prabhanshubhowal/natural_language_to_linux

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search for the folder .dummy in the entire directory structure of "test folder" and remove it.	find -depth "Test Folder" -type d -name .dummy -exec rm -rf \{\} \;
Find files/directories named 'file.txt' in the path '/usr/lib/important/'	find / -path /usr/lib/important/*/file.txt
Split "input.txt" into files of at most 10 bytes each with prefix "/tmp/split-file"	split -b 10 input.txt /tmp/split-file
Merge already sorted files in the current directory ending in ".$suffix"	sort -m *.$suffix
cope *.mp3 files to /tmp/MusicFiles	find . -type f -name "*.mp3" -exec cp {} /tmp/MusicFiles \;
Find all the files on the system that have been accessed within the last hour	find / -amin -60
Gets IP addresses of all active network interfaces on host.	ifconfig \| grep 'inet' \| grep -v '127.0.0.1' \| awk '{print $2}' \| sed 's/addr://'
Recursively copies '$1' directory to '$2' directory.	cp -r $1 $2
Recursively removes all files in a 'path' folder but 'EXPR' files.	find [path] -type f -not -name 'EXPR' \| xargs rm
Sort the lines of the file 'temp.txt' and change it in-place	sort temp.txt -o temp.txt
find files in a directory and exit the command if the syntax is correct or display invalid command if the syntax is wrong.	find … -exec sh -c 'trap "echo \$?" EXIT; invalid_command "$0"' {} \;
Find all directories under maximum 1 level down the /parent directory and set their permission to 700 recursively	find /parent -maxdepth 1 -type d -print0 \| xargs -0 chmod -R 700
Find all directories in /path/to/dir/ without going into sub-directories	find /path/to/dir/ -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d
Change permissions for all PHP files under the current directory tree to 755 and print the number of files changed	find . -name "*.php" -exec chmod 755 {} \; -exec /bin/echo {} \; \| wc -l
Search through the /usr directory for all files that begin with the letters Chapter, followed by anything else.	find /usr -name "Chapter*" -type f
search for all regular/normal files in the current folder and display the number of lines in the file	find . -type f -print0 \| xargs -0L1 wc -l
Print which files differ between "dir1/" and "dir2/"	diff --brief -r dir1/ dir2/
Dump "FILENAME" as 2 byte wide hexadecimal numbers	od -tx2 FILENAME
Find smallest file in the current directory with find commad	find . -type f -printf "%s\t%p\n" \| sort -n \|head -1
Find all files and directories in the current directory recursively that contain spaces in their names	find . -name '* *'
Create symlinks to all /home/folder2/*.txt files with the same name in current directory	find /home/folder2/*.txt -type f -exec ln -s {} \;
Format the filename and modification time of files starting with t as a table	stat -c 'File: %n Modified: %y' t* \| column -t
Find all files under current directory and print them by removing the leading ./ in their paths	find . -type f -exec bash -c 'f="{}"; echo "${f:2}"' \;
find all the files in the current folder which are smaller than 9MB	find . -size -9k
Split standard input into files of at most 3400000 lines each	split -l 3400000
Find all files/directories under current directory with 'FooBar' in their paths and copy them to ~/foo/bar	find . \| grep "FooBar" \|
Rename all .PNG files/directories to 48.png files/directories under current directory	find . -name '*.PNG' -exec bash -c 'git mv {} $/$48.png' \;
Displays process tree of 'pppd' process.	pstree -p `pgrep pppd`
Set variable OUTPUT to full process info of process currently taking the most CPU time.	OUTPUT=`top -b -n 1 \| tail -n +8 \| head -n 1`
Write the output of "input_prog" to standard output and error on console and as input to command "my_editor"	input_prog 2>&1 \| tee /dev/tty \| my_editor
Find all PHP files under current directory that contain only one line	find . -type f -name '*.php' -exec grep -Hcm2 $ {} + \| sed -n '/:1$/{s///;p}'
Find all empty files in the current directory and delete them	find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -empty -delete
display all normal/regular files in a folder	find teste1 -type f
find all js files which path does not contain ./node_modules/* nor './vendor/*"	find -name '.js' -not -path './node_modules/' -not -path './vendor/*'
Find all files under current directory matching the regex '.*\(\\?\\|mod_jk\.log\)\.[0-9]+' in their paths	find -type f -regex '.*\(\\?\\|mod_jk\.log\)\.[0-9]+'
Remove all *.log files from the current directory tree	find ./ -name '*.log' \| xargs rm
find all the symbolic links in the current folder that are broken	find . -xtype l
List each unique character in "file" prefixed by number of occurrences and sorted from most frequent to least frequent	grep -o . filename \| sort \| uniq -c \| sort -nr
Find all .sh files in or below the current directory and move them to folder ~/back.scripts	find . -name "*.sh" -print0 \| xargs -0 -I {} mv {} ~/back.scripts
find all the files that were modified yesterday in the current directory.	find . -daystart -ctime 0 -type f
find all the html files in the current folder and search for a pattern in these files	find . \| grep html$ \| xargs grep <string-to-find>
Change directory to the download directory specified in the current user's user-dirs.dirs file	cd "$"
List characters from standard input showing backslash escapes for non-displayables	od -cvAnone -w1
Find all files/directories named 'имя_файла' in the entire filesystem	find / -name "имя_файла"
Print all file/directory names with white space safety under the /proc directory	find /proc -print0 \| xargs -0
Remove all the versioned-but-empty directories from a Subversion checkout under current directory	find . -name .svn -type d \| while read ss; do dir=$; test $ == 3 && echo "svn rm \"$dir\""; done
Find regular files in the current directory that are writable by at least somebody	find -maxdepth 1 -type f -perm /222
Wrap each line in "longline" to a maximum of 30 characters	fold -w30 longline
