prabhanshubhowal/natural_language_to_linux

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show all files in the entire file system	find / -print0 \| perl -ln0e 'print "found $_" if -p'
remove all core files in the file system	find / -name "*.core" -print -exec rm {} \;
Search the *.code files from the current directory tree for string 'pattern'	find . -name '*.code' -print0 \| xargs -0 grep -H 'pattern'
Print the list of all regular files in the current directory and below	find . -type f
change the extension of all the ".abc" files in the folder "/the/path" to ".edefg" and do not change in the sub directories	find /the/path -depth -type f -name "*.abc" -exec sh -c 'mv "$1" "$/$.edefg"' _ {} \;
find for a word in all the regular files in the current directory	find . -type f -print \| xargs grep -li 'bin/ksh'
Find all files starting from the current directory that match regular expression '.Message.\.java'	find . -print \| grep '.Message.\.java'
Recursively lists all files in a current folder in long format, sorting by modification time.	ls -ldt $
Modify and rewrite 'file' replacing the first instance of "foo" on each line with "bar"	sed -i 's/foo/bar/' file
Find all *.sql file that are not newer than $oldest_to_keep excluding the $oldest_to_keep file	find . -name \*.sql -not -samefile $oldest_to_keep -not -newer $oldest_to_keep
Find files/directories under '/usr' directory tree that are newer than /tmp/stamp$$ by modification time	find /usr -newer /tmp/stamp$$
Unsets GNUPLOT_DRIVER_DIR variable.	unset GNUPLOT_DRIVER_DIR
delete all empty files in the current directory	find . -empty -exec rm '{}' \;
Display the contents of "sample_0001.gz" with "lk=1&" removed	zcat sample_0001.gz \| sed -e 's/lk=1&//g'
Check if content of all top-level *.txt files in the current directory contain only unique lines	cat *.txt \| sort \| sort -u -c
Search the current directory recursively for regular files last accessed 2 minutes ago	find . type -f -amin 2
Save the current date to 'DATE' variable	DATE=$
Print a hex dump byte to byte of the output of "printf Aa"	printf Aa \| od -t x1
Create a directory named 'alpha_real' in the current directory	mkdir alpha_real
Find files matching pattern $2 in the $1 directory recursively and search them for text $3, where $1, $2, $3 are the command line arguments to the Bash script	find $1 -name "$2" -exec grep -Hn "$3" {} \;
delete all the text files from the current folder after user confirmation	find . -name "*.txt" -ok rm {} \;
Make directory "/tmp/foo"	mkdir /tmp/foo
change owner and group of the file "file" to user "user" and group "group"	chown user:group file ...
Save the current working directory to variable "CURRENT"	CURRENT=`pwd`
Search directory lpi104-6 for files with inode number 1988884	find lpi104-6 -inum 1988884
Print only group names from /etc/group.	cut -d: -f1 /etc/group
Find all files under current directory whose file type description contains "image", display only path to each file.	find . -type f -exec file {} \; \| awk -F: '{if print $1}'
List all leaf directories under current directory	find . -type d -execdir sh -c 'test -z "$" && echo $PWD/{}' \;
change owner and group of the file uid_demo to user and group root	sudo chown root:root uid_demo
List all aliencoders.[0-9]+ files/directories under /home/jassi/ directory	find /home/jassi/ -name "aliencoders.[0-9]+" -exec ls -lrt {} + \| awk '{print $9}'
Search the current directory tree for directories	find $PWD -type d
Find all files/directories that belong to the group 'staff' under '/usr' directory tree	find /usr -group staff
Create a compressed archive of "/home" and split the contents into files with at most 4000 MiB each and use prefix "/media/DRIVENAME/BACKUPNAME.tgz"	tar --one-file-system -czv /home \| split -b 4000m - /media/DRIVENAME/BACKUPNAME.tgz
Remove all files and directories in the current directory by answering with "y" to all prompts	yes \| /bin/rm -i *
find all the files that have been changed today	find . -ctime 0 -type f
search for files in the current folder ending with ".au"	find -type f -name '*.au'
