prabhanshubhowal/natural_language_to_linux

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Remove sequence like '\xEF\xBB\xBF' from first string of every '*.js' file in a current folder and subfolders, creating backup file with .bak extension for every changed file, and removing backup on success.	find . -iname *.js -type f -exec sed 's/^\xEF\xBB\xBF//' -i.bak {} \; -exec rm {}.bak \;
prints top 10 commands used	history \| awk '{print $2}' \| awk 'BEGIN {FS="\|"}{print $1}' \| sort \| uniq -c \| sort -nr \| head
Copy the standard output of a "bash" session to "/var/log/bash.out.log"	bash \| tee /var/log/bash.out.log
List all files with their paths that have identical content.	find * -type f \| xargs md5sum \| sort \| uniq -Dw32
Get the total sizes of all files under current directory	find . -type f -printf '%p %s\n' \| awk '{sum+=$NF}END{print sum}'
Write every two lines in "infile" on a single line separated by a comma	cat infile \| paste -sd ',\n'
Compresses all files in the directory 'PATH_TO_FOLDER' without recursion and keeps uncompressed files from deletion.	find PATH_TO_FOLDER -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec bzip2 -zk {} \;
Unzip "file.gz", list the unique lines matching regex pattern '"searchstring":"[^"]*"' prefixed by the number of occurrences, sort from least frequent to most frequent	zcat file.gz \| grep -o '"searchstring":"[^"]*"'\| sort \| uniq -c \| sort -n
find directories under the $LOGDIR directory where there have been no modifications for 5 days and deletes them.	find $LOGDIR -type d -mtime +5 -exec rm -f {} \;
show all the ".acc" files in the folder /home	find /home -type f -name '*.aac'
Search all .java files residing in the current directory tree and modified at least 7 days ago for string "swt"	find . -name '*.java' -mtime +7 -print0 \| xargs -0 grep 'swt'
Prints line count of each file within current directory.	find . -type f -print \| xargs -L1 wc -l
get all files in a current directory modified in the last day	find . -mtime -1 \| xargs tar --no-recursion -czf myfile.tgz
delete all the mp3 files in the home folder	find /home/ -exec grep -l “mp3” {} \; \| xargs rm
beginning at the end of the file, prints lines matching /2012/ and exits after first non-matching line	tac error.log \| awk '{if(/2012/)print;else exit}'
Find all foo.mp4 files in the current directory tree and print the pathnames of their parent directories	find ./ -name "foo.mp4" -printf "%h\n"
Write the shell's input to standard error as it is read	set -v
List unique MD5 digests of all files in the current directory ending in .txt	md5sum *.txt \| cut -d ' ' -f 1 \| sort -u
search for the word "mysql" in all the files in the current containing the word "notes" in their name	find . -iname "notes" \| xargs grep -i mysql
Find all .c and .C files in the current directory tree that contain "main(" and copy them to directory test1/	find -iname “*.c” -exec grep -l ‘main(‘ {} \; -a -exec cp {} test1/ \;
Set variable "filename" to only the name of document specified by URL, in this case "pic.jpg"	filename="`basename "http://pics.sitename.com/images/191211/pic.jpg"`"
Search the current directory recursively for files last modified within the past 24 hours	find . -mtime 0
display all the regular/normal files in the current folder which have been modified in the last 24 hours	find . -mtime 0 -type f
display all hidden files in the current folder	find . -type f -name ".*"
Print the input "hello world" to the console followed by a swap of the first two awk fields	echo hello world \| tee /dev/tty \| awk '{print $2, $1}'
Find all php files under current directory	find . -type f -name "*.php"
Find all files/directories under current directory tree that contain 'pattern' in their names	find -name "pattern"
List all *.txt files/directories under current directory	find . -name "*.txt" -exec $SHELL -c 'echo "$0"' {} \;
Search regular files from the /path/to/dir directory tree for lines that contain "_START" and are enclosed in lines "@GROUP" and "@END_GROUP"	find /path/to/dir -type f -exec sed '/@GROUP/,/@END_GROUP/!d' {} \; \| grep '_START'
Find all files that contain the case insensitive regex 'stringtofind' in maximum 1 level down the / directory without descending into other partitions	find / -maxdepth 1 -xdev -type f -exec grep -li stringtofind '{}' \;
