prabhanshubhowal/natural_language_to_linux

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Find all files/directories with permission $permissions under $directory directory tree	find "$directory" -perm "$permissions"
Adjust the timestamp of 'filename' by subtracting 2 hours from it.	touch -d "$(date -r filename) - 2 hours" filename
Search $MYGROUP in /etc/group, take the 4th colon separated field, replace comma with newline and save the result to variable 'MYUSERS'	MYUSERS=`grep $MYGROUP /etc/group \| cut -d ":" -f4\| tr "," "\n"`
Compare files "A1" and "A2" with 3 lines of unified context and print lines beginning with "+"	diff -u A1 A2 \| grep -E "^\+"
Counts all files in a current folder and subfolders.	find -type f -printf '\n' \| wc -l
Search the .java files from the current directory tree for TODO lines	find . -name "*.java" -exec grep -i -n TODO {} \;
Recursively finds and compresses all files in a current folder.	find . -type f -exec bzip2 {} +
Archive "foo/bar/baz.c" to "remote:/tmp/" preserving the relative path of "foo/bar/baz.c"	rsync -avR foo/bar/baz.c remote:/tmp/
SSH into "$NAME" as user "${USERNAME}" using key file "${KEYDIR}/${KEY}.pem", automatically add the host to list of known hosts and execute "${COMMANDS}"	ssh -o "StrictHostKeyChecking no" -i ${KEYDIR}/${KEY}.pem ${USERNAME}@$NAME "${COMMANDS}"
List the commands in /usr/bin, pausing for user input after each page.	more <( ls /usr/bin )
display all sqlite files in the current directory along with their timestamp	find ./ -name "*.sqlite" -printf '%Tc %p\n'
Deletes folder like /tmp// or deeper, older than +7 days if they don`t contain files or other folders.	find /tmp// -mtime +7 -type d -exec rmdir {} \;
change owner and group of the current directory and all files into it to user and group andrew	chown -R andrewr:andrewr *
Find all .php files in all directory trees matching pattern `/srv/www/*/htdocs/system/application/' and search those files for string "debug ("	find /srv/www//htdocs/system/application/ -name ".php" -exec grep -H "debug (" {} +
Search the entire file hierarchy for files ending in '.old' and delete them.	find / -name "*.old" -exec /bin/rm {} \
change the permission of all directories in current folder to 755.	find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
Move all .pdf.marker files and their corresponding .pdf files under ${INPUT_LOCATION} to ${OUTPUT_LOCATION}	find $INPUT_LOCATION -name '*.pdf.marker' \| xargs -i bash -c 'mv ${0%.marker} $0 $1' {} $OUTPUT_LOCATION
List the files in the /etc directory tree containing text '128.200.34.'	find /etc -type f -print \| xargs grep -il '128\.200\.34\.'
Print 10 space separated "x"s with at most 4 per line	yes x \| head -10 \| awk 'BEGIN { RS = "%%%%%%%" } { split($0,a,"\n"); for (i=1; i<length(a); i+=4) print a[i], a[i+1], a[i+2], a[i+3] }'
Report file system containing path to /dir/inner_dir/ disk usage human-readable.	df -h /dir/inner_dir/
Print a sorted list of the extensions of the regular files from the current directory tree with counts per extension	find . -type f \| perl -ne 'print $1 if m/\.$/' \| sort \| uniq -c \| sort -n
Find all catalina* files/directories under current directory	find -name 'catalina*'
Fix files to default permissions 644	find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
search for "flac" files in current folder using regular expressions	find ./ -regex "./cmn-.\.flac"
Find files and directories owned by xuser1 and change their ownership to user2	find . -user xuser1 -exec chown -R user2 {} \;
Uninstalls and then installs git formula.	brew reinstall git
Saves list of currently logged in users in 'userlist' variable.	userlist=$
Find files whose data was modified within the given days of the month	find ./ -daystart -mtime -10 -and -mtime +1
Remove the passphrase from ~/.ssh/id_rsa.	ssh-keygen -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa -P ""
Remove regular files whose names match Perl regular expression '\w+-\d+x\d+\.\w+$' from the current directory tree	find -type f \| grep -P '\w+-\d+x\d+\.\w+$' \| xargs rm
Print second section of space-separated data coming from stdin.	cut -d ' ' -f 2
Use the last 100 lines of "file1" as input to "wc -l" and monitor the pipeline with the "pv" command	tail -n 100 file1 \| pv \| wc -l
Find the empty directories and files under current directory	find -empty
Disable wildcard expansion and name globbing	set -f
Create an empty file "foo" in each directory under the current directory containing a file named "bar".	find -name "bar" -execdir touch foo \;
Find all files/directories in entire file system that are owned by "syslog" user	find / -user syslog
Search for 'example' in all regular files from the current directory	find -maxdepth 1 -type f \| xargs grep -F 'example'
Print the percentage of packets lost of the 5 packets sent to "$host"	ping -c 5 -q $host \| grep -oP '\d+(?=% packet loss)'
Change the permissions of all regular files whose names end with .mp3 in the directory tree /var/ftp/mp3	find /var/ftp/mp3 -name '*.mp3' -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
View history using "vim"	vim <(history)
Creates temporary folder in /tmp/ (by default) with 10-letter suffux.	mktemp -d -t
Find files/directories under current directory matching the posix-egrep type regex ".+\.$" in their names	find . -regextype posix-egrep -regex ".+\.$"
Gets IP address of 'en0' network interface.	ip addr show en0 \| awk '$1 == "inet" {gsub; print $2}'
Print list of disk and mountpoint of disks matching "/dev/sd*"	paste <(mount \| awk 'tolower ~ /\/dev\/sd*/ {print NR "\t" $1 "\t" $3}') <
Print numbers from 1 to 10 with 2 values per line	seq 10 \| sed '2~2G' \| awk -v RS='' '{$1=$1; print}'
search for files in the current folder using name patterns	find . -name '[mM][yY][fF][iI][lL][eE]*'
