prabhanshubhowal/natural_language_to_linux

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Find all *.xml files under current directory	find -name *.xml
Archive any files changed in the last day from "remote_host" to "local_dir"	rsync -av remote_host:'$' local_dir
List files and directories recursively	find . -print \| xargs ls -gilds
List all leaf directories of the current directory tree	find . -type d -links 2
Change the permissions of the current directory and all its subdirectories to 755.	find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
Identify CMS version/releases accross all your PHPBB installations	find /var/www/vhosts//httpdocs/ -type f -wholename includes/constants.php -exec grep -H "PHPBB_VERSION" {} \;
Run a shell with all environment variables specified in the file 'cronenv' in the user's home directory.	env - `cat ~/cronenv` /bin/sh
Remove "_dbg" from all file or directory names under the current directory	rename _dbg.txt .txt */dbg*
Prints all business days in a current month.	cal -h \| cut -c 4-17
display all the files in the /usr folder which have the permissions 777	find /usr -perm 0777 -print
split content of the file file.txt started from second line into pieces per 4 lines named as split_NNN	tail -n +2 file.txt \| split -l 4 - split_
Find all files in the home directory tree that are owned by another user	find ~ ! -user ${USER}
Change to folder where the oracle binary is.	cd "$(dirname $)"
Set variable "b" to the first word of "a" converted to lowercase.	b=`echo "$a" \| awk '{ print tolower }'`
display all the files in the current folder excluding the current folder and do not search in the sub directories	find . -maxdepth 1 -type d \
Creates temporary folder in a TMPDIR folder or /tmp folder if TMPDIR doesn`t defined, with folder name like current shell name and 10-letter suffix, and saves created path in 'mydir' variable.	mydir=$(mktemp -d "${TMPDIR:-/tmp/}$.XXXXXXXXXXXX")
Find all files that are set group ID to 10	find . -group 10 -perm -2000 -print
Search the current directory tree for .conf and .txt files	find . -type f \ -print
display all the files in current folder which have not been modified in the last 7 days	find . -mtime +7
Saves date of the first Sunday in month $mo of year $yo in the 'do' variable.	do=$
Output the standard input followed by the line number until line 786	nl -ba \| sed 786q \| grep . \| awk '{print $2$1}'
Find all directories under current directory with 755 permission and change their permission to 644	find . -perm 755 -exec chmod 644 {} \;
Lists installed packages from 'fedora' repository only.	yum list installed --disablerepo="" --enablerepo="fedora"
List each file or directory in the current directory prefixed by its human readable filesize and sorted from largest to smallest	du -h --max-depth=0 * \| sort -hr
Find files in the current directory and below that are less than 500 kB in size	find . -size -500k -print
Save absolute path of "$path" that may not exist to variable "abspath"	abspath=$(readlink -m $path)
Recursively change the owner and group of all files in "/your/directory/to/fuel/" to "nginx"	chown nginx:nginx /your/directory/to/fuel/ -R
Count non-blank lines in a file 'foo.c'	sed '/^\s*$/d' foo.c \| wc -l
Find all directories under /path/to/base/cache, /path/to/base/tmp, /path/to/base/logs and change their permission to 755	find /path/to/base/cache /path/to/base/tmp /path/to/base/logs -type d -exec chmod 755 {} +
Count files in $DIR_TO_CLEAN that are older than $DAYS_TO_SAVE days	find "$DIR_TO_CLEAN" -mtime +$DAYS_TO_SAVE \| wc -l
Clone the permissions of "$srcdir" to "$dstdir" on OSX	chown $ "$dstdir"
display all the files with the names "name1" and "name2" in the current folder and do not search in the sub directories	find . -maxdepth 1 -name "name1" -o -name "name2"
Print the list of files and directories of the /etc directory	find /etc/. ! -name /etc/.
Display environment variable "_" of the current shell	set \| grep "^_="
Search /etc for files modified within the last 10 minutes	find /etc -type f -mmin -10
Copy *.txt files from the dir/ directory tree along with their parent directories	find dir/ -name '*.txt' \| xargs cp -a --target-directory=dir_txt/ --parents
Print help on 'cat' command usage	cat --help
Find recursively regular files in the current directory tree	find . -type f -print
Search the current directory tree for the files with extension "trc" and remove them if they are more than three days old	find . -name "*.trc" -ctime +3 -exec rm {} \;
Get a detailed list of all files on the system larger than 10MB	find / -size +10M -printf “%12s %t %h/%fn”
Print a random number from 2000 to 65000	seq 2000 65000 \| sort -R \| head -n 1
Search the current directory recursively for regular files last accessed less than 2 minutes ago	find . type -f -amin -2
Make all directories in the current directory tree accessible to anybody	find . -type d -print0 \| xargs -0 chmod go+rx
Disable exiting the shell on error	set +e
Display differences between list of files in /bin and /usr/bin.	diff < <
find all the ogg files in the current directory which have the word "monfichier" in their name	find -name monfichier.ogg
Generate UUIDs for the files from the current directory tree	find . -printf "%P\n" \| sort \| while IFS= read -r f; do echo "$ $f"; done
Add read and execute permission to command "node"	sudo chmod +rx $(which node)
find all directories in the current folder	find -type d
find all the files older than 30 days	find /tmp -mtime +30 -print
Print the files in the current directory as a list of comma separated values	ls -1 \| tr '\n' ',' \| sed 's/,$/\n/'
Expand bash array "myargs" as arguments to "mv"	mv "${myargs[@]}"
Traverse the filesystem just once, listing setuid files and directories into /root/suid.txt and large files into /root/big.txt.	find / \( -perm -4000 -fprintf /root/suid.txt '%#m %u %p\n' \) , \( -size +100M -fprintf /root/big.txt '%-10s %p\n' \)
list all javascipts file expect files under proc folder	find . -type d -name proc -prune -o -name '*.js'
