prabhanshubhowal/natural_language_to_linux

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Print URL "http://www.blabla.bla/forum-detail/?ft=72260&fid=34&&pgr=" followed by a number ranging from 1 to 786	yes 'http://www.blabla.bla/forum-detail/?ft=72260&fid=34&&pgr=' \| nl -ba \| sed 786q \| grep . \| awk '{print $2$1}'
Change permissions to 700 for files and directories deeper than the current directory	find . -mindepth 2 \| xargs chmod 700
Find all broken symlinks under current directory	find -L . -type l
Find all files/directories named 'FindCommandExamples.txt' under '/root' directory tree	find /root -name FindCommandExamples.txt
Find the top 5 big files	find . -type f -exec ls -s {} \; \| sort -n -r \| head -5
Print the sorted unique column of usernames of users who are currently logged in without the header	finger \| cut -d ' ' -f1 \| sort -u \| grep -iv login
Find the unique owners of all the files in the /bin directory	find /bin -type f -follow \| xargs ls -al \| awk ' NF==9 { print $3 }'\|sort -u
display all the regular/normal files in the current folder which are modified after a file	find . -type f -newer "$FILE"
locate large files (> 100 MB) in /home/ for 'cleaning'	find /home -type f -size +100M -delete
Replace all occurrences of "foo_fn" with "bar_fn" in the files named "foo_fn" from the current directory tree	find . -name foo_fn exec sed -i s/foo_fn/bar_fn/g '{}' \;
Set permissions of all files under "/opt/lampp/htdocs" to 644	find /opt/lampp/htdocs -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
find all the core files in the entire file system and delete them	find / -name core -exec rm -f {} \;
display all files in current folder excluding text files	find . ! -name "*.txt"
find all files in the current folder which have not been accessed in the last 30 days in the current folder	find . -atime +30 -print
Returns unsuccessful exit code on each found file like 'tests' within current directory.	find . -name 'tests' -print -exec false \;
display all the files in the current folder excluding search in the paths containing the folder having the word "mmm"	find . ! -path mmm
Print the current directory tree	tree
Remove all vmware-*.log files under current directory ensuring white space safety in filename	find . -name vmware-*.log -print0 \| xargs -0 rm
Removes only lowest level subfolders from current directory tree .	find . -type d \| xargs rmdir
Prints full path to files in a current folder.	ls -d -1 $PWD/**
Print out the contents of all *.txt files in the home directory	find ~/ -name '*.txt' -exec cat {} ;
Save Maven project version to variable "version"	version=$
Find all files modified less than 5 minutes ago, and page interactively through the output.	find -cmin -5 \| less -R
Find regular files under / that contain "stringtofind"	find / -maxdepth 1 -xdev -type f -exec grep -li stringtofind '{}' \;
Find all .mp3 files starting from the current directory	find . -type f -iname *.mp3
Print the 5th space separated fields in "file" as a comma separated list	cut -d' ' -f5 file \| paste -d',' -s
List all available commands in Mac OS	echo $PATH \| tr ':' '\n' \| xargs -I {} find {} -maxdepth 1 -type f -perm '++x'
Print the contents of "Little_Commas.TXT"	cat Little_Commas.TXT
Sends current job to the background.	bg
List all *.txt files/directories under /etc	find /etc -name "*.txt" \| xargs -I {} ls -l {}
Set variable value to current kernel release name, making this variable visible by subprocesses of current shell.	export value=$
List all files from the current directory tree that were modified less than 60 minutes ago	find . -mmin -60 \| xargs -r ls -ld
Change all cron jobs running "anm.sh" to be run every 10 minutes instead of 5 minutes.	crontab -l \| sed '/anm\.sh/s,^\/5,/10,' \| crontab -
Find all files/directories under current directory and print only 2nd field from output delimited by '/'	find . \| awk -F"/" '{ print $2 }'
Start a VLC process with a dummy interface in the background, immune to SIGHUP signals, to play all media files in mp3_directory from the user's home directory.	nohup vlc -I dummy --quiet ~/mp3_directory/* &
Archive directory "tata" to directory "tata2", compressing data during copy.	rsync -avz tata/ tata2/
display all files in the current folder which are not empty	find . ! -size 0k
Output all lines that have a common first colon-separated field in files 'selection2.txt' and 'selection1.txt' by displaying the common field of each line, followed by the extra fields in both lines.	join -t: selection2.txt selection1.txt
Get the sizes (and total size) of all files under dir2 directory	find dir2 ! -type d \|xargs wc -c
Find a file/directory named modules under current directory and exit with the number of files/directories named 'modules' found in this path	find . -name modules -exec sh -c 'exit $' \;
Find all filenames ending with .c in the current directory tree, case insensitive	find -iname "*.c"
Search the current directory tree for symbolic links to files matching pattern 'test'	find . -lname 'test'
Get the list of regular files in the current directory	find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 -I {} echo "{}"
Compress "my_large_file" with gzip and split the result into files of size 1024 MiB with prefix "myfile_split.gz_"	gzip -c my_large_file \| split -b 1024MiB - myfile_split.gz_
gives the chars in line 5 and chars 5 to 8 of line 5, in tst.txt	head -5 tst.txt \| tail -1 \|cut -c 5-8
Write standard output and error to the console and append to file "log"	./aaa.sh \|& tee -a log
Invoke a trusted X11 forwarding SSH connection with server "192.168.0.14" on port 222 as user "phil"	ssh -v -Y [email protected] -p 222
Find all files/directories in all paths expanded by the glob pattern *	find *
print all files in the current directory and all subdirectories	find .
Print every 20 bytes of standard input as tab separated groups of bytes 1-3, 4-10, and 11-20	fold -b -w 20 \| cut --output-delimiter $'\t' -b 1-3,4-10,11-20
