prabhanshubhowal/natural_language_to_linux

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Creates temporary file with file name formatted like /tmp/gnuplot_cmd_$(basename "${0}").XXXXXX.gnuplot and saves path to it in a variable 'gnuplotscript'.	gnuplotscript=$(mktemp /tmp/gnuplot_cmd_$(basename "${0}").XXXXXX.gnuplot)
find all the files in the current folder with the name "test-a" and move them to the folder test-10. execdir runs the command in the directory where the file is found.	find ~ -type f -name test-a -execdir mv {} test-10 \;
Find all MP3 files in the home directory tree that were modified in the last 24 hours	find ~ -type f -mtime 0 -iname '*.mp3'
Search for "facebook\\|xing\\|linkedin\\|googleplus" in "access-log.txt" and print a count of the unique entries	grep -ioh "facebook\\|xing\\|linkedin\\|googleplus" access-log.txt \| sort \| uniq -c \| sort -n
Delete all .svn subdirectories under current directory	rm -rf `find . -type d -name ".svn"`
Find all files/directories under current directory that were accessed more than 25 but less than 35 minutes ago	find -amin +25 -amin -35
Set variable "extract_dir" to list of top-level directories and files contained in tar archive specified by variable FILE.	extract_dir=$(tar -tf $FILE \| cut -d/ -f1 \| uniq)
find all the files that are modified in the last 1 day	find -mtime -1
Finds files in 'directory' folder with the same name and location but different content than files in 'directory.original' folder and prints location of such files.	diff -qr directory directory.original \| cut -d' ' -f2 \| xargs dirname \| uniq
find all the empty directories in current folder and delete them	find ./ -empty -type d -delete
Save $line line in history	history -s "$line"
Measure the disk space taken up by all *.txt files in the current directory tree	find . -name "*.txt" -print0 \|xargs -0 du -ch
Output all lines in BigFile.csv whose secondn comma-separated second field matches first field of a line in LittleFile.csv.	join -1 2 -2 1 -t, BigFile.csv LittleFile.csv
Recursively change the owner and group of "/var/antoniod-data/" to "antoniod"	chown -R antoniod:antoniod /var/antoniod-data/
List each unique case insensitive character in "file" prefixed by number of occurrences	grep -o . file \| sort -f \| uniq -ic
Removes files ~/.android/adbkey and ~/.android/adbkey.pub without prompting.	rm -f ~/.android/adbkey ~/.android/adbkey.pub
Places current job to background.	bg % so it wont die when you logoff
Recursively find the latest modified file in the current directory	find . -type f \| xargs ls -ltr \| tail -n 1
display a long listing of all the regular/normal files in the file system which have set uid bit or set gid bit enabled.	find / -type f \ -exec ls -l {} \;
Prints process tree with command line arguments and process id numbers.	pstree -apl
display only the file names of all the files which end with ".deb"	find . -name '*.deb' -printf "%f\n"
Display a long listing of all regular files that are less than 50 bytes in size under '/usr/bin' directory tree	find /usr/bin -type f -size -50c -exec ls -l '{}' ';'
Archive all files specified on standard input under "/path/to/files" to "/path" on host "targethost" as user "user" with escalated privileges	rsync -av --files-from=- --rsync-path="sudo rsync" /path/to/files user@targethost:/path
Finds out what groups a given user has.	groups user
Creates temporary folder relative to directory '/path/to/dir'.	mktemp -d -p /path/to/dir
Find files newer than start.txt but not newer than end.txt	find ./ -newer start.txt -and ! -newer end.txt
find all jpg files in the current folder	find . -name "*.jpg"
Change string "searc" to "replace" in all files in directory hierarchy	find . -type f -exec sed -i 's/searc/replace/g' {} \;
Execute "dropbox-cli status" every second	watch -n1 dropbox-cli status
Read a line from standard input into variable "response" ignoring backslash escapes and using the prompt "Are you sure? [y/N] "	read -r -p "Are you sure? [y/N] " response
List regular files in current directory with read, write and execute permission for all users and also show the permissions	find . -type f -perm a=rwx -exec ls -l {} \;
find from / a file called "expect", suppressing any error messages	find / -name expect 2>/dev/null
