prabhanshubhowal/natural_language_to_linux

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Find all files/directories matching the regex pattern ".*\\.rb$" under current directory	find . -regex ".*\\.rb$"
Print lines in the sorted contents of "file2" that are not in the sorted contents of "file1"	comm -13 < <
Decompresses each of "*bz2" files under the current folder, redirecting output to the standard out, and prints only fourth of comma-separated fields.	find . -name "*.bz2" -print0 \| xargs -I{} -0 bzip2 -dc {} \| cut -f, -d4
Find all .txt files under the current directory and below	find . -name "*.txt"
Find all files/directories with 777 permission under current directory tree	find . -perm 777 -print
Search the current directory tree for .c and .asm files, ignoring the case	find . -type f \( -iname ".c" -or -iname ".asm" \)
get the root user access	sudo su
Create a symbolic lnk named "$1/link" to "$dir"	ln -s "$dir" "$1/link"
Find all the Sticky Bit files whose permission are 551	find / -perm 0551
display list of all the files in the current directory	find \| xargs ls
Find all the SGID bit files under current directory whose permissions set to 644 and show a few lines of output from the beginning	find . -perm 0644 \| head
run command "$WEB --quiet" in backgrounf as user named as the value of the variable $USER	su $USER -c "$WEB --quiet" &
Find all blue files/directories under /myfiles	find /myfiles -name 'blue'
Find all files/directories under current directory and append a null character at the end of each path	find -print0
Create a symbolic link named "$1/link" to the existing full and real path of "$2"	ln -s "$" "$1/link"
Recursively copy all files and directories in current dir except "foo" to location specified by variable "other"	rsync --recursive --exclude 'foo' * "$other"
Find the files in the current directory that match pattern '*.ISOLATE.quantifier.txt' and move them to folder ISOLATE/	find -name '*.ISOLATE.quantifier.txt' -maxdepth 1 -exec mv {} ISOLATE/ +
List in detail all .txt files in the current directory tree, omitting paths ./Movies/, ./Downloads/, and ./Music/	find . -type f -name ".txt" ! -path "./Movies/" ! -path "./Downloads/" ! -path "./Music/" -ls
find all the php files in current folder and search for multiple patterns in these files	find -name '*.php' -exec grep -li "fincken" {} + \| xargs grep -l "TODO"
find all empty files	find / -empty
Find all top-level files in the current folder but ones with name like 'Music' to the 'dest/' folder.	find . -maxdepth 1 -name 'Music' -prune -o -print0 \| xargs -0 -i cp {} dest/
Connect to host "${HOSTNAME}" as user "${USERNAME}" and execute "${SCRIPT}" non-interactively	ssh -l ${USERNAME} ${HOSTNAME} "${SCRIPT}"
Delete all regular files named 'FILE-TO-FIND' under current directory tree	find . -type f -name "FILE-TO-FIND" -exec rm -f {} \;
Merge lines from files "file1", "file2", "file3", "file4", "file5", replace "\t" with " \t", and format the "\t" delimited result as a table	paste file{1,2,3,4} \| sed -e 's/\t/ \t/g' \| column -t -s$'\t'
The file "files_to_find.txt" contains a list of filenames, create each file or update its timestamp if it exists.	touch `cat files_to_find.txt`
force delete all the files that have been modified in the last 3 days	find . -mtime -3 -exec rm -rf {} \;
searches through the root filesystem for the file named Chapter1, and prints the location	find / -name Chapter1 -type f
Find all files that are set user ID to root	find . -user 0 -perm -4000 -print
Search the /usr/bin directory tree for regular files accessed more than 100 days ago	find /usr/bin -type f -atime +100
display table of files with their name, owner, and size in bytes.	find . -printf 'Name: %f Owner: %u %s bytes\n'
Find all files named "something" in the current folder and below and run them through the ls -l command in a one batch.	find . -name something \| xargs -0 ls
Sources script incl.sh in the folder where current running script is located	source "$/incl.sh"
Move "tobecopied/tobeexcluded" to the current directory	mv tobecopied/tobeexcluded .
Find .jpg files owned by user daniel in the current directory and its sub-directories.	find . -user daniel -type f -name *.jpg
Find all files/directories with 777 permission under current directory tree	find . -perm 777 -print
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" {} \;
create and list contents of the archive	tar cf - $PWD\|tar tvf -
Read a single character from standard input into variable "doit" with prompt "Do that? [y,n]"	read -n1 -p "Do that? [y,n]" doit
Find all files/directories named orm.properties in entire file system	sudo find / -name "orm.properties"
replace the word foo to bar in the current folder in all the regular/normal files which have execute permission (does not update the file)	find . -type f -executable -exec sed -i 's/foo/bar/g' {} +
find all the files which end with ".deb" and display their base name	find . -name '*.deb' \| xargs -n1 basename
Removes all files like '*.bak' in a current folder, and prints messages about what is being done.	rm -v *.bak
list all processes with its PIDs	jobs -l
Search the current directory tree for files containing "string" in their path names	find \| egrep string
Save absolute path of java home to variable "JAVA_HOME"	export JAVA_HOME=$
find all the files that were modified two days ago	find . -daystart -ctime 1 -type f
rename all the text files in the current folder to html files	find -name "*.txt" -exec mv {} `basename {} .htm`.html \;
List all files/directories under current directory matching the posix-egrep type regex ".+\.(c\|cpp\|h)$" in their names	find . -regextype posix-egrep -regex ".+\.(c\|cpp\|h)$" -print0 \| xargs -0 -n 1 ls
