prabhanshubhowal/natural_language_to_linux

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Sorts content of the $tmp file and filters out all strings with ':0'.	sort $tmp \| grep -v ':0' #... handle as required
Remove all "core" regular files in the /tmp/ directory tree	find /tmp -name core -type f -print \| xargs /bin/rm -f
find all files that names are 'apt' and display detailed list	find / -name "apt" -ls
Remove trailing white spaces from all files under current directory ignoring .git and .svn directories	find . -not \( -name .svn -prune -o -name .git -prune \) -type f -exec sed -i "s/[[:space:]]*$//g" "{}" \;
Find all the SGID bit files whose permissions set to 644 in the file system	find / -perm 2644
List all files and sub directories including hidden files in the current directory tree	tree -af
grep for the last occurrence of text between two tags	tac a \| grep -m1 -oP '.*'
display the name and size of all the regular/normal files in the var/log folder which are bigger than 100MB	find /var/log -type f -size +100000k -exec ls -lh {} \; \| awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'
find all the text files in the home folder and display the first lines. Save the output to the file report.txt	find $HOME/. -name *.txt -exec head -n 1 -v {} \; > report.txt
find all *.java files/directories under current directory	find . -name "*.java"
Look for *log files in directories at least three levels down the directory tree	find / -mindepth 3 -name "*log"
force remove all the directories with the name logs in the folder /var/www	find /var/www -type d -mtime 0 -name logs -exec sudo rm -fr {} \;
Find all *.pdf files under ./polkadots	find ./polkadots -type f -name "*.pdf"
Look for *.jpg files on the system	find / -name “*.jpg”
Write output and error of "ant" to the console and to "build.log"	ant 2>&1\|tee build.log
Convert relative path "/x/y/../../a/b/z/../c/d" into absolute path with resolved symbolic links	readlink -f /x/y/../../a/b/z/../c/d
Find all SUID files .	find / -perm /u=s
split the file 2011.psv into pieces per 50000000 lines processed with script "filter.sh"	split -l 50000000 --filter=./filter.sh 2011.psv
Print ls output for all non-empty files under under current directory	find . -type f ! -size 0 -exec ls -l '{}' \;
Search the regular files of the current directory tree for string "whatever"	find . -type f \| xargs grep whatever
Saves printed calendar of February,1900 in positional variables.	set -- $
List all files/directories under current directory using comma as the delimiter for different fields in the output	find . -ls \| awk '{printf}'
Print the first line of every file matching pattern 'file?B' in the xargstest/ directory tree	find xargstest/ -name 'file?B' \| sort \| xargs head -n1
Search for .pdf files	find / -name '*.pdf'
Find all regular files that reside in the current directory tree and were last modified at least 1 day ago	find . -type f -mtime +0
Print file type of the executable file of command "python"	file `which python`
Search all the regular files from the current directory tree for "search string"	find . -type f -print -exec grep --color=auto --no-messages -nH "search string" "{}" \;
Find regular files whose names end in .JPG	find . -type f -name "*.JPG"
Backup permissions of the files in the current directory tree	find -depth -printf '%m:%u:%g:%p\0' >saved-permissions
Find absolute path of command with PID "$pid"	readlink -f `ls --dereference /proc/$pid/exe`
Print all lines of "seq 1 10" except the last 3	seq 1 10 \| perl -ne 'print if ' \| perl -ne 'print if ' \| perl -ne 'print if '
Check if a drive with UUID "09b8f1ab-8d4b-4c5f-b395-40be09c090b0" is mounted on "/media/WD_Disk_1"	mount \| grep $ \| grep '/media/WD_Disk_1 '
print all files in the current directory and all subdirectories	find . -print
Search for symlinks pointing to anywhere within /mnt/oldname/	find / -type l -lname '/mnt/oldname*'
List all files and directories from the current directory tree	find . -print \| xargs ls
Search all *.txt files under ~/documents for the word "DOGS"	find ~/documents -type f -name '*.txt' -exec grep -s DOGS {} \; -print
Delete all files that have not been accessed in the last 30 days	find . -type f -atime +30 -exec rm {} \;
display all the jpg images in current folder	find . -type f -iregex '.*\.jpe?g'
Search for 'foo' in all the java files under 'dir1', 'dir2' and 'dir3' directory tree and print only the names of the matched files	find dir1 dir2 dir3 -type f -name "*.java" -exec grep -il 'foo' {} \;
search for all the c files in the current folder	find . -name \*.c -print
Read a single character from standard input with delimeter '' and no echo	read -d'' -s -n1
Search the current directory recursively for files containing "needle text"	find . -type f -exec grep -Iq . {} \; -and -print0 \| xargs -0 grep "needle text"
Find 10 most recently changed files in the current directory tree	find . -type f -printf "%C@ %p\n" \| sort -rn \| head -n 10
Find links to any file that happens to be named `foo.txt'	find / -lname foo.txt
Split the contents of all ".txt" excluding the first 1000 lines into files of at most 1000 lines each	cat *.txt \| tail -n +1001 \| split --lines=1000
Search for the string 'foo' in *.html files under /usr/src/linux directory	grep foo `find /usr/src/linux -name "*.html"`
show all directories in the current folder excluding those that are present in the sub directories of media, images and backups	find . -type d \( -name media -o -name images -o -name backups \) -prune -o -print
Find all the files without permission 777 in the file system	find / -type f ! -perm 777
Search the *.cc files in the current directory tree for string "xxx"	find . -name "*.cc" -print -exec grep "xxx" {} \;
Compress from standard input with gzip	gzip
Set LANG variable to 'en_US' and prints calendar for a current month.	LANG=en_US cal