search for the directory starting with "ora10" in the entire file system	find / -type d -name "ora10*"
Find all files under and below /dir that were accessed less than 60 minutes ago	find /dir -amin -60
Remove the regular files from the current directory tree that are newer than /tmp/date.start but not newer than /tmp/date.end	find ./ -type f -newer /tmp/date.start ! -newer /tmp/date.end -exec rm {} \;
Determine DISPLAY variable for the session when logged in via SSH	who am i \| awk '{print $5}' \| sed 's/[()]//g' \| cut -f1 -d "." \| sed 's/-/./g'
display all text files in the folder /tmp/1 excluding those which do not have spaces in their names	find /tmp/1 -iname '.txt' -not -iname '[0-9A-Za-z].txt'
Find directories in the current directory recursively that are not "executable" by all	find -type d ! -perm -111
Lists all directories in '/home/alice/Documents/'.	ls -d /home/alice/Documents/*/
Rename all files in the current directory to the md5 sum followed by the extension and print the conversions	md5sum * \| sed -e 's/\([^ ]\) \(.\(\..*\)\)$/mv -v \2 \1\3/e'
Find all *.c files on the system and feed the output to wc	find / -name *.c \| wc
Change to the directory containing the "oracle" executable	cd "$(dirname "$(which oracle)")"
Display the sizes and filepaths of all files/directories sorted in ascending order of size	du -a --max-depth=1 \| sort -n
Page through the disassembler output of objdump on executable file 'my-crashing-program'.	objdump --disassemble my-crashing-program \| less
List all files in /var/www and below that have changed in the last 10 minutes	find /var/www -cmin -10 -printf "%c %pn"
Removes all empty folders under path '/foo/bar' and the path itself.	find /foo/bar -type d -depth -exec rmdir -p {} +
Perform syntax check on all PHP files in the current directory tree	find . -name \*.php -type f -exec php -l {} \;
Find all btree*.c files under current directory	find . -type f -name 'btree*.c'
display the contents of all the text files in the current directory	find . -name '*.txt' -exec cat {} \;
Search the /path directory tree for files missing g+w and o+w bits	find /path ! -perm /022
List all files and directories in the /home directory tree whose names are "Trash"	find /home -name Trash -exec ls -al {} \;
Find all files under current directory and show their file information	find . -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 file
Display differences between a and b side-by-side	diff -y a b
Search the home directory tree for files modified less than 7 days ago	find $HOME -mtime -7
Locates 'gcc' executable file, strips last two parts of the full path, adds '/lib' to the end and saves result in 'libdir' variable.	libdir=$(dirname $(dirname $))/lib
Monitor all processes whose command includes 'java'.	top -p "$"
Run 'command', pausing and waiting for user interaction after each page of output.	command \| more
Finds PIDs of ssh sessions of all logged in users.	pgrep -u w \| grep ssh\| awk '{print $1}' ssh
Remove duplicates in variable "variable" and preserve the order	variable=$
Find all regular files newer than '/tmp/$$' (where $$ expands to current process id) under '/tmefndr/oravl01' directory tree	find /tmefndr/oravl01 -type f -newer /tmp/$$
display all file in the folder /dir/to/search except ".c" files	find /dir/to/search/ \! -name "*.c" print
Search the current directory for files whose names start with "messages." ignoring SVN, GIT, and .anythingElseIwannaIgnore files	find . -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 egrep messages. \| grep -Ev '.svn\|.git\|.anythingElseIwannaIgnore'
find md5sum of an empty string	echo -n '' \| md5
Change permissions of "/usr/bin/wget" to 777	chmod 777 /usr/bin/wget
Find files ending in "config"	find . -path '/config'
Find all files/directories named 'query' (case insensitive) under current directory	find -iname "query"
Find all files/directories under current directory tree	find \| xargs
Find all files/directories under current directory tree that belong to user 'john'	find . -user john
List the number of occurrences of each unique character in "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" sorted from most frequent to least frequent	echo "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" \| grep -o . \| sort \| uniq -c \| sort -nr
For each item in array "alpha", display the basename, that is the part following the last slash, or the whole item if no slash is present.	basename -a "${alpha[@]}"
change owner and group of the file script.sh to user root	chown root:root script.sh
find all the configuration files which have been accessed in the last 30 minutes.	find /etc/sysconfig -amin -30
split all files in directory "/dev/shm/split/" into pieces per 1000 lines	find /dev/shm/split/ -type f -exec split -l 1000 {} {} \;
List the z* links in the /usr/bin directory with inode information and the file to which it points to	find /usr/bin -type l -name "z*" -ls
Remove all files and directories called "test" from the current directory tree	find . -name test -exec rm -R "{}" \;
Locate all *.mov files in the current directory tree	find . -name '*.mov'
Test if a file named 'file' in the current directory is more than 1 hour old	find file -prune -cmin +60 -print \| grep -q .
Write the common third space separated fields in "file1.sorted" and "file2.sorted" to "common_values.field"	comm -12 <(cut -d " " -f 3 file1.sorted \| uniq) <(cut -d " " -f 3 file2.sorted \| uniq) > common_values.field
find all the files which are of size 0 bytes.	find . -type f -empty
Search for $GROUP at the beginning of each line in /etc/group and print the last colon separated entry with comma replaced with newlines	grep ^$GROUP /etc/group \| grep -o '[^:]*$' \| tr ',' '\n'
find all the regular/normal files ending with ".mod" in a folder and send them as input to the remodup command	find $DIR -name "*.mod" -type f -exec remodup {} \;
Look for SGID files and directories	find / -perm /g=s