Print content of /etc/passwd and /etc/group files	cat /etc/passwd /etc/group
Find files under '/travelphotos' directory tree which are bigger than 200KB and do not have 2015 in their names	find /travelphotos -type f -size +200k -not -iname "2015"
Execute "tail file \| grep pattern" every 2 seconds	watch "tail file \| grep pattern"
Search the current directory tree for bash files printing them on a single line	find . -name "bash" \| xargs
Format the date represented by time string @1267619929 according to default format and print it	date -ud @1267619929
List all screen sessions	screen -ls
Prints first found folder that contains 'ssh' file and has 'bin' in path.	dirname `find / -name ssh \| grep bin \| head -1`
Find all directories under /directory-path and change their permission to 2755	find /directory-path -type d -exec sudo chmod 2775 {} +
Change permissions to 644 for all regular files in and below the current directory	find . -type f -print \| sed -e 's/^/"/' -e 's/$/"/' \| xargs chmod 644
display a long listing of all the java files in the current folder in sorted order	find . -type f -name '*.java' -ls \| sort -k +7 -r
Gets all man entries beginning with std and sends them to vi.	apropos -r '^std' \| vi -
Find all test.txt files/directories under current directory	find . -name test.txt
remove all the ".core" files in the file system	find / -name "*.core" -print -exec rm {} \;
Archive all files beginning with .env or .bash in current directory to user's home directory on host "app1", preserving timestamps and skipping files that are newer on "app1"	rsync -vaut ~/.env* ~/.bash* app1:
Unzip all files matching "file_*" and pipe into "agrep -dEOE 'grep'"	find . -name "file_*" -follow -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 zcat \| agrep -dEOE 'grep'
Find all empty files under /tmp and below	find /tmp -type f -empty
display list of all the hidden regular/normal files in the directory "/dir/to/search/"	find /dir/to/search/ -type f -iname ".*" -ls
Delete all empty directories in the /some/parrent/dir directory tree	find /some/parrent/dir -type d \| while read d ; do ls "$d"/* &>/dev/null \|\| rm -r "$d"; done
List files in directory "one" and "two" that do not exist in the other	sort <(ls one) <(ls two) \| uniq -u
Compresses with compression level 9 all files under the current folder but already compressed '*.bz2' files, performing in background.	find "$1" -type f \| egrep -v '\.bz2' \| xargs bzip2 -9 &
display all the header files and cpp files in the current folder	find . -regex '.*\.\(cpp\\|h\)'
Check if "~/mnt/sdc1" is mounted	mount \| grep -q ~/mnt/sdc1
Find files whose name starts with "MyFile", ignoring the case	find . -iname 'MyFile*'
List files in the current directory	find . \( -path './*' -prune \)
print top 10 largest files and directories	du -a . \| sort -nr \| head
search for files starting with memo and which belong to the user ann in the folder /work	find /work -name 'memo*' -user ann -print
Print only the line "foo///" given two empty directories foo and bar	find foo/// bar/// -name foo -o -name 'bar?*'
search normal files called ' banckup ' from /usr directory downward and print them.	find /usr -type f -name backup -print
Save the full path of command "oracle" to variable "path"	path=`which oracle`
Add the .abc suffix to the names of all *.txt regular files in the current directory tree	find . -type f -iname '*.txt' -print0 \| xargs -0 mv {} {}.abc
Get current host's IPv6 address.	host $ \| grep "IPv6 address" \| head -n 1 \| awk '{print $5}'
create a tar of all png & jpg images in the current folder	find . \( -iname ".png" -o -iname ".jpg" \) -print -exec tar -rf images.tar {} \;
create a compressed archive with files newer than 1st of January 2014, 18:00:00.	tar -N '2014-02-01 18:00:00' -jcvf archive.tar.bz2 files
Count the number of the regular files residing under and below ./randfiles/	find ./randfiles/ -type f \| wc -l
find all the "jpg" file in a folder.	find /win/C -iname *JPG
Print "Checking Partition Permission Hostname=$ LastChecked=" followed by the current date	echo -n Checking Partition Permission Hostname=$ LastChecked=$
Remove the "123_" prefix from all filenames of .txt files in current directory.	find -name "123*.txt" -exec rename 's/^123_//' {} ";"
find all the directories in the current folder	find . -type d -print
find all the html files in the current folder which have been modified excatly 7 days before	find . -mtime 7 -name "*.html" -print
find all the files in the current directory which have been modified after a file	find . -newer file
Find all FooBar files/directories under current directory and copy them to ~/foo/bar	find . -name 'FooBar' -exec cp -t ~/foobar -- {} +
List all file paths under the current directory with case insensitive name ".note" in reverse alphabetic order	find . -iname '.note' \| sort -r
Display the number of regular files under current directory tree	find . -type f -print0 \| tr -dc '\0' \| wc -c
Create a symbolic link in the current directory for each hidden file or directory in "git-stuff/home/" excluding "." and ".."	ln -s git-stuff/home/.[!.]* .
display the number of lines in all the files in the current folder	find . -name '*' \| xargs wc -l
Create a symbolic link named "temp" to "newtarget"	ln -s newtarget temp
Find all files starting from the current directory which are exactly 100MB in size	find . -size 100M
Find all files whose permission are 777	find / -type f -perm 777
Print the full path of command "cc"	which cc
view the manual page of find	man find
Find all files named "test2" in the current directory	find -name test2 -prune
Find all files/directories with inode number 16187430 and move them to 'new-test-file-name'	find -inum 16187430 -exec mv {} new-test-file-name \