Create a copy of index.html in all directories in current directory, pausing for confirmation before overwriting any existing files - names may not contain spaces - names may not contain spaces.	find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d\| xargs -n 1 cp -i index.html
Remove the line matching "pattern to match" in "./infile" and print to standard output	sed '/pattern to match/d' ./infile
Download 10 web pages "http://example.com/?page${i}.html" at most 2 at a time with "${i}" ranging from 1 to 10	seq 1 10 \| xargs -n1 -P2 bash -c 'i=$0; url="http://example.com/?page${i}.html"; curl -O -s $url'
Search the current directory tree for files and directories called "test"	find . -name test -print
Report file system containing path to the current working directory disk usage human-readable.	df -h .
change the group of all regular/normal files in the current directory	find . -type f -exec chgrp usergroup {} \;
List all nfs mount points on the system	mount -l \| grep 'type nfs' \| sed 's/.* on \([^ ]\) ./\1/'
Prints total number of lines of all *.c files in a current folder and subfolders.	find . -name '*.c' -print0 \|xargs -0 wc -l\|grep -v total\|awk '{ sum += $1; } END { print "SUM: " sum; }'
Print lines in "file1.txt" that do not exist in "file2.txt"	sort < file2.txt file2.txt \| uniq -u
Replace all commas with tab characters in 'filename.csv' and page interactively through the result.	sed "s/,/\t/g" filename.csv \| less
Find all regular files that reside in the current directory tree and were last modified more than 3 days ago	find . -type f -mtime +3
Continuously write "Hidden" separated by spaces over the entire "/dev/sdb" disk	yes "Hidden" \| paste -d' ' -s - \| dd of=/dev/sdb
Compress every file in the current directory tree that matches "*cache.html" and keep the original file	find . -type f -name "*cache.html" -exec gzip -k {} \;
Find all files in current directory that were modified less than 1 day ago excluding hidden files and put the output to full_backup_dir variable	full_backup_dir=$(find . -depth \( -wholename \./\.\* \) -prune -o -mtime -1 -print)
find all the files ending with "mkv" in current folder	find -name "*.mkv"
Print info about thread number of process with pid 1	cat /proc/1/sched \| head -n 1
Find all directories in the current one with "linkin park" in their names and copy them to /Users/tommye/Desktop/LP	find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -iname "linkin park" -exec cp -r {} /Users/tommye/Desktop/LP \;
find all files in current folder which are bigger than 1MB	find ./ -size +1000k
Search the current directory recursively for files containing "needle text"	find . -type f \| xargs grep -I "needle text"
Count all directories in maximum 1 level down the current directory	find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec ls -dlrt {} \; \| wc --lines
Remove all vmware-*.log files under current directory	find . -name vmware-*.log \| xargs rm
Compress from standard input and print the byte count preceded with 'gzip.'	echo gzip. $( gzip \| wc -c )
Find symlinks in the current directory tree	find . -type l \| xargs ls -ld
Compress every file in the current directory tree that matches "*cache.html" and keep the original file	find . -type f -name "*cache.html" -exec gzip -k {} \;
List directories in the current working directory and remove the trailing "/"	ls -d */\|sed 's\|[/]\|\|g'
Unzip all files matching "/homes/ndeklein/mzml/*.gz"	ls /homes/ndeklein/mzml/*.gz \| xargs -I {} gunzip {}
Extracts single file 'filename' from bzip2-compressed tarball archive.tbz.	bzip2 -dc archive.tbz \| tar xvf - filename
Find all files/directories under current directory that are 10MB in size	find . -size 10M
find all the files in the entire filesystem which belong to the user root and display the ten files.	find / -user root \| head
find all regular/normal files in the current folder that have been modified in the last 120 hours	find -mtime -5 -type f -print
Lists tmux sessions.	tmux list-sessions
Lists all files in a current folder, separating names with comma.	ls -m
find all the files that have not been modified in the last 24 hours	find /tmp/test/* -mtime +1
find regular files which modification time is 7 days ago	find . -mtime -7 -type f
Search for directory foo ignoring case	find . -iname foo -type d
Print numbers 1 through 10 separated by ":"	yes \| head -n10 \| grep -n . \| cut -d: -f1 \| paste -sd:
Find all files and directories that have been modified in the last seven days.	find . -mtime -7
Finds all folders that contain 'ssh' file and have 'bin' in path.	dirname `find / -name ssh \| grep bin`
Find all files in current directory that were modified less than 1 day ago excluding hidden files and archive them and put the output into the variable file_changed	file_changed=$(find . -depth \ -prune -o -mtime -1 -print \| cpio -oav)
Get the list of regular files in the current directory	find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 -I {} echo "{}"
find all the files in the current folder and display them in the sorted order of their name	find . \| sort
Continuously send "y" to input of "command"	yes \| command
Prints sequentially listing of a current folder and calendar of a current month.	echo `ls` "`cal`"
delete all the normal files in the current directory whcih have the word "gui" in their content.	find / -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 grep -liwZ GUI \| xargs -0 rm -f
Enables shell option 'cdable_vars'.	shopt -s cdable_vars
Change the group to `temp' for all files in the current directory tree that belong to group `root'	find . -group root -print \| xargs chgrp temp
display all files in current folder ending with "~" or "#" using regular expression	find -regex "^.~$\\|^.#$"
Forward all connections to client localhost 3309 via the SSH tunnel to "mysql_access_server" and then connect to host "sqlmaster.example.com" on port 3306	ssh -f mysql_access_server -L 3309:sqlmaster.example.com:3306 -N
forcibly create a symbolic link named "linkname" to file "new_destination"	ln -sf new_destination linkname

