GWHed/nl2bash · Datasets at Hugging Face

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Print the list of .txt files under and below the current directory	find . -name '*.txt' -print0\|xargs -0 -n 1 echo
Print the list of all regular files in the current directory and below	find . -type f
Prints long recursive listing of all content of a root folder, saving output to 'output.file'.	ls -lR / \| tee output.file
Print out the names of all directories in mydir recursively	find mydir -type d
Print the sorted and unique parent directory paths appended with : of all the files that are executable by owner under ~/code directory without descending into hidden directories	find ~/code -name '.*' -prune -o -type f -a -perm /u+x -printf ':%h\n' \| sort \| uniq \| tr -d '\n'
Print which files differ in "dir_one" and "dir_two" recursively and sort the output	diff -qr dir_one dir_two \| sort
Recursively change the owner and group of all files in "public_html" to "owner"	chown -R owner:owner public_html
recursively change owner and group of the directory /vol/html and all files into it to user ec2-user and group apache	sudo chown -R ec2-user:apache /vol/html
Recursively change the owner of all files in "/home/test" to "test"	sudo chown -R test /home/test
recursively change owner of the directory /usr/lib/node_modules/ to the current user	sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/lib/node_modules/
Recursively change ownership of "/usr/local/lib" to the current user	sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local/lib
Recursively change the ownership of all files in "/Users/xxx/Library/Developer/Xcode/Templates" to "xxx"	sudo chown -R xxx /Users/xxx/Library/Developer/Xcode/Templates
Recursively delete all files/folders named '.svn' in a current folder.	find . -name .svn -delete
remove all "Foo*" files under current dir	find . -type f -name "Foo*" -exec rm {} \;
Remove all *.log files from the current directory tree	find -name '*.log' -delete
Remove all *.log files from the current directory tree	find ./ -name '*.log' -print0 \| xargs -0 rm
Remove all *.log files from the current directory tree	find ./ -name '*.log' \| xargs rm
remove all core files in the file system	find / -name "*.core" -print -exec rm {} \;
remove all core files in the file system	find / -name "*.core" \| xargs rm
Remove all files with names like "vmware-*.log" from the current directory tree	find . -name "vmware-*.log" -exec rm '{}' \;
Remove all files with names like "vmware-*.log" from the current directory tree	find . -name vmware-*.log -delete
Remove all files with names like "vmware-*.log" from the current directory tree	find . -name vmware-*.log \| xargs rm
remove all subdirectories named "CVS" under current dir	find . -type d -name CVS -exec rm -r {} \;
Remove with prompting all files that have not been accessed in over 100 days	find /mydir -atime +100 -ok rm {} \;
Rename all directories under current directory by replacing all occurrences of 'Foo' (case insensitive) with 'Bar' in their names	find . -type d -iname 'foo' -depth -exec rename 's@Foo@Bar@gi' {} +
Replace "inputfile" with a sorted unique list of its contents	sort inputfile \| uniq \| sort -o inputfile
Report file system containing path to the current working directory disk usage in kilobytes.	df -k .
Report file systems disk usage, elide all entries insignificant to available space, and produce a grand total.	df --total
Report total size of the root filesystem disk usage in powers of 1000.	df -H --total /
Return 0 if file system is mounted on '/full/path'	df /full/path \| grep -q /full/path
Save the absolute path of the directory of the current script to variable "DIR"	DIR=$(dirname "$(readlink -f \"$0\")")
Scan every file in /etc for IPV4 addresses while trying to elminate false positives.	find /etc -type f -exec cat '{}' \; \| tr -c '.[:digit:]' '\n' \| grep '^[^.][^.]\.[^.][^.]\.[^.][^.]\.[^.][^.]$'
Search the /myfiles directory tree for files last accessed more than 30 days ago	find /myfiles -atime +30
Search /usr/bin for regular files that have been modified within the last 10 days	find /usr/bin -type f -mtime -10
Search all files under and below /etc for IP addresses	find /etc -exec grep '[0-9][0-9][.][0-9][0-9][.][0-9][0-9][.][0-9][0-9]' {} \;
Search all regular files in the current directory for "example"	find -maxdepth 1 -type f \| xargs grep -F 'example'
Search all the regular files in the current directory for "example"	find -maxdepth 1 -type f \| xargs grep -F 'example'
Search the current directory, except the subdirectory tree ".svn", for files whose name is "foo.cpp"	find . -name 'foo.cpp' '!' -path '.svn'
Search the current directory tree for all files matching pattern "*.rb"	find . -name "*.rb"
Search the current directory tree for files larger than 10MB but smaller than 50MB	find . -size +10M -size -50M -print
Search the current directory tree for files modified less than 5 days ago	find . -mtime -5
Search the current directory tree recursively for the regular file named "myfile" ignoring "work" and "home" directories	find . \( -name work -o -name home \) -prune -o -name myfile -type f -print
search for a files "cart1" in the folder junk which is in home folder and move the folder to ~/junk/A.	find ~/junk -name 'cart1' -exec mv {} ~/junk/A \;
search for a regular/normal file myfile in the folder "/home/weedly"	find /home/weedly -name myfile -type f -print
search for all the c files in the current folder	find . -name \*.c -print
search for all the files in the current folder which start with "my"	find . -name 'my*'
search for all the files with the name "dummy" in the current folder	find -type f -name dummy
search for all the regular/normal files in the current folder which start with "my"	find . -name 'my*' -type f