Find all files/directories matching the regex pattern ".*\\.rb$" under current directory

find . -regex ".*\\.rb$"

Print lines in the sorted contents of "file2" that are not in the sorted contents of "file1"

comm -13 < <

Decompresses each of "*bz2" files under the current folder, redirecting output to the standard out, and prints only fourth of comma-separated fields.

find . -name "*.bz2" -print0 | xargs -I{} -0 bzip2 -dc {} | cut -f, -d4

Find all .txt files under the current directory and below

find . -name "*.txt"

Find all files/directories with 777 permission under current directory tree

find . -perm 777 -print

Search the current directory tree for *.c and *.asm files, ignoring the case

find . -type f $ -iname "*.c" -or -iname "*.asm" $

get the root user access

sudo su

Create a symbolic lnk named "$1/link" to "$dir"

ln -s "$dir" "$1/link"

Find all the Sticky Bit files whose permission are 551

find / -perm 0551

display list of all the files in the current directory

find | xargs ls

Find all the SGID bit files under current directory whose permissions set to 644 and show a few lines of output from the beginning

find . -perm 0644 | head

run command "$WEB --quiet" in backgrounf as user named as the value of the variable $USER

su $USER -c "$WEB --quiet" &

Find all *blue* files/directories under /myfiles

find /myfiles -name '*blue*'

Find all files/directories under current directory and append a null character at the end of each path

find -print0

Create a symbolic link named "$1/link" to the existing full and real path of "$2"

ln -s "$" "$1/link"

Recursively copy all files and directories in current dir except "foo" to location specified by variable "other"

rsync --recursive --exclude 'foo' * "$other"

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

find -name '*.ISOLATE.quantifier.txt' -maxdepth 1 -exec mv {} ISOLATE/ +

List in detail all *.txt files in the current directory tree, omitting paths ./Movies/*, ./Downloads/*, and ./Music/*

find . -type f -name "*.txt" ! -path "./Movies/*" ! -path "./Downloads/*" ! -path "./Music/*" -ls

find all the php files in current folder and search for multiple patterns in these files

find -name '*.php' -exec grep -li "fincken" {} + | xargs grep -l "TODO"

find all empty files

find / -empty

Find all top-level files in the current folder but ones with name like '*Music*' to the 'dest/' folder.