Make a copy of file.txt in all directories in current directory - names may not contain spaces.	ls -d */ \| xargs -iA cp file.txt A
Use "/var/log/wtmp" and print IPs and search for "^msw.*127.0.0.1"	who --ips /var/log/wtmp \| grep '^msw.*127.0.0.1'
find all files in home folder which have been modified exactly 1 day before	find ~ -mtime 1 -daystart
Save number of lines in '/some/big/file' to 'LINES' variable	LINES=$
Find all files with the name "MyProgram.c" in the current directory and all of it's sub-directories.	find -name "MyCProgram.c"
Get the total size in bytes of all files in the current directory tree	find . -type f \| xargs stat --format=%s \| awk '{s+=$1} END {print s}'
Changes group ownership of 'logdir' to 'loggroup'.	chgrp loggroup logdir
Recursively finds files like 'example.com', ignoring case differences, and filters out files with 'beta' in path.	find -iname example.com \| grep -v beta
Recursively copy "dir_a" to "dir_b" and delete any new files in "dir_b"	rsync -u -r --delete dir_a dir_b
find the count of text files that are present in the current working directory.	find . -maxdepth 1 -name \*.txt -print0 \| grep -cz .
Execute awk command '{ ...}' on compressed file "FILE"	zcat FILE \| awk '{ ...}'
Find all files/directories with '.txt' extension under '/home' directory tree that are greater than 100KB in size	find /home -name "*.txt" -size +100k
remove all core files in the file system	find / -name "*.core" \| xargs rm
create an archive excluding files matching patterns listed in /path/to/exclude.txt	tar -czf backup.tar.gz -X /path/to/exclude.txt /path/to/backup
Find all hard links to file1 under /home directory	find /home -xdev -samefile file1
Set shell option 'dotglob'.	shopt -s dotglob
Forcibly removes files '/tmp/stored_exception', '/tmp/stored_exception_line', '/tmp/stored_exception_source'	rm -f /tmp/stored_exception /tmp/stored_exception_line /tmp/stored_exception_source
Pushes current folder to the directory stack.	pushd $
Replace the first occurrence of "string1" on each line with "string2" in all regular files in the current directory tree	find ./ -type f -exec sed -i 's/string1/string2/' {} \;
set alias "mkcd" for command "_{ mkdir -pv $1; cd $1; }; _"	alias mkcd='_{ mkdir -pv $1; cd $1; }; _'
Recursively change ownership of "/usr/local" to the current user	sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local
sleep for 10 seconds	sleep `10`
Find the "param1" string in regular files under and below /var	find /var -type f \| xargs grep "param1"
change the permission of all the files in the current directory to 664 and change the permission of all the directories in the current folder to 775.	find . \( -type f -exec sudo chmod 664 "{}" \; \) , \( -type d -exec sudo chmod 775 "{}" \; \)
Open all .java files in the current directory tree in the vim editor	find . -name '*.java' -exec vim {} +
Display the file size of file '/data/sflow_log' in bytes	du -sb /data/sflow_log \| cut -f1
Search the current directory tree for file "a.txt"	find . -name "a.txt" -print
Search for files with "sitesearch" in their names and "demo" in their path names	find . -iname 'sitesearch' \| grep demo
Print numbers from 1 to 10 with 2 values per line	seq 10 \| paste -sd" \n" -
Search the current directory tree for files whose names end in "rb" or "js"	find . -name "js" -o -name "rb"
Change permissions to 700 for directories at the current level and deeper	find . -mindepth 1 -type d \| xargs chmod 700
Creates temporary folder in a $temp_dir folder with name pattern defined by $template, and stores path to created folder in 'my_temp' variable.	$ my_temp_dir=$
Find all the files in the current directory recursively whose permissions are 644 and show the first 10 of them	find . -perm 0644 \| head
Find the files in the current directory that match pattern '.ISOLATE..txt' and move them to folder ./ISOLATE	find . -name '.ISOLATE..txt' -maxdepth 1 -print0 \| xargs -0 -IFILE mv FILE ./ISOLATE
Copy loadable kernel module "mymodule.ko" to the drivers in modules directory matchig current kernel.	sudo cp mymodule.ko /lib/modules/$/kernel/drivers/
change the permissions of all the regular files in the folder root_dir to 444	find root_dir -type f -exec chmod 444 {} \;
Remove all vmware-*.log files under current directory	find . -name vmware-*.log -delete
Compresses all '*.xml' files under current directory with 'bzip2' utility.	find -name \*.xml -print0 \| xargs -0 -n 1 -P 3 bzip2
Find all xml files under current directory and archive them to .bz2 archives	find . \| grep ".xml$" \| parallel bzip2
Identify CMS version/releases accross all your Drupal websites	find /var/www/vhosts//httpdocs/ -type f -iwholename "/modules/system/system.info" -exec grep -H "version = \"" {} \;
Removes all top-level *.pdf files in a current folder.	rm -f *.pdf
Calculate the md5 sum of the md5 sum of all the files sorted under "$path"	find "$path" -type f -print0 \| sort -z \| xargs -r0 md5sum \| md5sum
Prints sizes of all top-level folders in a current folder with human-readable format and descending order.	du -h --max-depth=1 . \| sort -n -r
find all the png files in current folder which are present in the pattern list file "search.txt"	find . -name '*.png' \| grep -f <
Prints full process tree with id number of each process.	pstree -p
files all files which expect directories and display count of them	find /usr/share \! -type d wc -l
Verbosely compresses all files on sixth and seventh depth level keeping original files in place.	bzip2 -kv //////*
create directory /data/db	sudo mkdir /data/db
Search for first match of the regex 're' in all *.coffee files under current directory	find . -name '*.coffee' -exec awk '/re/ {print;exit}' {} \;
Print the first two bytes of "my_driver" in octal	od --read-bytes=2 my_driver
Find all files under and below the current working directory with the word California in the file, and count the number of lines in the output	find . -type f -exec grep -n California {} \; -print \| wc -l
display all html files in current folder	find -name "*.htm" -print