display all the regular/normal files in the /root folder which are bigger than 500MB	find /root -type f -size +500M -printf "The %p file is greater than 500MB\n"
display all the files in the file system which are smaller than 20 bytes	find / -size 20
Show who is logged on	who
listing of the files starting from home dir, that have size 50k or less and have extention html."	find . \ -name '*.html' \ -exec ls -l {} \; 2> /dev/null
Print the last white space separated field of every line in "file.txt" as a ", " separated list	awk '{print $NF}' file.txt \| paste -sd, \| sed 's/,/, /g'
Find *.html files in the current directory tree that were last modified more than 7 days ago	find . -mtime +7 -name "*.html" -print
Find all Subscription.java files/directories under current directory and enter into the parent directory of the first one found	cd `find . -name Subscription.java \| xargs dirname`
Archive "/var/www/test/" to "/var/www/test" on host "231.210.24.48" as user "ubuntu" via ssh using identity file "/home/test/pkey_new.pem"	rsync -rave "ssh -i /home/test/pkey_new.pem" /var/www/test/ [email protected]:/var/www/test
Delete files under $LOCATION that match $REQUIRED_FILES in their names and were modified more than 360 minutes ago	find $LOCATION -name $REQUIRED_FILES -type f -mmin +360 -delete
display all directories in the entire file system	find / -type d -print
Print the names of all files in /some/directory and its subdirectories recursively whose MIME type is video	find /some/directory -type f -exec file -N -i -- {} + \| sed -n 's!: video/[^:]*$!!p'
Find all *.txt files/directories under current directory	find . -name "*.txt"
get the root access	sudo su -
display all files in current folder which are bigger than 100KB but are less than 500KB	find . -size +100k -a -size -500k
Push the directory containing the first existing command found in all arguments to the directory stack.	pushd $(dirname `which $@`)
Find all .zip files in the current directory tree	find . -depth -name *.zip
find all files and directories under the current directory and display the filesize followed by the filename, using the stat command on FreeBSD/OSX	find . -type f -exec stat -f "%z %N" {} \;
Find files smaller than 40 blocks skipping directories on other file systems	find . -size -40 -xdev -print
Make 3 directories named "~/Labs/lab4a/folder" followed by the number 1, 2, or 3	mkdir ~/Labs/lab4a/folder{1..3}
Create a tar archive with all *.java files under the current directory	find . -type f -name "*.java" \| xargs tar cvf myfile.tar
find all the directories in the current folder which have been modified in 24 hours and move them to the folder /path/to/target-dir	find . -depth -type d -mtime 0 -exec mv -t /path/to/target-dir {} +
display all the files in the current folder which have been modified after the files "/bin/sh"	find . -newer /bin/sh
Unzip "myDB.sql.gz" to standard output as input to "pg_restore ..."	gzip -cd myDB.sql.gz \| pg_restore ...
change cgi files to mode 755	find htdocs cgi-bin -name "*.cgi" -type f -exec chmod 755 {} \;
find all normal/regular files in current folder and display them in sorted order	find . -type f -ls \| awk '{print $, $, $, $NF}'
Find file1 in the level 1 directories and above	find -maxdepth 2 -name file1
Split "$ORIGINAL_FILE" into files of at most "$MAX_LINES_PER_CHUNK" lines each with a prefix "$CHUNK_FILE_PREFIX"	split -l $MAX_LINES_PER_CHUNK $ORIGINAL_FILE $CHUNK_FILE_PREFIX
Send e-mail to "[email protected]" with subject "any subject" containing process statistics output by the GNU version of 'top'.	top -b -n 1 \| mail -s "any subject" [email protected]
long list all the files in the curent folder starting with "Tes"	find . -type f -name "Tes*" -exec ls -l {} \;
Find all *~ files/directories under dir and print an rm command for each of them for deletion	find dir -name \*~ \| xargs echo rm
Search only for directories	find -type d
Create a symbolic link named "$1/link" to the current working directory	ln -s "`pwd`" $1/link
Delete all files under and below the current directory	find -mindepth 1 -delete
