prabhanshubhowal/natural_language_to_linux

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Rename file extension '.andnav' to '.tile' for all files/directories under current directory tree	find . -name "*.andnav" -exec rename -v 's/\.andnav$/\.tile/i' {} \;
Get from file 'File1.txt' strings starting with 'Q', extract only part of them following after '=' sign, and print which ones are not found in 'File2.txt'	grep ^Q File1.txt \| cut -d= -f2- \| sort \| comm -23 - <(sort File2.txt)
delete all the files in the current folder	find . -print0 \| xargs -0 rm
Extract the contents of rpm "php-5.1.4-1.esp1.x86_64.rpm"	rpm2cpio php-5.1.4-1.esp1.x86_64.rpm \| cpio -idmv
Find all build* directories under /var/www/html/ and reverse sort them	find /var/www/html/ -type d -name "build*" \| sort -r
Write "\n/usr/local/boost_1_54_0/stage/lib" to standard output and append to "/etc/ld.so.conf"	echo -e "\n/usr/local/boost_1_54_0/stage/lib" \| sudo tee -a /etc/ld.so.conf
Remove files in the current directory tree whose names match pattern "file?"	find . -name "file?" -exec rm -vf {} \;
Display the content of YourFile.txt, waiting for user input at each page.	cat YourFile.txt \| more
Print the contents of "file" with " \| " appended to each line	echo `sed -e 's/$/\ \|\ /g' file`
Find all regular files with case insensitive pattern '$1' under current directory tree and execute a command given by $2 with each of those files as arguments	find . -type f -iname ''"${1:-}"'' -exec ${2:-file} {} \;
display long listing of all files in the current directory whose size is 24 or 25 bytes (doesnt display inode information) .	find . -size -26c -size +23c -exec ls -l '{}' \;
Read one character from standard input into variable "REPLY"	read -n 1 -r
Recursively copy all files and directories matching "elaL1TE" in localhost's directory /tdggendska10/vig-preview-dmz-prod/docs/sbo/pdf/ to /var/www/html/sbo/2010/teacher/ela/level1 on localhost connecting as ssh user "dalvarado", in batch mode (no prompt for passwords) preserving file permissions and timestamps, and without displaying progress information.	scp -Bpqr /tdggendska10/vig-preview-dmz-prod/docs/sbo/pdf/elaL1TE dalvarado@localhost:/var/www/html/sbo/2010/teacher/ela/level1
Print mount point of the file system containing $filename.	df "$filename" \| awk 'NR==1 {next} {print $6; exit}'
Search for all directories named foo, FOO, or any other combination of uppercase and lowercase characters beneath the current directory.	find . -iname foo -type d
Locating large files in /home/ for 'cleaning'	find /home -type f -size +100M -delete
Runs programs and prints formatted summary of system resource usage.	\time -f "%E real,%U user,%s sys" ls -Fs
Shows status of a shell option 'nullglob'.	shopt nullglob
Compare the contents of gzip-ompressed files "file1" and "file2"	diff <(zcat file1.gz) <(zcat file2.gz)
delete all the normal files in the current folder and do not delete those in the subfolders	find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -delete
Add variable TESTVAR with value "bbb" to a temporary environment, and search for TESTVAR in all variables and their values in the resulting environment.	TESTVAR=bbb env \| fgrep TESTVAR
find all js files which path neither ./dir1 nor ./dir2	find . -name '.js' -not \( -path "./dir1" -o -path "./dir2/" \)
Print numbers from 1 to 30 with equalized 0 padding	seq -w 30
Find files/directories with inode number '212042' under '/var' directory tree without traversing other devices/partitions	find -x /var -inum 212042
Print history with the first field removed	history \| awk '{sub; sub; print}'
Sort file.txt ignoring the last 10 characters of each line.	sort file.txt \| rev \| uniq -f 10 \| rev
find all the normal/regular files in the folder "pathfolder" excluding all hidden files and display the count	find pathfolder -maxdepth 1 -type f -not -path '/\.' \| wc -l
Find all Makefile's in the current directory tree and print the line 235 of each of them	find . -type f -name Makefile -print -exec sed -n '235p' {} \;
Prints long listing of content in the current folder with C-style escapes for nongraphic characters	ls -lb
Delete all files/directories with '.old' extension under current directory tree	find . -name “*.old” -delete
