prabhanshubhowal/natural_language_to_linux

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Search directories /path/to/directory/folder{1..50} for .txt files, outputting only the names of the matched files stripped of the .txt suffix	find /path/to/directory/folder{1..50} -name '*.txt' -exec basename {} .txt \; 2>/dev/null
Display the last 3 characters of variable foo.	echo $foo \| rev \| cut -c1-3 \| rev
Lists all files and folders with its content in a current folder, excluding names ending with 'foo'.	ls !
Print the file sizes along with their paths for all *.txt files/directories under current directory tree	find . -name "*.txt" -print0 \|xargs -0 du -ch
Save IP addresses of the host name in variable "ip"	ip=$(hostname -I \| awk '{print $1}')
Print the grand total disk usage of all files listed in "files.txt"	cat files.txt \| xargs du -c \| tail -1
Search for regular expression 'expr' in all .c and .h files from the current directory tree	find -name '*.[ch]' \| xargs grep -E 'expr'
find all the jpg files in the directory /ftp/dir which are bigger than 500KB	find /ftp/dir/ -size +500k -iname "*.jpg"
display all directories in vim folder do not search in sub directories	find .vim/ -maxdepth 1 -type d
find all the non compressed files in the current directory and compress them.	find . \! -name "*.Z" -exec compress -f {} \;
Find all directories under current directory and set read & execute permission for group and other for these files	find . -type d -print0 \| xargs -0 chmod go+rx
Recursively change the owner and group of all files in the current directory to "apache"	ls \| xargs chown -R apache:apache
Find all .php files and .js files/directories under /home/jul/here excluding $EXCLUDE/* paths	find /home/jul/here -type f -iname ".php" ! -path "$EXCLUDE/" -o -iname ".js" ! -path "$EXCLUDE/"
Search the directories that match pattern '/path/to/directory/folder{?,[1-4]?,50}' for .txt files	find /path/to/directory/folder{?,[1-4]?,50} -name '*.txt'
Print the git log in a tabular form	git log --pretty=format:'%h\|%an\|%s' -10 \| column -t -s '\|'
Find all hidden files starting from the directory given as variable $FOLDER	find $FOLDER -name ".*"
Delete all files under user's home directory tree that were accessed more than 365 days after their status was changed	find ~ -used +365 -ok rm '{}' ';'
Find all regular files in <path> and execute process with all of them as arguments	find <path> -type f -exec sh -c 'for f; do echo process $f; done' sh {} +
create directory /path/to/destination	mkdir /path/to/destination
List files that have been renamed in Git repository.	find -name .git -prune -o -exec git log --pretty=tformat:'' --numstat --follow --find-copies-harder --reverse {} ';' \| cut -f3- \| grep '.* => .*'
find all the regular/normal files in the current folder	find -type f
Find all regular files whose names contain "@" in directory tree ~/$folder	find ~/$folder -name "@" -type f -print0
Find all files/directories named 'document' in the entire filesystem	find / -name document -print
Print full path of command "c++"	which c++
Search for 'class Pool' in all *.java (case insensitive) files under current directory	find -iname '*.java'\|xargs grep 'class Pool'
search for all the files in the current directory which have size greater than 10KB and less than 32KB.	find . -size +10000c -size -32000c -print
find all the files in the entire file system which have been modified in the last 5 days	find / -mtime -5 -print
Find .rmv files in the ./root directory recursively and copy them to directory /copy/to/here	find root -name '*.rmv' -type f -exec cp --parents "{}" /copy/to/here \;
Find all flies under current directory excluding *.png files and print the file paths that match the case insensitive regex 'foo=' in their contents	find . -not -name '*.png' -o -type f -print \| xargs grep -icl "foo="
Print the names of all files and directories in the current directory tree	find . -print
Find files/directories under current directory that matches the regex /projects/insanewebproject[^/]*$ in their paths	find . -exec sh -c 'echo {} \| grep -qi /projects/insanewebproject[^/]*$' \; -print
find all files in current folder and display the total lines in them	find . \| xargs wc -l