Find all directories under $FOLDER, take the first fields (dot (.) as the delimiter) from their timestamps and reverse sort them numerically	find "$FOLDER" -type d -printf "%T@\n" \| cut -f 1 -d . \| sort -nr
recursively delete, without prompting, directories under /data/bin/test, that are older than 10 days and where the name starts with a number	find /data/bin/test -type d -mtime +10 -name '[0-9]*' -print \| xargs rm -rf ;
display all files in the boot directory prepending each filename with STDERR, STDOUT accordingly	3>&1 1>&2 2>&3 \| sed 's/^/STDERR:/'
Read a line from standard input and save each word in the bash array variable "arr"	read -a arr
Variable PID contains a process ID, check if this process exists - resulting exit status from this command will be zero if it does and current user has permission to send it signals.	kill -0 $PID
Installs 'php-mbstring' package, enabling 'remi' repository.	yum --enablerepo=remi install php-mbstring
Print summary of new/missing files, and which files differ between /path/to/folder1 and /path/to/folder2, sorted alphabetically.	diff -rq /path/to/folder1 /path/to/folder2
List all files under and below the directory given as variable $FULFILLMENT	find $FULFILLMENT -ls
Make directory "~/public_html"	mkdir ~/public_html
Print file type of the command "c++"	file `which c++`
Copies all files like "FooBar" under the current directory to the '~/foo/bar' directory.	find . -name 'FoooBar' \| sed 's/.*/"&"/' \| xargs cp ~/foo/bar
Find files with size more than 200557600B and which are more than 2 days old under ${userdir}/${i}/incoming directory and remove them	find ${userdir}/${i}/incoming -mtime +2 -type f -size +200557600c -exec rm {} \;
Perform a white space safe search for all files/directories under current directory	find . -print0 \| xargs -0
Go to /tmp directory.	cd /tmp
Count the number of lines in "/etc/fstab"	cat /etc/fstab \| wc -l
Delete all files/directories older than 48 hours in /path/to/files* paths	find /path/to/files* -mtime +2 -delete
Find all files/directories under current directory with the null character as the delimiter	find -print0
Mount partition with label "WHITE" on "/mnt/WHITE" with read and write permission	mount -L WHITE /mnt/WHITE -o rw
Find all files/directories with '.js' extension under current directory tree without descending into './directory'	find . -path ./directory -prune -o -name '*.js' -print
Search for aaa in all files under current directory and count the number of matches	find . -type f -exec grep -o aaa {} \; \| wc -l
display all the files in the entire file system	find / -type f -exec echo {} \;
find all files that names are game	find / -name game
Print numbers from 1 to 30 with a leading 0	seq -w 30
Unset all environment variables.	unset `env \| awk -F= '/^\w/ {print $1}' \| xargs`
Bind mount "/original/path" on "/new/path"	mount --bind /original/path /new/path
Print the empty directories and files under current directory	find -empty
Perform a dry run to recursively copy "test/a" to "test/dest" excluding "test/a/b/c/d"	rsync -nvraL test/a test/dest --exclude=a/b/c/d
Search for "ifconfig" in the output of "history" and print 5 lines that precede and follow	history \| grep -C 5 ifconfig
Print all non-hidden files in the current directory and its subdirectories	find . -not -path '/\.'
searches through the /usr directory for the regular file named 'Chapter1*'	find /usr -name "Chapter*" -type f
Prints long recursive listing of all content of a current folder, saving output to 'output.file'.	ls \|& tee files.txt
Enables shell option 'compat31'.	shopt -s compat31
Prints only unique lines of './script.sh' output.	./script.sh \| sort -u
Finds string with text "string to be searched" in any cased files like "*.cs" recursively in a current folder.	find ./ -type f -iname "*.cs" -print0 \| xargs -0 grep "content pattern"
Convert all DOS files under and below the current directory to the Unix format	find . -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 -n 1 -P 4 dos2unix
Find all directories in the current directory tree that do not have `execute' permissions for anyone	find . -type d ! -perm -111
delete what was typed in the command line and run "pwd" when button "\e[24~"	bind '"\e[24~":"\C-k \C-upwd\n"'

