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Print unique lines of sorted file "b" compared with sorted file "a"
comm -13 a b
Log in using key file "./device_id.pem" as user "deviceuser" on host "middle.example.org" and port 2222
ssh -i ./device_id.pem -p 2222 [email protected]
Display machine architecture, ie. x86_64
uname -m
Write "ee" to standard output and as input to command "foo"
echo 'ee' | tee >
Display each line in file.txt backwards
rev file.txt
display all the html files in the current folder that have been modified in the last 7*24 hours
find . -mtime -7 -name "*.html" -print
find all regex '\./[a-f0-9\-]\{36\}\.jpg' files
find . -regex '\./[a-f0-9\-]\{36\}\.jpg'
Find files matching `.ssh*' and append their anmes to file `ssh-stuff'
find / -name .ssh* -print | tee -a ssh-stuff
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*"
display list of all the regular/normal files in the home folder which are bigger than 512 kb
find /home/ -type f -size +512k -exec ls -lh {} \;
display the contents of all the regular/normal files in the entire file system with the name dummy and discard all the errors
find / -type f -name dummy 2>/dev/null -exec cat {} \;
Count non-blank lines in a file 'foo.c'
cat foo.c | sed '/^\s*$/d' | wc -l
display all the files in the file system which belong to the group lighttpd
find / -group lighttpd -print
Report file systems inode usage.
df -i
Open a local SSH port on 1080 for application-level port forwarding
ssh -D1080 root@localhost -g
Find files newer than start.txt but not newer than end.txt
find ./ -newer start.txt -and ! -newer end.txt
Print lines in file 'filename' that do not match the regex 'pattern'
grep -v 'pattern' filename
Create intermediate directories as required and directory /tmp/test/blah/oops/something
mkdir -p /tmp/test/blah/oops/something
find all the links in the current folder which are broken
find /target -type l -xtype l
Find all files/directories owned by user 'joebob' under '/some/directory' directory tree
find /some/directory -user joebob -print
Save the user name of the current user to variable "whoami"
whoami=$
Find all python files in $topdir directory tree and search for 'Makefile' in all these folders and display all distinct folders having 'Makefile'
find "$topdir" -name '*.py' -printf '%h\0' | xargs -0 -I {} find {} -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -name Makefile -printf '%h\n' | sort -u
Find all Name* files under ../../$name-module and rename them by replacing 'Name' with $Name in their names
find ../../$name-module -name 'Name*' -type f -exec bash -c 'mv "$1" "${1/Name/$Name}"' -- {} \;
Move the directory named "some-dir" and residing under the current one to x/
find ./ -maxdepth 1 -name "some-dir" -type d -print0 | xargs -0r mv -t x/
find files in the current directory and sub-directories, that were accessed within last hour
find -amin -60
Find all directories named 'mydir' under 'local' and '/tmp' directory tree
find local /tmp -name mydir -type d -print
create directory temp into home directory
mkdir ~/temp
find all sqlite files in the current directory.
find ./ -name "*.sqlite"
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 bash -c 'mv $0 ${0/GHBAG/stream-agg}' {} \;
Create a symolic link in "/usr/local/" to "/Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl"
ln -s /Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl /usr/local/
Continuously output "y" at a rate of 10 bytes per second
yes | pv --quiet --rate-limit 10
Find all files under current directory with their size and paths, reverse sort them numerically, then print first 4 entries
find -type f -printf "%s %p\n" | sort -nr | head -n 4
Print "$PATH" variable as input to awk script "rem_dup.awk" and concatenate the result with ":"
echo $PATH | awk -F: -f rem_dup.awk | paste -sd:
finds all directories named CVS, and deletes them and their contents.
find . -type d -name CVS -exec rm -r {} \;
Find all regular files that were modified more than 60 days ago under '/path-to-directory' directory tree, sort them according to timestamp and print the filenames preceded with the timestamps
find /path-to-directory -type f -mtime +60 -printf "%T@ %p\n" | sort
Find files larger than 50k
find . -size +50k
Find all directories in maximum 2 levels down the /tmp/test directory
find /tmp/test/ -maxdepth 2 -mindepth 1 -type d
Search the current directory tree for regular files that contain "string"
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep string
Set permissions to 755 for every subdirectory of the current directory
find . -type d -mindepth 1 -print -exec chmod 755 {}/* \;
Find all files/directories under $1 which have at least execute permission for their owner and set execute permission for group for these files/directories
find "$1" -perm -u+x -print0 | xargs chmod g+x
find all the log files in the file system which are present in the current partition
find / -xdev -name "*.log"
Find files that do not have a listing in the /etc/passwd or /etc/group in the file system
find / -nouser -o -nogroup
Write the lines appended to "xxxx" as it appears to the console and append to "yyyy" in the background
tail -F xxxx | tee -a yyyy &
Check if *RBENV* variable is defined in global environment
tmux show-environment -g | grep RBENV
Find all files which have 211028 inode number in current directory then Locating and renaming unprintable directories
find . -inum 211028 -exec mv {} newname.dir \;
search for the file test.txt in the folders /home and /opt
find /home /opt -name test.txt
display all normal/regular files in the folder "$ORIG_DIR"
find "$ORIG_DIR" -name "*" -type f
Find files under current directory without descending into other file systems and append a null character at the end of each paths
find -x . -type f -print0
Count the number of .java files in all folders rooted in the current folder
find . -name "*.java" | wc -l
Check if "/path/to/dir" is a nfs mount point
mount -l | grep 'type nfs' | sed 's/.* on \ .*/\1/' | grep /path/to/dir
Find all files/directories under /myfiles that were modified 2 days ago
find /myfiles -mtime 2
Add executable permission to "rr.sh"
chmod +x rr.sh
Find all *.txt files/directories under your home directory
find ~/ -name '*.txt'
Counts lines in each *.php file.