list in long format all files from / whose filename ends in "jbd", not descending into directories that are not readable while searching, and not descending into directories on other filesystems	find / -mount \! -readable -prune -o -path /dev -prune -o -name '*.jbd' -ls
Display a dump of "file" as floating point values of double size	od -t fD file
display all empty files in the current folder	find . -size 0k
Get only the latest version of the file 'filename' under current directory	find . -name 'filename' \| xargs -r ls -tc \| head -n1
Copy all ".php" files in "projects/" directory tree to "copy/" preserving directory hierarchy	find projects/ -name '*.php' -print \| cpio -pdm copy/
Remove files whose names match regular expression '^.*/[A-Za-z]+-[0-9]+x[0-9]+\.[A-Za-z]+$' from the current directory tree	find -regex '^.*/[A-Za-z]+-[0-9]+x[0-9]+\.[A-Za-z]+$' \| xargs echo rm -f
display all directories in the folder Symfony	find Symfony -type d
Split "$1" into files of at most "$2" or default 10000 using a numeric suffix of length 6	split -l ${2:-10000} -d -a 6 "$1"
Silently read a single character from standard input into variable "key" without backslash escapes and using the prompt $'Press any key to continue...\n'	read -rsp $'Press any key to continue...\n' -n 1 key
Print the minimum transmission time of 10 ping requests to "google.com" from cygwin	ping google.com -n 10 \| grep Minimum \| awk '{print $3}' \| sed s/,//
Find all files named "filename" in the current directory tree, not descending into "FOLDER1" directories	find . '' -print
Find all the files that were modified more than one day ago	find . -mtime +1
display all normal / regular files in current folder in reverse order	find . -type f \| tac
Look in /home/dm and below for files with 'uniform' in their names	find /home/dm -name "uniform"
Copy all files that match 'FooBar' in their paths under current directory tree to the '~/foo/bar' directory	find . \| grep "FooBar" \| tr \\n \\0 \| xargs -0 -I{} cp "{}" ~/foo/bar
Test if a file named 'file' in the current directory is more than 1 hour old	find file -chour +1 -exit 0 -o -exit 1
Go to /the/project/root//data, which in most filesystems/operating systems will be the same as cd /the/project/root/data	cd /the/project/root//data
same as above example with -exec , in this example with -OK it should ask for confirmation before executing the rm command . that is called user intractive command	find . -name core -ok rm {} \;
Find directories modified in last 7 days	find . -mtime -7 -type d
Find all files that are modified in last 3 days	find . -type f -mtime -3
delete all files that have the extension "bam" in current directory	find . -name "*.bam" \| xargs rm
Print which files differ between dir1 and dir2, treating absent files as empty	diff --brief -Nr dir1/ dir2/
Remove lines matching "kpt#" from "data.txt" and add left-justified line numbers	grep -v 'kpt#' data.txt \| nl -nln
Read the first line of output from "du -s $i" into variable "k" in ksh	du -s $i \| read k
Print the current date followed by ": $line"	echo "$(date): " $line
List all IP addresses assigned to current hostname, pausing for user interaction after each page.	more /etc/hosts \| grep '[[:space:]]'`hostname`'[[:space:]]' \| awk '{print $1}'
Find all *gz files under asia and emea directory	find asia emea -type f -name "*gz"
Change permissions for all PHP files under the current directory tree to 755	find . -name "*.php" -exec chmod 755 {} \;
Calculate md5 checksum of '/etc/localtime' and save the first space separated part in variable 'checksum'	checksum=`md5sum /etc/localtime \| cut -d' ' -f1`
Find all files under current directory, calculate their md5sum	find . -type f -print0 \| parallel -0 -X md5sum
change the owner of the files which belong to the group 1000 to username and modify only the symbolic link not the originally pointed file	find -gid 1000 -exec chown -h :username {} \;
Find files in the current directory tree whose size is less than 24000 bytes	find . -size -24000c
Numerically sort file "file.dat" by the second word of each line and output from greatest value to least value	sort -nrk 2,2 file.dat
Reversibly sorts content of the '${TMP}/${SCRIPT_NAME}.name' file	cat ${TMP}/${SCRIPT_NAME}.name\|sort -r;
Forcibly removes ${temp} file.	rm --force "${temp}"
