prabhanshubhowal/natural_language_to_linux

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Exit the shell immediately if an error is encountered, treat references to unset variables as errors, disable overwriting existing files, and use the first non-zero exit code of a set of piped commands as the exit code of the full set of commands	set -o errexit -o nounset -o noclobber -o pipefail
set alias "current" for command 'cd $'	alias current='cd $'
Print a sorted list of the extensions of the regular files from the current directory tree matching pattern '*.???'	find . -type f -name "*.???" \| awk -F. '{print $NF}' \| sort -u
Find all files/directories that are owned by user 'wnj' and are newer than 'ttt' by modification time in the entire filesystem	find / -newer ttt -user wnj -print
Find all files/directories under current directory and sort them	find \| sort
Prints file descriptor of executed built-in 'true'.	echo <(true)
Search directory trees /tmp and /var/tmp for "testfile.txt"	find /tmp /var/tmp -iname "testfile.txt"
List files in directory "one" that exist in directory "two"	sort <(ls one) <(ls two) \| uniq -d
Remove all files and directories called "test" from the current directory tree	find . -name test -delete
find all the files ending with jpg in current folder and display their count ( case insensitive )	find ./ -type f -regex ".*\.[Jj][Pp][gG]$" \| wc -l
Print the last space separated word from "Your string here"	echo "Your string here"\| tr ' ' '\n' \| tail -n1
Extract tar.gz archive and go into the directory that would normally be created by extracting it.	tar xvf "$myarchive" && cd "${myarchive%.tar.gz}"
Print a welcome message with the current user's user name	echo -ne "Welcome `whoami`!\n"
Finds strings like "texthere" recursively in all files of a current folder regarding all symlinks.	grep -R "texthere" *
find all files in home folder which have been modified after a timestamp	find ~ -newer /tmp/timestamp
find all the files in the current folder which have been modified in the last one minute	find . -type f -mmin 0
find all the files in the current directory and sub-directories, that were edited within the last 1 hour and execute the list command with long listing format	find -mmin -60 -exec ls -l {} \;
Search the current directory tree for files and directories whose names do not end in ".exe" and ".dll"	find . -not -name ".exe" -not -name ".dll"
For each line of the sorted output of both file1 and file2, print lines whose first field of file2 does not appear as first field of file1.	join -v1 < <
Change the owner to "hduser" and group to "hadoop" of "{directory path}"	sudo chown hduser:hadoop {directory path}
Find any hidden regular files in the current directory and its sub-directories that were modified after .cshrc was last modified.	find . -type f -name ".*" -newer .cshrc -print
Find files that are writable by both the “other” and the group under the plsql directory	find plsql -type f -perm -ug=rw -exec ls -l {} \; 2>/dev/null
Calculate the md5sum of the executable file of command "gcc"	md5sum $(which gcc)
Finds PIDs of all running processes, gets executable binary of each process, and prints containing folder of each binary.	ps -A -o pid \| xargs -I pid readlink "/proc/pid/exe" \| xargs -I file dirname "file"
find the oldest normal file in the current directory	find -type f -printf '%T+ %p\n' \| sort \| head -n 1
Print linux group names on multiple lines instead of single line output	groups \| tr \ \\n
Print the time to ping "8.8.8.8" followed by a time stamp if the ping is greater than 58	ping 8.8.8.8 \| awk '{split;if print a[2], strftime}'
Display a long list of all the files/directories named ".todo" under $STORAGEFOLDER directory tree	find $STORAGEFOLDER -name .todo -exec ls -l {} \;
find all the files in the current folder which do not have the execute permission	find . -type d ! -perm -111
create directory dirname with permissions 777	mkdir -m 777 dirname
find files having the extension "bam" in current directory	find . -name "*.bam"
Find the file in the current directory tree with inode number $inum and delete it	find . -inum $inum -exec rm {} \;
Display differences between /destination/dir/1 and /destination/dir/2 excluding XML files.	diff /destination/dir/1 /destination/dir/2 -r -x *.xml
Calculate the md5sum of the executable file of command "gcc"	md5sum $
Find all executable upvoter-* files/symlinks under maximum 1 level down the {} directory	find {} -name 'upvoter-*' \( -type f -or -type l \) -maxdepth 1 -perm +111
Execute "myfile" on all .ogv files from the current directory tree	find ./ -name *.ogv -exec bash -c 'myfile {}' \;
search for the directory "config" in the current folder and change directory to it	cd `find . -name "config"`
Make directory "/etc/cron.15sec"	mkdir /etc/cron.15sec
List detailed information about all Jar files in the current directory tree	find . -name "*.jar" -exec zipinfo {} \;
Read a line from standard input into the first argument ("$1") using an interactive shell with prompt "> "	read -e -p '> ' $1
Find all regular *.css files	find . -type f -name "*.css"
Find all files/directories under current directory tree with inode number 211028 and move them to 'newname.dir'	find . -inum 211028 -exec mv {} newname.dir \;
find all the cpp files in the current folder and move them to another folder	find . -type f -iname '*.cpp' -exec mv {} ./test/ \;
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
Replace the occurrences of "HOGE" with "MOGA" once per each line of the .yaml files from the current directory tree	find . -type f -name "*.yaml" -print0 \| xargs -0 sed -i -e "s/HOGE/MOGA/"
Delete current cron job list, and use those in yourFile.text	crontab yourFile.text
Find regular files readable by the world	find . -perm -g=r -type f -exec ls -l {} \;
Recursively finds all '*.pdf' files in a current folder and removes them without prompting.	find . -name '*.pdf' -exec rm -f {} \;
Find files/directories under current directory without descending into it	find -prune
Find all directories under current directory and set read-write-execute permission for owner, read-execute permission for group and execute permission for other for those directories	find . -type d -exec chmod u=rwx,g=rx,o=x {} \;