Sorts content of the $tmp file and filters out all strings with ':0'.

sort $tmp | grep -v ':0' #... handle as required

Remove all "core" regular files in the /tmp/ directory tree

find /tmp -name core -type f -print | xargs /bin/rm -f

find all files that names are 'apt' and display detailed list

find / -name "apt" -ls

Remove trailing white spaces from all files under current directory ignoring .git and .svn directories

find . -not $ -name .svn -prune -o -name .git -prune $ -type f -exec sed -i "s/[[:space:]]*$//g" "{}" \;

Find all the SGID bit files whose permissions set to 644 in the file system

find / -perm 2644

List all files and sub directories including hidden files in the current directory tree

tree -af

grep for the last occurrence of text between two tags

tac a | grep -m1 -oP '.*'

display the name and size of all the regular/normal files in the var/log folder which are bigger than 100MB

find /var/log -type f -size +100000k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'

find all the text files in the home folder and display the first lines. Save the output to the file report.txt

find $HOME/. -name *.txt -exec head -n 1 -v {} \; > report.txt

find all *.java files/directories under current directory

find . -name "*.java"

Look for *log files in directories at least three levels down the directory tree

find / -mindepth 3 -name "*log"

force remove all the directories with the name logs in the folder /var/www

find /var/www -type d -mtime 0 -name logs -exec sudo rm -fr {} \;

Find all *.pdf files under ./polkadots

find ./polkadots -type f -name "*.pdf"

Look for *.jpg files on the system

find / -name “*.jpg”

Write output and error of "ant" to the console and to "build.log"

ant 2>&1|tee build.log

Convert relative path "/x/y/../../a/b/z/../c/d" into absolute path with resolved symbolic links

readlink -f /x/y/../../a/b/z/../c/d

Find all SUID files .

find / -perm /u=s

split the file 2011.psv into pieces per 50000000 lines processed with script "filter.sh"

split -l 50000000 --filter=./filter.sh 2011.psv

Print ls output for all non-empty files under under current directory

find . -type f ! -size 0 -exec ls -l '{}' \;