Remove all *.mp3 files in tmp directory but not in it's subdirectories	find tmp -maxdepth 1 -name *.mp3 -print0 \| xargs -0 rm
Find all .jpg files under maximum 2 levels down the temp/medium/ paths and run `mogrify -resize 428x270"^" -quality 80 -compress JPEG -monitor -strip` with the file paths as arguments	find temp/medium/* -maxdepth 2 -iname "*.jpg" -print0 \| xargs -0 mogrify -resize 428x270"^" -quality 80 -compress JPEG -monitor -strip
Search the home directory for filenames starting with "xx" except for "xxx" files	find ~ -name 'xx*' -and -not -name 'xxx'
Shows status of a shell option 'dotglob'.	shopt dotglob
Displays process tree of a process with id 'PID', showing parent process and processes id.	pstree -p -s PID
Change the owner to "user" and group to "group" of files "file ..."	chown user:group file ...
Replace all occurrence of "subdomainA.example.com" with "subdomainB.example.com" in all files under /home/www and below	find /home/www -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 sed -i 's/subdomainA.example.com/subdomainB.example.com/g'
Gets IP address of 'en1' network interface.	my_ip=$
Change the owner of all files in the directory tree "dir_to_start" excluding file "file_to_exclude" to "owner"	find dir_to_start -not -name "file_to_exclude" -print0 \| xargs -0 chown owner
Show directory sizes in KB and sort to give the largest at the end	du -sk $ \| sort -n -k 1
Print the full path of command "rails"	which rails
Page through the output of running the specified PHP file.	less -f <
search for all the files in the current folder and sort them in the order of their depth and display the file names	find -type d -printf '%d\t%P\n' \| sort -r -nk1 \| cut -f2-
Lists all directories in '/home/alice/Documents/'.	ls -d /home/alice/Documents/*/
Recursively bind mount "/something" on "/new_something"	mount --rbind /something /new_something
Search for empty files	find . -size 0k
Print NS record for domain 'domain.' from 8.8.8.8 nameserver	dig @8.8.8.8 domain. ns
Display the contents of variable "a" converted to lowercase.	echo "$a" \| awk '{print tolower($0)}'
display a list of all the files in the file system which do not belong to any user and search only in jfs and jfs2 file systems	find / -nouser \ -ls
Change permissions to 644 recursively for PHP files.	find . -type f -name '*.php' -exec chmod 644 {} \;
List all your files including everything in sub-directories	find ~
Installs 'php-mssql' package with enabling repository 'remi'.	yum --enablerepo=remi php-mssql
On host "server_b", connect as ssh user "user" and copy "/my_folder/my_file.xml" to directory "/my_new_folder/", with all transfer data relayed through local host.	scp -3 user@server_b:/my_folder/my_file.xml user@server_b:/my_new_folder/
Search the files from directory tree "dirname" for string "foo"	find dirname -print0 \| xargs -0 grep foo
Rename "file0001.txt" to "1.txt"	mv file0001.txt 1.txt
split content of the file file.txt started from second line into pieces per 4 lines named as split_NNN	tail -n +2 file.txt \| split -l 4 - split_
Searches the manual page names and descriptions	apropos
Sort the contents of file "ips.txt", eliminate duplicate entries, and prefix each entry with number of occurrences.	sort ips.txt \| uniq -c
Find all files under current directory and set read-write permission for owner, read permission for group and no permission for other for those files	find . -type f -exec chmod u=rw,g=r,o= '{}' \;
delete all text files from current folder	find . -type f ! -iname "*.txt" -delete
Print the base name of the current working directory	echo "$(basename $)"
Search the current directory for all regular files executable by 'user', 'group', and 'others'	find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -perm -ugo=x
Find all php files under current directory	find . -type f -name "*.php"
Mount "/tmp/loop.img" on "/mnt/image" as a loop back device	mount /tmp/loop.img /mnt/image -o loop
Find all *.txt files/directories under current directory and execute the python script hello.py with all their paths as arguments	find . -name "*.txt" -print0 \| xargs -0 python hello.py
find all the ".c" files in the folder "/home/you" which have been accessed in the last 30*24 hours	find /home/you -iname "*.c" -atime -30 -type -f