search for the file "foo.txt" in the entire file system	find / -name foo.txt
search for the file "myfile" in the current folder and display all errors apart from permission denied error	find . -name myfile \|& grep -v 'Permission denied'
search for files in the current folder using name patterns	find . -name '[mM][yY][fF][iI][lL][eE]*'
search for files which are writable by either their owner or their group	find . -perm /220
search for files which are writable by either their owner or their group	find . -perm /u+w,g+w
search for files which are writable by either their owner or their group	find . -perm /u=w,g=w
Search for files whose size is between 100 kilobytes and 500 kilobytes	find . -size +100k -a -size -500k
Search for the pattern 'search string' in all the files in the ''/tmp folder and display the matched lines along with the file names	find /tmp -type f -exec grep 'search string' '{}' /dev/null \+
Search for regular file foo ignoring case	find . -iname foo -type f
Search for regular files of the grooup 'users' in the file system	find / -type f -group users
search for word linux in all the regular/normal files in the folder mail.	find ~/mail -type f \| xargs grep "Linux"
Search the local subdirectory tree of the current working directory and the /tmp directory tree for directories named mydir	find local /tmp -name mydir -type d -print
Search the regular files of the current directory tree for string "foo"	find ./ -type f \| xargs grep "foo"
Search through the /usr/local directory for files that end with the extension .html, and print the file locations.	find /usr/local -name "*.html" -type f
Searches through the htdocs and cgi-bin directories for files that end with the extension .cgi. When these files are found, their permission is changed to mode 755 (rwxr-xr-x).	find htdocs cgi-bin -name "*.cgi" -type f -exec chmod 755 {} \;
Show a listing of files not modified in over 20 days or not accessed in over 40 days	find /mydir \(-mtime +20 -o -atime +40\) -exec ls -l {} \;
show all the files in current directory	find .
show all the mp3 files in the folder /home	find /home -type f -name '*.mp3'
Show the list of all files on the system whose names do not end in ".c"	find / \! -name "*.c" -print
Split "file.tar.gz" into files of size 1024 MB	split -b 1024m file.tar.gz
split content of the files *.txt beginning with 1001st line into pieces per 1000 lines	cat *.txt \| tail -n +1001 \| split --lines=1000
verbosely create intermediate directoriy tmp as required and directory boostinst	mkdir -pv /tmp/boostinst
View manual page of the find command	man find
View manual page of find utility	man find
change group of the file /tmp/php_session to group daemon	chown -R :daemon /tmp/php_session
Change mode of all files ending with ".php" under the current folder to 755 and write the output to the console and "logfile.txt" file	find . -name '*.php' -exec chmod 755 {} \; \| tee logfile.txt
change owner and group of the file dir1 to user root and group specialusers	chown root:specialusers dir1
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 {} \;
Change permissions for all PHP files under the current directory tree to 755 and print the number of files changed	find . -name "*.php" -exec chmod 755 {} + -printf '.' \| wc -c
Change permissions for all PHP files under the current directory tree to 755 and print the number of files changed	find . -name "*.php" -exec chmod 755 {} \; -exec /bin/echo {} \; \| wc -l
change the permissions of all regular/normal files in the file system	chmod 640 `find ./ -type f -print`
Change the permissions of the current directory and all its subdirectories to 755.	find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
Check if $path_in_question is mount point of filesystem	df $path_in_question \| grep " $path_in_question$"
Compresses all '*.xml' files under current directory with 'bzip2' utility.	find -name \*.xml -print0 \| xargs -0 -n 1 -P 3 bzip2
compress all the non-compressed files in the current directory.	find . \! -name "*.Z" -exec compress -f {} \;
Copies all files under the current directory but ones with '/not-from-here/' in path to the '/dest/' directory.	find . -type f -not -iname '/not-from-here/' -exec cp '{}' '/dest/{}' ';'
Counts lines in each *.php file.	wc -l `tree -if --noreport \| grep -e'\.php$'`
Count the number of regular files in the current directory tree	find . -type f \| wc -l
create a md5sum for all the instances of the file MyCProgram.c in current folder	find -iname "MyCProgram.c" -exec md5sum {} \;
create directory /etc/cron.5minute	mkdir /etc/cron.5minute
create directory dirname with permissions 777	mkdir -m 777 dirname
create directories foo and bar	mkdir foo bar
create directories mnt and point	mkdir mnt point
Create intermediate directories "b and "c" as required and directory "c"	mkdir -p a/b/c
Create intermediate directories "full", "path" as required and directory "to"	mkdir -p `dirname /full/path/to/file.txt`
Create intermediate directories as required and directory project/{lib/ext,bin,src,doc/{html,info,pdf},demo/stat/a}	mkdir -p project/{lib/ext,bin,src,doc/{html,info,pdf},demo/stat/a}
Delete all empty directories under test directory	find test -depth -type d -empty -delete
Delete all files/directories named 'FILE-TO-FIND' under current directory tree	find . -name "FILE-TO-FIND" -exec rm -rf {} \;
Delete all files in the current user's home directory and its sub-directories that have not been accessed for more than 100 days.	find ~ -atime +100 -delete
Delete empty directories	find . -type d -empty -delete
Delete file with inode number 314167125	find . -type f -inum 314167125 -delete
Delete files with inode number 782263 under current directory	find . -inum 782263 -exec rm -i {} \;