Print the names of all files from the /tmp/dir1 directory tree	find /tmp/dir1 -exec basename {} \;
Print nothing because 'MYVAR' string doesn`t match with '/[^/]+:' pattern	echo MYVAR \| grep -oE '/[^/]+:' \| cut -c2- \| rev \| cut -c2- \| rev
Display the total count of all the files/directories with '.old' extension under current directory tree	find . -name “*.old” -print \| wc -l
Find all directories starting from the current directory	find . -type d
Find all files named 'file' in 1 level down the current directory whose status were changed more than 1 day ago	find . -maxdepth 1 -ctime +1 -name file
find all the files that have been modified in the last 24 hours	find . -type f -mtime -1
Gives longest '*.php' files with line count first, and excludes directories with "libs", "tmp", "tests" and "vendor" in their paths.	find . -name '*.php' \| xargs wc -l \| sort -nr \| egrep -v "libs\|tmp\|tests\|vendor" \| less
find all files in the current folder that are modified exactly 2 minutes ago	find -mmin 2 -print
Remove all files and directories under '/home/foo' directory tree that match with one of the name patterns '.DS_Store', '._.DS_Store' , '._*', '.TemporaryItems' or '.apdisk'	find /home/foo \( -name '.DS_Store' -or -name '._.DS_Store' -or -name '._*' -or -name '.TemporaryItems' -or -name '.apdisk' \) -exec rm -rf {} \;
Print the list of all directories under the current directory and below	find ./ -type d -print
Read a line from standard input with prompt "Are you alright? (y/n) " and save the response to variable "RESP"	read -p "Are you alright? (y/n) " RESP
search for the file foo in the current folder and display a long listing of it in sorted order of modification date	find . -name foo \| xargs ls -tl
Convert "595a" into characters and then print the hexadecimal and printable characters of each byte	echo 595a \| awk -niord '$0=chr("0x"RT)' RS=.. ORS= \| od -tx1c
Print days between date $A and $B	echo " / " \| bc -l
Remove files from the file system that are owned by nobody	find / -nouser -exec rm {} \;
Find all files/directories that are bigger than 100 bytes under '/home/apache' directory tree	find /home/apache -size 100c -print
Find all filename.* files/directories under /root/directory/to/search	find /root/directory/to/search -name 'filename.*'
Locate all .txt files in and below the current directory	find . -name "*.txt"
Save the directory of the full path to the current script in variable "dir"	dir=$(dirname $)
Replace all newlines except the last with a comma in "test.txt"	sed -i ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/,/g' test.txt
Recursively removes all files like '._*' from current folder.	find . -name "._*" -print0 \| xargs -0 rm -rf
Print only lines from 'file1.txt' that not present in 'file2.txt' and beginning with 'Q'	cat file1.txt \| grep -Fvf file2.txt \| grep '^Q'
Print the list of files in the home directory tree whose names begin with "Foto"	find ~ -name 'Foto*'
change the permissions of all the regular/normal files to 664 in the current folder	find . -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;
Find files/directories containing 'test' in their names and display the directory contents before the directories themselves	find -name "test" -depth
List environment variables whose name contains "X"	set \| cut -d= -f1 \| grep X
Set variable "fname" to the basename of path specified in variable "f", that is remove everything up to the last slash if present.	fname=`basename $f`
Display standard input as octal bytes	cat \| od -b
List files larger than 10MB under /var/log /tmp that haven't changed in a month	find /tmp /var/tmp -size +30M -mtime 31 -ls
Find all files with name "file.ext" under the current working directory tree and print each full path directory name	find `pwd` -name file.ext \|xargs -l1 dirname
find all text files in the current folder excluding those that are presenti n the folder "/svn" and search for a pattern.	find . -name '.txt' \! -wholename '/.svn/*' -exec grep 'sometext' '{}' \; -print
Change owner of "my_test_expect.exp" to "el"	sudo chown el my_test_expect.exp
Set variable 'rav' to the contents of 'var' spelled backwards.	rav=$(echo $var \| rev)
find from / a file called 'toBeSearched.file', suppressing any error messages	find /. -name 'toBeSearched.file' 2>/dev/null
remove all the core files in the current directory	/bin/find -name "core" — exec rm {} \;
Find all 100MB files in file system and delete them using rm command	find / -size +100M -exec rm -rf {} \;
Run sed command "s#\(export\ PATH=\"\)\(.*\)#\1/home/$(whoami)/bin:~/\.local/bin:\2#" on "~/.zshrc" where "$(whoami)" is replaced with the current user name	sed -i "s#\(export\ PATH=\"\)\(.*\)#\1/home/$(whoami)/bin:~/\.local/bin:\2#" ~/.zshrc
Find all your text files and page through them	find . -name "*.txt" -print \| less
List all crons in the environment	cat /etc/passwd \| sed 's/^\([^:]\):.$/crontab -u \1 -l 2>\&1/' \| grep -v "no crontab for" \| sh
Find all files/directories named 'file_name' under current directory tree	find . -name file_name
list .pdf, .bmp and *.txt files under the /home/user/Desktop directory.	find /home/user/Desktop -name '.pdf' -o -name '.txt' -o -name '*.bmp'
find all the files in the folder /path/to/dir which have been modified after a specific date	find /path/to/dir -newermt “Feb 07”
Find files/directories named 'document' in the entire filesystem and in the directory tree '/usr' even if it's in a different partition without traversing to other devices/partitions	find / /usr -xdev -name document -print
Replace each non-blank line in "YOURFILE" preceded with "pX=" where "X" is the line number	grep -v '^$' YOURFILE \| nl -s= -w99 \| tr -s ' ' p
Find x* files/directories under /tmp directory whose status was changed less than 1 day ago and move them to ~/play	find /tmp/ -ctime -1 -name 'x*' -print0 \| xargs -r0 mv -t ~/play/
Find all *.log files under path/ that do not contain "string that should not occur"	find path/ -name '*.log' -print0 \| xargs -r0 grep -L "string that should not occur"