search for the folder .dummy in the entire directory structure of "test folder" and remove it.

find -depth "Test Folder" -type d -name .dummy -exec rm -rf \{\} \;

Find files/directories named 'file.txt' in the path '/usr/lib/important/'

find / -path /usr/lib/important/*/file.txt

Split "input.txt" into files of at most 10 bytes each with prefix "/tmp/split-file"

split -b 10 input.txt /tmp/split-file

Merge already sorted files in the current directory ending in ".$suffix"

sort -m *.$suffix

cope *.mp3 files to /tmp/MusicFiles

find . -type f -name "*.mp3" -exec cp {} /tmp/MusicFiles \;

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

find / -amin -60

Gets IP addresses of all active network interfaces on host.

ifconfig | grep 'inet' | grep -v '127.0.0.1' | awk '{print $2}' | sed 's/addr://'

Recursively copies '$1' directory to '$2' directory.

cp -r $1 $2

Recursively removes all files in a 'path' folder but 'EXPR' files.

find [path] -type f -not -name 'EXPR' | xargs rm

Sort the lines of the file 'temp.txt' and change it in-place

sort temp.txt -o temp.txt

find files in a directory and exit the command if the syntax is correct or display invalid command if the syntax is wrong.

find … -exec sh -c 'trap "echo \$?" EXIT; invalid_command "$0"' {} \;

Find all directories under maximum 1 level down the /parent directory and set their permission to 700 recursively

find /parent -maxdepth 1 -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod -R 700

Find all directories in /path/to/dir/ without going into sub-directories

find /path/to/dir/ -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d

Change permissions for all PHP files under the current directory tree to 755 and print the number of files changed

find . -name "*.php" -exec chmod 755 {} \; -exec /bin/echo {} \; | wc -l

Search through the /usr directory for all files that begin with the letters Chapter, followed by anything else.

find /usr -name "Chapter*" -type f

search for all regular/normal files in the current folder and display the number of lines in the file