List .html files in the current directory tree that contain string "base\-maps" but do NOT contain string "base\-maps\-bot"	find . -name "*.html" -exec grep -lR 'base\-maps' {} \; \| xargs grep -L 'base\-maps\-bot'
find all the files in the current folder with the name "test-a" and move them to the folder test-10	find ~ -type f -name test-a -exec mv {} test-10 \;
Print the list of files and directories of the /etc directory	find /etc/. ! -name /etc/.
Print the /proc directory tree, ignoring the PID-process things	find /proc -type d \| egrep -v '/proc/[0-9]*' \| less
Find files/directories with exactly read,write and execute permission for all under /path	find /path -perm 777
Find a single file called FindCommandExamples.txt under current directory and remove it	find . -type f -name "FindCommandExamples.txt" -exec rm -f {} \;
get the root user access	sudo su
Find the passwd file under root and one level down.	find -maxdepth 2 -name passwd
find all directories with the name test in a directory	find /home/john -type d -name test -print
Find recursively the latest modified .zip file in the current directory	find . -name "*zip" -type f \| xargs ls -ltr \| tail -1
find all the files in the current folder which have execute permission to all the users	find . -perm /u=x,g=x,o=x
Find all files with name "file.ext" under the current working directory tree and print each full path directory name	find `pwd` -name file.ext \|xargs -l1 dirname
Remove all directories called "test" from the current directory tree	find . -name test -type d -print0\|xargs -0 rm -r --
find all text files in user/directory/ which have been modified today and display the last line of these files	find /user/directory/ -name "*txt" -mtime 0 -type f -printf '%p: ' -exec tail -1 {} \;
search for al cpp files in current folder and replace all expect the parent directory name of these files and display it them sorted order	find . -name '.cpp' \| sed -e 's/\/[^/]$//' \| sort \| uniq
find all the files that have been modified exactly 24 hours ago	find . -type f -mtime 1
display all the files in the folder "$ORIG_DIR"	find "$ORIG_DIR"
Search the current directory recursively for regular files that have been changed less than 3 days ago and print 5 of them.	find . -type f -ctime -3 \| tail -n 5
Use "$BYTES" amount of RAM with no output	yes \| tr \\n x \| head -c $BYTES \| grep n
Set variable PacketLoss to first digit of percentage of packet loss occurring when pinging host specified by TestIP	PacketLoss=$
display all the text files in the current folder and do not search in the bin directory	find . -name bin -prune -o -name "*.txt" -print
View the bash manpage, starting with the view positioned at the first occurrence of the expression "BASH_SOURCE".	man bash \| less -p BASH_SOURCE
Print A record for domain 'domain.' from 'ns2.newnameserver' nameserver	dig @ns2.newnameserver domain. a
Print a colon-separated list of all directories from the $root directory tree	find $root -type d \| tr '\n' ':'
Modify and rewrite 'file' replacing the first instance of "foo" on each line with "bar"	sed -i 's/foo/bar/' file
delete all the normal/regular files in the current folder	find . -type f -print -delete
Copy all files under director 'foo' whose name doesn't contain 'Music' to directory 'bar'.	find foo -type f ! -name 'Music' -exec cp {} bar \;
Finds if environment variable like 'DUALCASE' exists in environment.	env \| grep DUALCASE
Change ownership of "/data/db" to the current user	sudo chown `whoami` /data/db
Change the owner of all ".txt" files in directory tree "/mydir" to "root"	find /mydir -type f -name "*.txt" -execdir chown root {} ';'
Print out all files with their paths that have identical content and the same filename in different cases	find * -type f \| xargs md5sum \| sort \| uniq -Dw32 \| awk -F'[ /]' '{ print $NF }' \| sort -f \| uniq -Di
Print the $N'th line from file by replacing commas (',') with newlines	head -$N file \| tail -1 \| tr ',' '\n'
Print a top 20 histogram of characters used from standard input showing backslash escapes for non-displayables	od -cvAnone -w1 \| sort -b \| uniq -c \| sort -rn \| head -n 20
Remove Mac OS X Desktop Services Store files	find . -name ".DS_Store" -exec rm {} \;
recursively change owner of the directory /usr/lib/node_modules/ to the current user	sudo chown -R $ /usr/lib/node_modules/
Remove all text files in the home directory with confirmation	find $HOME/. -name *.txt -ok rm {} \;
Print the names of all hidden regular files from the current directory	find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '.*' -exec basename {} \;
Find all files in and below the home directory that have been modified in the last 90 minutes	find ~ -mmin -90
Find all directories in entire file system which are larger than 50KB	find / -type d -size +50k
Move all files from the current directory to "targetdirectory"	find . ! -name . -prune -exec sh -c 'mv "$@" targetdirectory/' sh {} +
Show the number of regular files in the current directory tree	find . -type f \| wc -l
Print the absolute path of third-level files under the current directory tree and number the output	ls -d -1 $PWD/*//* \| nl
Find all Lemon*.mp3 files under current directory and run mplayer with these files	find . -name 'Lemon*.mp3' -print0 \| xargs -0 -i mplayer '{}'
Find all the files which are accessed in last 1 hour in entire file system	find / -amin -60
Print the current directory tree	tree
create directories mnt and point	mkdir mnt point
List each unique case insensitive character in "file" prefixed by number of occurrences and sorted from most frequent to least frequent	grep -o . filename \| tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' \| sort \| uniq -c \| sort -nr
Print and save the ping results of 25 requests to "google.com" in "/home/user/myLogFile.log" containing at most 100000 bytes	ping -c 25 google.com \| tee >
Print out ln commands for each file in /home/folder1/*.txt that can be run to create symlinks appending '_CUSTOM_TEXT.txt' in their names	find /home/folder1/*.txt -type f \| awk -F '.txt' '{printf "ln -s %s %s_CUSTOM_TEXT.txt\n", $0, $1}'
update the permissions of the directories in the folder folder_name to 775	find folder_name -type d -exec chmod 775 ‘{}’ \;