Prints Kb size of all top-level files and folders in a current folder in descending order.	du -ks * \| sort -n -r
Locate files whose status was changed less than 1 day ago	find . -ctime -1 -print
Move all hidden files in "wordpress" to the current directory	mv wordpress/.* .
Search the /tmp directory tree for files owned by user `ian'	find /tmp -user ian
Find all files/directories with spaces in their names under ~/Library directory	find ~/Library -name '* *'
Search only for regular files	find -type f
For each line which has a common first field in test.1 and test.2, output the first 2 fields of test.2 and the field 2 and 3 of test.1	join -j1 -o 2.1,2.2,1.2,1.3 <(sort test.1) <(sort test.2)
download a file "http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jce/8/jce_policy-8.zip" using cookies "oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie"	curl -L -C - -b "oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" -O http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jce/8/jce_policy-8.zip
list all regular files which path is not dir1 or dir2	find dir -not \ -type f
Find all .txt, .html files under /basedir that match the case insensitive pattern company in their names	find /basedir/ \( -iname 'company' -and \( -iname '.txt' -or -iname '.html' \) \) -print0
Print the date formatted with "%a %x %X" followed by the host name	echo `date +"%a %x %X"` `hostname`
Move all files including hidden files and excluding ".." in "/path/subfolder/" to "/path/"	mv /source/path/{.[!.],}* /destination/path
search for the files "foo.txt" in the current folder and rename it to foo.xml	find -name foo.txt -execdir rename 's/\.txt$/.xml/' '{}' ';'
Find files in entire file system that are writable by group or other	find / -perm /g=w,o=w
Write the list of all files on the system to "masterfilelist.out"	find / -print > masterfilelist.out
display all files in the current folder and do not search in the sub directories	find . -maxdepth 0
set variable r to currently running kernel release, ie. 4.4.0-81-generic	r="$"
count the lines of java code for all the java files in the current directory	find . -name "*.java" -print0 \| xargs -0 wc
Join data in file1 containing one number per line with data in file2 containing a number and other information per line, keeping the same order as it is found in file1.	join -1 2 -2 1 -a1 < < \| sort -k2 \| cut --complement -d" " -f2
Make directories "$@" verbosely and replace "mkdir: created directory " with "jar-jar: yea, weesa gotta " in the output	mkdir -v "$@" \| sed 's/mkdir: created directory /jar-jar: yea, weesa gotta /'
search all the files in the current folder using regex excluding those that are present in the folder test	find . -name test -prune -o -regex "./my.p.$"
Find all directories under and below /home/admin/public_html/, and change their permissions to 755	find /home/admin/public_html/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
Find all files/directories under current directory tree with '.old' extension	find . -name ”*.old” -print
find all the files that have been modified in the last 4 days and copy them to folder.	find . -mtime 4 -daystart -exec cp -a {} /home/devnet/fileshare\$ on\ X.X.X.X/RECOVER/ \;
Join lines in file "aa" with lines in file "bb" if the lines share a common first word	join < <
Find all files under current directory and run /tmp/clever.sh for each of them with each file path as an argument	find . -type f -exec /tmp/clever.sh {} \;
Find all *.mp4 files under /foo/bar and move them to /some/path	find /foot/bar/ -name '*.mp4' -exec mv -t /some/path {} +
find not case sensitive all directories that names are 'apt'	find / -type d -iname "apt"
Split "$SOURCE_FILE" into files of at most 100 lines each	split -l 100 "$SOURCE_FILE"
Find all files/directories under test directory	find test
find all the files in the current folder that have been modified in the last 7 days	find -mtime -7 -daystart
Find all files/directories following symbolic links under current directory tree that are owned by 'root' user	find . -follow -uid 0 -print
Recursively search for all files with names ending with "_test.rb", renaming them to end with "_spec.rb", using at most 1000000 characters per command.	find . -name "*_test.rb" \| xargs -s 1000000 rename s/_test/_spec/

