.txt" in the current folder and assign the output to a variable

OUTPUT=`find . -name foo.txt`

Find all empty directories under /tmp

find /tmp -type d -empty

Report file systems inodes usage.

df -i

Prints date of first Tuesday in January, 2015

cal 01 2015 | sed -n '1,2b;/^.\{6\} \{0,1\}$[0-9]\{1,2\}$ .*/ {s//0\1/;s/.*$[0-9]\{2\}$$/\1/p;q;}'

Delete all files in the $DIR directory that have not been accessed in 5 or more days.

find "$DIR" -type f -atime +5 -exec rm {} \;

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

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

Find all files under foldername directory and set their permission to 644

sudo find foldername -type f -exec chmod 644 {} ";"

Write the standard output and error of "ls" to standard output and "/tmp/ls.txt"

ls 2>&1 | tee /tmp/ls.txt

long list the detials of all the shell scripts in current directory

find . -name "*.sh" -exec ls -ld {} \;

Print a space separated list of numbers from 1 to 10

seq 10 | xargs

display the long listing detials of all the files in the folder junk which is in home folder.

find ~/junk -name "*" -exec ls -l {} \;

find all the *.conf files under /

find / -name "*.conf"

print all files which name is xyzzy followed by null and save to list

find / -name xyzzy -print0 > list

Find files/directories under current directory matching the posix-egrep type regex ".+\.(c|cpp|h)$" in their names

find . -regextype posix-egrep -regex ".+\.(c|cpp|h)$"

run command "cd /home/$USERNAME/$PROJECT; svn update" with a shell as user username2

sudo -u username2 -H sh -c "cd /home/$USERNAME/$PROJECT; svn update"

find all js files which path neither ./dir1 nor ./dir2

find . -name '*.js' -not \

Search for files/directories with the case insensitive pattern anaconda.* in var/log directory and create an archive (somefile.tar) of all the files found ensuring white space safety

find var/log -print0 -iname 'anaconda.*' | tar -cvf somefile.tar -T -

Recursively change owner and group to "$JBOSS_AS_USER" of "$JBOSS_AS_DIR"

chown -R $JBOSS_AS_USER:$JBOSS_AS_USER $JBOSS_AS_DIR

List all files/directories under /myfiles directory

find /myfiles -exec ls -l {} ;

Find absolute path of command with PID "$pid"

readlink -f `ls --dereference /proc/$pid/exe`

Change symbolic link "$f" into a file

cp --remove-destination $(readlink $f) $f

Count the total number of lines in all HTML files under /usr/src that contain string "foo"

time find /usr/src -name "*.html" | xargs /usr/bin/grep -l "foo" | wc -l

Go to directory /cygdrive/c/Program Files /$dollarsign using single quotes to escape special characters, including dollar signs

cd '/cygdrive/c/Program Files /$dollarsign'

change the owner of all the files in folder /u/netinst to netinst

find /u/netinst -print | xargs chown netinst

Print every 16 bytes of standard input in groups of two followed by a space

fold -b16 | sed 's/../& /g'

Put the output of tty into a variable, then searches the output of "who" for TTY with "/dev/" removed and saves it to "WHOLINE"

TTY=$ WHOLINE=$

Find all links pointing to /path/to/foo.txt

find . -lname /path/to/foo.txt

show all the files in the folder /etc which have been modified in the last 24 hours

find /etc -mtime -1

Replace all newlines from the contents of "file" except the last with spaces

sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/ /g' file

Change owner to "bob" and group to "sftponly" of "/home/bob/writable"

sudo chown bob:sftponly /home/bob/writable

Find all *.txt files that reside under and below /home/wsuNID/

find /home/wsuNID/ -name "*.txt"

Search for regular file foo ignoring case

find . -iname foo -type f

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

find . -exec echo {} ';'

Find all directories under current directory

find . -type d -print

Extract path and query part from URL

echo "$url" | cut -d'/' -f4-

Find all files/directories under current directory with null character as the delimiter

find -print0

Set variable "b" to the first word of "a" converted to lowercase.

b=`echo "$a" | awk '{ print tolower($1) }'`

List all files in entire file system that belong to the user wnj or modified later than the ttt file

find / $ -newer ttt -or -user wnj $ -print

Run `command' on each file from the current directory tree

find . -exec command {} \;

Start "xeyes" in the background on the remote server and exit the SSH session

ssh user@server 'DISPLAY=:0 nohup xeyes < /dev/null > std.out 2> std.err &'

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

ping -c 4 www.stackoverflow.com | tail -1| awk '{print $4}' | cut -d '/' -f 2

Save the "Pictures" directory in the current user's home directory on the directory stack

pushd /home/`whoami`/Pictures

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

actual_path=$(readlink -f "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")

Find all files under current directory and show their file information

find . -type f -exec file {} \;

