prabhanshubhowal/natural_language_to_linux

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List files larger than 10MB under /var/log /tmp that haven't changed in a month	find /tmp /var/tmp -size +30M -mtime 31 -print0 \| xargs -0 ls -l
display all the directories in the folder /path/to/dest except tmp and cache directories	find /path/to/dest -type d \ -o \ -print
Execute all arguments to a shell script and write the output to console and "$FILE"	$@ \| tee $FILE
find a specfic video file in the current directory	find ./ -name "foo.mp4" -exec echo {} \;
change the permissions of all the directories in the folder root_dir to 555	find root_dir -type d -exec chmod 555 {} \;
Find all fglrx-libGL* files under and below debian/fglrx/	find debian/fglrx/ -name 'fglrx-libGL*'
find all regular/normal files which have execute permission in current folder and copy them to another folder	cp `find -perm -111 -type f` /usr/local/bin
find all files in the home folder which have been modified between 72 and 96 hours before	find ~ -mtime 2 -mtime -4 -daystart
Split "data.tsv" into files of at most 5000000 lines each with prefix "_tmp"	split -l5000000 data.tsv '_tmp';
Prints folder where current script is located	echo "dirname: `dirname "$0"`"
Find all directories containing 'linux' in their names under '/root' directory tree	find /root -type d -iname "linux"
Counts all *.mod files in a /boot/grub/ folder.	ls -l /boot/grub/*.mod \| wc -l
find all files ending with ".fq" and give is as input to the fastQC command	find . -name "*.fq" \| xargs -n 1 fastqc
force delete all the files which have not been accessed in the last 240 hours in the temp folder	find /tmp/* -atime +10 -exec rm -f {} \;
Find all *.txt files/directories under current directory and execute process once with all of them as arguments	find . -name \*.txt -print0 \| xargs -0 process
Find all *.xml files under current directory	find -name *.xml
Find all directories under minimum 2 levels down the mydir directory	find mydir -mindepth 2 -type d
Delete all empty directories and directories that contain only empty directories under current directory	find -type d -empty -exec rmdir -vp --ignore-fail-on-non-empty {} +
Save the current working directory and the directory name of the current script to variable "DIR"	DIR=`pwd`/`dirname $0`
Print revesed second from the end dot-bounded field in $i value	j=`echo $i \| rev \| cut -d "." -f2`;
Find writable regular files in the current directory	find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -writable
Saves byte size of all content of $1 folder in 'uiTotalSize' variable.	uiTotalSize=$(ls -l -R $1 \| grep -v ^d \| awk '{total+=$5;} END {print total;}')
find all the files that have been modified in the last 12 hours	find ./ -mtime -0.5
Compress in parallel regular files in the current directory tree that were last modified more than 7 days ago	find . -type f -mtime +7 \| tee compressedP.list \| xargs -I{} -P10 compress {} &
delete recursively, without prompting, any files or directories under the current directory that case insensitively match the filename ".svn"	find . -iname .svn -print0 \| xargs -0 rm -rf
Write the current date and time followed by " 0" to the console and append to "log.csv"	echo $ "0" \| tee -a log.csv
find all the files in the home folder which have been modified today	find ~ -type f -mtime 0
Delete all files in the "${S}/bundled-libs" folder except "libbass.so"	find "${S}/bundled-libs" \! -name 'libbass.so' -delete
search for the directory "uploads" in current folder and change the permission of the folder and all the files to 755	find . -type d -name 'uploads' \| while read d; do chmod -R 755 "$d"; done
find all files in current folder which are less than 300MB	find . -size -300M
Write "error" to standard output	echo "error" \| tee
Replace "foo" with "bar" in all PHP files in the current directory tree	find . -name "*.php" -print \| xargs sed -i 's/foo/bar/g'
delete all the regular files in the temp folder which have not been modified in the last 24 hours	find /tmp/ -type f -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \;
Search directory tree $DIR for *.txt files	find "$DIR" -name \*.txt
move files accessed more than one day ago to directory TMP	find . -atime +1 -type f -exec mv {} TMP \; # mv files older then 1 day to dir TMP
Prints shell option 'globstar' with indication of its status.	shopt -p globstar
Find regular files that have SUID or SGID set	find / -perm +6000 -type f
Search the current directory tree for all files except SVN ones	find . -not -iwholename '.svn'
Move all files including hidden files in "/path/subfolder/" to "/path/"	mv /path/subfolder/{.,}* /path/
Copy directory hierarchy "dir" and all its .txt files to "dir_txt"	find dir/ -name '*.txt' \| xargs cp -a --target-directory=dir_txt/ --parents
Sets shell option 'nullglob'.	shopt -s nullglob
list the details of all the directories in the current folder	find . -type d -exec ls -ld {} \;
Find all files under trunk directory and upload them to https://PATH_TO_NEXUS/trunk/	find trunk -type f -exec curl --user user:pass --ftp-create-dirs -T {} https://PATH_TO_NEXUS/{} \;
Find files/directories named 'sar' under '/usr', '/bin', '/sbin' and '/opt' directory tree	find /usr /bin /sbin /opt -name sar
Write contents of "/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe" to standard output and to "tracelog.txt" executing as a root user	sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe \| tee tracelog.txt
Print "echo ping -c 2" on each string in file 'ips'	cat ips \| xargs echo ping -c 2
Print the last 1000 lines of all files matching "/var/spool/cron/*"	tail -n 1000 /var/spool/cron/*
find all the files ending with ".coffee" in the current folder and search for the first occurence of the word "re" in each line	find . -name '*.coffee' -exec awk '/re/ {print;exit}' {} \;
Join data in "file1" sorted by the second word of each line with data in "file2" sorted by the first word of each line, keeping the same order as it is found in "file1"	join -1 2 -2 1 <(sort +1 -2 file1) <(sort +0 -1 file2)
Find all files under "/path" that do not contain a "." and append ".jpg" to their file name	find /path -type f -not -name "." -print0 \| xargs -0 rename 's/$/$1.jpg/'