Creates temporary file with file name formatted like /tmp/gnuplot_cmd_$(basename "${0}").XXXXXX.gnuplot and saves path to it in a variable 'gnuplotscript'.

gnuplotscript=$(mktemp /tmp/gnuplot_cmd_$(basename "${0}").XXXXXX.gnuplot)

find all the files in the current folder with the name "test-a" and move them to the folder test-10. execdir runs the command in the directory where the file is found.

find ~ -type f -name test-a -execdir mv {} test-10 \;

Find all MP3 files in the home directory tree that were modified in the last 24 hours

find ~ -type f -mtime 0 -iname '*.mp3'

Search for "facebook\|xing\|linkedin\|googleplus" in "access-log.txt" and print a count of the unique entries

Delete all .svn subdirectories under current directory

rm -rf `find . -type d -name ".svn"`

Find all files/directories under current directory that were accessed more than 25 but less than 35 minutes ago

find -amin +25 -amin -35

Set variable "extract_dir" to list of top-level directories and files contained in tar archive specified by variable FILE.

extract_dir=$(tar -tf $FILE | cut -d/ -f1 | uniq)

find all the files that are modified in the last 1 day

find -mtime -1

Finds files in 'directory' folder with the same name and location but different content than files in 'directory.original' folder and prints location of such files.

diff -qr directory directory.original | cut -d' ' -f2 | xargs dirname | uniq

find all the empty directories in current folder and delete them

find ./ -empty -type d -delete

Save $line line in history

history -s "$line"

Measure the disk space taken up by all *.txt files in the current directory tree

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

Output all lines in BigFile.csv whose secondn comma-separated second field matches first field of a line in LittleFile.csv.

join -1 2 -2 1 -t, BigFile.csv LittleFile.csv

Recursively change the owner and group of "/var/antoniod-data/" to "antoniod"

chown -R antoniod:antoniod /var/antoniod-data/

List each unique case insensitive character in "file" prefixed by number of occurrences

grep -o . file | sort -f | uniq -ic

Removes files ~/.android/adbkey and ~/.android/adbkey.pub without prompting.

rm -f ~/.android/adbkey ~/.android/adbkey.pub

Places current job to background.

bg % so it wont die when you logoff

Recursively find the latest modified file in the current directory

find . -type f | xargs ls -ltr | tail -n 1

display a long listing of all the regular/normal files in the file system which have set uid bit or set gid bit enabled.

find / -type f \ -exec ls -l {} \;

Prints process tree with command line arguments and process id numbers.

pstree -apl

display only the file names of all the files which end with ".deb"

find . -name '*.deb' -printf "%f\n"

Display a long listing of all regular files that are less than 50 bytes in size under '/usr/bin' directory tree

find /usr/bin -type f -size -50c -exec ls -l '{}' ';'

Archive all files specified on standard input under "/path/to/files" to "/path" on host "targethost" as user "user" with escalated privileges

rsync -av --files-from=- --rsync-path="sudo rsync" /path/to/files user@targethost:/path

Finds out what groups a given user has.

groups user

Creates temporary folder relative to directory '/path/to/dir'.

mktemp -d -p /path/to/dir

Find files newer than start.txt but not newer than end.txt

find ./ -newer start.txt -and ! -newer end.txt

find all jpg files in the current folder

find . -name "*.jpg"

Change string "searc" to "replace" in all files in directory hierarchy

find . -type f -exec sed -i 's/searc/replace/g' {} \;

