prabhanshubhowal/natural_language_to_linux

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Find all foo.mp4 files in the current directory tree	find ./ -name "foo.mp4" -exec echo {} \;
List all ".txt" files with a unique md5 hash	md5sum *.txt \| sort \| perl -ne '=split; print "$f\n" unless $y eq $x; $x=$y'
Find files in two different directories having the "test" string and list them	find esofthub esoft -name "test" -type f -ls
Split "list.txt" into files with at most 600 lines each	split -l 600 list.txt
Show all values of variables whose name or value contains "VARIABLE_NAME"	set \| grep VARIABLE_NAME \| sed 's/^.*=//'
Calculate MD5 sums for all regular files in the current directory tree	find . -type f \| while read f; do g=`md5sum $f` > $f.md5; done
display the count of all the directories in the current folder	find . -type d –print \| wc -l
Print line, word and byte count for each file recursively and also show the total counts	wc `find`
Find all the files on the system that have been modified within the last hour	find / -mmin -60
Find directories that have "755" permissions and modify them to have "700" permissions	find . -type d -perm 755 -exec chmod 700 {} \;
Recursively finds all files with any cased text "Text" in a current folder, and precedes found string with its number in file.	grep -inr "Text" folder/to/be/searched/
Execute "ps -C java -o pcpu,state,cputime,etimes" every second	watch -n 1 ps -C java -o pcpu,state,cputime,etimes
search in the current folder for the file with the name "test"	find . -iname test
Find files that are writable by both the “other” and the group	find plsql -type f -perm -ug=rw -exec ls -l {} \; 2>/dev/null
list all files under the current directory called cookies.txt	find -name cookies.txt
Print full path of command "python2.7"	which python2.7
Replace all the mathes to regex '<script type="text\/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="file.js"><\/script>.*' with '<script type="text\/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="file2.js"><\/script>' in all HTML files under $DIR directory tree modifying the files in-place	find $DIR -type f -name '.html' -exec sed -i 's/.<script type="text\/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="file.js"><\/script>.*/<script type="text\/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="file2.js"><\/script>/g' {} \;
Find largest file in linux with find command	find . -type f -printf "%s\t%p\n" \| sort -n \| tail -1
Page interactively through the output of running 'command' - the arrow keys move the view around, the < and > keys go to the beginning/end of the output, the / key initiates a search, the Q key quits, etc.	command \| less
Remove all files 'a.out' and *.o in the home directory tree that were accessed more than 7 days ago	find $HOME \ -atime +7 -exec rm {} \;
find all files read less than 1 minute ago	find . -amin -1
Find any file that has "disc" somewhere in its name in the current directory and all of its sub-directories.	find . -name disc
List the MD5 digest of all files under "teste1" and "teste2" sorted alphabetically	find teste1 teste2 -type f -exec md5 -r {} \; \| sort
Archive "path/subfolder" to "path", skipping files that are newer at the destination.	rsync -vuar --delete-after path/subfolder/ path/
Print file type of the executable file of command "foo"	file $(which foo)
Display all lines containing PROBES in the current kernel's compile-time config file.	grep PROBES /boot/config-$(uname -r)
search for a word in all the php files in the current folder and display the count of all matching lines.	find . -name \*.php -type f -exec grep -Hn '$test' {} \+ \| wc -l
Copy file in current directory of local host to host "remote", connecting as ssh user matching current local username, and copying the file in home directory on remote host - enable compression during transfer.	scp -C file remote:
Find all files in /var/www/html/zip/data/////* that are older than 90 days	find /var/www/html/zip/data/////* -type f -mtime +90
Sets shell options 'globstar' and 'nullglob'.	shopt -s globstar nullglob