Remove sequence like '\xEF\xBB\xBF' from first string of every '*.js' file in a current folder and subfolders, creating backup file with .bak extension for every changed file, and removing backup on success.

find . -iname *.js -type f -exec sed 's/^\xEF\xBB\xBF//' -i.bak {} \; -exec rm {}.bak \;

prints top 10 commands used

history | awk '{print $2}' | awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"}{print $1}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head

Copy the standard output of a "bash" session to "/var/log/bash.out.log"

bash | tee /var/log/bash.out.log

List all files with their paths that have identical content.

find * -type f | xargs md5sum | sort | uniq -Dw32

Get the total sizes of all files under current directory

find . -type f -printf '%p %s\n' | awk '{sum+=$NF}END{print sum}'

Write every two lines in "infile" on a single line separated by a comma

cat infile | paste -sd ',\n'

Compresses all files in the directory 'PATH_TO_FOLDER' without recursion and keeps uncompressed files from deletion.

find PATH_TO_FOLDER -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec bzip2 -zk {} \;

Unzip "file.gz", list the unique lines matching regex pattern '"searchstring":"[^"]*"' prefixed by the number of occurrences, sort from least frequent to most frequent

zcat file.gz | grep -o '"searchstring":"[^"]*"'| sort | uniq -c | sort -n

find directories under the $LOGDIR directory where there have been no modifications for 5 days and deletes them.

find $LOGDIR -type d -mtime +5 -exec rm -f {} \;

show all the ".acc" files in the folder /home

find /home -type f -name '*.aac'

Search all .java files residing in the current directory tree and modified at least 7 days ago for string "swt"

find . -name '*.java' -mtime +7 -print0 | xargs -0 grep 'swt'

Prints line count of each file within current directory.

find . -type f -print | xargs -L1 wc -l

get all files in a current directory modified in the last day

find . -mtime -1 | xargs tar --no-recursion -czf myfile.tgz

delete all the mp3 files in the home folder

find /home/ -exec grep -l “mp3” {} \; | xargs rm

beginning at the end of the file, prints lines matching /2012/ and exits after first non-matching line

tac error.log | awk '{if(/2012/)print;else exit}'

Find all foo.mp4 files in the current directory tree and print the pathnames of their parent directories

find ./ -name "foo.mp4" -printf "%h\n"

Write the shell's input to standard error as it is read

set -v

List unique MD5 digests of all files in the current directory ending in .txt

md5sum *.txt | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | sort -u

search for the word "mysql" in all the files in the current containing the word "notes" in their name

find . -iname "*notes*" | xargs grep -i mysql

Find all .c and .C files in the current directory tree that contain "main(" and copy them to directory test1/

find -iname “*.c” -exec grep -l ‘main(‘ {} \; -a -exec cp {} test1/ \;

Set variable "filename" to only the name of document specified by URL, in this case "pic.jpg"

filename="`basename "http://pics.sitename.com/images/191211/pic.jpg"`"

Search the current directory recursively for files last modified within the past 24 hours

find . -mtime 0

display all the regular/normal files in the current folder which have been modified in the last 24 hours

find . -mtime 0 -type f

display all hidden files in the current folder

find . -type f -name ".*"

Print the input "hello world" to the console followed by a swap of the first two awk fields

echo hello world | tee /dev/tty | awk '{print $2, $1}'

Find all php files under current directory

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

Find all files/directories under current directory tree that contain 'pattern' in their names

find -name "*pattern*"

List all *.txt files/directories under current directory

find . -name "*.txt" -exec $SHELL -c 'echo "$0"' {} \;

Search regular files from the /path/to/dir directory tree for lines that contain "_START" and are enclosed in lines "@GROUP" and "@END_GROUP"

find /path/to/dir -type f -exec sed '/@GROUP/,/@END_GROUP/!d' {} \; | grep '_START'

