prabhanshubhowal/natural_language_to_linux

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change the group of all the files in the folder /u/netinst/ to staff	find /u/netinst -print \| xargs chgrp staff
Find all files called "INPUT.txt" in the current directory tree and remove lines starting with # in them, saving backup copies as INPUT.txt.bak	find . -type f -name INPUT.txt -print0 \| xargs -0 -I {} sed -i.bak '/^#/d' {}
Wrap each line in "file.txt" to fit in 76 characters breaking only at spaces and indent the output	fold -w 76 -s file.txt \| pr -T --indent=4
Remove the .jpg files from the current directory whose names match regular expression ".+-[0-9]+x[0-9]+\.jpg"	find . -type f -regex ".+-[0-9]+x[0-9]+\.jpg" -exec rm -rf {} \;
Finds recursively all files in '/path/' that contain 'pattern', and prints matched strings with string number and file name.	grep -rnw '/path/' -e 'pattern'
set alias "ff" for command "find . -name $1"	alias ff=find . -name $1
Find all file which have more the 2 hard link	find . -type f -links +2 -exec ls -lrt {} \;
Remove trailing whitespaces in TXT files from the current directory tree	find . -iname '*.txt' -type f -exec sed -i '' 's/[[:space:]]\{1,\}$//' {} \+
Search for file names with "bad" characters in the current directory and delete the files.	find . -name '[+{;"\\=?~()<>&\|$ ]*' -maxdepth 0 -exec rm -f '{}' \;
Find all files changed on the 29th of September, 2008, starting from the current directory	find . -type f -newerct 2008-09-29 ! -newerct 2008-09-30
Print newline, word, and byte counts of each '*.java' file within current directory, and total newline, word, and byte counts	find . -name \*.java \| tr '\n' '\0' \| xargs -0 wc
split file "${fspec} into pieces named as "xyzzyNNN" with numeric prefix from 1 to 6	split --number=l/6 ${fspec} xyzzy.
search for the word LOG in all the files in the folder ~/jsmith	find ~jsmith -exec grep LOG '{}' /dev/null \; -print
Make a copy of file.txt in all directories in current directory - names may not contain spaces.	ls -d */ \| xargs -iA cp file.txt A
Search for Subscription.java under current directory, and go to directory containing it.	cd "$"
Resolve symbolic link of file "/foo/bar/baz"	readlink -e /foo/bar/baz
Read 10 bytes from $0 and print them by replacing the set '\000-\377' with '#'	head -c 10 "$0" \| tr '\000-\377' '#'
Exits from login shell.	logout
recursively change owner of the directory /usr/local/lib to the current user	sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local/lib
display the names without extensions of all the data files in current folder which have not been changed in the last 60 mins	find ./ -name "*.dat" -type f -cmin +60 -exec basename {} \;
extract archive stored in $1	tar -zxvf $1
Remove the .jpg files from the current directory whose names match regular expression ".+-[0-9]+x[0-9]+\.jpg"	find . -type f -regex ".+-[0-9]+x[0-9]+\.jpg" \| xargs rm
display all the regular files in the current folder that are exactly 10KB	find . -type f -size 10k
Prints long listing of the current directory, sorted from oldest to newest, with appended indicators.	$ ls -Fltr
find all read me files in a folder	find /usr/share/doc -name README
Extract 8 bytes as an unsigned integer that is "$o" offset into "$rpm"	set `od -j $o -N 8 -t u1 $rpm`
Prints a random number between 1 and 10	grep -m1 -ao '[0-9]' /dev/urandom \| sed s/0/10/ \| head -n1
rename all the png files to jpg files in the current fodler	find . -name "*.png" -print0 \| sed 'p;s/\.png/\.jpg/' \| xargs -0 -n2 mv
Move all files not matching "Tux.png" in "~/Linux/Old" to "~/Linux/New/" using zsh with "EXTENDED_GLOB"	mv ~/Linux/Old/^Tux.png ~/Linux/New/
Merge each line in "file" into a single comma separated line	paste -d, -s file
Format space separated fields in "filename" as a table	column -t -s' ' filename
search for the word "slrn" in all the files in the folder $HOME/html/andrews-corner	find $HOME/html/andrews-corner -exec grep -q 'slrn' '{}' \; -print
Find and show all files in the current directory tree that are smaller than 500 kB	find . -size -500k
Create 1000 files each file having a number from 1 to 1000 named "file000" to "file999"	seq 1 1000 \| split -l 1 -a 3 -d - file
Convert .au files to .wav files using `sox'	find -type f -name '*.au' \| awk '{printf "sox %s %s\n",$0,$0".wav" }' \| bash
Prints $m latest modified files within the $d folder, using $f format for printing timestamp.	find "$d" -type f -printf "%T@ :$f %p\n" \| sort -nr \| cut -d: -f2- \| head -n"$m"
count amount of jobs running	jobs \| wc -l
Find all files under $d directory that are executable by owner and print only their names	find $d -maxdepth 1 -perm -100 -type f \| sed 's#.*/##'
Print each line that is found only once in "file1" and "file2" combined	sort file1 file2 \| uniq -u
Find every JavaScript file in the wordpress directory tree	find wordpress -name '*js'
Filnd all files in root directory with 777 permission and change permision 644 with chmod commad .	find / -type f -perm 777 -print -exec chmod 644 {} \;
Search the first 300 commands in history containing "scp" and ending in "important"	history 300 \| grep scp \| grep important$
delete all the empty directories in the current folder	find . -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \;
change permissions of all the script files in a directory	find /home/john/script -name "*.sh" -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
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 files named "file.ext" in the current directory tree and print the path names of the directories they are in	find . -name "file.ext" -execdir pwd ';'
Find one file or directory in the current directory whose name matches the pattern given as a variable $a	find . -maxdepth 1 -name "$a" -print -quit
find files in current directory that names are game	find . -name game