find all jar files in current folder and search for a file in all these jar's and display the jar names along with searched file	find . -name "*.jar" -print -exec jar -tf {} \; \| awk '{ifjar=$1;else ifarr[jar]=$1;}END{for{print i " contains " arr[i]}}'
display all the regular files in current folder excluding all the directories and all the sub directories having "normal" in their name	find . \( \( -path "\.?." -type d \) -o -path "normal*" \) -prune -o \( -type f \) -print
Create a named screen session	screen -X title mynewtitle
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 < <
List all *.txt files/directories under current directory	find . -name "*.txt" -print
Compress all files in the "$FILE" directory tree that were last modified 30 days ago and have not already been compressed with gzip	find $FILE -type f -not -name '*.gz' -mtime 30 -exec gzip {} \;
Send SIGTERM signal to all processes using TCP port 8080, requesting them to terminate.	kill $
Print content of all files found regarding seach options '[whatever]'	find [whatever] -print0 \| xargs -0 cat
Rename $file file, preserving only part of name before '-' symbol, and appending '.pkg' suffix to the end	mv $file $.pkg
display a list of all java or jsp files in the current folders	find . \( -name 'jsp' -o -name 'java' \) -type f -ls
Search the entire file hierarchy for files ending with '~' and print all matches except for those with '/media' in their pathnames.	find / -name "*~" \| grep -v "/media"
Find all files beneath the current directory that end with the extension .java and contain the characters String ignoring case. Print the name of the file where a match is found.	find . -type f -name "*.java" -exec grep -il string {} \;
Print a welcome message with the current user's user name	echo -ne "Welcome $(whoami)!\n"
Decompress 'file.gz' to standard output and execute the output in bash	gzip -d --stdout file.gz \| bash
Unset RBENV_VERSION variable from within tmux session.	tmux set-environment -u RBENV_VERSION
Change owner to "root" and group to "wheel" of "bin"	sudo chown root:wheel bin
Determine if user "$USER" is logged in	who \| grep $USER
search for a word in all the files in the current directory	find . -exec grep chrome {} \;
Search the current directory tree for regular files changed on the 10th of September	find ./ -type f -ls \|grep '10 Sep'
Find all your text files	find . -name "*.txt" -print
Execute `somecommand' on each file from the current directory tree with the environment variable f set to the filename	find . -exec env f={} somecommand \;
Search for all files in the /home directory tree that have the same inode number	find /home -xdev -inum 2655341
Find out if there are any files on the system owned by user `account'	find / -path /proc -prune -o -user account -ls
Remove sess_* files that were modified more than 2 days ago	find sess_* -mtime +2 -exec rm {} \;
Find all files matching pattern '.#*' in the current directory tree	find -iname '.#*'
Remove all files containing 'sample' in their names under '/home/user/Series' directory tree	/usr/bin/find /home/user/Series/ -iname "sample" -exec rm {} \;
Rotates the dirs stack so that the second directory is at the top.	pushd -2
Search for 'class Pool' in all *.java files under current directory	find -iname '*.java'\|xargs grep 'class Pool'
Search the current directory tree for regular files that contain "string"	find . -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 grep string
Output "file.txt", omitting all containing directories "some/unknown/amoutn/of/sub/folder/"	basename "some/unknown/amount/of/sub/folder/file.txt"
Treat references to unset variables as errors	set -o nounset
Ping all hosts in file "ips" twice	cat ips \| xargs -i% ping -c 2 %
Counts all top-level files in a current folder.	ls -1 \| wc -l
bind key "\x61" to insert itself	bind $'"\x61"':self-insert
Find all files/directories under $1 which have at least write permission for their owner and set write permission for group for these files/directories	find $1 -perm -u+w -exec chmod g+w {} \;
Execute "wget -qO- http://fake.link/file.txt \| tail" every 5 seconds	watch -n 5 "wget -qO- http://fake.link/file.txt \| tail"
Read a line from standard input into variable "message" with escaped prompt "\nPlease Enter\na Message: '"	read -p "`echo -e '\nPlease Enter\na Message: '`" message
find all the files that have been modified today	find . -type f -mtime 0
find all the files ending with ".coffee" in the current folder and search for the first occurence of the word "re" in each line	find . -name '*.coffee' -exec awk '/re/ {print;exit}' {} \;
Search /var for files matching regular expression './tmp/.[0-9]*.file'	find /var -regex './tmp/.[0-9]*.file'
search character special files called ' backup ' from /usr directory downwards and print them .	find /usr -type c -name backup -print
Find all *.jpg files and copy them to /	find / -type f -name *.jpg -exec cp {} . \;
Create a symbolic link named ".profile" to "git-stuff/home/profile" without dereferencing ".profile"	ln -sn git-stuff/home/profile .profile
Ping the broadcast address "10.10.0.255"	ping -b 10.10.0.255
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
Show find's version	find --version
Find the file whose inode number is 1316256	find . -inum 1316256
display all symbolic links in current folder	find . -lname "*"
login as user root	su -l
List all .svn files/directories under current directory	find . -name .svn -exec ls {} \;
Force decompress all files into '/etc'	gzip -d --force * /etc
Display the sizes and filepaths of all files/directories with '.undo' extension under current directory tree	find -name *.undo -print0 \| du -hc --files0-from=-
Find all the files in file system which are accessed 50 days back	find / -atime 50
Recursively removes all folders named '.svn' in a current folder.	find . -type d -name .svn -print0\|xargs -0 rm -rf