Find all files/directories with 777 permission under '/apps/audit' and strip write permission for 'other' from them	find /apps/audit -perm -7 -print \| xargs chmod o‑w
Find all *.htm files under current directory and print the changed names by appending 3 levels of parent directory names at the beginning and modifying the actual name to dd-nnn format	find -type f -name "*.htm" \| awk -F'[/]' 'BEGIN{OFS="-"}{ gsub ;print $1,$2, substr,substr,substr }'
Removes all empty folders with modification time more that 10 minutes ago from $homeDirData folder.	find $homeDirData -type d -mmin +10 -print0 \| xargs -0 rmdir
Search all *.c files from the current directory tree for "hogehoge"	find . -name \*.c -exec grep hogehoge {} \;
Find *.tex files in the current directory tree that contain text "documentclass"	find . -type f -name *.tex -print0 \| xargs -0 grep -l 'documentclass'
SSH into host "server" as user "user"	ssh user@server
Copies file 'file.txt' to each top-level directory in the current directory.	ls -d */ \| xargs -iA cp file.txt A
find the path of a specfic video file in the current directory	find . -name foo.mp4 \| sed 's\|/[^/]*$\|\|'
Print the list of all directories in the /myfiles directory tree	find /myfiles -type d
Save the list of files containing string `ExtJSLogin' to files.txt excluding change-app-name.sh	find . -type f -exec grep -l 'ExtJSLogin' {} \; \| grep -v 'change-app-name.sh' > files.txt
Find all *.py files/directories under current directory	find . -name *.py
display a long listing of the files in current folder which have been modified in the last 60 minutes	find . -mmin -60 \|xargs ls -l
Expands `whoami` as current user name, and adds resulted path to the directory stack.	pushd /home/`whoami`/Pictures
Find files named 'core' in or below the directory /tmp and delete them	find /tmp -name core -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 /bin/rm -f
display all the files in the entire file system which have set uid bit set.	find / -perm -u+s -print
find all directories with the name like "????-??-??" and which have not been modified in the last 24 hours in the folder /volume1/photo/ipcam and send them as input to the script in the exec section	find /volume1/photo/ipcam -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "????-??-??" -mtime +0 -exec sh -c 'echo /home/pi/Dropbox-Uploader/dropbox_uploader.sh move /ipcam/$ /ipcam/archive' \;
find all files under the current directory, redirecting error messages to the output and filtering any lines containing the text "Permission denied", writing the remaining output to some_file	find . 2>&1 \| grep -v 'Permission denied' > some_file
list all regular files which path is not dir1 or dir2	find dir -not \( -path "dir1" -o -path "dir2" -prune \) -type f
find all the config(.conf files) files in the folder /home/pat	find /home/pat -iname "*.conf"
display all normal/regular files in current directory	find . -type f
Displays line count in 'filename' every 2 seconds.	watch wc -l <filename>
search for the file chapter1 in the folder /work	find /work -name chapter1
Find all the regular files in $DIR directory tree which have not been modified in the last 15 days and delete them	find "$DIR" -type f -mtime +15 -exec rm {} \;
Prints name of temporary file but doesn`t create nothing.	mktemp -u
Forward port 16186 on hello.com to 8888 on localhost using private key "privatekeystuffdis88s8dsf8h8hsd8fh8d" for login	ssh -N -i <(echo "privatekeystuffdis88s8dsf8h8hsd8fh8d") -R 16186:localhost:8888 hello.com
Move all files from the `sourceDir' directory to the `destDir' directory	find sourceDir -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -print0 \| xargs -0 mv --target-directory=destDir
display all files in the current folder which do not match the regular expression	find . -not -regex ".test."
Display an infinite number of lines consisting of "y", until the user presses the Q key.	yes \| cat \| more
Changes group ownership of 'public' and 'private' to 'god'.	chgrp god public private
Find recursively all files in the "." directory tree whose names end with ".class" and delete them	find . -type f -name "*.class" -exec rm -vf {} \;