change the word "GHBAG" to "stream-agg" in all the file names in current folder which have the word "-GHBAG-" in their name	find . -name '-GHBAG-' -exec rename 's/GHBAG/stream-agg/' {} +
Lists all subdirectories in the current directory	ls -d -- */ ### more reliable GNU ls
display all the directories in the folder /path/to/dest except tmp directory	find /path/to/dest -type d \( ! -name tmp \) -print
Remove spaces recursively from all subdirectories under current directory	find /path/to/dir -type d \| tac \| while read LINE; do target=$/$; echo mv "$LINE" "$target"; done
Count the number of directories in the current directory and below	find . -type f -exec basename {} \; \| wc -l
Find files that were modified 7 days ago and archive them	find . -type f -mtime 7 \| xargs tar -cvf `date '+%d%m%Y'_archive.tar`
Print unique lines in "set1" and "set2" when compared to each other and remove any tabs	comm -3 < < \| sed 's/\t//g'
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/
Run rsync with options specified by variable OPTS, copying directory(ies) specified by variable FIND, and to destination specified by variable BACKUPDIR.	rsync $OPTS $FIND $BACKUPDIR
change the group of all regular/normal files in the current directory	find . -type f -exec chgrp usergroup {} \;
Show files in maximum 1 level down the current directory that were modified less than 1 day ago from today	less `find -maxdepth 1 -type f -daystart -mtime -1`
find all the files in the current folder which have been modified in the last one day	find . -daystart -mtime -1 -ls
Recursively copies 'SRCFOLDER' to the 'DESTFOLDER/'	cp -R SRCFOLDER DESTFOLDER/
Remove the "^M" characters from all *.ext files under /home directory and save the results to new files with _new appended in their names	find /home -type f -name "*.ext" -print0 \| while read -r -d "$" -r path; do dos2unix $path $path"_new"; done
Find all regular files in the current directory tree that are not readable by anyone	find . -type f ! -perm -444
Print the contents of "file" with " \| " appended to each line	echo `sed -e 's/$/\ \|\ /g' file`
Find all files/directories under current directory tree that start with 'test' in their names without descending into directories with the same name pattern	find . -name 'test*' -prune
Delete all 'restore.php' files in /var/www and 3 levels below	find /var/www -maxdepth 4 -name 'restore.php' -exec rm -r {} \;
search for the directory starting with "ora10" in the entire file system	find / -type d -name "ora10*"
Move all files/directories under current directory to ~/play	find . -exec mv '{}' ~/play/ \;
Find all files under /path/to/input/ that match the case insensitive string literal '[email protected]' in their contents	find /path/to/input/ -type f -exec grep -qiF [email protected] \{\} \; -print
Login to "host" using identity file "id_rsa"	ssh -i id_rsa host
display all the directories in the current folder which start with processor followed by digit and ends with .1 or .2	find . -type d -regextype posix-egrep -regex '\./processor[0-9]*/10\.(1\|2)'
Count lines that are neither blanks nor comments in a file 'foo.pl'	cat foo.pl \| sed '/^\s#/d;/^\s$/d' \| wc -l
Find all files under current directory and change their permission to 400	find . -type f -exec chmod 400 {} \;
Search only for directories	find -type d
Search the /myfiles directory tree for files last accessed more than 30 days ago	find /myfiles -atime +30
Remove the last line from "$file" without reading the whole file or rewriting anything	tail -n 1 "$file" \| wc -c \| xargs -I {} truncate "$file" -s -{}
find the file "filename.txt" in the usr folder	find /usr -name filename.txt -print
Find all directories under 'test' directory tree whose paths match the regex '.*/course[0-9]\.[0-9]\.[0-9]\.[0-9]$'	find test -type d -regex '.*/course[0-9]\.[0-9]\.[0-9]\.[0-9]$'
Find all *.mov files under current directory and run an ffmpeg command with the literal '%p' and '%f' as the path and name respectively for each file	find . -iname "*.mov" -exec ffmpeg -i "%p" -f flv "%f" \;
Find all directories named postgis-2.0.0 under / directory	sudo find / -type d -name "postgis-2.0.0"