Find all files/directories with permission $permissions under $directory directory tree

find "$directory" -perm "$permissions"

Adjust the timestamp of 'filename' by subtracting 2 hours from it.

touch -d "$(date -r filename) - 2 hours" filename

Search $MYGROUP in /etc/group, take the 4th colon separated field, replace comma with newline and save the result to variable 'MYUSERS'

MYUSERS=`grep $MYGROUP /etc/group | cut -d ":" -f4| tr "," "\n"`

Compare files "A1" and "A2" with 3 lines of unified context and print lines beginning with "+"

diff -u A1 A2 | grep -E "^\+"

Counts all files in a current folder and subfolders.

find -type f -printf '\n' | wc -l

Search the .java files from the current directory tree for TODO lines

find . -name "*.java" -exec grep -i -n TODO {} \;

Recursively finds and compresses all files in a current folder.

find . -type f -exec bzip2 {} +

Archive "foo/bar/baz.c" to "remote:/tmp/" preserving the relative path of "foo/bar/baz.c"

rsync -avR foo/bar/baz.c remote:/tmp/

SSH into "$NAME" as user "${USERNAME}" using key file "${KEYDIR}/${KEY}.pem", automatically add the host to list of known hosts and execute "${COMMANDS}"

ssh -o "StrictHostKeyChecking no" -i ${KEYDIR}/${KEY}.pem ${USERNAME}@$NAME "${COMMANDS}"

List the commands in /usr/bin, pausing for user input after each page.

more <( ls /usr/bin )

display all sqlite files in the current directory along with their timestamp

find ./ -name "*.sqlite" -printf '%Tc %p\n'

Deletes folder like /tmp/*/* or deeper, older than +7 days if they don`t contain files or other folders.

find /tmp/*/* -mtime +7 -type d -exec rmdir {} \;

change owner and group of the current directory and all files into it to user and group andrew

chown -R andrewr:andrewr *

Find all .php files in all directory trees matching pattern `/srv/www/*/htdocs/system/application/' and search those files for string "debug ("

find /srv/www/*/htdocs/system/application/ -name "*.php" -exec grep -H "debug (" {} +

Search the entire file hierarchy for files ending in '.old' and delete them.

find / -name "*.old" -exec /bin/rm {} \

change the permission of all directories in current folder to 755.

find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;

Move all *.pdf.marker files and their corresponding *.pdf files under ${INPUT_LOCATION} to ${OUTPUT_LOCATION}

find $INPUT_LOCATION -name '*.pdf.marker' | xargs -i bash -c 'mv ${0%.marker} $0 $1' {} $OUTPUT_LOCATION

List the files in the /etc directory tree containing text '128.200.34.'

find /etc -type f -print | xargs grep -il '128\.200\.34\.'