find . -maxdepth 1 -name '*Music*' -prune -o -print0 | xargs -0 -i cp {} dest/

Connect to host "${HOSTNAME}" as user "${USERNAME}" and execute "${SCRIPT}" non-interactively

ssh -l ${USERNAME} ${HOSTNAME} "${SCRIPT}"

Delete all regular files named 'FILE-TO-FIND' under current directory tree

find . -type f -name "FILE-TO-FIND" -exec rm -f {} \;

Merge lines from files "file1", "file2", "file3", "file4", "file5", replace "\t" with " \t", and format the "\t" delimited result as a table

paste file{1,2,3,4} | sed -e 's/\t/ \t/g' | column -t -s$'\t'

The file "files_to_find.txt" contains a list of filenames, create each file or update its timestamp if it exists.

touch `cat files_to_find.txt`

force delete all the files that have been modified in the last 3 days

find . -mtime -3 -exec rm -rf {} \;

searches through the root filesystem for the file named Chapter1, and prints the location

find / -name Chapter1 -type f

Find all files that are set user ID to root

find . -user 0 -perm -4000 -print

Search the /usr/bin directory tree for regular files accessed more than 100 days ago

find /usr/bin -type f -atime +100

display table of files with their name, owner, and size in bytes.

find . -printf 'Name: %f Owner: %u %s bytes\n'

Find all files named "something" in the current folder and below and run them through the ls -l command in a one batch.

find . -name something | xargs -0 ls

Sources script incl.sh in the folder where current running script is located

source "$/incl.sh"

Move "tobecopied/tobeexcluded" to the current directory

mv tobecopied/tobeexcluded .

Find .jpg files owned by user daniel in the current directory and its sub-directories.

find . -user daniel -type f -name *.jpg

Find all files/directories with 777 permission under current directory tree

find . -perm 777 -print

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" {} \;

create and list contents of the archive

tar cf - $PWD|tar tvf -

Read a single character from standard input into variable "doit" with prompt "Do that? [y,n]"

read -n1 -p "Do that? [y,n]" doit

Find all files/directories named orm.properties in entire file system

sudo find / -name "orm.properties"

replace the word foo to bar in the current folder in all the regular/normal files which have execute permission (does not update the file)

find . -type f -executable -exec sed -i 's/foo/bar/g' {} +

find all the files which end with ".deb" and display their base name

find . -name '*.deb' | xargs -n1 basename

Removes all files like '*.bak' in a current folder, and prints messages about what is being done.

rm -v *.bak

list all processes with its PIDs

jobs -l

Search the current directory tree for files containing "string" in their path names

find | egrep string

Save absolute path of java home to variable "JAVA_HOME"

export JAVA_HOME=$

find all the files that were modified two days ago

find . -daystart -ctime 1 -type f

rename all the text files in the current folder to html files

find -name "*.txt" -exec mv {} `basename {} .htm`.html \;

List all files/directories under current directory matching the posix-egrep type regex ".+\.(c|cpp|h)$" in their names

find . -regextype posix-egrep -regex ".+\.(c|cpp|h)$" -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 ls

Print content of /etc/passwd and /etc/group files

cat /etc/passwd /etc/group

Find files under '/travelphotos' directory tree which are bigger than 200KB and do not have 2015 in their names

find /travelphotos -type f -size +200k -not -iname "*2015*"

Execute "tail file | grep pattern" every 2 seconds

watch "tail file | grep pattern"

Search the current directory tree for *bash* files printing them on a single line

find . -name "*bash*" | xargs

Format the date represented by time string @1267619929 according to default format and print it

date -ud @1267619929

List all screen sessions

screen -ls

Prints first found folder that contains 'ssh' file and has 'bin' in path.

dirname `find / -name ssh | grep bin | head -1`

Find all directories under /directory-path and change their permission to 2755

find /directory-path -type d -exec sudo chmod 2775 {} +

Change permissions to 644 for all regular files in and below the current directory

find . -type f -print | sed -e 's/^/"/' -e 's/$/"/' | xargs chmod 644

display a long listing of all the java files in the current folder in sorted order

find . -type f -name '*.java' -ls | sort -k +7 -r

Gets all man entries beginning with std and sends them to vi.