Print the list of .txt files under and below the current directory

find . -name '*.txt' -print0|xargs -0 -n 1 echo

Print the list of all regular files in the current directory and below

find . -type f

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

ls -lR / | tee output.file

Print out the names of all directories in mydir recursively

find mydir -type d

Print the sorted and unique parent directory paths appended with : of all the files that are executable by owner under ~/code directory without descending into hidden directories

find ~/code -name '.*' -prune -o -type f -a -perm /u+x -printf ':%h\n' | sort | uniq | tr -d '\n'

Print which files differ in "dir_one" and "dir_two" recursively and sort the output

diff -qr dir_one dir_two | sort

Recursively change the owner and group of all files in "public_html" to "owner"

chown -R owner:owner public_html

recursively change owner and group of the directory /vol/html and all files into it to user ec2-user and group apache

sudo chown -R ec2-user:apache /vol/html

Recursively change the owner of all files in "/home/test" to "test"

sudo chown -R test /home/test

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

sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/lib/node_modules/

Recursively change ownership of "/usr/local/lib" to the current user

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

Recursively change the ownership of all files in "/Users/xxx/Library/Developer/Xcode/Templates" to "xxx"

sudo chown -R xxx /Users/xxx/Library/Developer/Xcode/Templates

Recursively delete all files/folders named '.svn' in a current folder.

find . -name .svn -delete

remove all "Foo*" files under current dir

find . -type f -name "Foo*" -exec rm {} \;