Exit the shell immediately if an error is encountered, treat references to unset variables as errors, disable overwriting existing files, and use the first non-zero exit code of a set of piped commands as the exit code of the full set of commands

set -o errexit -o nounset -o noclobber -o pipefail

set alias "current" for command 'cd $'

alias current='cd $'

Print a sorted list of the extensions of the regular files from the current directory tree matching pattern '*.???'

find . -type f -name "*.???" | awk -F. '{print $NF}' | sort -u

Find all files/directories that are owned by user 'wnj' and are newer than 'ttt' by modification time in the entire filesystem

find / -newer ttt -user wnj -print

Find all files/directories under current directory and sort them

find | sort

Prints file descriptor of executed built-in 'true'.

echo <(true)

Search directory trees /tmp and /var/tmp for "testfile.txt"

find /tmp /var/tmp -iname "testfile.txt"

List files in directory "one" that exist in directory "two"

sort <(ls one) <(ls two) | uniq -d

Remove all files and directories called "test" from the current directory tree

find . -name test -delete

find all the files ending with jpg in current folder and display their count ( case insensitive )

find ./ -type f -regex ".*\.[Jj][Pp][gG]$" | wc -l

Print the last space separated word from "Your string here"

echo "Your string here"| tr ' ' '\n' | tail -n1

Extract tar.gz archive and go into the directory that would normally be created by extracting it.

tar xvf "$myarchive" && cd "${myarchive%.tar.gz}"

Print a welcome message with the current user's user name

echo -ne "Welcome `whoami`!\n"

Finds strings like "texthere" recursively in all files of a current folder regarding all symlinks.

grep -R "texthere" *

find all files in home folder which have been modified after a timestamp

find ~ -newer /tmp/timestamp

find all the files in the current folder which have been modified in the last one minute

find . -type f -mmin 0

find all the files in the current directory and sub-directories, that were edited within the last 1 hour and execute the list command with long listing format

find -mmin -60 -exec ls -l {} \;