Find all files that contain the case insensitive regex 'stringtofind' in maximum 1 level down the / directory without descending into other partitions

find / -maxdepth 1 -xdev -type f -exec grep -li stringtofind '{}' \;

display all the regular/normal files in the /root folder which are bigger than 500MB

find /root -type f -size +500M -printf "The %p file is greater than 500MB\n"

display all the files in the file system which are smaller than 20 bytes

find / -size 20

Show who is logged on

who

listing of the files starting from home dir, that have size 50k or less and have extention html."

find . \ -name '*.html' \ -exec ls -l {} \; 2> /dev/null

Print the last white space separated field of every line in "file.txt" as a ", " separated list

awk '{print $NF}' file.txt | paste -sd, | sed 's/,/, /g'

Find *.html files in the current directory tree that were last modified more than 7 days ago

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

Find all Subscription.java files/directories under current directory and enter into the parent directory of the first one found

cd `find . -name Subscription.java | xargs dirname`

Archive "/var/www/test/" to "/var/www/test" on host "231.210.24.48" as user "ubuntu" via ssh using identity file "/home/test/pkey_new.pem"

rsync -rave "ssh -i /home/test/pkey_new.pem" /var/www/test/ [email protected]:/var/www/test

Delete files under $LOCATION that match $REQUIRED_FILES in their names and were modified more than 360 minutes ago

find $LOCATION -name $REQUIRED_FILES -type f -mmin +360 -delete

display all directories in the entire file system

find / -type d -print

Print the names of all files in /some/directory and its subdirectories recursively whose MIME type is video

find /some/directory -type f -exec file -N -i -- {} + | sed -n 's!: video/[^:]*$!!p'

Find all *.txt files/directories under current directory

find . -name "*.txt"

get the root access

sudo su -

display all files in current folder which are bigger than 100KB but are less than 500KB

find . -size +100k -a -size -500k

Push the directory containing the first existing command found in all arguments to the directory stack.

pushd $(dirname `which $@`)

Find all .zip files in the current directory tree

find . -depth -name *.zip

find all files and directories under the current directory and display the filesize followed by the filename, using the stat command on FreeBSD/OSX

find . -type f -exec stat -f "%z %N" {} \;

Find files smaller than 40 blocks skipping directories on other file systems

find . -size -40 -xdev -print

Make 3 directories named "~/Labs/lab4a/folder" followed by the number 1, 2, or 3

mkdir ~/Labs/lab4a/folder{1..3}

Create a tar archive with all *.java files under the current directory

find . -type f -name "*.java" | xargs tar cvf myfile.tar

find all the directories in the current folder which have been modified in 24 hours and move them to the folder /path/to/target-dir

find . -depth -type d -mtime 0 -exec mv -t /path/to/target-dir {} +

display all the files in the current folder which have been modified after the files "/bin/sh"

find . -newer /bin/sh

Unzip "myDB.sql.gz" to standard output as input to "pg_restore ..."

gzip -cd myDB.sql.gz | pg_restore ...

change cgi files to mode 755

find htdocs cgi-bin -name "*.cgi" -type f -exec chmod 755 {} \;

find all normal/regular files in current folder and display them in sorted order

find . -type f -ls | awk '{print $, $, $, $NF}'

Find file1 in the level 1 directories and above

find -maxdepth 2 -name file1

Split "$ORIGINAL_FILE" into files of at most "$MAX_LINES_PER_CHUNK" lines each with a prefix "$CHUNK_FILE_PREFIX"

split -l $MAX_LINES_PER_CHUNK $ORIGINAL_FILE $CHUNK_FILE_PREFIX

Send e-mail to "[email protected]" with subject "any subject" containing process statistics output by the GNU version of 'top'.

top -b -n 1 | mail -s "any subject" [email protected]

long list all the files in the curent folder starting with "Tes"

find . -type f -name "Tes*" -exec ls -l {} \;