Search the current directory for files whose names start with "messages." ignoring SVN files	find \( -name 'messages.' ! -path "/.svn/*" \) -exec grep -Iw uint {} +
find all files & dircetiry in current directory which have .tmp extension and delete them .	find . -type f -name "*.tmp" -exec rm -rf {} \;
search for all regular/normal files in the current folder and display the number of lines in the file	find . -type f -print0 \| xargs -0L1 wc -l
search for a shell script in the current folder and display the current folder path	find . -name onlyme.sh -exec pwd \;
Search the regular files of the current directory tree for string "foo"	find . -type f -exec grep "foo" '{}' \;
find all the files which have been changed after the modification of a file.	find -cnewer /etc/fstab
display all the regular files in the current folder which have the permission 777	find . -type f -perm 777
Searches available packages by word 'zsh'.	yum search zsh
Send each byte in "/home/cscape/Desktop/file" to awk script "x.awk"	fold -1 /home/cscape/Desktop/file \| awk -f x.awk
Search the files from the current directory tree for "chrome"	find . -exec grep chrome {} \;
create an archive and show a progress bar	tar -c --checkpoint=.1000 /var
Delete all .svn files/directories under current directory	find . -name .svn -exec rm -rf '{}' \;
Find files matching an exact set of permissions	find / -perm 644
Delete all files/directories taken by the glob pattern * except the ones with the name 'b'	find * -maxdepth 0 -name 'b' -prune -o -exec rm -rf '{}' ';'
display all files in the folder /usr/src excluding those ending with ",v"	find /usr/src ! \( -name ',v' -o -name '.,v' \) '{}' \; -print
Search the files from the current directory tree for "foo"	find . -exec grep foo {} +
List files in the current directory tree which have permissions rwx for user and rw for group and others	find . -perm 766 -exec ls -l {} \;
display all regular/normal files in the current folder which are not accessed in the last 7*24 hours	find . -type f -atime +7
Find target.out files starting from /starting/path and pass them as arguments to /path/to/simpleGrepScript.sh	find /starting/path -name target.out \| xargs /path/to/simpleGrepScript.sh
Print content of 'whatever' file	cat whatever \| egrep 'snozzberries\|$'
Find and remove the .rhosts file in the /home directory tree	find /home -name .rhosts -print0 \| xargs -0 rm
Set variable "architecture" to machine architecture, ie. x86_64	architecture="$(uname -m)"
move all files in the current folder another folder and do not move the files in the sub folder	find . -name "*" -maxdepth 1 -exec mv -t /home/foo2/bulk2 {} +
find all instances of a file in current folder and display all errors apart from permission denied	find . -name "my.txt" 2>&1 \| grep -v "Permission denied"
Find all target files outside the current working directory with symbolic links in the current working directory	find . -type l -exec readlink -f '{}' \; \| grep -v "^`readlink -f ${PWD}`"
Get a list of all files in the /home directory tree and their coressponding inode numbers	find /home -type f -printf "%i@%p\n"
find not case sensitive all directories that names are 'apt'	find / -type d -iname "apt"
find all the files in the current directory which have been accessed in the last 1 day and move them to TMP folder.	find . -atime +1 -type f -exec mv {} TMP \;
find all gzip files in a folder	find /home/foo -name "*.gz"
find all the files in the current folder that have a single letter in their name which have been modified in the last 3 days but not today	find . -name \? -daystart -mtime +0 -mtime -3
Search the .java files from the current directory tree for TODO lines	find . -name "*.java" -exec grep -Hin TODO {} \;
Copies all files like "FooBar" under the current directory to the '~/foobar' directory.	find . -name 'FooBar' -exec cp -t ~/foobar -- {} +
List all files/directories under current directory	find -ls
Highlights current day in a month calendar with color.	cal -h \| sed "s/$/"$'\033\[94m&\033\[0m/g'
Recursively change owner to "amzadm" and group to "root" of all files in "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/awscli/"	chown amzadm.root -R /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/awscli/
Delete all hidden files/directories under $some_directory including $some_directory	find $some_directory '.*' -delete
Delete 'string_to_find' from all files under current directory	find . -type f \| xargs grep 'string_to_find' -sl \| xargs perl -pi -w -e 's/string_to_find//g;'
List all files in /home/bozo/projects directory tree that were modified exactly one day ago.	find /home/bozo/projects -mtime 1
Run 'join' on file1 and file2, using a literal tab character as field separator.	join -t $'\t' file1 file2
Find all files under /path and below executable by `group' or `other'	find /path -perm /011
Print "echo ping -c 2" on each string in file 'ips'	cat ips \| xargs -n1 echo ping -c 2
Format time string @1267619929 according to default time format	date -d @1267619929
change the owner of all the files in the file system which belong to the user with the uid 999	find / -user 999 -exec chown NEWUSER {} \;
Export variable "JAVA_HOME" as symlink resolved absolute path of two parent directories above "/usr/bin/javac"	export JAVA_HOME=$
Send one ping request to host whose name or IP address is specified by variable "ip", using network interface eth9.	ping ${ip} -I eth9 -c 1
Search for first match of the regex 're' in all *.coffee files under current directory	find . -name '*.coffee' -exec awk '/re/ {print;exit}' {} \;
Write '"myname="Test"' to the console and append to "$CONFIG" as root	echo "myname=\"Test\"" \| sudo tee --append $CONFIG
Gets IP address of 'en0' network interface.	ifconfig en0 \| awk '$1 == "inet" {print $2}'
Change permissions to 644 for all regular files in and below the current directory	find . -type f -print \| sed -e 's/^/"/' -e 's/$/"/' \| xargs chmod 644
Find all regular files under $DIR/tmp/daily/, sort them in reverse numerical order and copy the first two files to $DIR/tmp/weekly/	find $DIR/tmp/daily/ -type f -printf "%p\n" \| sort -rn \| head -n 2 \| xargs -I{} cp {} $DIR/tmp/weekly/