Finds total lines count of few types of files in a current folder and subfolders.	( find . \ -print0 \| xargs -0 cat ) \| wc -l
Print each ".txt" file in the current directory	paste --delimiter=\\n --serial *.txt
Replace "inputfile" with a sorted unique list of its contents	sort inputfile \| uniq \| sort -o inputfile
Display a long listing of all directories under '/nas' directory tree	find /nas -type d -ls
Remove everything in a current folder prompting user on each action.	rm -ri *
Find all files/directories under current directory that match the case insensitive regex ./\(EA\\|FS\)_.*	find . -iregex './\(EA\\|FS\)_.*'
Run `command' passing the files from the current directory tree as arguments	find . -print\|xargs command
List all leaf directories (directories which don't contain any sub-directory) under current directory	find -depth -type d \|sed 'h; :b; $b; N; /^\(.\)\/.\n\1$/ { g; bb }; $ {x; b}; P; D'
Limit each line in "your_file" to 80 characters and view via "more"	fold -80 your_file \| more
Rename all .html files to .txt	rename 's/\.html$/\.txt/' *.html
Remove all files matching the pattern [+{;"\\=?~()<>&\|$ ]* under current directory	find . -name '[+{;"\\=?~()<>&\|$ ]*' -exec rm -f '{}' \;
Prints day of first Tuesday in a month.	cal \| awk 'NR==2 {for (i=1;i<=NF;i++) {sub(/ /,"",$i);a[$i]=i}} NR>2 {if ($a["Tu"]~/[0-9]/) {printf "%02d\n",$a["Tu"];exit}}' FIELDWIDTHS="3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3"
Find all files named "file.ext" within the current folder and print the path where each one is located	find `pwd` -name "file.ext" -exec echo $(dirname {}) \;
Return the list of files named "filename" that are 50 megabytes or larger	find / -size +50M -iname "filename"
List screen IDs	screen -r
Find all files of the user with UID=1000	find -user 1000
Creates temporary folder and saves path to it in a 'tempd' variable.	tempd=`mktemp -d`
Prints long listing of the current directory and top-level directories within, sorted from oldest to newest, with appended indicators.	$ ls -Fltr *
search for a word in all the php files in the current folder and display the matching lines.	find . -name \*.php -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 -n1 grep -Hn '$test'
Forcibly create symbolic links in target directory "~/staging" for all files located in directory "~/mirror"	ln --force --target-directory=~/staging ~/mirror/*
Calculate the md5 sum of the sorted list of md5 sums of all ".py" files under "/path/to/dir/"	find /path/to/dir/ -type f -name *.py -exec md5sum {} + \| awk '{print $1}' \| sort \| md5sum
Remove all regular files under and below directory "$DIR" that were last accessed more than 5 days ago	find "$DIR" -type f -atime +5 -exec rm {} \;
Save IP addresses of the host name in variable "ip"	ip=$
find regular files under the current directory, whose name ends in .mbox, piping the output to a while loop that renames each file, to the same name without .mbox at the end	find . -type f -wholename \*.mbox -print0 \| \ while read I ; do mv $I $ ; done ;
List all *.txt files/directories under /etc	find /etc -name "*.txt" -ls
Prints folder where current script is located	echo "dirname: `dirname $0`"
Redirects output of 'time' built-in function and prints only real-time statistic.	{ time find / &>/dev/null; } 2>&1 \| grep real
Find *.NEF files under current directory and take only the filename without extension and run other commands on this file name.	find . -name "*.NEF" -exec basename \{\} .NEF \; \| xargs> -i sh -c 'dcraw -w -c $0.NEF \| convert - -resize 25% $0.jpg'
Move all Emacs backup files from the current directory tree to ~/backups/	find . -name '*~' -print 0 \| xargs -0 -I % cp % ~/backups
Find root's files in the current directory tree	find ./ -user root
Treat references to unset variables as errors	set -o nounset
Reversibly sorts content of the '${TMP}/${SCRIPT_NAME}.kb' file, comparing human readable numbers in file strings.	cat ${TMP}/${SCRIPT_NAME}.kb\|sort -rh;
Print "found" if "blah" contains the hex byte string "\xCA\xFE\xBA\xBE"	cat blah \| perl -en '/\xCA\xFE\xBA\xBE/ && print "found"'
Remove all \*~ files under dir	find dir -name \\*~ -exec rm {} +