Find all the files whose name is FindCommandExamples.txt and contains both capital and small letters in / directory	find / -iname findcommandexamples.txt
Print IP addresses of the host name	hostname -I \| awk '{print $1}'
Append " \| COUNTRY" to every line in "file"	yes '\| COUNTRY' \| sed $q \| paste -d ' ' file -
Print all lines of "seq 10" except the last 3	seq 10 \| tac \| sed '1,3d' \| tac
Calculate md5 sums for each files matching 'main.cpp*'	md5sum main.cpp*
Prints full path to files in a current folder.	ls -1 \| awk -vpath=$PWD/ '{print path$1}'
Delete all files under /path/to/files that are not newer than dummyfile	find /path/to/files -type f ! -newer dummyfile -delete
find all the file which name end with c or h and content contain 'thing'	find . -name '*.[ch]' \| xargs grep -l thing
find all the files that have been modified on a specific day and copy them to another directory	find . -type f -daystart -mtime $date_dif -exec copy_it.sh $verbose -s {} -t $to_dir \;
find all normal/regular files in current folder and display them in sorted order	find . -type f -ls \| awk '{print $(NF-3), $(NF-2), $(NF-1), $NF}'
find all the empty directories in the current folder and all its sub directories too	find . -depth -empty -type d
Find files/directories under /users/tom that matches both the pattern ".pl" and ".pm"	find /users/tom -name ".pl" -name ".pm"
Serves minimal HTTP response with netcat	while true ; do nc -l -p 1500 -c 'echo -e "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\n\n $"'; done
Find PHP files containing 2 or more classes	find . -type f -name "*.php" -exec grep --with-filename -c "^class " {} \; \| grep ":[2-99]" \| sort -t ":" -k 2 -n -r
Print the size for every *.ogg file found under the home directory	find $HOME -name '*.ogg' -type f -exec du -h '{}' \;
Recursively copies /mnt/usr/lib to the '/usr/' directory, creating symbolic links on each file instead of real copying them.	cp -rs /mnt/usr/lib /usr/
Unzip "path/to/test/file.gz" to standard output and save all lines matching "my regex" to files with a 1000000 limit	gzip -cd path/to/test/file.gz \| awk 'BEGIN{global=1}/my regex/{count+=1;print $0 >"part"global".txt";if (count==1000000){count=0;global+=1}}'
Search for " 840" in history	history \| grep " 840"
search in root directory downwards all files which have exactly 2 links.	find / -links 2 -print
Create a symbolic link in the current directory to "../config/init"	ln -s "../config/init"
Find all *.mov files under current directory and run an echo command with the path and the name for each file	find . -iname "*.mov" -printf "%p %f\n" \| while read -a HR ; do echo ffmpeg -i ${HR[0]} -f flv ${HR[1]} ;done
create a zip of log files in the current directory which have not been accessed in the last 3 days (-p is for parallel processing for a 4 cpu machine)	find . -name '*.log' -mtime +3 -print0 \| xargs -0 -P 4 bzip2
Print first field from semicolon-seprated line $string.	echo $string \| cut -d';' -f1
Force pseudo tty allocation on connection to "somehost" and execute "~/bashplay/f"	ssh -t somehost ~/bashplay/f
Remove all .mpg files in the /home/luser directory tree	find /home/luser -type f -name ‘*.mpg’ \| parallel rm -f
find all files with pattern` '*.mp3' and send output into nameoffiletoprintto file	find / -name *.mp3 -fprint nameoffiletoprintto
Split the output of "my_program" into files of at most 100000 bytes each and use numeric suffixes	my_program \| split -d -b 100000 -
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 / \! \ -print
Remove newline characters from "file.txt"	paste -sd "" file.txt
Search the current directory for files whose names start with "messages." ignoring SVN files	find \ -exec grep -Iw uint {} +
Create a named screen session	screen -x main -X title blah
Find all regular files or symlinks in the entire file system	find / -mount -depth \( -type f -o -type l \) -print
Execute "cat /tmp/iostat.running" every 10 seconds	watch -n10 cat /tmp/iostat.running
Make $WEEKS_TO_SAVE+1 directories named "weekly.N" where N ranges from 0 to "$WEEKS_TO_SAVE"	mkdir -p $(seq -f "weekly.%.0f" 0 $WEEKS_TO_SAVE)
Save the user name of the current user to variable "whoami"	whoami=$(whoami)