Print URL "http://www.blabla.bla/forum-detail/?ft=72260&fid=34&&pgr=" followed by a number ranging from 1 to 786

yes 'http://www.blabla.bla/forum-detail/?ft=72260&fid=34&&pgr=' | nl -ba | sed 786q | grep . | awk '{print $2$1}'

Change permissions to 700 for files and directories deeper than the current directory

find . -mindepth 2 | xargs chmod 700

Find all broken symlinks under current directory

find -L . -type l

Find all files/directories named 'FindCommandExamples.txt' under '/root' directory tree

find /root -name FindCommandExamples.txt

Find the top 5 big files

find . -type f -exec ls -s {} \; | sort -n -r | head -5

Print the sorted unique column of usernames of users who are currently logged in without the header

finger | cut -d ' ' -f1 | sort -u | grep -iv login

Find the unique owners of all the files in the /bin directory

find /bin -type f -follow | xargs ls -al | awk ' NF==9 { print $3 }'|sort -u

display all the regular/normal files in the current folder which are modified after a file

find . -type f -newer "$FILE"

locate large files (> 100 MB) in /home/ for 'cleaning'

find /home -type f -size +100M -delete

Replace all occurrences of "foo_fn" with "bar_fn" in the files named "foo_fn" from the current directory tree

find . -name foo_fn exec sed -i s/foo_fn/bar_fn/g '{}' \;

Set permissions of all files under "/opt/lampp/htdocs" to 644

find /opt/lampp/htdocs -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

find all the core files in the entire file system and delete them

find / -name core -exec rm -f {} \;

display all files in current folder excluding text files

find . ! -name "*.txt"

find all files in the current folder which have not been accessed in the last 30 days in the current folder

find . -atime +30 -print

Returns unsuccessful exit code on each found file like '*tests*' within current directory.

find . -name '*tests*' -print -exec false \;

display all the files in the current folder excluding search in the paths containing the folder having the word "mmm"

find . ! -path *mmm*

Print the current directory tree

tree

Remove all vmware-*.log files under current directory ensuring white space safety in filename

find . -name vmware-*.log -print0 | xargs -0 rm

Removes only lowest level subfolders from current directory tree .