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

find /tmp /var/tmp -size +30M -mtime 31 -print0 | xargs -0 ls -l

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

find /path/to/dest -type d \ -o \ -print

Execute all arguments to a shell script and write the output to console and "$FILE"

$@ | tee $FILE

find a specfic video file in the current directory

find ./ -name "foo.mp4" -exec echo {} \;

change the permissions of all the directories in the folder root_dir to 555

find root_dir -type d -exec chmod 555 {} \;

Find all fglrx-libGL* files under and below debian/fglrx/

find debian/fglrx/ -name 'fglrx-libGL*'

find all regular/normal files which have execute permission in current folder and copy them to another folder

cp `find -perm -111 -type f` /usr/local/bin

find all files in the home folder which have been modified between 72 and 96 hours before

find ~ -mtime 2 -mtime -4 -daystart

Split "data.tsv" into files of at most 5000000 lines each with prefix "_tmp"

split -l5000000 data.tsv '_tmp';

Prints folder where current script is located

echo "dirname: `dirname "$0"`"

Find all directories containing 'linux' in their names under '/root' directory tree

find /root -type d -iname "*linux*"

Counts all *.mod files in a /boot/grub/ folder.

ls -l /boot/grub/*.mod | wc -l

find all files ending with ".fq" and give is as input to the fastQC command

find . -name "*.fq" | xargs -n 1 fastqc

force delete all the files which have not been accessed in the last 240 hours in the temp folder

find /tmp/* -atime +10 -exec rm -f {} \;

Find all *.txt files/directories under current directory and execute process once with all of them as arguments

find . -name \*.txt -print0 | xargs -0 process

Find all *.xml files under current directory

find -name *.xml

Find all directories under minimum 2 levels down the mydir directory

find mydir -mindepth 2 -type d

Delete all empty directories and directories that contain only empty directories under current directory

find -type d -empty -exec rmdir -vp --ignore-fail-on-non-empty {} +

Save the current working directory and the directory name of the current script to variable "DIR"