Remove all *.log files from the current directory tree

find -name '*.log' -delete

Remove all *.log files from the current directory tree

find ./ -name '*.log' -print0 | xargs -0 rm

Remove all *.log files from the current directory tree

find ./ -name '*.log' | xargs rm

remove all core files in the file system

find / -name "*.core" -print -exec rm {} \;

remove all core files in the file system

find / -name "*.core" | xargs rm

Remove all files with names like "vmware-*.log" from the current directory tree

find . -name "vmware-*.log" -exec rm '{}' \;

Remove all files with names like "vmware-*.log" from the current directory tree

find . -name vmware-*.log -delete

Remove all files with names like "vmware-*.log" from the current directory tree

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

remove all subdirectories named "CVS" under current dir

find . -type d -name CVS -exec rm -r {} \;

Remove with prompting all files that have not been accessed in over 100 days

find /mydir -atime +100 -ok rm {} \;

Rename all directories under current directory by replacing all occurrences of 'Foo' (case insensitive) with 'Bar' in their names

find . -type d -iname '*foo*' -depth -exec rename 's@Foo@Bar@gi' {} +

Replace "inputfile" with a sorted unique list of its contents

sort inputfile | uniq | sort -o inputfile

Report file system containing path to the current working directory disk usage in kilobytes.

df -k .

Report file systems disk usage, elide all entries insignificant to available space, and produce a grand total.

df --total

Report total size of the root filesystem disk usage in powers of 1000.

df -H --total /

Return 0 if file system is mounted on '/full/path'

df /full/path | grep -q /full/path

Save the absolute path of the directory of the current script to variable "DIR"

DIR=$(dirname "$(readlink -f \"$0\")")

Scan every file in /etc for IPV4 addresses while trying to elminate false positives.

find /etc -type f -exec cat '{}' \; | tr -c '.[:digit:]' '\n' | grep '^[^.][^.]*\.[^.][^.]*\.[^.][^.]*\.[^.][^.]*$'

Search the /myfiles directory tree for files last accessed more than 30 days ago

find /myfiles -atime +30

Search /usr/bin for regular files that have been modified within the last 10 days

find /usr/bin -type f -mtime -10

Search all files under and below /etc for IP addresses

find /etc -exec grep '[0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9][0-9]*[.][0-9][0-9]*' {} \;

Search all regular files in the current directory for "example"

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

Search all the regular files in the current directory for "example"

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

Search the current directory, except the subdirectory tree ".svn", for files whose name is "foo.cpp"

find . -name 'foo.cpp' '!' -path '.svn'

Search the current directory tree for all files matching pattern "*.rb"

find . -name "*.rb"

Search the current directory tree for files larger than 10MB but smaller than 50MB

find . -size +10M -size -50M -print

Search the current directory tree for files modified less than 5 days ago

find . -mtime -5

Search the current directory tree recursively for the regular file named "myfile" ignoring "work" and "home" directories

find . $ -name work -o -name home $ -prune -o -name myfile -type f -print

search for a files "cart1" in the folder junk which is in home folder and move the folder to ~/junk/A.

find ~/junk -name 'cart1' -exec mv {} ~/junk/A \;

search for a regular/normal file myfile in the folder "/home/weedly"

find /home/weedly -name myfile -type f -print

search for all the c files in the current folder

find . -name \*.c -print

search for all the files in the current folder which start with "my"

find . -name 'my*'

search for all the files with the name "dummy" in the current folder

find -type f -name dummy

search for all the regular/normal files in the current folder which start with "my"

find . -name 'my*' -type f

search for the file "foo.txt" in the entire file system

find / -name foo.txt

search for the file "myfile" in the current folder and display all errors apart from permission denied error

find . -name myfile |& grep -v 'Permission denied'

search for files in the current folder using name patterns

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

search for files which are writable by either their owner or their group

find . -perm /220

search for files which are writable by either their owner or their group

find . -perm /u+w,g+w

search for files which are writable by either their owner or their group

find . -perm /u=w,g=w

Search for files whose size is between 100 kilobytes and 500 kilobytes

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

Search for the pattern 'search string' in all the files in the ''/tmp folder and display the matched lines along with the file names

find /tmp -type f -exec grep 'search string' '{}' /dev/null \+

Search for regular file foo ignoring case

find . -iname foo -type f

Search for regular files of the grooup 'users' in the file system

find / -type f -group users

search for word linux in all the regular/normal files in the folder mail.

find ~/mail -type f | xargs grep "Linux"

Search the local subdirectory tree of the current working directory and the /tmp directory tree for directories named mydir

find local /tmp -name mydir -type d -print

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

find ./ -type f | xargs grep "foo"

Search through the /usr/local directory for files that end with the extension .html, and print the file locations.

find /usr/local -name "*.html" -type f

Searches through the htdocs and cgi-bin directories for files that end with the extension .cgi. When these files are found, their permission is changed to mode 755 (rwxr-xr-x).