Search directories /path/to/directory/folder{1..50} for .txt files, outputting only the names of the matched files stripped of the .txt suffix

find /path/to/directory/folder{1..50} -name '*.txt' -exec basename {} .txt \; 2>/dev/null

Display the last 3 characters of variable foo.

echo $foo | rev | cut -c1-3 | rev

Lists all files and folders with its content in a current folder, excluding names ending with 'foo'.

ls !

Print the file sizes along with their paths for all *.txt files/directories under current directory tree

find . -name "*.txt" -print0 |xargs -0 du -ch

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

ip=$(hostname -I | awk '{print $1}')

Print the grand total disk usage of all files listed in "files.txt"

cat files.txt | xargs du -c | tail -1

Search for regular expression 'expr' in all .c and .h files from the current directory tree

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

find all the jpg files in the directory /ftp/dir which are bigger than 500KB

find /ftp/dir/ -size +500k -iname "*.jpg"

display all directories in vim folder do not search in sub directories

find .vim/ -maxdepth 1 -type d

find all the non compressed files in the current directory and compress them.

find . \! -name "*.Z" -exec compress -f {} \;

Find all directories under current directory and set read & execute permission for group and other for these files

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

Recursively change the owner and group of all files in the current directory to "apache"

ls | xargs chown -R apache:apache

Find all *.php files and *.js files/directories under /home/jul/here excluding $EXCLUDE/* paths

find /home/jul/here -type f -iname "*.php" ! -path "$EXCLUDE/*" -o -iname "*.js" ! -path "$EXCLUDE/*"

Search the directories that match pattern '/path/to/directory/folder{?,[1-4]?,50}' for .txt files

find /path/to/directory/folder{?,[1-4]?,50} -name '*.txt'

Print the git log in a tabular form

git log --pretty=format:'%h|%an|%s' -10 | column -t -s '|'

Find all hidden files starting from the directory given as variable $FOLDER

find $FOLDER -name ".*"

Delete all files under user's home directory tree that were accessed more than 365 days after their status was changed

find ~ -used +365 -ok rm '{}' ';'

Find all regular files in <path> and execute process with all of them as arguments

find <path> -type f -exec sh -c 'for f; do echo process $f; done' sh {} +

create directory /path/to/destination

mkdir /path/to/destination

List files that have been renamed in Git repository.

find -name .git -prune -o -exec git log --pretty=tformat:'' --numstat --follow --find-copies-harder --reverse {} ';' | cut -f3- | grep '.* => .*'

find all the regular/normal files in the current folder

find -type f

Find all regular files whose names contain "@" in directory tree ~/$folder

find ~/$folder -name "*@*" -type f -print0

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

find / -name document -print

Print full path of command "c++"

which c++

Search for 'class Pool' in all *.java (case insensitive) files under current directory

find -iname '*.java'|xargs grep 'class Pool'

search for all the files in the current directory which have size greater than 10KB and less than 32KB.

find . -size +10000c -size -32000c -print

find all the files in the entire file system which have been modified in the last 5 days

find / -mtime -5 -print

Find .rmv files in the ./root directory recursively and copy them to directory /copy/to/here

find root -name '*.rmv' -type f -exec cp --parents "{}" /copy/to/here \;

Find all flies under current directory excluding *.png files and print the file paths that match the case insensitive regex 'foo=' in their contents

find . -not -name '*.png' -o -type f -print | xargs grep -icl "foo="