Synchronize "/path/to/dir_b" with files in "/path/to/dir_a/" if the files are newer	rsync -rtuv /path/to/dir_a/* /path/to/dir_b
find all text files in the current directory	find . -name "*.txt" -print
Find all regular files on the system whose size is greater than 20000k	find / -type f -size +20000k
Find files in the current directory tree whose names begin with "file" and whose size is 0, and remove them	find . -name 'file*' -size 0 -print0 \| xargs -0 rm
Display a long listing of the files/directories with human readable sizes under '/var' directory tree which are bigger than 10MB	find /var/ -size +10M -exec ls -lh {} \;
display all the files in the current folder for the files which have been accessed in the last 24 hours	find . -type f -atime -1
Execute "cd /some/directory/myprogram" in the background on target machine "user@target" and write standard output and standard error to foo.out and foo.err	ssh user@target "cd /some/directory; nohup myprogram > foo.out 2> foo.err < /dev/null"
Find regular files under / that contain "stringtofind" and clear out their contents	find / -maxdepth 1 -xdev -type f -exec grep -li "stringtofind" {} + \| parallel sed "'/./d'" '{}'
Reports time consumed by command 'sleep 1' to the file time.txt together with command error output.	{ time sleep 1 ; } 2> time.txt
Find all files/directories with '.bar' extension in maximum 2 levels down the current directory	find . -name *.bar -maxdepth 2 -print
Recursively search for all files with names ending with "_test.rb", renaming them to end with "_spec.rb".	find . -name "*_test.rb" \| xargs rename s/_test/_spec/
Find and remove multiple *.txt files	find . -type f -name "*.txt" -exec rm -f {} \;
display the contents of all the regular files in the current folder and save the output to out.txt	find . -type f -exec cat {} \; > out.txt
find a file in current folder and show all errors apart from permission denied	find /. -name 'toBeSearched.file' 2>&1 \| grep -v 'Permission denied'
Find all lines matching "$USER" in "file" and number the output	grep $USER file \|nl
Gets MAC address of eth0 network interface.	ifconfig eth0 \| grep HWaddr \| cut -d ' ' -f 9
Invoke a trusted X11 forwarding SSH connection with the server $ssh_server as user $ssh_user	ssh -Y $ssh_user@$ssh_server
Run two processes, cmd1 whose output is fed as input to cmd2: cmd1 is immune to all SIGHUP signals sent to it, but cmd2 is not.	nohup cmd1 \| cmd2 &
Find all .mp3 files starting from the current directory	find . -type f -iname *.mp3
find all the directories with the name "c" in the current folder which are at least 3 levels deep and which are not present in the path "/p/".	find -mindepth 3 -type d -path '/p/' -prune -o -name c -print
change the directory to the last found folder in the directory 'a'	cd `find a \|sed '$!d'`
Print all '-' separated digits in file 'infile' as dot ('.') separated digits	grep -Eo '([0-9]+-){3}[0-9]+' infile \| tr - .
find all the files in the home folder that have not been modified in the last one year	find $HOME -mtime +365
Remove file with inode number 31246	find . -inum 31246 -exec rm [] ';'
Kill all processes which were executed in background by the current shell.	jobs -p \| xargs kill -9
Find '*prefs copy' files under /mnt/zip and delete them with confirmation prompt ensuring white space safety	find /mnt/zip -name "*prefs copy" -print0 \| xargs -0 -p /bin/rm
Find all PHP files under current directory that contain only one non-blank line	find . -type f -name '*.php' -exec grep -Hcm2 '[^[:space:]]' {} + \| sed -n '/:1$/{s///;p}'
Print last 10 commands in history with the first 7 characters removed	history 10 \| cut -c 8-
split the file "file" into pieces per 2 lines	split -n2 infile
Find files in the current directory tree whose names match regular expression "^.~$\\|^.#$"	find -regex "^.~$\\|^.#$"
Search the system for files whose names begin with letters 'a', 'b', or 'c'	find / -name '[a-c]*'
delete all the files in the current folder which are bigger than 1KB	find . -size +1024 ?print\|xargs -i rm \;
Search the directories matching pattern "/path/to/some/dir/*[0-9]" for level 1 subdirectories	find /path/to/some/dir/*[0-9] -type d -maxdepth 1
Copies files 'src/prog.js' and 'images/icon.jpg' with fully-defined path to '/tmp/package' directory.	cp --parents src/prog.js images/icon.jpg /tmp/package