show all files in the entire file system

find / -print0 | perl -ln0e 'print "found $_" if -p'

remove all core files in the file system

find / -name "*.core" -print -exec rm {} \;

Search the *.code files from the current directory tree for string 'pattern'

find . -name '*.code' -print0 | xargs -0 grep -H 'pattern'

Print the list of all regular files in the current directory and below

find . -type f

change the extension of all the ".abc" files in the folder "/the/path" to ".edefg" and do not change in the sub directories

find /the/path -depth -type f -name "*.abc" -exec sh -c 'mv "$1" "$/$.edefg"' _ {} \;

find for a word in all the regular files in the current directory

find . -type f -print | xargs grep -li 'bin/ksh'

Find all files starting from the current directory that match regular expression '.*Message.*\.java'

find . -print | grep '.*Message.*\.java'

Recursively lists all files in a current folder in long format, sorting by modification time.

ls -ldt $

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

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

Find all *.sql file that are not newer than $oldest_to_keep excluding the $oldest_to_keep file

find . -name \*.sql -not -samefile $oldest_to_keep -not -newer $oldest_to_keep

Find files/directories under '/usr' directory tree that are newer than /tmp/stamp$$ by modification time

find /usr -newer /tmp/stamp$$

Unsets GNUPLOT_DRIVER_DIR variable.

unset GNUPLOT_DRIVER_DIR

delete all empty files in the current directory

find . -empty -exec rm '{}' \;

Display the contents of "sample_0001.gz" with "lk=1&" removed

zcat sample_0001.gz | sed -e 's/lk=1&//g'

Check if content of all top-level *.txt files in the current directory contain only unique lines

cat *.txt | sort | sort -u -c

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

find . type -f -amin 2

Save the current date to 'DATE' variable

DATE=$

Print a hex dump byte to byte of the output of "printf Aa"

printf Aa | od -t x1

Create a directory named 'alpha_real' in the current directory

mkdir alpha_real

Find files matching pattern $2 in the $1 directory recursively and search them for text $3, where $1, $2, $3 are the command line arguments to the Bash script

find $1 -name "$2" -exec grep -Hn "$3" {} \;

delete all the text files from the current folder after user confirmation

find . -name "*.txt" -ok rm {} \;

Make directory "/tmp/foo"

mkdir /tmp/foo

change owner and group of the file "file" to user "user" and group "group"

chown user:group file ...

Save the current working directory to variable "CURRENT"

CURRENT=`pwd`

Search directory lpi104-6 for files with inode number 1988884

find lpi104-6 -inum 1988884

Print only group names from /etc/group.

cut -d: -f1 /etc/group

Find all files under current directory whose file type description contains "image", display only path to each file.

find . -type f -exec file {} \; | awk -F: '{if print $1}'

List all leaf directories under current directory

find . -type d -execdir sh -c 'test -z "$" && echo $PWD/{}' \;

change owner and group of the file uid_demo to user and group root

sudo chown root:root uid_demo

List all aliencoders.[0-9]+ files/directories under /home/jassi/ directory

find /home/jassi/ -name "aliencoders.[0-9]+" -exec ls -lrt {} + | awk '{print $9}'

Search the current directory tree for directories

find $PWD -type d

Find all files/directories that belong to the group 'staff' under '/usr' directory tree

find /usr -group staff

Create a compressed archive of "/home" and split the contents into files with at most 4000 MiB each and use prefix "/media/DRIVENAME/BACKUPNAME.tgz"

tar --one-file-system -czv /home | split -b 4000m - /media/DRIVENAME/BACKUPNAME.tgz

Remove all files and directories in the current directory by answering with "y" to all prompts

yes | /bin/rm -i *

find all the files that have been changed today

find . -ctime 0 -type f

search for files in the current folder ending with ".au"

find -type f -name '*.au'