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

find . -type f | xargs grep whatever

Saves printed calendar of February,1900 in positional variables.

set -- $

List all files/directories under current directory using comma as the delimiter for different fields in the output

find . -ls | awk '{printf}'

Print the first line of every file matching pattern 'file?B' in the xargstest/ directory tree

find xargstest/ -name 'file?B' | sort | xargs head -n1

Search for .pdf files

find / -name '*.pdf'

Find all regular files that reside in the current directory tree and were last modified at least 1 day ago

find . -type f -mtime +0

Print file type of the executable file of command "python"

file `which python`

Search all the regular files from the current directory tree for "search string"

find . -type f -print -exec grep --color=auto --no-messages -nH "search string" "{}" \;

Find regular files whose names end in .JPG

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

Backup permissions of the files in the current directory tree

find -depth -printf '%m:%u:%g:%p\0' >saved-permissions

Find absolute path of command with PID "$pid"

readlink -f `ls --dereference /proc/$pid/exe`

Print all lines of "seq 1 10" except the last 3

seq 1 10 | perl -ne 'print if ' | perl -ne 'print if ' | perl -ne 'print if '

Check if a drive with UUID "09b8f1ab-8d4b-4c5f-b395-40be09c090b0" is mounted on "/media/WD_Disk_1"

mount | grep $ | grep '/media/WD_Disk_1 '

print all files in the current directory and all subdirectories

find . -print

Search for symlinks pointing to anywhere within /mnt/oldname/

find / -type l -lname '/mnt/oldname*'

List all files and directories from the current directory tree

find . -print | xargs ls

Search all *.txt files under ~/documents for the word "DOGS"

find ~/documents -type f -name '*.txt' -exec grep -s DOGS {} \; -print

Delete all files that have not been accessed in the last 30 days

find . -type f -atime +30 -exec rm {} \;

display all the jpg images in current folder

find . -type f -iregex '.*\.jpe?g'

Search for 'foo' in all the java files under 'dir1', 'dir2' and 'dir3' directory tree and print only the names of the matched files

find dir1 dir2 dir3 -type f -name "*.java" -exec grep -il 'foo' {} \;

search for all the c files in the current folder

find . -name \*.c -print

Read a single character from standard input with delimeter '' and no echo

read -d'' -s -n1

Search the current directory recursively for files containing "needle text"

find . -type f -exec grep -Iq . {} \; -and -print0 | xargs -0 grep "needle text"

Find 10 most recently changed files in the current directory tree

find . -type f -printf "%C@ %p\n" | sort -rn | head -n 10

Find links to any file that happens to be named `foo.txt'

find / -lname foo.txt

Split the contents of all ".txt" excluding the first 1000 lines into files of at most 1000 lines each

cat *.txt | tail -n +1001 | split --lines=1000

Search for the string 'foo' in *.html files under /usr/src/linux directory

grep foo `find /usr/src/linux -name "*.html"`

show all directories in the current folder excluding those that are present in the sub directories of media, images and backups

find . -type d $ -name media -o -name images -o -name backups $ -prune -o -print

Find all the files without permission 777 in the file system

find / -type f ! -perm 777

Search the *.cc files in the current directory tree for string "xxx"

find . -name "*.cc" -print -exec grep "xxx" {} \;

Compress from standard input with gzip

gzip

Set LANG variable to 'en_US' and prints calendar for a current month.

LANG=en_US cal

Create a copy of index.html in all directories in current directory, pausing for confirmation before overwriting any existing files - names may not contain spaces - names may not contain spaces.

find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d| xargs -n 1 cp -i index.html

Remove the line matching "pattern to match" in "./infile" and print to standard output

sed '/pattern to match/d' ./infile

Download 10 web pages "http://example.com/?page${i}.html" at most 2 at a time with "${i}" ranging from 1 to 10

seq 1 10 | xargs -n1 -P2 bash -c 'i=$0; url="http://example.com/?page${i}.html"; curl -O -s $url'

Search the current directory tree for files and directories called "test"

find . -name test -print

Report file system containing path to the current working directory disk usage human-readable.

df -h .

change the group of all regular/normal files in the current directory

find . -type f -exec chgrp usergroup {} \;

List all nfs mount points on the system

mount -l | grep 'type nfs' | sed 's/.* on $[^ ]*$ .*/\1/'

Prints total number of lines of all *.c files in a current folder and subfolders.

find . -name '*.c' -print0 |xargs -0 wc -l|grep -v total|awk '{ sum += $1; } END { print "SUM: " sum; }'