Compute the mean average of the word count of *.txt files in the home directory	find ~/ -name '*.txt' -print0 \| xargs -0 wc -w \| awk 'END { print $1/(NR-1) }'
Get current directory name without full path, ie. the part after the last /	pwd \| awk -F / '{print $NF}'
Find files in the current directory recursively that are not readable by all	find -type f ! -perm -444
Recursively change the owner and group of "subdir1" to "user1"	chown user1:user1 -R subdir1
Copy all files below the current directory whose names contain "FooBar" to directory foo/bar/ in user's home directory.	find . \| grep FooBar \| xargs -I{} cp {} ~/foo/bar
check the type of files in the folder /usr/bin	find /usr/bin \| xargs file
Display all regular files under current directory tree ignoring files in './dir1' and './dir2' directories	find . -type f \|sed '/.\/dir[12]\/[^/]*$/d'
Display the contents of /var/log/syslog one page at a time, pausing for user interaction between each.	more /var/log/syslog
Remove Mac OS X Desktop Services Store files	find . -name ".DS_Store" -exec rm {} \;
find all the files which end with ".deb" and display their base name (strip the extension)	find . -name '*.deb' -exec basename {} \;
Change ownership of "/vol" to the current user	sudo chown `whoami` /vol
Find files newer than `tmpfile' starting from the current directory	find . -newer tmpfile
create a backup of all normal/regular files in current folder which have been modified between two dates and create a tar.gz file of this backup	find /path/to/files/ -newermt 20131204 -not -newermt 20131205 -type f -print0 \| cpio --create --null --format=ustar \| gzip > /tmp/dec-4.tar.gz
Find all *.css files under /starting/directory and print filenames and the lines matching the regex '\.ExampleClass' from those files	find /starting/directory -type f -name '*.css' \| xargs -ti grep '\.ExampleClass' {}
Find files/directories under current directory that matches the regex /path/to/something[^/]*$ in their paths	find . \| grep -qi /path/to/something[^/]*$
Print crontabs of all users in system, skipping messages that some users don`t have crontab.	cat /etc/passwd \| sed 's/^\:.*$/crontab -u \1 -l 2>\&1/' \| sh \| grep -v "no crontab for"
Write "Hello, world" to standard output and to "/tmp/outfile"	echo "Hello, world" \| tee /tmp/outfile
list all running jobs	jobs
search for files which are writable by both their owner and their group	find . -perm -220
move all the files in the current folder to temp folder and search atleast in one subfolder	find . -mindepth 1 -exec mv -t /tmp {} +
bind word "foobar" to key code "\e[24~"	bind '"\e[24~":"foobar"'
List ".java" files that have the same contents	md5sum *.java \| sort \| uniq -d -w32
find all files under the /etc/sysconfig directory that were accessed in the last 30 minutes	find /etc/sysconfig -amin -30
Save the current working directory with resolved symbolic links to variable "real1"	real1=$(pwd -P)
Find files in the current directory tree whose pathnames contain "sub"	find ./ \| grep "sub"
Search for the query "filename" in the current directory and any subdirectories	find -iname "filename"
Print 1 byte from "/dev/urandom" as a signed decimal value and no address radix	od -A n -t d -N 1 /dev/urandom
Search the current directory tree for symlinks pointing at other symlinks	find . -type l -xtype l
Case insensitive search using find command in Linux	find . –iname "error" –print find . –iname "error" –print
Find all the files/directories in the entire filesystem that do not belong to user 'wnj' and are not newer than the file/directory 'ttt' by modification time	find / \! \( -newer ttt -user wnj \) -print
Set permissions for files in `foldername' and its subdirectories to 644	find foldername -type f -exec chmod 644 {} ";"
Find all *.foo files under current directory and print their contents	find . -name '*.foo' -exec cat {} \;
Display all files in the current directory tree that match "*foo"	tree -P "*foo"
Print the list of the current directory's subdirectories	find -maxdepth 1 -type d
Find all directories in current directory without going into sub-directories	find . -type d -maxdepth 1
Find all directories under current directory whose names are 33 characters long	find . -type d -name "?????????????????????????????????"