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

Show a listing of files not modified in over 20 days or not accessed in over 40 days

find /mydir $-mtime +20 -o -atime +40$ -exec ls -l {} \;

show all the files in current directory

find .

show all the mp3 files in the folder /home

find /home -type f -name '*.mp3'

Show the list of all files on the system whose names do not end in ".c"

find / \! -name "*.c" -print

Split "file.tar.gz" into files of size 1024 MB

split -b 1024m file.tar.gz

split content of the files *.txt beginning with 1001st line into pieces per 1000 lines

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

verbosely create intermediate directoriy tmp as required and directory boostinst

mkdir -pv /tmp/boostinst

View manual page of the find command

man find

View manual page of find utility

man find

change group of the file /tmp/php_session to group daemon

chown -R :daemon /tmp/php_session

Change mode of all files ending with ".php" under the current folder to 755 and write the output to the console and "logfile.txt" file

find . -name '*.php' -exec chmod 755 {} \; | tee logfile.txt

change owner and group of the file dir1 to user root and group specialusers

chown root:specialusers dir1

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 {} \;

Change permissions for all PHP files under the current directory tree to 755 and print the number of files changed

find . -name "*.php" -exec chmod 755 {} + -printf '.' | wc -c

Change permissions for all PHP files under the current directory tree to 755 and print the number of files changed

find . -name "*.php" -exec chmod 755 {} \; -exec /bin/echo {} \; | wc -l

change the permissions of all regular/normal files in the file system

chmod 640 `find ./ -type f -print`

Change the permissions of the current directory and all its subdirectories to 755.

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

Check if $path_in_question is mount point of filesystem

df $path_in_question | grep " $path_in_question$"

Compresses all '*.xml' files under current directory with 'bzip2' utility.

find -name \*.xml -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 -P 3 bzip2

compress all the non-compressed files in the current directory.

find . \! -name "*.Z" -exec compress -f {} \;

Copies all files under the current directory but ones with '*/not-from-here/*' in path to the '/dest/' directory.

find . -type f -not -iname '*/not-from-here/*' -exec cp '{}' '/dest/{}' ';'

Counts lines in each *.php file.

wc -l `tree -if --noreport | grep -e'\.php$'`

Count the number of regular files in the current directory tree

find . -type f | wc -l

create a md5sum for all the instances of the file MyCProgram.c in current folder

find -iname "MyCProgram.c" -exec md5sum {} \;

create directory /etc/cron.5minute

mkdir /etc/cron.5minute

create directory dirname with permissions 777

mkdir -m 777 dirname

create directories foo and bar

mkdir foo bar

create directories mnt and point

mkdir mnt point

Create intermediate directories "b and "c" as required and directory "c"

mkdir -p a/b/c

Create intermediate directories "full", "path" as required and directory "to"

mkdir -p `dirname /full/path/to/file.txt`

Create intermediate directories as required and directory project/{lib/ext,bin,src,doc/{html,info,pdf},demo/stat/a}

mkdir -p project/{lib/ext,bin,src,doc/{html,info,pdf},demo/stat/a}

Delete all empty directories under test directory

find test -depth -type d -empty -delete

Delete all files/directories named 'FILE-TO-FIND' under current directory tree

find . -name "FILE-TO-FIND" -exec rm -rf {} \;

Delete all files in the current user's home directory and its sub-directories that have not been accessed for more than 100 days.

find ~ -atime +100 -delete

Delete empty directories

find . -type d -empty -delete

Delete file with inode number 314167125

find . -type f -inum 314167125 -delete

Delete files with inode number 782263 under current directory

find . -inum 782263 -exec rm -i {} \;