find . -type d | xargs rmdir

Prints full path to files in a current folder.

ls -d -1 $PWD/**

Print out the contents of all *.txt files in the home directory

find ~/ -name '*.txt' -exec cat {} ;

Save Maven project version to variable "version"

version=$

Find all files modified less than 5 minutes ago, and page interactively through the output.

find -cmin -5 | less -R

Find regular files under / that contain "stringtofind"

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

Find all .mp3 files starting from the current directory

find . -type f -iname *.mp3

Print the 5th space separated fields in "file" as a comma separated list

cut -d' ' -f5 file | paste -d',' -s

List all available commands in Mac OS

echo $PATH | tr ':' '\n' | xargs -I {} find {} -maxdepth 1 -type f -perm '++x'

Print the contents of "Little_Commas.TXT"

cat Little_Commas.TXT

Sends current job to the background.

bg

List all *.txt files/directories under /etc

find /etc -name "*.txt" | xargs -I {} ls -l {}

Set variable value to current kernel release name, making this variable visible by subprocesses of current shell.

export value=$

List all files from the current directory tree that were modified less than 60 minutes ago

find . -mmin -60 | xargs -r ls -ld

Change all cron jobs running "anm.sh" to be run every 10 minutes instead of 5 minutes.

crontab -l | sed '/anm\.sh/s,^\*/5,*/10,' | crontab -

Find all files/directories under current directory and print only 2nd field from output delimited by '/'

find . | awk -F"/" '{ print $2 }'

Start a VLC process with a dummy interface in the background, immune to SIGHUP signals, to play all media files in mp3_directory from the user's home directory.

nohup vlc -I dummy --quiet ~/mp3_directory/* &

Archive directory "tata" to directory "tata2", compressing data during copy.

rsync -avz tata/ tata2/

display all files in the current folder which are not empty

find . ! -size 0k

Output all lines that have a common first colon-separated field in files 'selection2.txt' and 'selection1.txt' by displaying the common field of each line, followed by the extra fields in both lines.

join -t: selection2.txt selection1.txt

Get the sizes (and total size) of all files under dir2 directory

find dir2 ! -type d |xargs wc -c

Find a file/directory named modules under current directory and exit with the number of files/directories named 'modules' found in this path

find . -name modules -exec sh -c 'exit $' \;

Find all filenames ending with .c in the current directory tree, case insensitive

find -iname "*.c"

Search the current directory tree for symbolic links to files matching pattern '*test*'

find . -lname '*test*'

Get the list of regular files in the current directory

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

Compress "my_large_file" with gzip and split the result into files of size 1024 MiB with prefix "myfile_split.gz_"

gzip -c my_large_file | split -b 1024MiB - myfile_split.gz_

gives the chars in line 5 and chars 5 to 8 of line 5, in tst.txt

head -5 tst.txt | tail -1 |cut -c 5-8

Write standard output and error to the console and append to file "log"

./aaa.sh |& tee -a log

Invoke a trusted X11 forwarding SSH connection with server "192.168.0.14" on port 222 as user "phil"

ssh -v -Y [email protected] -p 222

Find all files/directories in all paths expanded by the glob pattern *

find *

print all files in the current directory and all subdirectories

find .

Print every 20 bytes of standard input as tab separated groups of bytes 1-3, 4-10, and 11-20

fold -b -w 20 | cut --output-delimiter $'\t' -b 1-3,4-10,11-20

search for the directory starting with "ora10" in the entire file system

find / -type d -name "ora10*"

Find all files under and below /dir that were accessed less than 60 minutes ago

find /dir -amin -60

Remove the regular files from the current directory tree that are newer than /tmp/date.start but not newer than /tmp/date.end

find ./ -type f -newer /tmp/date.start ! -newer /tmp/date.end -exec rm {} \;

Determine DISPLAY variable for the session when logged in via SSH

who am i | awk '{print $5}' | sed 's/[()]//g' | cut -f1 -d "." | sed 's/-/./g'

display all text files in the folder /tmp/1 excluding those which do not have spaces in their names

find /tmp/1 -iname '*.txt' -not -iname '[0-9A-Za-z]*.txt'

Find directories in the current directory recursively that are not "executable" by all

find -type d ! -perm -111

Lists all directories in '/home/alice/Documents/'.

ls -d /home/alice/Documents/*/

Rename all files in the current directory to the md5 sum followed by the extension and print the conversions

md5sum * | sed -e 's/$[^ ]*$ $.*\(\..*$\)$/mv -v \2 \1\3/e'