Rename file extension '.andnav' to '.tile' for all files/directories under current directory tree

find . -name "*.andnav" -exec rename -v 's/\.andnav$/\.tile/i' {} \;

Get from file 'File1.txt' strings starting with 'Q', extract only part of them following after '=' sign, and print which ones are not found in 'File2.txt'

grep ^Q File1.txt | cut -d= -f2- | sort | comm -23 - <(sort File2.txt)

delete all the files in the current folder

find . -print0 | xargs -0 rm

Extract the contents of rpm "php-5.1.4-1.esp1.x86_64.rpm"

rpm2cpio php-5.1.4-1.esp1.x86_64.rpm | cpio -idmv

Find all build* directories under /var/www/html/ and reverse sort them

find /var/www/html/ -type d -name "build*" | sort -r

Write "\n/usr/local/boost_1_54_0/stage/lib" to standard output and append to "/etc/ld.so.conf"

echo -e "\n/usr/local/boost_1_54_0/stage/lib" | sudo tee -a /etc/ld.so.conf

Remove files in the current directory tree whose names match pattern "file?"

find . -name "file?" -exec rm -vf {} \;

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

cat YourFile.txt | more

Print the contents of "file" with " | " appended to each line

echo `sed -e 's/$/\ |\ /g' file`

Find all regular files with case insensitive pattern '*$1*' under current directory tree and execute a command given by $2 with each of those files as arguments

find . -type f -iname '*'"${1:-}"'*' -exec ${2:-file} {} \;

display long listing of all files in the current directory whose size is 24 or 25 bytes (doesnt display inode information) .

find . -size -26c -size +23c -exec ls -l '{}' \;

Read one character from standard input into variable "REPLY"

read -n 1 -r

Recursively copy all files and directories matching "*ela*L1*TE*" in localhost's directory /tdggendska10/vig-preview-dmz-prod/docs/sbo/pdf/ to /var/www/html/sbo/2010/teacher/ela/level1 on localhost connecting as ssh user "dalvarado", in batch mode (no prompt for passwords) preserving file permissions and timestamps, and without displaying progress information.

scp -Bpqr /tdggendska10/vig-preview-dmz-prod/docs/sbo/pdf/*ela*L1*TE* dalvarado@localhost:/var/www/html/sbo/2010/teacher/ela/level1

Print mount point of the file system containing $filename.

df "$filename" | awk 'NR==1 {next} {print $6; exit}'

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

find . -iname foo -type d

Locating large files in /home/ for 'cleaning'

find /home -type f -size +100M -delete

Runs programs and prints formatted summary of system resource usage.

\time -f "%E real,%U user,%s sys" ls -Fs

Shows status of a shell option 'nullglob'.

shopt nullglob

Compare the contents of gzip-ompressed files "file1" and "file2"

diff <(zcat file1.gz) <(zcat file2.gz)

delete all the normal files in the current folder and do not delete those in the subfolders

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -delete

Add variable TESTVAR with value "bbb" to a temporary environment, and search for TESTVAR in all variables and their values in the resulting environment.

TESTVAR=bbb env | fgrep TESTVAR

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

find . -name '*.js' -not $ -path "./dir1" -o -path "./dir2/*" $

Print numbers from 1 to 30 with equalized 0 padding

seq -w 30

Find files/directories with inode number '212042' under '/var' directory tree without traversing other devices/partitions

find -x /var -inum 212042

Print history with the first field removed

history | awk '{sub; sub; print}'

Sort file.txt ignoring the last 10 characters of each line.

sort file.txt | rev | uniq -f 10 | rev

find all the normal/regular files in the folder "pathfolder" excluding all hidden files and display the count

find pathfolder -maxdepth 1 -type f -not -path '*/\.*' | wc -l

Find all Makefile's in the current directory tree and print the line 235 of each of them

find . -type f -name Makefile -print -exec sed -n '235p' {} \;