wc -l `tree -if --noreport | grep -e'\.php$'`
display all files in the current folder
find . -print
Search the current directory for HTML files whose names begin with "a"
find . -maxdepth 1 -name a\*.html
Find all the Sticky Bit set files whose permission are 551 in the file system
find / -perm 1551
Print "#include" statements found in "file2" that are not in "file1"
comm -13 <(grep '#include' file1 | sort) <(grep '#include' file2 | sort)
Find all files on the system that are larger than 600 MB
find / -size +600M -print
find all the files in the current folder and display them in the sorted order of their name
find . | sort
Find files that match the executable bit for owner or group
find -type f -perm /110
Print calendar for February, March and April of year 2009 side-by-side
paste < < <
Creates temporary file with name formatted like '.script.XXXXXX' in '/tmp/' folder and saves path to it in 'script1' variable.
script1=`mktemp /tmp/.script.XXXXXX`;
Compare the files in 'FOLDER1' and 'FOLDER2' and show which ones are indentical and which ones differ
find FOLDER1 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -I % find FOLDER2 -type f -exec diff -qs --from-file="%" '{}' \+
Find files/directories with exactly read,write and execute permission for all (owner, group and others) under /path
find /path -perm 777
Find and print all PDF files in the current directory and its sub-directories except for any found in the ./pdfs directory.
find . -name "*.pdf" -print | grep -v "^\./pdfs/"
Find files not matching shell pattern '*/vendor/*'
find . -not -wholename '*/vendor/*
Find `string' in all *.java files ignoring the case of that string
find . -type f -name "*.java" -exec grep -il string {} \;
recursively copy files by file extension, preserving directory structure
find -type f -name \*.txt -exec install -D {} /dest/path/{} \;
Find all files/directories under /export/home/someone directory in a remote host and upload the files/directories to ftp://somehost/tmp/
ssh someone@somehost "cd /export/home/someone && find . -name '*' -print| xargs -n1 curl -u someone:password ftp://somehost/tmp/ -vT"
Search directories /path/to/directory/folder{1..50} for .txt files
find /path/to/directory/folder{1..50} -name '*.txt' 2>/dev/null
List all variables (names only) with names containing X.
env | awk -F "=" '{print $1}' | grep ".*X.*"
Print absolute path of "PATH"
readlink -f PATH
Search all files in the current directory tree that are named "whatever" for "you_search_for_it"
find -name whatever -exec grep --with-filename you_search_for_it {} \;
display a long listing of all files in the entire file system which are bigger than 1MB
find / -size +1000k -exec ls -l {} \; -print
find js file which name is not 'glob-for-excluded-dir' under current directory.
find . -name '*.js' -\! -name 'glob-for-excluded-dir' -prune
display all the "C" files in the current folder
find . -name "*.c"
find all the regular/normal files in the current folder and do not search in the sub directories
find . -maxdepth 1 -type f
Print the pathnames of all files from the /tmp/dir1 directory tree
find /tmp/dir1 -exec echo {} \;
Find all SUID set files in the file system
find / -perm /u=s
find the type of all the regular/normal files in the current folder (plus takes bulk of files as input to the file command)
find . -type f -exec file {} \+;
display all the text files in the current folder
find . -name "*.txt" -print
Sort the lines of the file 'inputfile', keep only the uniq lines and change it in-place
sort inputfile | uniq | sort -o inputfile
Save standard input to variable "myVar"
myVar=$
Find grub.conf files in entire file system
find / -name grub.conf
create a soft link of the files in the folder /media/movies which have been modified in the last 30 days
find /media/Movies -type f -mtime -30 -exec ln -s {} /media/Movies/New/ \;
Print the list of files and directories of the /etc directory
find /etc ! -name /etc
Inserts "new line" after last occurrence of ScriptAlias in a file
tac file | awk '/ScriptAlias/ && ! seen {print "new line"; seen=1} {print}' | tac
Delete all matches to the regex '^.*iframe bla bla bla.*$' in all the php files under current directory tree and modify the files in-place
find ./ -type f -name \*.php -exec sed -i ’s/^.*iframe bla bla bla.*$//g’ {} \;
display all the files in the current folder which are present in the path "./sr*sc"
find . -path './sr*sc'
display the count of total number of non empty files in the current folder
find . -type f -not -empty | wc -l
Remove last two underscore-delimited fields and following characters in "t1_t2_t3_tn1_tn2.sh" keeping only "t1_t2_t3"
echo t1_t2_t3_tn1_tn2.sh | rev | cut -d_ -f3- | rev
Recursively changes group ownership on everything in the 'public_html' folder to 'website' group.
chgrp --recursive website public_html
Display difference between one.txt and two.txt side-by-side.
diff -y one.txt two.txt
search for all xml files in some directory
I'm assuming you only want to zip files that match names in $Namese. In your script, try replacing the find command with: export Namese find /var/tmp/ -type f -name '*.xml'
Finds strings having text "searched-string" in all files recursively in a current folder.
find . | xargs grep "searched-string"
Search the system for the file “testfile.txt”
find / -name "testfile.txt"
Search for 'foo' in all regular files under 'sources' directory tree and show the matched lines with filenames
find sources -type f -exec grep -H foo {} +
Save the physical current working directory to variable "END_ABS"
END_ABS=`pwd -P`
Find all files in and below all subdirectories of the current directory
find . -mindepth 2