Gets IP address of ${NET_IF} network interface.	NET_IP=`ifconfig ${NET_IF} \| grep -Eo 'inet ?{3}[0-9]' \| grep -Eo '{3}[0-9]' \| grep -v '127.0.0.1'`
Creates 5-letter random file name and saves it in 'rand_str' variable.	rand_str="$"
Rename all .txt regular files in the current directory tree to .abc	find . -type f -iname '*.txt' -print0 \| xargs -0 rename .txt .abc
find the type of all the regular/normal files in the current folder	find . -type f \| xargs file
find all txt files under the current folder except ./misc folder	find . -path ./misc -prune -o -name '*.txt' -print
Find files/directories named<filetype> under current directory which were accessed less than 5 days ago	find -name "<filetype>" -atime -5
Continuously write "UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU" without newlines to "/dev/to/overwrite"	yes 'UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU' \| tr -d '\n' > /dev/to/overwrite
Find all *.py files/directories under dir directory ignoring .git path	find dir -not -path '.git' -iname '*.py'
Find strings with 'Features' in /var/run/dmesg.boot' file	cat /var/run/dmesg.boot \| grep Features
Make directories to "$TARGET_PATH" as needed without causing an error if it exists	mkdir -p "$TARGET_PATH"
Compress .log files in /var and below on an individual basis	find /var -iname \*.log -exec bzip {} \;
create a symbolic link named "test" to file ".bashrc"	ln -s .bashrc test
Return all of the .conf files in Pat's user folder and subdirectories	find /home/pat -iname "*.conf"
Print full path of command "python"	which python
find all CSS files that do something with your HTML ID #content	find . -name "*.css" -exec grep -l "#content" {} \;
Format file "list-of-entries.txt" with no column delimiter	column -t -s '' list-of-entries.txt
Print lines containing string TEXT from all log files in the current directory.	grep -e TEXT *.log \| cut -d':' --complement -s -f1
search for files which are writable by both their owner and their group	find . -perm -220
Filters out all comments from the output of the command "crontab -u $user -l" ignoring errors	crontab -u $user -l 2>/dev/null \| grep -v '^#'
display a list of all regular/normal files in the current folder	find . -type f -ls
search for the regular/normal file "myfile" in the current folder excluding search in the paths of "work" and "home" sub directories	find . \ -prune -o -name myfile -type f -print
Print your/dir if it's empty	find your/dir -prune -empty
Replaces any occurences of 'favicon.ico' in any subfolder with file '/root/favicon.ico'.	find . \| grep favicon\.ico \| xargs -n 1 cp -f /root/favicon.ico
display all pdf files in the current folder	find . -name *.pdf
Filter contents of 'file' through awk commands written in script.awk, display the result.	awk -f script.awk file
Find files that are 100k	find -size 100k
Find all empty files in the current directory and delete them	find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -empty -print0 \| xargs -0 /bin/rm
replace the word foo to bar in the current folder in all the regular/normal files containing the word "baz" in their name (does not update the file)	find . -type f -name "baz" -exec sed -i 's/foo/bar/g' {} +
Find all files owned by group `group2'	find / -group group2
Prefix all files and folders in the current directory with "PRE_"	ls \| xargs -I {} mv {} PRE_{}
List all files/directories under current directory	find . -print
Silently read standard input until the escape key is pressed ignoring backslash escapes and using the prompt $'Press escape to continue...\n'	read -rsp $'Press escape to continue...\n' -d $'\e'
display all directories in the folder "$ORIG_DIR"	find "$ORIG_DIR" -name "*" -type d
Force create a symbolic link without dereferencing named "mylink" to "dir2"	ln -nsf dir2 mylink
Lists file descriptors of a current process.	ls -l /proc/self/fd/
search for a word in all the php files in the current folder and display the count of all matching lines.	find . -name \*.php -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 -n1 grep -Hn '$test' \| wc -l
Print a count of each unique line from standard input	sort \| uniq -c
Report total file systems disk usage estimated in terabytes	df --total -BT \| tail -n 1
Displays status of currently active network interfaces.	ifconfig
Search all files in the current directory tree for "SearchString", ignoring .html files and skipping .svn directories	find . \ \| xargs -d '\n' grep -Hd skip 'SearchString'
list all regular files which path is not dir1 or dir2	find ! -path "dir1" ! -path "dir2" -type f
Generate UUIDs for the files from the current directory tree	find . -exec printf '%s\t' {} \; -exec uuidgen \; \| awk -F '\t' '{ sub; print $2, $1 }' \| sort -k2
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 all hidden files under /tmp	find /tmp -type f -name ".*"
Remove all *.tmp files from the /tmp directory tree	find /tmp -name "*.tmp" -print0 \| xargs -0 rm
find all the files in the current folder which have the word cache in them and do not search in the sub directories of the folder.	find . -name 'cache*' -depth -exec rm {} \;
create archive "backup.tar.gz" from /path/to/catalog	tar czfP backup.tar.gz /path/to/catalog
find all the files in the home folder which have been modified after a file	find $HOME -newer ~joeuser/lastbatch.txt
Print common lines in "file1" and "file2"	comm -12 file1 file2
Search the *.pdf files from directory tree PDFs/ for text "perry sound", ignoring the case	find PDFs/ -name '*.pdf' -exec sh -c 'pdftotext "{}" - \| grep -i --with-filename --label="{}" --color "perry sound"' \;
Execute "cat /tmp/iostat.running" every 10 seconds	watch -n10 cat /tmp/iostat.running
Create a symbolic link in the current directory for each file under the directories matching "../[12][0-9][0-9]"	find ../[12][0-9][0-9][0-9] -type f -exec ln -s {} \;