Prints long listing of content in the current folder with C-style escapes for nongraphic characters

ls -lb

Delete all files/directories with '.old' extension under current directory tree

find . -name “*.old” -delete

Synchronize "/path/to/dir_b" with files in "/path/to/dir_a/" if the files are newer

rsync -rtuv /path/to/dir_a/* /path/to/dir_b

find all text files in the current directory

find . -name "*.txt" -print

Find all regular files on the system whose size is greater than 20000k

find / -type f -size +20000k

Find files in the current directory tree whose names begin with "file" and whose size is 0, and remove them

find . -name 'file*' -size 0 -print0 | xargs -0 rm

Display a long listing of the files/directories with human readable sizes under '/var' directory tree which are bigger than 10MB

find /var/ -size +10M -exec ls -lh {} \;

display all the files in the current folder for the files which have been accessed in the last 24 hours

find . -type f -atime -1

Execute "cd /some/directory/myprogram" in the background on target machine "user@target" and write standard output and standard error to foo.out and foo.err

ssh user@target "cd /some/directory; nohup myprogram > foo.out 2> foo.err < /dev/null"

Find regular files under / that contain "stringtofind" and clear out their contents

find / -maxdepth 1 -xdev -type f -exec grep -li "stringtofind" {} + | parallel sed "'/./d'" '{}'

Reports time consumed by command 'sleep 1' to the file time.txt together with command error output.

{ time sleep 1 ; } 2> time.txt

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

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

Recursively search for all files with names ending with "_test.rb", renaming them to end with "_spec.rb".

find . -name "*_test.rb" | xargs rename s/_test/_spec/

Find and remove multiple *.txt files

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

display the contents of all the regular files in the current folder and save the output to out.txt

find . -type f -exec cat {} \; > out.txt

find a file in current folder and show all errors apart from permission denied

find /. -name 'toBeSearched.file' 2>&1 | grep -v 'Permission denied'

Find all lines matching "$USER" in "file" and number the output

grep $USER file |nl

Gets MAC address of eth0 network interface.

ifconfig eth0 | grep HWaddr | cut -d ' ' -f 9

Invoke a trusted X11 forwarding SSH connection with the server $ssh_server as user $ssh_user

ssh -Y $ssh_user@$ssh_server

Run two processes, cmd1 whose output is fed as input to cmd2: cmd1 is immune to all SIGHUP signals sent to it, but cmd2 is not.

nohup cmd1 | cmd2 &

Find all .mp3 files starting from the current directory

find . -type f -iname *.mp3

find all the directories with the name "c" in the current folder which are at least 3 levels deep and which are not present in the path "/p/".

find -mindepth 3 -type d -path '*/p/*' -prune -o -name c -print

change the directory to the last found folder in the directory 'a'

cd `find a |sed '$!d'`

Print all '-' separated digits in file 'infile' as dot ('.') separated digits

grep -Eo '([0-9]+-){3}[0-9]+' infile | tr - .

find all the files in the home folder that have not been modified in the last one year

find $HOME -mtime +365

Remove file with inode number 31246

find . -inum 31246 -exec rm [] ';'

Kill all processes which were executed in background by the current shell.

jobs -p | xargs kill -9

Find '*prefs copy' files under /mnt/zip and delete them with confirmation prompt ensuring white space safety

find /mnt/zip -name "*prefs copy" -print0 | xargs -0 -p /bin/rm

Find all PHP files under current directory that contain only one non-blank line

find . -type f -name '*.php' -exec grep -Hcm2 '[^[:space:]]' {} + | sed -n '/:1$/{s///;p}'

Print last 10 commands in history with the first 7 characters removed

history 10 | cut -c 8-

split the file "file" into pieces per 2 lines

split -n2 infile

Find files in the current directory tree whose names match regular expression "^.*~$\|^.*#$"

find -regex "^.*~$\|^.*#$"

Search the system for files whose names begin with letters 'a', 'b', or 'c'

find / -name '[a-c]*'

delete all the files in the current folder which are bigger than 1KB

find . -size +1024 ?print|xargs -i rm \;