Print 10 space separated "x"s with at most 4 per line

yes x | head -10 | awk 'BEGIN { RS = "%%%%%%%" } { split($0,a,"\n"); for (i=1; i<length(a); i+=4) print a[i], a[i+1], a[i+2], a[i+3] }'

Report file system containing path to /dir/inner_dir/ disk usage human-readable.

df -h /dir/inner_dir/

Print a sorted list of the extensions of the regular files from the current directory tree with counts per extension

find . -type f | perl -ne 'print $1 if m/\.$/' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

Find all catalina* files/directories under current directory

find -name 'catalina*'

Fix files to default permissions 644

find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

search for "flac" files in current folder using regular expressions

find ./ -regex "./cmn-.\.flac"

Find files and directories owned by xuser1 and change their ownership to user2

find . -user xuser1 -exec chown -R user2 {} \;

Uninstalls and then installs git formula.

brew reinstall git

Saves list of currently logged in users in 'userlist' variable.

userlist=$

Find files whose data was modified within the given days of the month

find ./ -daystart -mtime -10 -and -mtime +1

Remove the passphrase from ~/.ssh/id_rsa.

ssh-keygen -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa -P ""

Remove regular files whose names match Perl regular expression '\w+-\d+x\d+\.\w+$' from the current directory tree

find -type f | grep -P '\w+-\d+x\d+\.\w+$' | xargs rm

Print second section of space-separated data coming from stdin.

cut -d ' ' -f 2

Use the last 100 lines of "file1" as input to "wc -l" and monitor the pipeline with the "pv" command

tail -n 100 file1 | pv | wc -l

Find the empty directories and files under current directory

find -empty

Disable wildcard expansion and name globbing

set -f

Create an empty file "foo" in each directory under the current directory containing a file named "bar".

find -name "bar" -execdir touch foo \;

Find all files/directories in entire file system that are owned by "syslog" user

find / -user syslog

Search for 'example' in all regular files from the current directory

find -maxdepth 1 -type f | xargs grep -F 'example'

Print the percentage of packets lost of the 5 packets sent to "$host"

ping -c 5 -q $host | grep -oP '\d+(?=% packet loss)'

Change the permissions of all regular files whose names end with .mp3 in the directory tree /var/ftp/mp3

find /var/ftp/mp3 -name '*.mp3' -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

View history using "vim"

vim <(history)

Creates temporary folder in /tmp/ (by default) with 10-letter suffux.

mktemp -d -t

Find files/directories under current directory matching the posix-egrep type regex ".+\.$" in their names

find . -regextype posix-egrep -regex ".+\.$"

Gets IP address of 'en0' network interface.

ip addr show en0 | awk '$1 == "inet" {gsub; print $2}'

Print list of disk and mountpoint of disks matching "/dev/sd*"

paste <(mount | awk 'tolower ~ /\/dev\/sd*/ {print NR "\t" $1 "\t" $3}') <

Print numbers from 1 to 10 with 2 values per line

seq 10 | sed '2~2G' | awk -v RS='' '{$1=$1; print}'

search for files in the current folder using name patterns

find . -name '[mM][yY][fF][iI][lL][eE]*'

find all jar files in current folder and search for a file in all these jar's and display the jar names along with searched file

find . -name "*.jar" -print -exec jar -tf {} \; | awk '{ifjar=$1;else ifarr[jar]=$1;}END{for{print i " contains " arr[i]}}'

display all the regular files in current folder excluding all the directories and all the sub directories having "normal" in their name

find . $ \( -path "\.?.*" -type d $ -o -path "*normal*" \) -prune -o $ -type f $ -print

Create a named screen session

screen -X title mynewtitle

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 < <

List all *.txt files/directories under current directory

find . -name "*.txt" -print

Compress all files in the "$FILE" directory tree that were last modified 30 days ago and have not already been compressed with gzip

find $FILE -type f -not -name '*.gz' -mtime 30 -exec gzip {} \;

Send SIGTERM signal to all processes using TCP port 8080, requesting them to terminate.