Execute "dropbox-cli status" every second

watch -n1 dropbox-cli status

Read a line from standard input into variable "response" ignoring backslash escapes and using the prompt "Are you sure? [y/N] "

read -r -p "Are you sure? [y/N] " response

List regular files in current directory with read, write and execute permission for all users and also show the permissions

find . -type f -perm a=rwx -exec ls -l {} \;

find from / a file called "expect", suppressing any error messages

find / -name expect 2>/dev/null

list in long format all files from / whose filename ends in "jbd", not descending into directories that are not readable while searching, and not descending into directories on other filesystems

find / -mount \! -readable -prune -o -path /dev -prune -o -name '*.jbd' -ls

Display a dump of "file" as floating point values of double size

od -t fD file

display all empty files in the current folder

find . -size 0k

Get only the latest version of the file 'filename' under current directory

find . -name 'filename' | xargs -r ls -tc | head -n1

Copy all ".php" files in "projects/" directory tree to "copy/" preserving directory hierarchy

find projects/ -name '*.php' -print | cpio -pdm copy/

Remove files whose names match regular expression '^.*/[A-Za-z]+-[0-9]+x[0-9]+\.[A-Za-z]+$' from the current directory tree

find -regex '^.*/[A-Za-z]+-[0-9]+x[0-9]+\.[A-Za-z]+$' | xargs echo rm -f

display all directories in the folder Symfony

find Symfony -type d

Split "$1" into files of at most "$2" or default 10000 using a numeric suffix of length 6

split -l ${2:-10000} -d -a 6 "$1"

Silently read a single character from standard input into variable "key" without backslash escapes and using the prompt $'Press any key to continue...\n'

read -rsp $'Press any key to continue...\n' -n 1 key

Print the minimum transmission time of 10 ping requests to "google.com" from cygwin

ping google.com -n 10 | grep Minimum | awk '{print $3}' | sed s/,//

Find all files named "filename" in the current directory tree, not descending into "FOLDER1" directories

find . '' -print

Find all the files that were modified more than one day ago

find . -mtime +1

display all normal / regular files in current folder in reverse order

find . -type f | tac

Look in /home/dm and below for files with 'uniform' in their names

find /home/dm -name "*uniform*"

Copy all files that match 'FooBar' in their paths under current directory tree to the '~/foo/bar' directory

find . | grep "FooBar" | tr \\n \\0 | xargs -0 -I{} cp "{}" ~/foo/bar

Test if a file named 'file' in the current directory is more than 1 hour old

find file -chour +1 -exit 0 -o -exit 1

Go to /the/project/root//data, which in most filesystems/operating systems will be the same as cd /the/project/root/data

cd /the/project/root//data

same as above example with -exec , in this example with -OK it should ask for confirmation before executing the rm command . that is called user intractive command

find . -name core -ok rm {} \;

Find directories modified in last 7 days

find . -mtime -7 -type d

Find all files that are modified in last 3 days

find . -type f -mtime -3

delete all files that have the extension "bam" in current directory

find . -name "*.bam" | xargs rm

Print which files differ between dir1 and dir2, treating absent files as empty

diff --brief -Nr dir1/ dir2/

Remove lines matching "kpt#" from "data.txt" and add left-justified line numbers

grep -v 'kpt#' data.txt | nl -nln

Read the first line of output from "du -s $i" into variable "k" in ksh

du -s $i | read k

Print the current date followed by ": $line"

echo "$(date): " $line

List all IP addresses assigned to current hostname, pausing for user interaction after each page.

more /etc/hosts | grep '[[:space:]]*'`hostname`'[[:space:]]*' | awk '{print $1}'

Find all *gz files under asia and emea directory

find asia emea -type f -name "*gz"

Change permissions for all PHP files under the current directory tree to 755

find . -name "*.php" -exec chmod 755 {} \;

Calculate md5 checksum of '/etc/localtime' and save the first space separated part in variable 'checksum'

checksum=`md5sum /etc/localtime | cut -d' ' -f1`

Find all files under current directory, calculate their md5sum

find . -type f -print0 | parallel -0 -X md5sum

change the owner of the files which belong to the group 1000 to username and modify only the symbolic link not the originally pointed file

find -gid 1000 -exec chown -h :username {} \;

Find files in the current directory tree whose size is less than 24000 bytes

find . -size -24000c

Numerically sort file "file.dat" by the second word of each line and output from greatest value to least value

sort -nrk 2,2 file.dat

Reversibly sorts content of the '${TMP}/${SCRIPT_NAME}.name' file

cat ${TMP}/${SCRIPT_NAME}.name|sort -r;

Forcibly removes ${temp} file.

rm --force "${temp}"

Prints Kb size of all top-level files and folders in a current folder in descending order.

du -ks * | sort -n -r

Locate files whose status was changed less than 1 day ago

find . -ctime -1 -print

Move all hidden files in "wordpress" to the current directory

mv wordpress/.* .