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0L1 wc -l

Print which files differ between "dir1/" and "dir2/"

diff --brief -r dir1/ dir2/

Dump "FILENAME" as 2 byte wide hexadecimal numbers

od -tx2 FILENAME

Find smallest file in the current directory with find commad

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

Find all files and directories in the current directory recursively that contain spaces in their names

find . -name '* *'

Create symlinks to all /home/folder2/*.txt files with the same name in current directory

find /home/folder2/*.txt -type f -exec ln -s {} \;

Format the filename and modification time of files starting with t as a table

stat -c 'File: %n Modified: %y' t* | column -t

Find all files under current directory and print them by removing the leading ./ in their paths

find . -type f -exec bash -c 'f="{}"; echo "${f:2}"' \;

find all the files in the current folder which are smaller than 9MB

find . -size -9k

Split standard input into files of at most 3400000 lines each

split -l 3400000

Find all files/directories under current directory with 'FooBar' in their paths and copy them to ~/foo/bar

find . | grep "FooBar" |

Rename all *.PNG files/directories to *48.png files/directories under current directory

find . -name '*.PNG' -exec bash -c 'git mv {} $/$48.png' \;

Displays process tree of 'pppd' process.

pstree -p `pgrep pppd`

Set variable OUTPUT to full process info of process currently taking the most CPU time.

OUTPUT=`top -b -n 1 | tail -n +8 | head -n 1`

Write the output of "input_prog" to standard output and error on console and as input to command "my_editor"

input_prog 2>&1 | tee /dev/tty | my_editor

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

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

Find all empty files in the current directory and delete them

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -empty -delete

display all normal/regular files in a folder

find teste1 -type f

find all js files which path does not contain ./node_modules/* nor './vendor/*"

find -name '*.js' -not -path './node_modules/*' -not -path './vendor/*'

Find all files under current directory matching the regex '.*$\\?\|mod_jk\.log$\.[0-9]+' in their paths

find -type f -regex '.*$\\?\|mod_jk\.log$\.[0-9]+'

Remove all *.log files from the current directory tree

find ./ -name '*.log' | xargs rm

find all the symbolic links in the current folder that are broken

find . -xtype l

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

grep -o . filename | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

Find all .sh files in or below the current directory and move them to folder ~/back.scripts

find . -name "*.sh" -print0 | xargs -0 -I {} mv {} ~/back.scripts

find all the files that were modified yesterday in the current directory.

find . -daystart -ctime 0 -type f

find all the html files in the current folder and search for a pattern in these files

find . | grep html$ | xargs grep <string-to-find>

Change directory to the download directory specified in the current user's user-dirs.dirs file

cd "$"

List characters from standard input showing backslash escapes for non-displayables

od -cvAnone -w1

Find all files/directories named 'имя_файла' in the entire filesystem

find / -name "имя_файла"

Print all file/directory names with white space safety under the /proc directory

find /proc -print0 | xargs -0

Remove all the versioned-but-empty directories from a Subversion checkout under current directory

find . -name .svn -type d | while read ss; do dir=$; test $ == 3 && echo "svn rm \"$dir\""; done

Find regular files in the current directory that are writable by at least somebody

find -maxdepth 1 -type f -perm /222

Wrap each line in "longline" to a maximum of 30 characters

fold -w30 longline

Make a copy of file.txt in all directories in current directory - names may not contain spaces.

ls -d */ | xargs -iA cp file.txt A

Use "/var/log/wtmp" and print IPs and search for "^msw.*127.0.0.1"

who --ips /var/log/wtmp | grep '^msw.*127.0.0.1'

find all files in home folder which have been modified exactly 1 day before

find ~ -mtime 1 -daystart

Save number of lines in '/some/big/file' to 'LINES' variable

LINES=$

Find all files with the name "MyProgram.c" in the current directory and all of it's sub-directories.

find -name "MyCProgram.c"

Get the total size in bytes of all files in the current directory tree

find . -type f | xargs stat --format=%s | awk '{s+=$1} END {print s}'

Changes group ownership of 'logdir' to 'loggroup'.

chgrp loggroup logdir

Recursively finds files like 'example.com', ignoring case differences, and filters out files with 'beta' in path.

find -iname example.com | grep -v beta

Recursively copy "dir_a" to "dir_b" and delete any new files in "dir_b"

rsync -u -r --delete dir_a dir_b

find the count of text files that are present in the current working directory.