Find all *~ files/directories under dir and print an rm command for each of them for deletion

find dir -name \*~ | xargs echo rm

Search only for directories

find -type d

Create a symbolic link named "$1/link" to the current working directory

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

Delete all files under and below the current directory

find -mindepth 1 -delete

Find all directories under $FOLDER, take the first fields (dot (.) as the delimiter) from their timestamps and reverse sort them numerically

find "$FOLDER" -type d -printf "%T@\n" | cut -f 1 -d . | sort -nr

recursively delete, without prompting, directories under /data/bin/test, that are older than 10 days and where the name starts with a number

find /data/bin/test -type d -mtime +10 -name '[0-9]*' -print | xargs rm -rf ;

display all files in the boot directory prepending each filename with STDERR, STDOUT accordingly

3>&1 1>&2 2>&3 | sed 's/^/STDERR:/'

Read a line from standard input and save each word in the bash array variable "arr"

read -a arr

Variable PID contains a process ID, check if this process exists - resulting exit status from this command will be zero if it does and current user has permission to send it signals.

kill -0 $PID

Installs 'php-mbstring' package, enabling 'remi' repository.

yum --enablerepo=remi install php-mbstring

Print summary of new/missing files, and which files differ between /path/to/folder1 and /path/to/folder2, sorted alphabetically.

diff -rq /path/to/folder1 /path/to/folder2

List all files under and below the directory given as variable $FULFILLMENT

find $FULFILLMENT -ls

Make directory "~/public_html"

mkdir ~/public_html

Print file type of the command "c++"

file `which c++`

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

find . -name '*FoooBar*' | sed 's/.*/"&"/' | xargs cp ~/foo/bar

Find files with size more than 200557600B and which are more than 2 days old under ${userdir}/${i}/incoming directory and remove them

find ${userdir}/${i}/incoming -mtime +2 -type f -size +200557600c -exec rm {} \;

Perform a white space safe search for all files/directories under current directory

find . -print0 | xargs -0

Go to /tmp directory.

cd /tmp

Count the number of lines in "/etc/fstab"

cat /etc/fstab | wc -l

Delete all files/directories older than 48 hours in /path/to/files* paths

find /path/to/files* -mtime +2 -delete

Find all files/directories under current directory with the null character as the delimiter

find -print0

Mount partition with label "WHITE" on "/mnt/WHITE" with read and write permission

mount -L WHITE /mnt/WHITE -o rw

Find all files/directories with '.js' extension under current directory tree without descending into './directory'

find . -path ./directory -prune -o -name '*.js' -print

Search for aaa in all files under current directory and count the number of matches

find . -type f -exec grep -o aaa {} \; | wc -l

display all the files in the entire file system

find / -type f -exec echo {} \;

find all files that names are game

find / -name game

Print numbers from 1 to 30 with a leading 0

seq -w 30

Unset all environment variables.

unset `env | awk -F= '/^\w/ {print $1}' | xargs`

Bind mount "/original/path" on "/new/path"

mount --bind /original/path /new/path

Print the empty directories and files under current directory

find -empty

Perform a dry run to recursively copy "test/a" to "test/dest" excluding "test/a/b/c/d"

rsync -nvraL test/a test/dest --exclude=a/b/c/d

Search for "ifconfig" in the output of "history" and print 5 lines that precede and follow

history | grep -C 5 ifconfig

Print all non-hidden files in the current directory and its subdirectories

find . -not -path '*/\.*'

searches through the /usr directory for the regular file named 'Chapter1*'

find /usr -name "Chapter*" -type f

Prints long recursive listing of all content of a current folder, saving output to 'output.file'.

ls |& tee files.txt

Enables shell option 'compat31'.

shopt -s compat31

Prints only unique lines of './script.sh' output.

./script.sh | sort -u

Finds string with text "string to be searched" in any cased files like "*.cs" recursively in a current folder.

find ./ -type f -iname "*.cs" -print0 | xargs -0 grep "content pattern"

Convert all DOS files under and below the current directory to the Unix format

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 -P 4 dos2unix

Find all directories in the current directory tree that do not have `execute' permissions for anyone

find . -type d ! -perm -111

delete what was typed in the command line and run "pwd" when button "\e[24~"

bind '"\e[24~":"\C-k \C-upwd\n"'