change the group of all the files in the folder /u/netinst/ to staff

find /u/netinst -print | xargs chgrp staff

Find all files called "INPUT.txt" in the current directory tree and remove lines starting with # in them, saving backup copies as INPUT.txt.bak

find . -type f -name INPUT.txt -print0 | xargs -0 -I {} sed -i.bak '/^#/d' {}

Wrap each line in "file.txt" to fit in 76 characters breaking only at spaces and indent the output

fold -w 76 -s file.txt | pr -T --indent=4

Remove the .jpg files from the current directory whose names match regular expression ".+-[0-9]+x[0-9]+\.jpg"

find . -type f -regex ".+-[0-9]+x[0-9]+\.jpg" -exec rm -rf {} \;

Finds recursively all files in '/path/' that contain 'pattern', and prints matched strings with string number and file name.

grep -rnw '/path/' -e 'pattern'

set alias "ff" for command "find . -name $1"

alias ff=find . -name $1

Find all file which have more the 2 hard link

find . -type f -links +2 -exec ls -lrt {} \;

Remove trailing whitespaces in TXT files from the current directory tree

find . -iname '*.txt' -type f -exec sed -i '' 's/[[:space:]]\{1,\}$//' {} \+

Search for file names with "bad" characters in the current directory and delete the files.

find . -name '*[+{;"\\=?~()<>&*|$ ]*' -maxdepth 0 -exec rm -f '{}' \;

Find all files changed on the 29th of September, 2008, starting from the current directory

find . -type f -newerct 2008-09-29 ! -newerct 2008-09-30

Print newline, word, and byte counts of each '*.java' file within current directory, and total newline, word, and byte counts

find . -name \*.java | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 wc

split file "${fspec} into pieces named as "xyzzyNNN" with numeric prefix from 1 to 6

split --number=l/6 ${fspec} xyzzy.

search for the word LOG in all the files in the folder ~/jsmith

find ~jsmith -exec grep LOG '{}' /dev/null \; -print

Make a copy of file.txt in all directories in current directory - names may not contain spaces.

ls -d */ | xargs -iA cp file.txt A

Search for Subscription.java under current directory, and go to directory containing it.

cd "$"