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

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

For each line of the sorted output of both file1 and file2, print lines whose first field of file2 does not appear as first field of file1.

join -v1 < <

Change the owner to "hduser" and group to "hadoop" of "{directory path}"

sudo chown hduser:hadoop {directory path}

Find any hidden regular files in the current directory and its sub-directories that were modified after .cshrc was last modified.

find . -type f -name ".*" -newer .cshrc -print

Find files that are writable by both the “other” and the group under the plsql directory

find plsql -type f -perm -ug=rw -exec ls -l {} \; 2>/dev/null

Calculate the md5sum of the executable file of command "gcc"

md5sum $(which gcc)

Finds PIDs of all running processes, gets executable binary of each process, and prints containing folder of each binary.

ps -A -o pid | xargs -I pid readlink "/proc/pid/exe" | xargs -I file dirname "file"

find the oldest normal file in the current directory

find -type f -printf '%T+ %p\n' | sort | head -n 1

Print linux group names on multiple lines instead of single line output

groups | tr \ \\n

Print the time to ping "8.8.8.8" followed by a time stamp if the ping is greater than 58

ping 8.8.8.8 | awk '{split;if print a[2], strftime}'

Display a long list of all the files/directories named ".todo" under $STORAGEFOLDER directory tree

find $STORAGEFOLDER -name .todo -exec ls -l {} \;

find all the files in the current folder which do not have the execute permission

find . -type d ! -perm -111

create directory dirname with permissions 777

mkdir -m 777 dirname

find files having the extension "bam" in current directory

find . -name "*.bam"

Find the file in the current directory tree with inode number $inum and delete it

find . -inum $inum -exec rm {} \;

Display differences between /destination/dir/1 and /destination/dir/2 excluding XML files.

diff /destination/dir/1 /destination/dir/2 -r -x *.xml

Calculate the md5sum of the executable file of command "gcc"

md5sum $

Find all executable upvoter-* files/symlinks under maximum 1 level down the {} directory

find {} -name 'upvoter-*' $ -type f -or -type l $ -maxdepth 1 -perm +111

Execute "myfile" on all .ogv files from the current directory tree

find ./ -name *.ogv -exec bash -c 'myfile {}' \;

search for the directory "config" in the current folder and change directory to it

cd `find . -name "config"`

Make directory "/etc/cron.15sec"

mkdir /etc/cron.15sec

List detailed information about all Jar files in the current directory tree

find . -name "*.jar" -exec zipinfo {} \;

Read a line from standard input into the first argument ("$1") using an interactive shell with prompt "> "

read -e -p '> ' $1

Find all regular *.css files

find . -type f -name "*.css"

Find all files/directories under current directory tree with inode number 211028 and move them to 'newname.dir'

find . -inum 211028 -exec mv {} newname.dir \;

find all the cpp files in the current folder and move them to another folder

find . -type f -iname '*.cpp' -exec mv {} ./test/ \;

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

Replace the occurrences of "HOGE" with "MOGA" once per each line of the .yaml files from the current directory tree

find . -type f -name "*.yaml" -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i -e "s/HOGE/MOGA/"

Delete current cron job list, and use those in yourFile.text

crontab yourFile.text

Find regular files readable by the world

find . -perm -g=r -type f -exec ls -l {} \;

Recursively finds all '*.pdf' files in a current folder and removes them without prompting.

find . -name '*.pdf' -exec rm -f {} \;

Find files/directories under current directory without descending into it

find -prune

Find all directories under current directory and set read-write-execute permission for owner, read-execute permission for group and execute permission for other for those directories

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

List .html files in the current directory tree that contain string "base\-maps" but do NOT contain string "base\-maps\-bot"

find . -name "*.html" -exec grep -lR 'base\-maps' {} \; | xargs grep -L 'base\-maps\-bot'

find all the files in the current folder with the name "test-a" and move them to the folder test-10

find ~ -type f -name test-a -exec mv {} test-10 \;

Print the list of files and directories of the /etc directory

find /etc/. ! -name /etc/.