Print the names of all files and directories in the current directory tree

find . -print

Find files/directories under current directory that matches the regex /projects/insanewebproject[^/]*$ in their paths

find . -exec sh -c 'echo {} | grep -qi /projects/insanewebproject[^/]*$' \; -print

find all files in current folder and display the total lines in them

find . | xargs wc -l

Remove all *.mp3 files in tmp directory but not in it's subdirectories

find tmp -maxdepth 1 -name *.mp3 -print0 | xargs -0 rm

Find all *.jpg files under maximum 2 levels down the temp/medium/* paths and run `mogrify -resize 428x270"^" -quality 80 -compress JPEG -monitor -strip` with the file paths as arguments

find temp/medium/* -maxdepth 2 -iname "*.jpg" -print0 | xargs -0 mogrify -resize 428x270"^" -quality 80 -compress JPEG -monitor -strip

Search the home directory for filenames starting with "xx" except for "xxx" files

find ~ -name 'xx*' -and -not -name 'xxx'

Shows status of a shell option 'dotglob'.

shopt dotglob

Displays process tree of a process with id 'PID', showing parent process and processes id.

pstree -p -s PID

Change the owner to "user" and group to "group" of files "file ..."

chown user:group file ...

Replace all occurrence of "subdomainA.example.com" with "subdomainB.example.com" in all files under /home/www and below

find /home/www -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/subdomainA.example.com/subdomainB.example.com/g'

Gets IP address of 'en1' network interface.

my_ip=$

Change the owner of all files in the directory tree "dir_to_start" excluding file "file_to_exclude" to "owner"

find dir_to_start -not -name "file_to_exclude" -print0 | xargs -0 chown owner

Show directory sizes in KB and sort to give the largest at the end

du -sk $ | sort -n -k 1

Print the full path of command "rails"

which rails

Page through the output of running the specified PHP file.

less -f <

search for all the files in the current folder and sort them in the order of their depth and display the file names

find -type d -printf '%d\t%P\n' | sort -r -nk1 | cut -f2-

Lists all directories in '/home/alice/Documents/'.

ls -d /home/alice/Documents/*/

Recursively bind mount "/something" on "/new_something"

mount --rbind /something /new_something

Search for empty files

find . -size 0k

Print NS record for domain 'domain.' from 8.8.8.8 nameserver

dig @8.8.8.8 domain. ns

Display the contents of variable "a" converted to lowercase.

echo "$a" | awk '{print tolower($0)}'

display a list of all the files in the file system which do not belong to any user and search only in jfs and jfs2 file systems

find / -nouser \ -ls

Change permissions to 644 recursively for PHP files.

find . -type f -name '*.php' -exec chmod 644 {} \;

List all your files including everything in sub-directories

find ~

Installs 'php-mssql' package with enabling repository 'remi'.

yum --enablerepo=remi php-mssql

On host "server_b", connect as ssh user "user" and copy "/my_folder/my_file.xml" to directory "/my_new_folder/", with all transfer data relayed through local host.

scp -3 user@server_b:/my_folder/my_file.xml user@server_b:/my_new_folder/

Search the files from directory tree "dirname" for string "foo"

find dirname -print0 | xargs -0 grep foo

Rename "file0001.txt" to "1.txt"

mv file0001.txt 1.txt

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_

Searches the manual page names and descriptions

apropos

Sort the contents of file "ips.txt", eliminate duplicate entries, and prefix each entry with number of occurrences.

sort ips.txt | uniq -c

Find all files under current directory and set read-write permission for owner, read permission for group and no permission for other for those files

find . -type f -exec chmod u=rw,g=r,o= '{}' \;

delete all text files from current folder

find . -type f ! -iname "*.txt" -delete

Print the base name of the current working directory

echo "$(basename $)"

Search the current directory for all regular files executable by 'user', 'group', and 'others'