Find all *.c files on the system and feed the output to wc

find / -name *.c | wc

Change to the directory containing the "oracle" executable

cd "$(dirname "$(which oracle)")"

Display the sizes and filepaths of all files/directories sorted in ascending order of size

du -a --max-depth=1 | sort -n

Page through the disassembler output of objdump on executable file 'my-crashing-program'.

objdump --disassemble my-crashing-program | less

List all files in /var/www and below that have changed in the last 10 minutes

find /var/www -cmin -10 -printf "%c %pn"

Removes all empty folders under path '/foo/bar' and the path itself.

find /foo/bar -type d -depth -exec rmdir -p {} +

Perform syntax check on all PHP files in the current directory tree

find . -name \*.php -type f -exec php -l {} \;

Find all btree*.c files under current directory

find . -type f -name 'btree*.c'

display the contents of all the text files in the current directory

find . -name '*.txt' -exec cat {} \;

Search the /path directory tree for files missing g+w and o+w bits

find /path ! -perm /022

List all files and directories in the /home directory tree whose names are "Trash"

find /home -name Trash -exec ls -al {} \;

Find all files under current directory and show their file information

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 file

Display differences between a and b side-by-side

diff -y a b

Search the home directory tree for files modified less than 7 days ago

find $HOME -mtime -7

Locates 'gcc' executable file, strips last two parts of the full path, adds '/lib' to the end and saves result in 'libdir' variable.

libdir=$(dirname $(dirname $))/lib

Monitor all processes whose command includes 'java'.

top -p "$"

Run 'command', pausing and waiting for user interaction after each page of output.

command | more

Finds PIDs of ssh sessions of all logged in users.

pgrep -u w | grep ssh| awk '{print $1}' ssh

Remove duplicates in variable "variable" and preserve the order

variable=$

Find all regular files newer than '/tmp/$$' (where $$ expands to current process id) under '/tmefndr/oravl01' directory tree

find /tmefndr/oravl01 -type f -newer /tmp/$$

display all file in the folder /dir/to/search except ".c" files

find /dir/to/search/ \! -name "*.c" print

Search the current directory for files whose names start with "messages." ignoring SVN, GIT, and .anythingElseIwannaIgnore files

find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 egrep messages. | grep -Ev '.svn|.git|.anythingElseIwannaIgnore'

find md5sum of an empty string

echo -n '' | md5

Change permissions of "/usr/bin/wget" to 777

chmod 777 /usr/bin/wget

Find files ending in "config"

find . -path '*/*config'

Find all files/directories named 'query' (case insensitive) under current directory

find -iname "query"

Find all files/directories under current directory tree

find | xargs

Find all files/directories under current directory tree that belong to user 'john'

find . -user john

List the number of occurrences of each unique character in "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" sorted from most frequent to least frequent

echo "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" | grep -o . | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr

For each item in array "alpha", display the basename, that is the part following the last slash, or the whole item if no slash is present.

basename -a "${alpha[@]}"

change owner and group of the file script.sh to user root

chown root:root script.sh

find all the configuration files which have been accessed in the last 30 minutes.

find /etc/sysconfig -amin -30

split all files in directory "/dev/shm/split/" into pieces per 1000 lines

find /dev/shm/split/ -type f -exec split -l 1000 {} {} \;

List the z* links in the /usr/bin directory with inode information and the file to which it points to

find /usr/bin -type l -name "z*" -ls

Remove all files and directories called "test" from the current directory tree

find . -name test -exec rm -R "{}" \;

Locate all *.mov files in the current directory tree

find . -name '*.mov'

Test if a file named 'file' in the current directory is more than 1 hour old

find file -prune -cmin +60 -print | grep -q .

Write the common third space separated fields in "file1.sorted" and "file2.sorted" to "common_values.field"

comm -12 <(cut -d " " -f 3 file1.sorted | uniq) <(cut -d " " -f 3 file2.sorted | uniq) > common_values.field

find all the files which are of size 0 bytes.

find . -type f -empty

Search for $GROUP at the beginning of each line in /etc/group and print the last colon separated entry with comma replaced with newlines

grep ^$GROUP /etc/group | grep -o '[^:]*$' | tr ',' '\n'

find all the regular/normal files ending with ".mod" in a folder and send them as input to the remodup command

find $DIR -name "*.mod" -type f -exec remodup {} \;

Look for SGID files and directories

find / -perm /g=s