Print the /proc directory tree, ignoring the PID-process things

find /proc -type d | egrep -v '/proc/[0-9]*' | less

Find files/directories with exactly read,write and execute permission for all under /path

find /path -perm 777

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

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

get the root user access

sudo su

Find the passwd file under root and one level down.

find -maxdepth 2 -name passwd

find all directories with the name test in a directory

find /home/john -type d -name test -print

Find recursively the latest modified .zip file in the current directory

find . -name "*zip" -type f | xargs ls -ltr | tail -1

find all the files in the current folder which have execute permission to all the users

find . -perm /u=x,g=x,o=x

Find all files with name "file.ext" under the current working directory tree and print each full path directory name

find `pwd` -name file.ext |xargs -l1 dirname

Remove all directories called "test" from the current directory tree

find . -name test -type d -print0|xargs -0 rm -r --

find all text files in user/directory/ which have been modified today and display the last line of these files

find /user/directory/ -name "*txt" -mtime 0 -type f -printf '%p: ' -exec tail -1 {} \;

search for al cpp files in current folder and replace all expect the parent directory name of these files and display it them sorted order

find . -name '*.cpp' | sed -e 's/\/[^/]*$//' | sort | uniq

find all the files that have been modified exactly 24 hours ago

find . -type f -mtime 1

display all the files in the folder "$ORIG_DIR"

find "$ORIG_DIR"

Search the current directory recursively for regular files that have been changed less than 3 days ago and print 5 of them.

find . -type f -ctime -3 | tail -n 5

Use "$BYTES" amount of RAM with no output

yes | tr \\n x | head -c $BYTES | grep n

Set variable PacketLoss to first digit of percentage of packet loss occurring when pinging host specified by TestIP

PacketLoss=$

display all the text files in the current folder and do not search in the bin directory

find . -name bin -prune -o -name "*.txt" -print

View the bash manpage, starting with the view positioned at the first occurrence of the expression "BASH_SOURCE".

man bash | less -p BASH_SOURCE

Print A record for domain 'domain.' from 'ns2.newnameserver' nameserver

dig @ns2.newnameserver domain. a

Print a colon-separated list of all directories from the $root directory tree

find $root -type d | tr '\n' ':'

Modify and rewrite 'file' replacing the first instance of "foo" on each line with "bar"

sed -i 's/foo/bar/' file

delete all the normal/regular files in the current folder

find . -type f -print -delete

Copy all files under director 'foo' whose name doesn't contain 'Music' to directory 'bar'.

find foo -type f ! -name '*Music*' -exec cp {} bar \;

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

env | grep DUALCASE

Change ownership of "/data/db" to the current user

sudo chown `whoami` /data/db

Change the owner of all ".txt" files in directory tree "/mydir" to "root"

find /mydir -type f -name "*.txt" -execdir chown root {} ';'

Print out all files with their paths that have identical content and the same filename in different cases

find * -type f | xargs md5sum | sort | uniq -Dw32 | awk -F'[ /]' '{ print $NF }' | sort -f | uniq -Di

Print the $N'th line from file by replacing commas (',') with newlines

head -$N file | tail -1 | tr ',' '\n'

Print a top 20 histogram of characters used from standard input showing backslash escapes for non-displayables

od -cvAnone -w1 | sort -b | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -n 20

Remove Mac OS X Desktop Services Store files

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

recursively change owner of the directory /usr/lib/node_modules/ to the current user

sudo chown -R $ /usr/lib/node_modules/

Remove all text files in the home directory with confirmation

find $HOME/. -name *.txt -ok rm {} \;

Print the names of all hidden regular files from the current directory

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '.*' -exec basename {} \;

Find all files in and below the home directory that have been modified in the last 90 minutes

find ~ -mmin -90

Find all directories in entire file system which are larger than 50KB

find / -type d -size +50k

Move all files from the current directory to "targetdirectory"

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

Show the number of regular files in the current directory tree

find . -type f | wc -l

Print the absolute path of third-level files under the current directory tree and number the output

ls -d -1 $PWD/**/*/* | nl

Find all Lemon*.mp3 files under current directory and run mplayer with these files

find . -name 'Lemon*.mp3' -print0 | xargs -0 -i mplayer '{}'

Find all the files which are accessed in last 1 hour in entire file system

find / -amin -60

Print the current directory tree

tree

create directories mnt and point

mkdir mnt point

List each unique case insensitive character in "file" prefixed by number of occurrences and sorted from most frequent to least frequent

grep -o . filename | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

Print and save the ping results of 25 requests to "google.com" in "/home/user/myLogFile.log" containing at most 100000 bytes

ping -c 25 google.com | tee >

Print out ln commands for each file in /home/folder1/*.txt that can be run to create symlinks appending '_CUSTOM_TEXT.txt' in their names

find /home/folder1/*.txt -type f | awk -F '.txt' '{printf "ln -s %s %s_CUSTOM_TEXT.txt\n", $0, $1}'

update the permissions of the directories in the folder folder_name to 775

find folder_name -type d -exec chmod 775 ‘{}’ \;