Find all files/directories with 777 permission under '/apps/audit' and strip write permission for 'other' from them

find /apps/audit -perm -7 -print | xargs chmod o‑w

Find all *.htm files under current directory and print the changed names by appending 3 levels of parent directory names at the beginning and modifying the actual name to dd-nnn format

find -type f -name "*.htm" | awk -F'[/]' 'BEGIN{OFS="-"}{ gsub ;print $1,$2, substr,substr,substr }'

Removes all empty folders with modification time more that 10 minutes ago from $homeDirData folder.

find $homeDirData -type d -mmin +10 -print0 | xargs -0 rmdir

Search all *.c files from the current directory tree for "hogehoge"

find . -name \*.c -exec grep hogehoge {} \;

Find *.tex files in the current directory tree that contain text "documentclass"

find . -type f -name *.tex -print0 | xargs -0 grep -l 'documentclass'

SSH into host "server" as user "user"

ssh user@server

Copies file 'file.txt' to each top-level directory in the current directory.

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

find the path of a specfic video file in the current directory

find . -name foo.mp4 | sed 's|/[^/]*$||'

Print the list of all directories in the /myfiles directory tree

find /myfiles -type d

Save the list of files containing string `ExtJSLogin' to files.txt excluding change-app-name.sh

find . -type f -exec grep -l 'ExtJSLogin' {} \; | grep -v 'change-app-name.sh' > files.txt

Find all *.py files/directories under current directory

find . -name *.py

display a long listing of the files in current folder which have been modified in the last 60 minutes

find . -mmin -60 |xargs ls -l

Expands `whoami` as current user name, and adds resulted path to the directory stack.

pushd /home/`whoami`/Pictures

Find files named 'core' in or below the directory /tmp and delete them

find /tmp -name core -type f -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm -f

display all the files in the entire file system which have set uid bit set.

find / -perm -u+s -print

find all directories with the name like "????-??-??" and which have not been modified in the last 24 hours in the folder /volume1/photo/ipcam and send them as input to the script in the exec section

find /volume1/photo/ipcam -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "????-??-??" -mtime +0 -exec sh -c 'echo /home/pi/Dropbox-Uploader/dropbox_uploader.sh move /ipcam/$ /ipcam/archive' \;

find all files under the current directory, redirecting error messages to the output and filtering any lines containing the text "Permission denied", writing the remaining output to some_file

find . 2>&1 | grep -v 'Permission denied' > some_file

list all regular files which path is not dir1 or dir2

find dir -not $ -path "dir1" -o -path "dir2" -prune $ -type f

find all the config(.conf files) files in the folder /home/pat

find /home/pat -iname "*.conf"

display all normal/regular files in current directory

find . -type f

Displays line count in 'filename' every 2 seconds.

watch wc -l <filename>

search for the file chapter1 in the folder /work

find /work -name chapter1

Find all the regular files in $DIR directory tree which have not been modified in the last 15 days and delete them

find "$DIR" -type f -mtime +15 -exec rm {} \;

Prints name of temporary file but doesn`t create nothing.

mktemp -u

Forward port 16186 on hello.com to 8888 on localhost using private key "privatekeystuffdis88s8dsf8h8hsd8fh8d" for login

ssh -N -i <(echo "privatekeystuffdis88s8dsf8h8hsd8fh8d") -R 16186:localhost:8888 hello.com

Move all files from the `sourceDir' directory to the `destDir' directory

find sourceDir -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -print0 | xargs -0 mv --target-directory=destDir

display all files in the current folder which do not match the regular expression

find . -not -regex ".*test.*"

Display an infinite number of lines consisting of "y", until the user presses the Q key.

yes | cat | more

Changes group ownership of 'public' and 'private' to 'god'.

chgrp god public private

Find recursively all files in the "." directory tree whose names end with ".class" and delete them

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

Finds total lines count of few types of files in a current folder and subfolders.