kill $

Print content of all files found regarding seach options '[whatever]'

find [whatever] -print0 | xargs -0 cat

Rename $file file, preserving only part of name before '-' symbol, and appending '.pkg' suffix to the end

mv $file $.pkg

display a list of all java or jsp files in the current folders

find . $ -name '*jsp' -o -name '*java' $ -type f -ls

Search the entire file hierarchy for files ending with '~' and print all matches except for those with '/media' in their pathnames.

find / -name "*~" | grep -v "/media"

Find all files beneath the current directory that end with the extension .java and contain the characters String ignoring case. Print the name of the file where a match is found.

find . -type f -name "*.java" -exec grep -il string {} \;

Print a welcome message with the current user's user name

echo -ne "Welcome $(whoami)!\n"

Decompress 'file.gz' to standard output and execute the output in bash

gzip -d --stdout file.gz | bash

Unset RBENV_VERSION variable from within tmux session.

tmux set-environment -u RBENV_VERSION

Change owner to "root" and group to "wheel" of "bin"

sudo chown root:wheel bin

Determine if user "$USER" is logged in

who | grep $USER

search for a word in all the files in the current directory

find . -exec grep chrome {} \;

Search the current directory tree for regular files changed on the 10th of September

find ./ -type f -ls |grep '10 Sep'

Find all your text files

find . -name "*.txt" -print

Execute `somecommand' on each file from the current directory tree with the environment variable f set to the filename

find . -exec env f={} somecommand \;

Search for all files in the /home directory tree that have the same inode number

find /home -xdev -inum 2655341

Find out if there are any files on the system owned by user `account'

find / -path /proc -prune -o -user account -ls

Remove sess_* files that were modified more than 2 days ago

find sess_* -mtime +2 -exec rm {} \;

Find all files matching pattern '.#*' in the current directory tree

find -iname '.#*'

Remove all files containing 'sample' in their names under '/home/user/Series' directory tree

/usr/bin/find /home/user/Series/ -iname "*sample*" -exec rm {} \;

Rotates the dirs stack so that the second directory is at the top.

pushd -2

Search for 'class Pool' in all *.java files under current directory

find -iname '*.java'|xargs grep 'class Pool'

Search the current directory tree for regular files that contain "string"

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep string

Output "file.txt", omitting all containing directories "some/unknown/amoutn/of/sub/folder/"

basename "some/unknown/amount/of/sub/folder/file.txt"

Treat references to unset variables as errors

set -o nounset

Ping all hosts in file "ips" twice

cat ips | xargs -i% ping -c 2 %

Counts all top-level files in a current folder.

ls -1 | wc -l

bind key "\x61" to insert itself

bind $'"\x61"':self-insert

Find all files/directories under $1 which have at least write permission for their owner and set write permission for group for these files/directories

find $1 -perm -u+w -exec chmod g+w {} \;

Execute "wget -qO- http://fake.link/file.txt | tail" every 5 seconds

watch -n 5 "wget -qO- http://fake.link/file.txt | tail"

Read a line from standard input into variable "message" with escaped prompt "\nPlease Enter\na Message: '"

read -p "`echo -e '\nPlease Enter\na Message: '`" message

find all the files that have been modified today

find . -type f -mtime 0

find all the files ending with ".coffee" in the current folder and search for the first occurence of the word "re" in each line

find . -name '*.coffee' -exec awk '/re/ {print;exit}' {} \;

Search /var for files matching regular expression '.*/tmp/.*[0-9]*.file'

find /var -regex '.*/tmp/.*[0-9]*.file'

search character special files called ' backup ' from /usr directory downwards and print them .

find /usr -type c -name backup -print

Find all *.jpg files and copy them to /

find / -type f -name *.jpg -exec cp {} . \;

Create a symbolic link named ".profile" to "git-stuff/home/profile" without dereferencing ".profile"

ln -sn git-stuff/home/profile .profile

Ping the broadcast address "10.10.0.255"

ping -b 10.10.0.255

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

Show find's version

find --version

Find the file whose inode number is 1316256

find . -inum 1316256

display all symbolic links in current folder

find . -lname "*"

login as user root

su -l

List all .svn files/directories under current directory

find . -name .svn -exec ls {} \;

Force decompress all files into '/etc'

gzip -d --force * /etc

Display the sizes and filepaths of all files/directories with '.undo' extension under current directory tree

find -name *.undo -print0 | du -hc --files0-from=-

Find all the files in file system which are accessed 50 days back

find / -atime 50

Recursively removes all folders named '.svn' in a current folder.

find . -type d -name .svn -print0|xargs -0 rm -rf