Resolve symbolic link of file "/foo/bar/baz"

readlink -e /foo/bar/baz

Read 10 bytes from $0 and print them by replacing the set '\000-\377' with '#'

head -c 10 "$0" | tr '\000-\377' '#'

Exits from login shell.

logout

recursively change owner of the directory /usr/local/lib to the current user

sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local/lib

display the names without extensions of all the data files in current folder which have not been changed in the last 60 mins

find ./ -name "*.dat" -type f -cmin +60 -exec basename {} \;

extract archive stored in $1

tar -zxvf $1

Remove the .jpg files from the current directory whose names match regular expression ".+-[0-9]+x[0-9]+\.jpg"

find . -type f -regex ".+-[0-9]+x[0-9]+\.jpg" | xargs rm

display all the regular files in the current folder that are exactly 10KB

find . -type f -size 10k

Prints long listing of the current directory, sorted from oldest to newest, with appended indicators.

$ ls -Fltr

find all read me files in a folder

find /usr/share/doc -name README

Extract 8 bytes as an unsigned integer that is "$o" offset into "$rpm"

set `od -j $o -N 8 -t u1 $rpm`

Prints a random number between 1 and 10

grep -m1 -ao '[0-9]' /dev/urandom | sed s/0/10/ | head -n1

rename all the png files to jpg files in the current fodler

find . -name "*.png" -print0 | sed 'p;s/\.png/\.jpg/' | xargs -0 -n2 mv

Move all files not matching "Tux.png" in "~/Linux/Old" to "~/Linux/New/" using zsh with "EXTENDED_GLOB"

mv ~/Linux/Old/^Tux.png ~/Linux/New/

Merge each line in "file" into a single comma separated line

paste -d, -s file

Format space separated fields in "filename" as a table

column -t -s' ' filename

search for the word "slrn" in all the files in the folder $HOME/html/andrews-corner

find $HOME/html/andrews-corner -exec grep -q 'slrn' '{}' \; -print

Find and show all files in the current directory tree that are smaller than 500 kB

find . -size -500k

Create 1000 files each file having a number from 1 to 1000 named "file000" to "file999"

seq 1 1000 | split -l 1 -a 3 -d - file

Convert *.au files to *.wav files using `sox'

find -type f -name '*.au' | awk '{printf "sox %s %s\n",$0,$0".wav" }' | bash

Prints $m latest modified files within the $d folder, using $f format for printing timestamp.

find "$d" -type f -printf "%T@ :$f %p\n" | sort -nr | cut -d: -f2- | head -n"$m"

count amount of jobs running

jobs | wc -l

Find all files under $d directory that are executable by owner and print only their names

find $d -maxdepth 1 -perm -100 -type f | sed 's#.*/##'

Print each line that is found only once in "file1" and "file2" combined

sort file1 file2 | uniq -u

Find every JavaScript file in the wordpress directory tree

find wordpress -name '*js'

Filnd all files in root directory with 777 permission and change permision 644 with chmod commad .

find / -type f -perm 777 -print -exec chmod 644 {} \;

Search the first 300 commands in history containing "scp" and ending in "important"

history 300 | grep scp | grep important$

delete all the empty directories in the current folder

find . -type d -empty -exec rmdir {} \;

change permissions of all the script files in a directory

find /home/john/script -name "*.sh" -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

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 files named "file.ext" in the current directory tree and print the path names of the directories they are in

find . -name "file.ext" -execdir pwd ';'

Find one file or directory in the current directory whose name matches the pattern given as a variable $a

find . -maxdepth 1 -name "$a" -print -quit

find files in current directory that names are game

find . -name game

Gets IP address of ${NET_IF} network interface.

NET_IP=`ifconfig ${NET_IF} | grep -Eo 'inet ?{3}[0-9]*' | grep -Eo '{3}[0-9]*' | grep -v '127.0.0.1'`

Creates 5-letter random file name and saves it in 'rand_str' variable.

rand_str="$"

Rename all *.txt regular files in the current directory tree to *.abc

find . -type f -iname '*.txt' -print0 | xargs -0 rename .txt .abc

find the type of all the regular/normal files in the current folder

find . -type f | xargs file

find all txt files under the current folder except ./misc folder

find . -path ./misc -prune -o -name '*.txt' -print

Find files/directories named<filetype> under current directory which were accessed less than 5 days ago

find -name "<filetype>" -atime -5

Continuously write "UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU" without newlines to "/dev/to/overwrite"

yes 'UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU' | tr -d '\n' > /dev/to/overwrite

Find all *.py files/directories under dir directory ignoring .git path

find dir -not -path '.git' -iname '*.py'