Search the directories matching pattern "/path/to/some/dir/*[0-9]" for level 1 subdirectories

find /path/to/some/dir/*[0-9] -type d -maxdepth 1

Copies files 'src/prog.js' and 'images/icon.jpg' with fully-defined path to '/tmp/package' directory.

cp --parents src/prog.js images/icon.jpg /tmp/package

Compute the mean average of the word count of *.txt files in the home directory

find ~/ -name '*.txt' -print0 | xargs -0 wc -w | awk 'END { print $1/(NR-1) }'

Get current directory name without full path, ie. the part after the last /

pwd | awk -F / '{print $NF}'

Find files in the current directory recursively that are not readable by all

find -type f ! -perm -444

Recursively change the owner and group of "subdir1" to "user1"

chown user1:user1 -R subdir1

Copy all files below the current directory whose names contain "FooBar" to directory foo/bar/ in user's home directory.

find . | grep FooBar | xargs -I{} cp {} ~/foo/bar

check the type of files in the folder /usr/bin

find /usr/bin | xargs file

Display all regular files under current directory tree ignoring files in './dir1' and './dir2' directories

find . -type f |sed '/.\/dir[12]\/[^/]*$/d'

Display the contents of /var/log/syslog one page at a time, pausing for user interaction between each.

more /var/log/syslog

Remove Mac OS X Desktop Services Store files

find . -name ".DS_Store" -exec rm {} \;

find all the files which end with ".deb" and display their base name (strip the extension)

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

Change ownership of "/vol" to the current user

sudo chown `whoami` /vol

Find files newer than `tmpfile' starting from the current directory

find . -newer tmpfile

create a backup of all normal/regular files in current folder which have been modified between two dates and create a tar.gz file of this backup

find /path/to/files/ -newermt 20131204 -not -newermt 20131205 -type f -print0 | cpio --create --null --format=ustar | gzip > /tmp/dec-4.tar.gz

Find all *.css files under /starting/directory and print filenames and the lines matching the regex '\.ExampleClass' from those files

find /starting/directory -type f -name '*.css' | xargs -ti grep '\.ExampleClass' {}

Find files/directories under current directory that matches the regex /path/to/something[^/]*$ in their paths

find . | grep -qi /path/to/something[^/]*$

Print crontabs of all users in system, skipping messages that some users don`t have crontab.

cat /etc/passwd | sed 's/^\:.*$/crontab -u \1 -l 2>\&1/' | sh | grep -v "no crontab for"

Write "Hello, world" to standard output and to "/tmp/outfile"

echo "Hello, world" | tee /tmp/outfile

list all running jobs

jobs

search for files which are writable by both their owner and their group

find . -perm -220

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

find . -mindepth 1 -exec mv -t /tmp {} +

bind word "foobar" to key code "\e[24~"

bind '"\e[24~":"foobar"'

List ".java" files that have the same contents

md5sum *.java | sort | uniq -d -w32

find all files under the /etc/sysconfig directory that were accessed in the last 30 minutes

find /etc/sysconfig -amin -30

Save the current working directory with resolved symbolic links to variable "real1"

real1=$(pwd -P)

Find files in the current directory tree whose pathnames contain "sub"

find ./ | grep "sub"

Search for the query "filename" in the current directory and any subdirectories

find -iname "filename"

Print 1 byte from "/dev/urandom" as a signed decimal value and no address radix

od -A n -t d -N 1 /dev/urandom

Search the current directory tree for symlinks pointing at other symlinks

find . -type l -xtype l

Case insensitive search using find command in Linux

find . –iname "error" –print find . –iname "error" –print

Find all the files/directories in the entire filesystem that do not belong to user 'wnj' and are not newer than the file/directory 'ttt' by modification time

find / \! $ -newer ttt -user wnj $ -print

Set permissions for files in `foldername' and its subdirectories to 644

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

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

find . -name '*.foo' -exec cat {} \;

Display all files in the current directory tree that match "*foo"

tree -P "*foo"

Print the list of the current directory's subdirectories

find -maxdepth 1 -type d

Find all directories in current directory without going into sub-directories

find . -type d -maxdepth 1

Find all directories under current directory whose names are 33 characters long

find . -type d -name "?????????????????????????????????"