Find all *.xml files under current directory

find -name *.xml

Archive any files changed in the last day from "remote_host" to "local_dir"

rsync -av remote_host:'$' local_dir

List files and directories recursively

find . -print | xargs ls -gilds

List all leaf directories of the current directory tree

find . -type d -links 2

Change the permissions of the current directory and all its subdirectories to 755.

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

Identify CMS version/releases accross all your PHPBB installations

find /var/www/vhosts/*/httpdocs/ -type f -wholename *includes/constants.php -exec grep -H "PHPBB_VERSION" {} \;

Run a shell with all environment variables specified in the file 'cronenv' in the user's home directory.

env - `cat ~/cronenv` /bin/sh

Remove "_dbg" from all file or directory names under the current directory

rename _dbg.txt .txt **/*dbg*

Prints all business days in a current month.

cal -h | cut -c 4-17

display all the files in the /usr folder which have the permissions 777

find /usr -perm 0777 -print

split content of the file file.txt started from second line into pieces per 4 lines named as split_NNN

tail -n +2 file.txt | split -l 4 - split_

Find all files in the home directory tree that are owned by another user

find ~ ! -user ${USER}

Change to folder where the oracle binary is.

cd "$(dirname $)"

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

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

display all the files in the current folder excluding the current folder and do not search in the sub directories

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d \

Creates temporary folder in a TMPDIR folder or /tmp folder if TMPDIR doesn`t defined, with folder name like current shell name and 10-letter suffix, and saves created path in 'mydir' variable.

mydir=$(mktemp -d "${TMPDIR:-/tmp/}$.XXXXXXXXXXXX")

Find all files that are set group ID to 10

find . -group 10 -perm -2000 -print

Search the current directory tree for *.conf and *.txt files

find . -type f \ -print

display all the files in current folder which have not been modified in the last 7 days

find . -mtime +7

Saves date of the first Sunday in month $mo of year $yo in the 'do' variable.