Print lines in "file1.txt" that do not exist in "file2.txt"

sort < file2.txt file2.txt | uniq -u

Replace all commas with tab characters in 'filename.csv' and page interactively through the result.

sed "s/,/\t/g" filename.csv | less

Find all regular files that reside in the current directory tree and were last modified more than 3 days ago

find . -type f -mtime +3

Continuously write "Hidden" separated by spaces over the entire "/dev/sdb" disk

yes "Hidden" | paste -d' ' -s - | dd of=/dev/sdb

Compress every file in the current directory tree that matches "*cache.html" and keep the original file

find . -type f -name "*cache.html" -exec gzip -k {} \;

Find all files in current directory that were modified less than 1 day ago excluding hidden files and put the output to full_backup_dir variable

full_backup_dir=$(find . -depth $ -wholename \./\.\* $ -prune -o -mtime -1 -print)

find all the files ending with "mkv" in current folder

find -name "*.mkv"

Print info about thread number of process with pid 1

cat /proc/1/sched | head -n 1

Find all directories in the current one with "linkin park" in their names and copy them to /Users/tommye/Desktop/LP

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -iname "*linkin park*" -exec cp -r {} /Users/tommye/Desktop/LP \;

find all files in current folder which are bigger than 1MB

find ./ -size +1000k

Search the current directory recursively for files containing "needle text"

find . -type f | xargs grep -I "needle text"

Count all directories in maximum 1 level down the current directory

find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec ls -dlrt {} \; | wc --lines

Remove all vmware-*.log files under current directory

find . -name vmware-*.log | xargs rm

Compress from standard input and print the byte count preceded with 'gzip.'

echo gzip. $( gzip | wc -c )

Find symlinks in the current directory tree

find . -type l | xargs ls -ld

Compress every file in the current directory tree that matches "*cache.html" and keep the original file

find . -type f -name "*cache.html" -exec gzip -k {} \;

List directories in the current working directory and remove the trailing "/"

ls -d */|sed 's|[/]||g'

Unzip all files matching "/homes/ndeklein/mzml/*.gz"

ls /homes/ndeklein/mzml/*.gz | xargs -I {} gunzip {}

Extracts single file 'filename' from bzip2-compressed tarball archive.tbz.

bzip2 -dc archive.tbz | tar xvf - filename

Find all files/directories under current directory that are 10MB in size

find . -size 10M

find all the files in the entire filesystem which belong to the user root and display the ten files.

find / -user root | head

find all regular/normal files in the current folder that have been modified in the last 120 hours

find -mtime -5 -type f -print

Lists tmux sessions.

tmux list-sessions

Lists all files in a current folder, separating names with comma.

ls -m

find all the files that have not been modified in the last 24 hours

find /tmp/test/* -mtime +1

find regular files which modification time is 7 days ago

find . -mtime -7 -type f

Search for directory foo ignoring case

find . -iname foo -type d

Print numbers 1 through 10 separated by ":"

yes | head -n10 | grep -n . | cut -d: -f1 | paste -sd:

Find all files and directories that have been modified in the last seven days.

find . -mtime -7

Finds all folders that contain 'ssh' file and have 'bin' in path.

dirname `find / -name ssh | grep bin`

Find all files in current directory that were modified less than 1 day ago excluding hidden files and archive them and put the output into the variable file_changed

file_changed=$(find . -depth \ -prune -o -mtime -1 -print | cpio -oav)

Get the list of regular files in the current directory

find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -I {} echo "{}"

find all the files in the current folder and display them in the sorted order of their name

find . | sort

Continuously send "y" to input of "command"

yes | command

Prints sequentially listing of a current folder and calendar of a current month.

echo `ls` "`cal`"

delete all the normal files in the current directory whcih have the word "gui" in their content.

find / -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -liwZ GUI | xargs -0 rm -f

Enables shell option 'cdable_vars'.

shopt -s cdable_vars

Change the group to `temp' for all files in the current directory tree that belong to group `root'

find . -group root -print | xargs chgrp temp

display all files in current folder ending with "~" or "#" using regular expression

find -regex "^.*~$\|^.*#$"

Forward all connections to client localhost 3309 via the SSH tunnel to "mysql_access_server" and then connect to host "sqlmaster.example.com" on port 3306

ssh -f mysql_access_server -L 3309:sqlmaster.example.com:3306 -N

forcibly create a symbolic link named "linkname" to file "new_destination"

ln -sf new_destination linkname