Find all regular files in the current directory tree that are not readable by all	find -type f ! -perm -444
Display human-readable file type description of utf8.txt	file utf8.txt
Change all directories under "./bootstrap/cache/" to owner "apache" and group "laravel"	sudo find ./bootstrap/cache/ -type d -exec chown apache:laravel {} \;
Delete and count files in $DIR_TO_CLEAN that are older than $DAYS_TO_SAVE days	find "$DIR_TO_CLEAN" -type f -mtime +$DAYS_TO_SAVE -print0 \| awk -v RS='\0' -v ORS='\0' '{ print } END { print NR }' \| xargs -0 rm
Finds all the log* files in /myDir recursively that are more than 7 days older, skipping already created .bz2 archives and compresses them.	find /myDir -name 'log' -and -not -name '.bz2' -ctime +7 -exec bzip2 -zv {} \;
find all the html files in the current folder which have been modified in the last 7 days	find . -mtime -7 -name "*.html" -print
Find all *.ogg files on the system ignoring the case	find / -iname '*.ogg'
Prints directory where the executing script ($0) is located.	`dirname $0`
Find all hidden regular files starting from the current directory	find . -type f -name ".*"
Find all files in /dir1 and print only the filenames (not paths)	find ./dir1 -type f -exec basename {} \;
Create symbolic links in the current directory for all files under "bar1" that are not directories and do not end in ".cc"	find bar1 -name 'foo' -not -type d -not -name '*.cc' -exec ln -s $PWD/'{}' bar2/ \;
find all the text files in current folder and move all these to another folder appending ".bar" at the end of these files	find . -name "*.txt" \| xargs -I '{}' mv '{}' /foo/'{}'.bar
display all the .sh scripts and perl files in the current folder	find . -type f \( -name ".[sS][hH]" -o -name ".[pP][lL]" \)
find all *.java files/directories under current directory	find . -name "*.java"
Find all *.wav files under current directory that match 'export' in their names and pipe the output to ./calc_space	find -type f -name "*.wav" \| grep export \| ./calc_space
Search for the extended grep regex 'expr' in all files with '.c' and '.h' extension under current directory tree	find . -name '*.[ch]' \| xargs grep -E 'expr'
change the permissions of all the regular/normal files in the current folder	chmod 640 `find ./ -type f -print`
find all files in etc which have been changed in the last 25 hours	find /etc -ctime -1
Find all the regular files under directory 'dir1' that are at least N levels deep	find dir1 -mindepth N -type f
List all regular files under the current directory and below it	find . -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 ls -l
Remove all *.swp files under current directory ensuring white space safety	find . -name "*.swp" -print0\|xargs -0 rm
find all the files from root folder which have nogroup or noname and dispaly their details.	find / \ -ls
Search for files only that end with .php and look for the string $test inside those files	find . -name \*.php -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 grep -Hn '$test'
Find all regular files under current directory tree and replace all '1.2.3.4' with '5.6.7.8' in these files modiying the files in-place	find . -type f -exec sed -i "s/1\.2\.3\.4/5.6.7.8/g" {} \
Prints real path of the folder containing $0 file.	$(readlink -f $(dirname "$0"))
Report file system containing path-to-file disk usage human-readable.	df -h path-to-file
find all the files in the home folder which have been modified in the last 30 minutes	find $HOME -mmin -30
Change permissions of "/usr/bin/wget" to 777	chmod 777 /usr/bin/wget
Print the full name of the current user	finger `id -un` \| head -1 \| cut -d: -f3-
Search the current directory tree for symlinks pointing at other symlinks	find . -type l -xtype l
List each unique character in "file" prefixed by number of occurrences	grep -o . file \| sort \| uniq -c
Print the current directory tree with file sizes	tree -s
Report file system inodes usage in human readable format	df -ih
Search all regular files in the current directory tree for "string"	find . -type f \| xargs -d '\n' grep string
Find all files in your home directory and below that are larger than 100M.	find ~ -size +100M