do=$

Output the standard input followed by the line number until line 786

nl -ba | sed 786q | grep . | awk '{print $2$1}'

Find all directories under current directory with 755 permission and change their permission to 644

find . -perm 755 -exec chmod 644 {} \;

Lists installed packages from 'fedora' repository only.

yum list installed --disablerepo="*" --enablerepo="fedora*"

List each file or directory in the current directory prefixed by its human readable filesize and sorted from largest to smallest

du -h --max-depth=0 * | sort -hr

Find files in the current directory and below that are less than 500 kB in size

find . -size -500k -print

Save absolute path of "$path" that may not exist to variable "abspath"

abspath=$(readlink -m $path)

Recursively change the owner and group of all files in "/your/directory/to/fuel/" to "nginx"

chown nginx:nginx /your/directory/to/fuel/ -R

Count non-blank lines in a file 'foo.c'

sed '/^\s*$/d' foo.c | wc -l

Find all directories under /path/to/base/cache, /path/to/base/tmp, /path/to/base/logs and change their permission to 755

find /path/to/base/cache /path/to/base/tmp /path/to/base/logs -type d -exec chmod 755 {} +

Count files in $DIR_TO_CLEAN that are older than $DAYS_TO_SAVE days

find "$DIR_TO_CLEAN" -mtime +$DAYS_TO_SAVE | wc -l

Clone the permissions of "$srcdir" to "$dstdir" on OSX

chown $ "$dstdir"

display all the files with the names "name1" and "name2" in the current folder and do not search in the sub directories

find . -maxdepth 1 -name "name1" -o -name "name2"

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

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

Display environment variable "_" of the current shell

set | grep "^_="

Search /etc for files modified within the last 10 minutes

find /etc -type f -mmin -10

Copy *.txt files from the dir/ directory tree along with their parent directories

find dir/ -name '*.txt' | xargs cp -a --target-directory=dir_txt/ --parents

Print help on 'cat' command usage

cat --help

Find recursively regular files in the current directory tree

find . -type f -print

Search the current directory tree for the files with extension "trc" and remove them if they are more than three days old

find . -name "*.trc" -ctime +3 -exec rm {} \;

Get a detailed list of all files on the system larger than 10MB

find / -size +10M -printf “%12s %t %h/%fn”

Print a random number from 2000 to 65000

seq 2000 65000 | sort -R | head -n 1

Search the current directory recursively for regular files last accessed less than 2 minutes ago

find . type -f -amin -2

Make all directories in the current directory tree accessible to anybody

find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod go+rx

Disable exiting the shell on error

set +e

Display differences between list of files in /bin and /usr/bin.

diff < <

find all the ogg files in the current directory which have the word "monfichier" in their name

find -name *monfichier*.ogg

Generate UUIDs for the files from the current directory tree

find . -printf "%P\n" | sort | while IFS= read -r f; do echo "$ $f"; done

Add read and execute permission to command "node"

sudo chmod +rx $(which node)

find all directories in the current folder

find -type d

find all the files older than 30 days

find /tmp -mtime +30 -print

Print the files in the current directory as a list of comma separated values

ls -1 | tr '\n' ',' | sed 's/,$/\n/'

Expand bash array "myargs" as arguments to "mv"

mv "${myargs[@]}"

Traverse the filesystem just once, listing setuid files and directories into /root/suid.txt and large files into /root/big.txt.

find / $ -perm -4000 -fprintf /root/suid.txt '%#m %u %p\n' $ , $ -size +100M -fprintf /root/big.txt '%-10s %p\n' $

list all javascipts file expect files under proc folder

find . -type d -name proc -prune -o -name '*.js'

Print the names of all files from the /tmp/dir1 directory tree

find /tmp/dir1 -exec basename {} \;

Print nothing because 'MYVAR' string doesn`t match with '/[^/]+:' pattern

Display the total count of all the files/directories with '.old' extension under current directory tree

find . -name “*.old” -print | wc -l

Find all directories starting from the current directory

find . -type d

Find all files named 'file' in 1 level down the current directory whose status were changed more than 1 day ago

find . -maxdepth 1 -ctime +1 -name file

find all the files that have been modified in the last 24 hours

find . -type f -mtime -1

Gives longest '*.php' files with line count first, and excludes directories with "libs", "tmp", "tests" and "vendor" in their paths.