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

Execute awk command '{ ...}' on compressed file "FILE"

zcat FILE | awk '{ ...}'

Find all files/directories with '.txt' extension under '/home' directory tree that are greater than 100KB in size

find /home -name "*.txt" -size +100k

remove all core files in the file system

find / -name "*.core" | xargs rm

create an archive excluding files matching patterns listed in /path/to/exclude.txt

tar -czf backup.tar.gz -X /path/to/exclude.txt /path/to/backup

Find all hard links to file1 under /home directory

find /home -xdev -samefile file1

Set shell option 'dotglob'.

shopt -s dotglob

Forcibly removes files '/tmp/stored_exception', '/tmp/stored_exception_line', '/tmp/stored_exception_source'

rm -f /tmp/stored_exception /tmp/stored_exception_line /tmp/stored_exception_source

Pushes current folder to the directory stack.

pushd $

Replace the first occurrence of "string1" on each line with "string2" in all regular files in the current directory tree

find ./ -type f -exec sed -i 's/string1/string2/' {} \;

set alias "mkcd" for command "_{ mkdir -pv $1; cd $1; }; _"

alias mkcd='_{ mkdir -pv $1; cd $1; }; _'

Recursively change ownership of "/usr/local" to the current user

sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local

sleep for 10 seconds

sleep `10`

Find the "param1" string in regular files under and below /var

find /var -type f | xargs grep "param1"

change the permission of all the files in the current directory to 664 and change the permission of all the directories in the current folder to 775.

find . $ -type f -exec sudo chmod 664 "{}" \; $ , $ -type d -exec sudo chmod 775 "{}" \; $

Open all .java files in the current directory tree in the vim editor

find . -name '*.java' -exec vim {} +

Display the file size of file '/data/sflow_log' in bytes

du -sb /data/sflow_log | cut -f1

Search the current directory tree for file "a.txt"

find . -name "a.txt" -print

Search for files with "sitesearch" in their names and "demo" in their path names

find . -iname '*sitesearch*' | grep demo

Print numbers from 1 to 10 with 2 values per line

seq 10 | paste -sd" \n" -

Search the current directory tree for files whose names end in "rb" or "js"

find . -name "*js" -o -name "*rb"

Change permissions to 700 for directories at the current level and deeper

find . -mindepth 1 -type d | xargs chmod 700

Creates temporary folder in a $temp_dir folder with name pattern defined by $template, and stores path to created folder in 'my_temp' variable.

$ my_temp_dir=$

Find all the files in the current directory recursively whose permissions are 644 and show the first 10 of them

find . -perm 0644 | head

Find the files in the current directory that match pattern '*.ISOLATE.*.txt' and move them to folder ./ISOLATE

find . -name '*.ISOLATE.*.txt' -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0 -IFILE mv FILE ./ISOLATE

Copy loadable kernel module "mymodule.ko" to the drivers in modules directory matchig current kernel.

sudo cp mymodule.ko /lib/modules/$/kernel/drivers/

change the permissions of all the regular files in the folder root_dir to 444

find root_dir -type f -exec chmod 444 {} \;

Remove all vmware-*.log files under current directory

find . -name vmware-*.log -delete

Compresses all '*.xml' files under current directory with 'bzip2' utility.

find -name \*.xml -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 -P 3 bzip2

Find all xml files under current directory and archive them to .bz2 archives

find . | grep ".xml$" | parallel bzip2

Identify CMS version/releases accross all your Drupal websites

find /var/www/vhosts/*/httpdocs/ -type f -iwholename "*/modules/system/system.info" -exec grep -H "version = \"" {} \;

Removes all top-level *.pdf files in a current folder.

rm -f *.pdf

Calculate the md5 sum of the md5 sum of all the files sorted under "$path"

find "$path" -type f -print0 | sort -z | xargs -r0 md5sum | md5sum

Prints sizes of all top-level folders in a current folder with human-readable format and descending order.

du -h --max-depth=1 . | sort -n -r

find all the png files in current folder which are present in the pattern list file "search.txt"

find . -name '*.png' | grep -f <

Prints full process tree with id number of each process.

pstree -p

files all files which expect directories and display count of them

find /usr/share \! -type d wc -l

Verbosely compresses all files on sixth and seventh depth level keeping original files in place.

bzip2 -kv */*/*/*/*/*/*

create directory /data/db

sudo mkdir /data/db

Search for first match of the regex 're' in all *.coffee files under current directory

find . -name '*.coffee' -exec awk '/re/ {print;exit}' {} \;

Print the first two bytes of "my_driver" in octal

od --read-bytes=2 my_driver

Find all files under and below the current working directory with the word California in the file, and count the number of lines in the output

find . -type f -exec grep -n California {} \; -print | wc -l

display all html files in current folder

find -name "*.htm" -print