Find all foo.mp4 files in the current directory tree

find ./ -name "foo.mp4" -exec echo {} \;

List all ".txt" files with a unique md5 hash

md5sum *.txt | sort | perl -ne '=split; print "$f\n" unless $y eq $x; $x=$y'

Find files in two different directories having the "test" string and list them

find esofthub esoft -name "*test*" -type f -ls

Split "list.txt" into files with at most 600 lines each

split -l 600 list.txt

Show all values of variables whose name or value contains "VARIABLE_NAME"

set | grep VARIABLE_NAME | sed 's/^.*=//'

Calculate MD5 sums for all regular files in the current directory tree

find . -type f | while read f; do g=`md5sum $f` > $f.md5; done

display the count of all the directories in the current folder

find . -type d –print | wc -l

Print line, word and byte count for each file recursively and also show the total counts

wc `find`

Find all the files on the system that have been modified within the last hour

find / -mmin -60

Find directories that have "755" permissions and modify them to have "700" permissions

find . -type d -perm 755 -exec chmod 700 {} \;

Recursively finds all files with any cased text "Text" in a current folder, and precedes found string with its number in file.

grep -inr "Text" folder/to/be/searched/

Execute "ps -C java -o pcpu,state,cputime,etimes" every second

watch -n 1 ps -C java -o pcpu,state,cputime,etimes

search in the current folder for the file with the name "test"

find . -iname test

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

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

list all files under the current directory called cookies.txt

find -name cookies.txt

Print full path of command "python2.7"

which python2.7

Replace all the mathes to regex '<script type="text\/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="file.js"><\/script>.*' with '<script type="text\/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="file2.js"><\/script>' in all HTML files under $DIR directory tree modifying the files in-place

find $DIR -type f -name '*.html' -exec sed -i 's/.*<script type="text\/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="file.js"><\/script>.*/<script type="text\/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="file2.js"><\/script>/g' {} \;

Find largest file in linux with find command

find . -type f -printf "%s\t%p\n" | sort -n | tail -1

Page interactively through the output of running 'command' - the arrow keys move the view around, the < and > keys go to the beginning/end of the output, the / key initiates a search, the Q key quits, etc.

command | less

Remove all files 'a.out' and *.o in the home directory tree that were accessed more than 7 days ago

find $HOME \ -atime +7 -exec rm {} \;

find all files read less than 1 minute ago

find . -amin -1

Find any file that has "disc" somewhere in its name in the current directory and all of its sub-directories.

find . -name *disc*

List the MD5 digest of all files under "teste1" and "teste2" sorted alphabetically

find teste1 teste2 -type f -exec md5 -r {} \; | sort

Archive "path/subfolder" to "path", skipping files that are newer at the destination.

rsync -vuar --delete-after path/subfolder/ path/

Print file type of the executable file of command "foo"

file $(which foo)

Display all lines containing PROBES in the current kernel's compile-time config file.

grep PROBES /boot/config-$(uname -r)

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

find . -name \*.php -type f -exec grep -Hn '$test' {} \+ | wc -l

Copy file in current directory of local host to host "remote", connecting as ssh user matching current local username, and copying the file in home directory on remote host - enable compression during transfer.

scp -C file remote:

Find all files in /var/www/html/zip/data/*/*/*/*/* that are older than 90 days

find /var/www/html/zip/data/*/*/*/*/* -type f -mtime +90

Sets shell options 'globstar' and 'nullglob'.

shopt -s globstar nullglob

Find all the files whose name is FindCommandExamples.txt and contains both capital and small letters in / directory

find / -iname findcommandexamples.txt

Print IP addresses of the host name

hostname -I | awk '{print $1}'