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -perm -ugo=x

Find all php files under current directory

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

Mount "/tmp/loop.img" on "/mnt/image" as a loop back device

mount /tmp/loop.img /mnt/image -o loop

Find all *.txt files/directories under current directory and execute the python script hello.py with all their paths as arguments

find . -name "*.txt" -print0 | xargs -0 python hello.py

find all the ".c" files in the folder "/home/you" which have been accessed in the last 30*24 hours

find /home/you -iname "*.c" -atime -30 -type -f

change the word "GHBAG" to "stream-agg" in all the file names in current folder which have the word "-GHBAG-" in their name

find . -name '*-GHBAG-*' -exec rename 's/GHBAG/stream-agg/' {} +

Lists all subdirectories in the current directory

ls -d -- */ ### more reliable GNU ls

display all the directories in the folder /path/to/dest except tmp directory

find /path/to/dest -type d $ ! -name tmp $ -print

Remove spaces recursively from all subdirectories under current directory

find /path/to/dir -type d | tac | while read LINE; do target=$/$; echo mv "$LINE" "$target"; done

Count the number of directories in the current directory and below

find . -type f -exec basename {} \; | wc -l

Find files that were modified 7 days ago and archive them

find . -type f -mtime 7 | xargs tar -cvf `date '+%d%m%Y'_archive.tar`

Print unique lines in "set1" and "set2" when compared to each other and remove any tabs

comm -3 < < | sed 's/\t//g'

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/

Run rsync with options specified by variable OPTS, copying directory(ies) specified by variable FIND, and to destination specified by variable BACKUPDIR.

rsync $OPTS $FIND $BACKUPDIR

change the group of all regular/normal files in the current directory

find . -type f -exec chgrp usergroup {} \;

Show files in maximum 1 level down the current directory that were modified less than 1 day ago from today

less `find -maxdepth 1 -type f -daystart -mtime -1`

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

find . -daystart -mtime -1 -ls

Recursively copies 'SRCFOLDER' to the 'DESTFOLDER/'

cp -R SRCFOLDER DESTFOLDER/

Remove the "^M" characters from all *.ext files under /home directory and save the results to new files with _new appended in their names

find /home -type f -name "*.ext" -print0 | while read -r -d "$" -r path; do dos2unix $path $path"_new"; done

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

find . -type f ! -perm -444

Print the contents of "file" with " | " appended to each line

echo `sed -e 's/$/\ |\ /g' file`

Find all files/directories under current directory tree that start with 'test' in their names without descending into directories with the same name pattern

find . -name 'test*' -prune

Delete all 'restore.php' files in /var/www and 3 levels below

find /var/www -maxdepth 4 -name 'restore.php' -exec rm -r {} \;

search for the directory starting with "ora10" in the entire file system

find / -type d -name "ora10*"

Move all files/directories under current directory to ~/play

find . -exec mv '{}' ~/play/ \;

Find all files under /path/to/input/ that match the case insensitive string literal '[email protected]' in their contents

find /path/to/input/ -type f -exec grep -qiF [email protected] \{\} \; -print

Login to "host" using identity file "id_rsa"

ssh -i id_rsa host

display all the directories in the current folder which start with processor followed by digit and ends with .1 or .2

find . -type d -regextype posix-egrep -regex '\./processor[0-9]*/10\.(1|2)'

Count lines that are neither blanks nor comments in a file 'foo.pl'

cat foo.pl | sed '/^\s*#/d;/^\s*$/d' | wc -l

Find all files under current directory and change their permission to 400

find . -type f -exec chmod 400 {} \;

Search only for directories

find -type d

Search the /myfiles directory tree for files last accessed more than 30 days ago

find /myfiles -atime +30

Remove the last line from "$file" without reading the whole file or rewriting anything

tail -n 1 "$file" | wc -c | xargs -I {} truncate "$file" -s -{}

find the file "filename.txt" in the usr folder

find /usr -name filename.txt -print

Find all directories under 'test' directory tree whose paths match the regex '.*/course[0-9]\.[0-9]\.[0-9]\.[0-9]$'

find test -type d -regex '.*/course[0-9]\.[0-9]\.[0-9]\.[0-9]$'

Find all *.mov files under current directory and run an ffmpeg command with the literal '%p' and '%f' as the path and name respectively for each file

find . -iname "*.mov" -exec ffmpeg -i "%p" -f flv "%f" \;

Find all directories named postgis-2.0.0 under / directory

sudo find / -type d -name "postgis-2.0.0"