Create a symbolic link in directory "new" for each file in "original" directory tree

find original -type f -exec ln -s {} new/{} \;

recursively change owner of the directory testproject and all files into it to user ftpuser

chown ftpuser testproject/ -R

find regular/normal files in the current folder

find -type f

List all regular files in the current directory tree modified within the last 24 hours

find . -mtime 0 -type f -ls

Execute 'bash -c "python -m unittest discover |& pyrg"' every second and display with color support

watch -n 1 --color 'bash -c "python -m unittest discover |& pyrg"'

Find all PNG and JPG files and append them to archive `images.tar'

find . $ -iname "*.png" -o -iname "*.jpg" $ -print -exec tar -rf images.tar {} \;

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

FOLDERS=$(find . -type d | paste -d, -s)

Print "deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu precise main" and append to file "/etc/apt/sources.list"

echo "deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/webupd8team/java/ubuntu precise main" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

delete all normal/regular files in the current folder which are empty

find . -type f -empty -delete

Shows only IP4, not IP6 address of network interface eth0.

/usr/bin/ifconfig eth0 | grep --word-regexp inet | awk '{print $2}'

find all the links in the current folder which are broken

find /target -type l -xtype l

Print the most repeated line in "list2.txt" that exists in "list1.txt" prefixed by the number of occurrences

grep -Ff list1.txt list2.txt | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -n1

Resolve symbolic link of file "FILE" even if the file does not exist

readlink -m FILE

Extracts 258 lines beginning from line 16482 of in.sql and saves them to out.sql

head -16482 in.sql | tail -258 > out.sql

Print the current user name associated with standard input

who -m | awk '{print $1;}'

Find all files/directories matching the regex .*sql.*

find -regex .*sql.*

Recursively finds all files older than 7 minutes under the current directory, saves list of found files, and compresses them, executing at most 10 compress process at a time.

find . -type f -mtime +7 | tee compressedP.list | xargs -I{} -P10 compress {} &

find all jar files in current folder and search for a file in all these jar's and display the jar names along with searched file

find . -name "*.jar" -exec unzip -l {} \;|grep -E "Archive:|message_track.properties"

Print the lines of file "strings" not specified in file "index"

join -v 2 index <(nl strings)

Print a hex dump byte to byte of the output of "echo Aa"

echo Aa | od -t x1

Find all directories named "D" in the current directory tree

find . -name "D" -type d

Find all files inside all directories in /tmp/test directory and print the number of files in each directory and also print the file name and directory paths

find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 -I {} sh -c ' echo "{}: \c" ; find {} -maxdepth 1 -type f | wc -l ; find {} -maxdepth 1 -type f -print | sed "s#.*/##" '

Find and print the names of all files found in the current directory and all of its sub-directories.

find .

Interactively display all lines containing 'word' in all files whose name ends with .properties in the current directory, waiting for user input after each page.

grep -R 'word' *.properties | more

Resolve all symlinks in path to "firefox" binary if it exists in path, resulting in absolute path with no symlinks.

readlink -f $(which firefox)

use find command to search for .png and .jpg files

find ./ -type f $ -iname \*.jpg -o -iname \*.png $

Find all *.err files under current directory that are larger than 5120 bytes in size

find . -type f -size +10 -name "*.err"

search for all the php files in the folder "/home/mywebsite" which have been changed in the last 30*24 hours

find /home/mywebsite -type f -name "*.php" -ctime -30

Find all *.txt files under current directory that match the regex c|d|z in their names

find . -name '*.txt' | perl -lne 'print if /c|d|z/'

Change permissions to 755 for all directories in the current directory tree

find . -type d | xargs chmod -v 755

find all the symbolic links in the current folder

find /etc -type l -print

search for a file "file" in current folder and if the file is found quit !

find -name file -quit

For all users in the system who have their cron jobs display user name and crontab.

getent passwd | cut -d: -f1 | perl -e'while{chomp;$l = `crontab -u $_ -l 2>/dev/null`;print "$_\n$l\n" if $l}'

Locate files with user permissions rwx owned by my_user

find . -user my_user -perm -u+rwx

Find all files/directories named 'foo.rb' under current directory tree

find . -name foo.rb

Find all TXT files on the system and copy them to /tmp/txt

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

display all the files in the current folder excluding those ending with ".disabled" in sorted order

find /target/ | grep -v '\.disabled$' | sort

Find all files/directories under current directory tree that belong to the group 'compta'

find -group compta

Display the content of YourFile.txt, waiting for user input at each page.

cat YourFile.txt | more

search for all the files in the current folder which start with "my"

find . -name 'my*'

search for the word echo all the bash files(files ending with .bash) in the current folder

find . -name "*.bash" |xargs grep "echo"

find all the files in the current folder which have been modified in the last 60 minutes

find . -mmin -60

search for a word in all the regular files in the current folder.

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

Archive all filepattern-*2009* files/directories under data/ into 2009.tar

find data/ -name filepattern-*2009* -exec tar uf 2009.tar {} ;

Remove trailing tabs in .java files from the current directory tree

find . -type f -name "*.java" -exec perl -p -i -e "s/[ \t]$//g" {} \;

Change permissions to 777 for all directories in the current directory tree

find . -type d -exec chmod 777 {} \;