Append " | COUNTRY" to every line in "file"

yes '| COUNTRY' | sed $q | paste -d ' ' file -

Print all lines of "seq 10" except the last 3

seq 10 | tac | sed '1,3d' | tac

Calculate md5 sums for each files matching 'main.cpp*'

md5sum main.cpp*

Prints full path to files in a current folder.

ls -1 | awk -vpath=$PWD/ '{print path$1}'

Delete all files under /path/to/files that are not newer than dummyfile

find /path/to/files -type f ! -newer dummyfile -delete

find all the file which name end with c or h and content contain 'thing'

find . -name '*.[ch]' | xargs grep -l thing

find all the files that have been modified on a specific day and copy them to another directory

find . -type f -daystart -mtime $date_dif -exec copy_it.sh $verbose -s {} -t $to_dir \;

find all normal/regular files in current folder and display them in sorted order

find . -type f -ls | awk '{print $(NF-3), $(NF-2), $(NF-1), $NF}'

find all the empty directories in the current folder and all its sub directories too

find . -depth -empty -type d

Find files/directories under /users/tom that matches both the pattern "*.pl" and "*.pm"

find /users/tom -name "*.pl" -name "*.pm"

Serves minimal HTTP response with netcat

while true ; do nc -l -p 1500 -c 'echo -e "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\n\n $"'; done

Find PHP files containing 2 or more classes

find . -type f -name "*.php" -exec grep --with-filename -c "^class " {} \; | grep ":[2-99]" | sort -t ":" -k 2 -n -r

Print the size for every *.ogg file found under the home directory

find $HOME -name '*.ogg' -type f -exec du -h '{}' \;

Recursively copies /mnt/usr/lib to the '/usr/' directory, creating symbolic links on each file instead of real copying them.

cp -rs /mnt/usr/lib /usr/

Unzip "path/to/test/file.gz" to standard output and save all lines matching "my regex" to files with a 1000000 limit

gzip -cd path/to/test/file.gz | awk 'BEGIN{global=1}/my regex/{count+=1;print $0 >"part"global".txt";if (count==1000000){count=0;global+=1}}'

Search for " 840" in history

history | grep " 840"

search in root directory downwards all files which have exactly 2 links.

find / -links 2 -print

Create a symbolic link in the current directory to "../config/init"

ln -s "../config/init"

Find all *.mov files under current directory and run an echo command with the path and the name for each file

find . -iname "*.mov" -printf "%p %f\n" | while read -a HR ; do echo ffmpeg -i ${HR[0]} -f flv ${HR[1]} ;done

create a zip of log files in the current directory which have not been accessed in the last 3 days (-p is for parallel processing for a 4 cpu machine)

find . -name '*.log' -mtime +3 -print0 | xargs -0 -P 4 bzip2

Print first field from semicolon-seprated line $string.

echo $string | cut -d';' -f1

Force pseudo tty allocation on connection to "somehost" and execute "~/bashplay/f"

ssh -t somehost ~/bashplay/f

Remove all .mpg files in the /home/luser directory tree

find /home/luser -type f -name ‘*.mpg’ | parallel rm -f

find all files with pattern` '*.mp3' and send output into nameoffiletoprintto file

find / -name *.mp3 -fprint nameoffiletoprintto

Split the output of "my_program" into files of at most 100000 bytes each and use numeric suffixes

my_program | split -d -b 100000 -

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 / \! \ -print

Remove newline characters from "file.txt"

paste -sd "" file.txt

Search the current directory for files whose names start with "messages." ignoring SVN files

find \ -exec grep -Iw uint {} +

Create a named screen session

screen -x main -X title blah

Find all regular files or symlinks in the entire file system

find / -mount -depth $ -type f -o -type l $ -print

Execute "cat /tmp/iostat.running" every 10 seconds

watch -n10 cat /tmp/iostat.running

Make $WEEKS_TO_SAVE+1 directories named "weekly.N" where N ranges from 0 to "$WEEKS_TO_SAVE"

mkdir -p $(seq -f "weekly.%.0f" 0 $WEEKS_TO_SAVE)