DIR=`pwd`/`dirname $0`

Print revesed second from the end dot-bounded field in $i value

j=`echo $i | rev | cut -d "." -f2`;

Find writable regular files in the current directory

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -writable

Saves byte size of all content of $1 folder in 'uiTotalSize' variable.

uiTotalSize=$(ls -l -R $1 | grep -v ^d | awk '{total+=$5;} END {print total;}')

find all the files that have been modified in the last 12 hours

find ./ -mtime -0.5

Compress in parallel regular files in the current directory tree that were last modified more than 7 days ago

find . -type f -mtime +7 | tee compressedP.list | xargs -I{} -P10 compress {} &

delete recursively, without prompting, any files or directories under the current directory that case insensitively match the filename ".svn"

find . -iname .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

Write the current date and time followed by " 0" to the console and append to "log.csv"

echo $ "0" | tee -a log.csv

find all the files in the home folder which have been modified today

find ~ -type f -mtime 0

Delete all files in the "${S}/bundled-libs" folder except "libbass.so"

find "${S}/bundled-libs" \! -name 'libbass.so' -delete

search for the directory "uploads" in current folder and change the permission of the folder and all the files to 755

find . -type d -name 'uploads' | while read d; do chmod -R 755 "$d"; done

find all files in current folder which are less than 300MB

find . -size -300M

Write "error" to standard output

echo "error" | tee

Replace "foo" with "bar" in all PHP files in the current directory tree

find . -name "*.php" -print | xargs sed -i 's/foo/bar/g'

delete all the regular files in the temp folder which have not been modified in the last 24 hours

find /tmp/ -type f -mtime +1 -exec rm {} \;

Search directory tree $DIR for *.txt files

find "$DIR" -name \*.txt

move files accessed more than one day ago to directory TMP

find . -atime +1 -type f -exec mv {} TMP \; # mv files older then 1 day to dir TMP

Prints shell option 'globstar' with indication of its status.

shopt -p globstar

Find regular files that have SUID or SGID set

find / -perm +6000 -type f

Search the current directory tree for all files except SVN ones

find . -not -iwholename '*.svn*'

Move all files including hidden files in "/path/subfolder/" to "/path/"

mv /path/subfolder/{.,}* /path/

Copy directory hierarchy "dir" and all its .txt files to "dir_txt"

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

Sets shell option 'nullglob'.

shopt -s nullglob

list the details of all the directories in the current folder

find . -type d -exec ls -ld {} \;

Find all files under trunk directory and upload them to https://PATH_TO_NEXUS/trunk/

find trunk -type f -exec curl --user user:pass --ftp-create-dirs -T {} https://PATH_TO_NEXUS/{} \;

Find files/directories named 'sar' under '/usr', '/bin', '/sbin' and '/opt' directory tree

find /usr /bin /sbin /opt -name sar

Write contents of "/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe" to standard output and to "tracelog.txt" executing as a root user

sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_pipe | tee tracelog.txt

Print "echo ping -c 2" on each string in file 'ips'

cat ips | xargs echo ping -c 2

Print the last 1000 lines of all files matching "/var/spool/cron/*"

tail -n 1000 /var/spool/cron/*

find all the files ending with ".coffee" in the current folder and search for the first occurence of the word "re" in each line

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

Join data in "file1" sorted by the second word of each line with data in "file2" sorted by the first word of each line, keeping the same order as it is found in "file1"

join -1 2 -2 1 <(sort +1 -2 file1) <(sort +0 -1 file2)

Find all files under "/path" that do not contain a "." and append ".jpg" to their file name

find /path -type f -not -name "*.*" -print0 | xargs -0 rename 's/$/$1.jpg/'

Search the current directory for files whose names start with "messages." ignoring SVN files

find $ -name 'messages.*' ! -path "*/.svn/*" $ -exec grep -Iw uint {} +

find all files & dircetiry in current directory which have .tmp extension and delete them .

find . -type f -name "*.tmp" -exec rm -rf {} \;

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

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

search for a shell script in the current folder and display the current folder path

find . -name onlyme.sh -exec pwd \;

Search the regular files of the current directory tree for string "foo"

find . -type f -exec grep "foo" '{}' \;

find all the files which have been changed after the modification of a file.

find -cnewer /etc/fstab

display all the regular files in the current folder which have the permission 777

find . -type f -perm 777

Searches available packages by word 'zsh'.