( find . \ -print0 | xargs -0 cat ) | wc -l

Print each ".txt" file in the current directory

paste --delimiter=\\n --serial *.txt

Replace "inputfile" with a sorted unique list of its contents

sort inputfile | uniq | sort -o inputfile

Display a long listing of all directories under '/nas' directory tree

find /nas -type d -ls

Remove everything in a current folder prompting user on each action.

rm -ri *

Find all files/directories under current directory that match the case insensitive regex ./$EA\|FS$_.*

find . -iregex './$EA\|FS$_.*'

Run `command' passing the files from the current directory tree as arguments

find . -print|xargs command

List all leaf directories (directories which don't contain any sub-directory) under current directory

find -depth -type d |sed 'h; :b; $b; N; /^$.*$\/.*\n\1$/ { g; bb }; $ {x; b}; P; D'

Limit each line in "your_file" to 80 characters and view via "more"

fold -80 your_file | more

Rename all .html files to .txt

rename 's/\.html$/\.txt/' *.html

Remove all files matching the pattern *[+{;"\\=?~()<>&*|$ ]* under current directory

find . -name '*[+{;"\\=?~()<>&*|$ ]*' -exec rm -f '{}' \;

Prints day of first Tuesday in a month.

cal | awk 'NR==2 {for (i=1;i<=NF;i++) {sub(/ /,"",$i);a[$i]=i}} NR>2 {if ($a["Tu"]~/[0-9]/) {printf "%02d\n",$a["Tu"];exit}}' FIELDWIDTHS="3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3"

Find all files named "file.ext" within the current folder and print the path where each one is located

find `pwd` -name "file.ext" -exec echo $(dirname {}) \;

Return the list of files named "filename" that are 50 megabytes or larger

find / -size +50M -iname "filename"

List screen IDs

screen -r

Find all files of the user with UID=1000

find -user 1000

Creates temporary folder and saves path to it in a 'tempd' variable.

tempd=`mktemp -d`

Prints long listing of the current directory and top-level directories within, sorted from oldest to newest, with appended indicators.

$ ls -Fltr *

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

find . -name \*.php -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 grep -Hn '$test'

Forcibly create symbolic links in target directory "~/staging" for all files located in directory "~/mirror"

ln --force --target-directory=~/staging ~/mirror/*

Calculate the md5 sum of the sorted list of md5 sums of all ".py" files under "/path/to/dir/"

find /path/to/dir/ -type f -name *.py -exec md5sum {} + | awk '{print $1}' | sort | md5sum

Remove all regular files under and below directory "$DIR" that were last accessed more than 5 days ago

find "$DIR" -type f -atime +5 -exec rm {} \;

Save IP addresses of the host name in variable "ip"

ip=$

find regular files under the current directory, whose name ends in .mbox, piping the output to a while loop that renames each file, to the same name without .mbox at the end

find . -type f -wholename \*.mbox -print0 | \ while read I ; do mv $I $ ; done ;

List all *.txt files/directories under /etc

find /etc -name "*.txt" -ls

Prints folder where current script is located

echo "dirname: `dirname $0`"

Redirects output of 'time' built-in function and prints only real-time statistic.

{ time find / &>/dev/null; } 2>&1 | grep real

Find *.NEF files under current directory and take only the filename without extension and run other commands on this file name.

find . -name "*.NEF" -exec basename \{\} .NEF \; | xargs> -i sh -c 'dcraw -w -c $0.NEF | convert - -resize 25% $0.jpg'

Move all Emacs backup files from the current directory tree to ~/backups/

find . -name '*~' -print 0 | xargs -0 -I % cp % ~/backups

Find root's files in the current directory tree

find ./ -user root

Treat references to unset variables as errors

set -o nounset

Reversibly sorts content of the '${TMP}/${SCRIPT_NAME}.kb' file, comparing human readable numbers in file strings.

cat ${TMP}/${SCRIPT_NAME}.kb|sort -rh;

Print "found" if "blah" contains the hex byte string "\xCA\xFE\xBA\xBE"

cat blah | perl -en '/\xCA\xFE\xBA\xBE/ && print "found"'

Remove all \*~ files under dir

find dir -name \\*~ -exec rm {} +