Find strings with 'Features' in /var/run/dmesg.boot' file

cat /var/run/dmesg.boot | grep Features

Make directories to "$TARGET_PATH" as needed without causing an error if it exists

mkdir -p "$TARGET_PATH"

Compress .log files in /var and below on an individual basis

find /var -iname \*.log -exec bzip {} \;

create a symbolic link named "test" to file ".bashrc"

ln -s .bashrc test

Return all of the .conf files in Pat's user folder and subdirectories

find /home/pat -iname "*.conf"

Print full path of command "python"

which python

find all CSS files that do something with your HTML ID #content

find . -name "*.css" -exec grep -l "#content" {} \;

Format file "list-of-entries.txt" with no column delimiter

column -t -s '' list-of-entries.txt

Print lines containing string TEXT from all log files in the current directory.

grep -e TEXT *.log | cut -d':' --complement -s -f1

search for files which are writable by both their owner and their group

find . -perm -220

Filters out all comments from the output of the command "crontab -u $user -l" ignoring errors

crontab -u $user -l 2>/dev/null | grep -v '^#'

display a list of all regular/normal files in the current folder

find . -type f -ls

search for the regular/normal file "myfile" in the current folder excluding search in the paths of "work" and "home" sub directories

find . \ -prune -o -name myfile -type f -print

Print your/dir if it's empty

find your/dir -prune -empty

Replaces any occurences of '*favicon.ico*' in any subfolder with file '/root/favicon.ico'.

find . | grep favicon\.ico | xargs -n 1 cp -f /root/favicon.ico

display all pdf files in the current folder

find . -name *.pdf

Filter contents of 'file' through awk commands written in script.awk, display the result.

awk -f script.awk file

Find files that are 100k

find -size 100k

Find all empty files in the current directory and delete them

find . -type f -maxdepth 1 -empty -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm

replace the word foo to bar in the current folder in all the regular/normal files containing the word "baz" in their name (does not update the file)

find . -type f -name "*baz*" -exec sed -i 's/foo/bar/g' {} +

Find all files owned by group `group2'

find / -group group2

Prefix all files and folders in the current directory with "PRE_"

ls | xargs -I {} mv {} PRE_{}

List all files/directories under current directory

find . -print

Silently read standard input until the escape key is pressed ignoring backslash escapes and using the prompt $'Press escape to continue...\n'

read -rsp $'Press escape to continue...\n' -d $'\e'

display all directories in the folder "$ORIG_DIR"

find "$ORIG_DIR" -name "*" -type d

Force create a symbolic link without dereferencing named "mylink" to "dir2"

ln -nsf dir2 mylink

Lists file descriptors of a current process.

ls -l /proc/self/fd/

search for a word in all the php files in the current folder and display the count of all matching lines.

find . -name \*.php -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 grep -Hn '$test' | wc -l

Print a count of each unique line from standard input

sort | uniq -c

Report total file systems disk usage estimated in terabytes

df --total -BT | tail -n 1

Displays status of currently active network interfaces.

ifconfig

Search all files in the current directory tree for "SearchString", ignoring .html files and skipping .svn directories

find . \ | xargs -d '\n' grep -Hd skip 'SearchString'

list all regular files which path is not dir1 or dir2

find ! -path "dir1" ! -path "dir2" -type f

Generate UUIDs for the files from the current directory tree

find . -exec printf '%s\t' {} \; -exec uuidgen \; | awk -F '\t' '{ sub; print $2, $1 }' | sort -k2

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 all hidden files under /tmp

find /tmp -type f -name ".*"

Remove all *.tmp files from the /tmp directory tree

find /tmp -name "*.tmp" -print0 | xargs -0 rm

find all the files in the current folder which have the word cache in them and do not search in the sub directories of the folder.

find . -name 'cache*' -depth -exec rm {} \;

create archive "backup.tar.gz" from /path/to/catalog

tar czfP backup.tar.gz /path/to/catalog

find all the files in the home folder which have been modified after a file

find $HOME -newer ~joeuser/lastbatch.txt

Print common lines in "file1" and "file2"

comm -12 file1 file2

Search the *.pdf files from directory tree PDFs/ for text "perry sound", ignoring the case

find PDFs/ -name '*.pdf' -exec sh -c 'pdftotext "{}" - | grep -i --with-filename --label="{}" --color "perry sound"' \;

Execute "cat /tmp/iostat.running" every 10 seconds

watch -n10 cat /tmp/iostat.running

Create a symbolic link in the current directory for each file under the directories matching "../[12][0-9][0-9]"

find ../[12][0-9][0-9][0-9] -type f -exec ln -s {} \;