yum search zsh

Send each byte in "/home/cscape/Desktop/file" to awk script "x.awk"

fold -1 /home/cscape/Desktop/file | awk -f x.awk

Search the files from the current directory tree for "chrome"

find . -exec grep chrome {} \;

create an archive and show a progress bar

tar -c --checkpoint=.1000 /var

Delete all .svn files/directories under current directory

find . -name .svn -exec rm -rf '{}' \;

Find files matching an exact set of permissions

find / -perm 644

Delete all files/directories taken by the glob pattern * except the ones with the name 'b'

find * -maxdepth 0 -name 'b' -prune -o -exec rm -rf '{}' ';'

display all files in the folder /usr/src excluding those ending with ",v"

find /usr/src ! $ -name '*,v' -o -name '.*,v' $ '{}' \; -print

Search the files from the current directory tree for "foo"

find . -exec grep foo {} +

List files in the current directory tree which have permissions rwx for user and rw for group and others

find . -perm 766 -exec ls -l {} \;

display all regular/normal files in the current folder which are not accessed in the last 7*24 hours

find . -type f -atime +7

Find target.out files starting from /starting/path and pass them as arguments to /path/to/simpleGrepScript.sh

find /starting/path -name target.out | xargs /path/to/simpleGrepScript.sh

Print content of 'whatever' file

cat whatever | egrep 'snozzberries|$'

Find and remove the .rhosts file in the /home directory tree

find /home -name .rhosts -print0 | xargs -0 rm

Set variable "architecture" to machine architecture, ie. x86_64

architecture="$(uname -m)"

move all files in the current folder another folder and do not move the files in the sub folder

find . -name "*" -maxdepth 1 -exec mv -t /home/foo2/bulk2 {} +

find all instances of a file in current folder and display all errors apart from permission denied

find . -name "my.txt" 2>&1 | grep -v "Permission denied"

Find all target files outside the current working directory with symbolic links in the current working directory

find . -type l -exec readlink -f '{}' \; | grep -v "^`readlink -f ${PWD}`"

Get a list of all files in the /home directory tree and their coressponding inode numbers

find /home -type f -printf "%i@%p\n"

find not case sensitive all directories that names are 'apt'

find / -type d -iname "apt"

find all the files in the current directory which have been accessed in the last 1 day and move them to TMP folder.

find . -atime +1 -type f -exec mv {} TMP \;

find all gzip files in a folder

find /home/foo -name "*.gz"

find all the files in the current folder that have a single letter in their name which have been modified in the last 3 days but not today

find . -name \? -daystart -mtime +0 -mtime -3

Search the .java files from the current directory tree for TODO lines

find . -name "*.java" -exec grep -Hin TODO {} \;

Copies all files like "*FooBar*" under the current directory to the '~/foobar' directory.

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

List all files/directories under current directory

find -ls

Highlights current day in a month calendar with color.

cal -h | sed "s/$/"$'\033\[94m&\033\[0m/g'

Recursively change owner to "amzadm" and group to "root" of all files in "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/awscli/"

chown amzadm.root -R /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/awscli/

Delete all hidden files/directories under $some_directory including $some_directory

find $some_directory '.*' -delete

Delete 'string_to_find' from all files under current directory

find . -type f | xargs grep 'string_to_find' -sl | xargs perl -pi -w -e 's/string_to_find//g;'

List all files in /home/bozo/projects directory tree that were modified exactly one day ago.

find /home/bozo/projects -mtime 1

Run 'join' on file1 and file2, using a literal tab character as field separator.

join -t $'\t' file1 file2

Find all files under /path and below executable by `group' or `other'

find /path -perm /011

Print "echo ping -c 2" on each string in file 'ips'

cat ips | xargs -n1 echo ping -c 2

Format time string @1267619929 according to default time format

date -d @1267619929

change the owner of all the files in the file system which belong to the user with the uid 999

find / -user 999 -exec chown NEWUSER {} \;

Export variable "JAVA_HOME" as symlink resolved absolute path of two parent directories above "/usr/bin/javac"

export JAVA_HOME=$

Send one ping request to host whose name or IP address is specified by variable "ip", using network interface eth9.

ping ${ip} -I eth9 -c 1

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

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

Write '"myname="Test"' to the console and append to "$CONFIG" as root

echo "myname=\"Test\"" | sudo tee --append $CONFIG

Gets IP address of 'en0' network interface.

ifconfig en0 | awk '$1 == "inet" {print $2}'

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

Find all regular files under $DIR/tmp/daily/, sort them in reverse numerical order and copy the first two files to $DIR/tmp/weekly/

find $DIR/tmp/daily/ -type f -printf "%p\n" | sort -rn | head -n 2 | xargs -I{} cp {} $DIR/tmp/weekly/