find all files in the current folder that are modified exactly 2 minutes ago

find -mmin 2 -print

Remove all files and directories under '/home/foo' directory tree that match with one of the name patterns '.DS_Store', '._.DS_Store' , '._*', '.TemporaryItems' or '.apdisk'

find /home/foo $ -name '.DS_Store' -or -name '._.DS_Store' -or -name '._*' -or -name '.TemporaryItems' -or -name '.apdisk' $ -exec rm -rf {} \;

Print the list of all directories under the current directory and below

find ./ -type d -print

Read a line from standard input with prompt "Are you alright? (y/n) " and save the response to variable "RESP"

read -p "Are you alright? (y/n) " RESP

search for the file foo in the current folder and display a long listing of it in sorted order of modification date

find . -name foo | xargs ls -tl

Convert "595a" into characters and then print the hexadecimal and printable characters of each byte

echo 595a | awk -niord '$0=chr("0x"RT)' RS=.. ORS= | od -tx1c

Print days between date $A and $B

echo " / " | bc -l

Remove files from the file system that are owned by nobody

find / -nouser -exec rm {} \;

Find all files/directories that are bigger than 100 bytes under '/home/apache' directory tree

find /home/apache -size 100c -print

Find all filename.* files/directories under /root/directory/to/search

find /root/directory/to/search -name 'filename.*'

Locate all .txt files in and below the current directory

find . -name "*.txt"

Save the directory of the full path to the current script in variable "dir"

dir=$(dirname $)

Replace all newlines except the last with a comma in "test.txt"

sed -i ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n/,/g' test.txt

Recursively removes all files like '._*' from current folder.

find . -name "._*" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

Print only lines from 'file1.txt' that not present in 'file2.txt' and beginning with 'Q'

cat file1.txt | grep -Fvf file2.txt | grep '^Q'

Print the list of files in the home directory tree whose names begin with "Foto"

find ~ -name 'Foto*'

change the permissions of all the regular/normal files to 664 in the current folder

find . -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;

Find files/directories containing 'test' in their names and display the directory contents before the directories themselves

find -name "*test*" -depth

List environment variables whose name contains "X"

set | cut -d= -f1 | grep X

Set variable "fname" to the basename of path specified in variable "f", that is remove everything up to the last slash if present.

fname=`basename $f`

Display standard input as octal bytes

cat | od -b

List files larger than 10MB under /var/log /tmp that haven't changed in a month

find /tmp /var/tmp -size +30M -mtime 31 -ls

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

find all text files in the current folder excluding those that are presenti n the folder "/svn" and search for a pattern.

find . -name '*.txt' \! -wholename '*/.svn/*' -exec grep 'sometext' '{}' \; -print

Change owner of "my_test_expect.exp" to "el"

sudo chown el my_test_expect.exp

Set variable 'rav' to the contents of 'var' spelled backwards.

rav=$(echo $var | rev)

find from / a file called 'toBeSearched.file', suppressing any error messages

find /. -name 'toBeSearched.file' 2>/dev/null

remove all the core files in the current directory

/bin/find -name "core" — exec rm {} \;

Find all 100MB files in file system and delete them using rm command

find / -size +100M -exec rm -rf {} \;

Run sed command "s#$export\ PATH=\"$$.*$#\1/home/$(whoami)/bin:~/\.local/bin:\2#" on "~/.zshrc" where "$(whoami)" is replaced with the current user name

sed -i "s#$export\ PATH=\"$$.*$#\1/home/$(whoami)/bin:~/\.local/bin:\2#" ~/.zshrc

Find all your text files and page through them

find . -name "*.txt" -print | less

List all crons in the environment

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

Find all files/directories named 'file_name' under current directory tree

find . -name file_name

list *.pdf, *.bmp and *.txt files under the /home/user/Desktop directory.

find /home/user/Desktop -name '*.pdf' -o -name '*.txt' -o -name '*.bmp'

find all the files in the folder /path/to/dir which have been modified after a specific date

find /path/to/dir -newermt “Feb 07”

Find files/directories named 'document' in the entire filesystem and in the directory tree '/usr' even if it's in a different partition without traversing to other devices/partitions

find / /usr -xdev -name document -print

Replace each non-blank line in "YOURFILE" preceded with "pX=" where "X" is the line number

grep -v '^$' YOURFILE | nl -s= -w99 | tr -s ' ' p

Find x* files/directories under /tmp directory whose status was changed less than 1 day ago and move them to ~/play

find /tmp/ -ctime -1 -name 'x*' -print0 | xargs -r0 mv -t ~/play/

Find all *.log files under path/ that do not contain "string that should not occur"

find path/ -name '*.log' -print0 | xargs -r0 grep -L "string that should not occur"