Search the /tmp directory tree for files owned by user `ian'

find /tmp -user ian

Find all files/directories with spaces in their names under ~/Library directory

find ~/Library -name '* *'

Search only for regular files

find -type f

For each line which has a common first field in test.1 and test.2, output the first 2 fields of test.2 and the field 2 and 3 of test.1

join -j1 -o 2.1,2.2,1.2,1.3 <(sort test.1) <(sort test.2)

download a file "http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jce/8/jce_policy-8.zip" using cookies "oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie"

curl -L -C - -b "oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" -O http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jce/8/jce_policy-8.zip

list all regular files which path is not dir1 or dir2

find dir -not \ -type f

Find all *.txt, *.html files under /basedir that match the case insensitive pattern *company* in their names

find /basedir/ $ -iname '*company*' -and \( -iname '*.txt' -or -iname '*.html' $ \) -print0

Print the date formatted with "%a %x %X" followed by the host name

echo `date +"%a %x %X"` `hostname`

Move all files including hidden files and excluding ".." in "/path/subfolder/" to "/path/"

mv /source/path/{.[!.],}* /destination/path

search for the files "foo.txt" in the current folder and rename it to foo.xml

find -name foo.txt -execdir rename 's/\.txt$/.xml/' '{}' ';'

Find files in entire file system that are writable by group or other

find / -perm /g=w,o=w

Write the list of all files on the system to "masterfilelist.out"

find / -print > masterfilelist.out

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

find . -maxdepth 0

set variable r to currently running kernel release, ie. 4.4.0-81-generic

r="$"

count the lines of java code for all the java files in the current directory

find . -name "*.java" -print0 | xargs -0 wc

Join data in file1 containing one number per line with data in file2 containing a number and other information per line, keeping the same order as it is found in file1.

join -1 2 -2 1 -a1 < < | sort -k2 | cut --complement -d" " -f2

Make directories "$@" verbosely and replace "mkdir: created directory " with "jar-jar: yea, weesa gotta " in the output

mkdir -v "$@" | sed 's/mkdir: created directory /jar-jar: yea, weesa gotta /'

search all the files in the current folder using regex excluding those that are present in the folder test

find . -name test -prune -o -regex ".*/my.*p.$"

Find all directories under and below /home/admin/public_html/, and change their permissions to 755

find /home/admin/public_html/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

Find all files/directories under current directory tree with '.old' extension

find . -name ”*.old” -print

find all the files that have been modified in the last 4 days and copy them to folder.

find . -mtime 4 -daystart -exec cp -a {} /home/devnet/fileshare\$ on\ X.X.X.X/RECOVER/ \;

Join lines in file "aa" with lines in file "bb" if the lines share a common first word

join < <

Find all files under current directory and run /tmp/clever.sh for each of them with each file path as an argument

find . -type f -exec /tmp/clever.sh {} \;

Find all *.mp4 files under /foo/bar and move them to /some/path

find /foot/bar/ -name '*.mp4' -exec mv -t /some/path {} +

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

find / -type d -iname "apt"

Split "$SOURCE_FILE" into files of at most 100 lines each

split -l 100 "$SOURCE_FILE"

Find all files/directories under test directory

find test

find all the files in the current folder that have been modified in the last 7 days

find -mtime -7 -daystart

Find all files/directories following symbolic links under current directory tree that are owned by 'root' user

find . -follow -uid 0 -print

Recursively search for all files with names ending with "_test.rb", renaming them to end with "_spec.rb", using at most 1000000 characters per command.

find . -name "*_test.rb" | xargs -s 1000000 rename s/_test/_spec/