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

whoami=$(whoami)

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

find -type f ! -perm -444

Display human-readable file type description of utf8.txt

file utf8.txt

Change all directories under "./bootstrap/cache/" to owner "apache" and group "laravel"

sudo find ./bootstrap/cache/ -type d -exec chown apache:laravel {} \;

Delete and count files in $DIR_TO_CLEAN that are older than $DAYS_TO_SAVE days

find "$DIR_TO_CLEAN" -type f -mtime +$DAYS_TO_SAVE -print0 | awk -v RS='\0' -v ORS='\0' '{ print } END { print NR }' | xargs -0 rm

Finds all the log* files in /myDir recursively that are more than 7 days older, skipping already created .bz2 archives and compresses them.

find /myDir -name 'log*' -and -not -name '*.bz2' -ctime +7 -exec bzip2 -zv {} \;

find all the html files in the current folder which have been modified in the last 7 days

find . -mtime -7 -name "*.html" -print

Find all *.ogg files on the system ignoring the case

find / -iname '*.ogg'

Prints directory where the executing script ($0) is located.

`dirname $0`

Find all hidden regular files starting from the current directory

find . -type f -name ".*"

Find all files in /dir1 and print only the filenames (not paths)

find ./dir1 -type f -exec basename {} \;

Create symbolic links in the current directory for all files under "bar1" that are not directories and do not end in ".cc"

find bar1 -name '*foo*' -not -type d -not -name '*.cc' -exec ln -s $PWD/'{}' bar2/ \;

find all the text files in current folder and move all these to another folder appending ".bar" at the end of these files

find . -name "*.txt" | xargs -I '{}' mv '{}' /foo/'{}'.bar

display all the .sh scripts and perl files in the current folder

find . -type f $ -name "*.[sS][hH]" -o -name "*.[pP][lL]" $

find all *.java files/directories under current directory

find . -name "*.java"

Find all *.wav files under current directory that match 'export' in their names and pipe the output to ./calc_space

find -type f -name "*.wav" | grep export | ./calc_space

Search for the extended grep regex 'expr' in all files with '.c' and '.h' extension under current directory tree

find . -name '*.[ch]' | xargs grep -E 'expr'

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

chmod 640 `find ./ -type f -print`

find all files in etc which have been changed in the last 25 hours

find /etc -ctime -1

Find all the regular files under directory 'dir1' that are at least N levels deep

find dir1 -mindepth N -type f

List all regular files under the current directory and below it

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 ls -l

Remove all *.swp files under current directory ensuring white space safety

find . -name "*.swp" -print0|xargs -0 rm

find all the files from root folder which have nogroup or noname and dispaly their details.

find / \ -ls

Search for files only that end with .php and look for the string $test inside those files

find . -name \*.php -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -Hn '$test'

Find all regular files under current directory tree and replace all '1.2.3.4' with '5.6.7.8' in these files modiying the files in-place

find . -type f -exec sed -i "s/1\.2\.3\.4/5.6.7.8/g" {} \

Prints real path of the folder containing $0 file.

$(readlink -f $(dirname "$0"))

Report file system containing path-to-file disk usage human-readable.

df -h path-to-file

find all the files in the home folder which have been modified in the last 30 minutes

find $HOME -mmin -30

Change permissions of "/usr/bin/wget" to 777

chmod 777 /usr/bin/wget

Print the full name of the current user

finger `id -un` | head -1 | cut -d: -f3-

Search the current directory tree for symlinks pointing at other symlinks

find . -type l -xtype l

List each unique character in "file" prefixed by number of occurrences

grep -o . file | sort | uniq -c

Print the current directory tree with file sizes

tree -s

Report file system inodes usage in human readable format

df -ih

Search all regular files in the current directory tree for "string"

find . -type f | xargs -d '\n' grep string

Find all files in your home directory and below that are larger than 100M.

find ~ -size +100M