apropos -r '^std' | vi -

Find all test.txt files/directories under current directory

find . -name test.txt

remove all the ".core" files in the file system

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

Archive all files beginning with .env or .bash in current directory to user's home directory on host "app1", preserving timestamps and skipping files that are newer on "app1"

rsync -vaut ~/.env* ~/.bash* app1:

Unzip all files matching "file_*" and pipe into "agrep -dEOE 'grep'"

find . -name "file_*" -follow -type f -print0 | xargs -0 zcat | agrep -dEOE 'grep'

Find all empty files under /tmp and below

find /tmp -type f -empty

display list of all the hidden regular/normal files in the directory "/dir/to/search/"

find /dir/to/search/ -type f -iname ".*" -ls

Delete all empty directories in the /some/parrent/dir directory tree

find /some/parrent/dir -type d | while read d ; do ls "$d"/* &>/dev/null || rm -r "$d"; done

List files in directory "one" and "two" that do not exist in the other

sort <(ls one) <(ls two) | uniq -u

Compresses with compression level 9 all files under the current folder but already compressed '*.bz2' files, performing in background.

find "$1" -type f | egrep -v '\.bz2' | xargs bzip2 -9 &

display all the header files and cpp files in the current folder

find . -regex '.*\.$cpp\|h$'

Check if "~/mnt/sdc1" is mounted

mount | grep -q ~/mnt/sdc1

Find files whose name starts with "MyFile", ignoring the case

find . -iname 'MyFile*'

List files in the current directory

find . $ -path './*' -prune $

print top 10 largest files and directories

du -a . | sort -nr | head

search for files starting with memo and which belong to the user ann in the folder /work

find /work -name 'memo*' -user ann -print

Print only the line "foo///" given two empty directories foo and bar

find foo/// bar/// -name foo -o -name 'bar?*'

search normal files called ' banckup ' from /usr directory downward and print them.

find /usr -type f -name backup -print

Save the full path of command "oracle" to variable "path"

path=`which oracle`

Add the .abc suffix to the names of all *.txt regular files in the current directory tree

find . -type f -iname '*.txt' -print0 | xargs -0 mv {} {}.abc

Get current host's IPv6 address.

host $ | grep "IPv6 address" | head -n 1 | awk '{print $5}'

create a tar of all png & jpg images in the current folder

find . $ -iname "*.png" -o -iname "*.jpg" $ -print -exec tar -rf images.tar {} \;

create a compressed archive with files newer than 1st of January 2014, 18:00:00.

tar -N '2014-02-01 18:00:00' -jcvf archive.tar.bz2 files

Count the number of the regular files residing under and below ./randfiles/

find ./randfiles/ -type f | wc -l

find all the "jpg" file in a folder.

find /win/C -iname *JPG

Print "*Checking Partition Permission* Hostname=$ LastChecked=" followed by the current date

echo -n *Checking Partition Permission* Hostname=$ LastChecked=$

Remove the "123_" prefix from all filenames of .txt files in current directory.

find -name "123*.txt" -exec rename 's/^123_//' {} ";"

find all the directories in the current folder

find . -type d -print

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

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

find all the files in the current directory which have been modified after a file

find . -newer file

Find all *FooBar* files/directories under current directory and copy them to ~/foo/bar

find . -name '*FooBar*' -exec cp -t ~/foobar -- {} +

List all file paths under the current directory with case insensitive name ".note" in reverse alphabetic order

find . -iname '.note' | sort -r

Display the number of regular files under current directory tree

find . -type f -print0 | tr -dc '\0' | wc -c

Create a symbolic link in the current directory for each hidden file or directory in "git-stuff/home/" excluding "." and ".."

ln -s git-stuff/home/.[!.]* .

display the number of lines in all the files in the current folder

find . -name '*' | xargs wc -l

Create a symbolic link named "temp" to "newtarget"

ln -s newtarget temp

Find all files starting from the current directory which are exactly 100MB in size

find . -size 100M

Find all files whose permission are 777

find / -type f -perm 777

Print the full path of command "cc"

which cc

view the manual page of find

man find

Find all files named "test2" in the current directory

find -name test2 -prune

Find all files/directories with inode number 16187430 and move them to 'new-test-file-name'

find -inum 16187430 -exec mv {} new-test-file-name \