GWHed/nl2bash · Datasets at Hugging Face

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Delete recursively empty files named 'bad'	find . -name bad -empty -delete
display ten files in the current directory	find \| head
display all files in current folder which have not been modified in the last 60 minutes	find -mmin +60
display all the files in the home folder that have been modified in the last 24 hours	find $HOME -mtime -1
display all the regular/normal files in the entire file system	find / -type f -exec echo {} \;
Display detailed usage help of the 'cp' (copy) command.	cp --help
Display differences between list of files in /bin and /usr/bin.	diff <(ls /bin) <(ls /usr/bin)
display the list of all the text files present in the current directory excluding the search in certain paths.	find . -type f -name ".txt" ! -path "./Movies/" ! -path "./Downloads/" ! -path "./Music/" -ls
Display system information: kernel name, hostname, kernel release and version, machine architecture, processor type, hardware platform, and operating system type.	uname -a
display the version of find	find --version
Execute the 'echo' command on each file from the current directory tree individually	find . -exec echo {} \;
Extract the second-to-last slash-separated path component, ie. "90_2a5" in this case.	echo 'test/90_2a5/Windows' \| xargs dirname \| xargs basename
Find *.html files in the current directory tree that were last modified more than 7 days ago	find . -mtime +7 -name "*.html" -print
Find the 5 largest regular files in the Downloads folder of tecmint's home directory.	find /home/tecmint/Downloads/ -type f -exec du -Sh {} + \| sort -rh \| head -n 5
Find a directory named 'project.images' in the entire filesystem	find / -type d -name "project.images"
Find all $2 files in $1 path excluding /proc and search for the regex expanded by $3 in those files	find $1 -path /proc -prune -o -name "$2" -print -exec grep -Hn "$3" {} \;
Find all *.jpg files and copy them to /	find / -type f -name *.jpg -exec cp {} . \;
Find all *stat files/directories under /usr	find /usr -name *stat
Find all .c, .h files in the current directory tree and search them for string "expr"	find . -name '*.[ch]' \| xargs grep -E 'expr'
Find all .txt files in the user's home directory and below.	find ~/ -name '*.txt'
Find all 777 permission files and use chmod command to set permissions to 644	find / -type f -perm 0777 -print -exec chmod 644 {} \;
Find all directories containing 'linux' in their names under '/root' directory tree	find /root -type d -iname "linux"
find all directories in the current directory	find . -type d
find all the directories in the current folder which have been modified in 24 hours and move them to the folder /path/to/target-dir	find . -depth -type d -mtime 0 -exec mv -t /path/to/target-dir {} +
find all the directories in the current folder which have been modified in 24 hours and move them to the folder /path/to/target-dir	find . -type d -mtime -0 -exec mv -t /path/to/target-dir {} +
find all the directories in the current folder which have been modified in 24 hours and move them to the folder /path/to/target-dir	find . -type d -mtime -0 -print0 \| xargs -0 mv -t /path/to/target-dir
find all the directories in the current folder which have been modified in 24 hours and move them to the folder /path/to/target-dir	find . -type d -mtime 0 -exec mv {} /path/to/target-dir \;
find all the directories in the entire file system whose size is greater than 50KB	find / -type d -size +50k
Find all empty files under a certain path	find /tmp -type f -empty
Find all Executable files in the file system	find / -perm /a=x
Find all files and directories containing "disc" in their names	find . -name disc
Find all files/directories in entire file system more than 700 Megabytes	find / -size +700M
Find all files/directories named 'FindCommandExamples.txt' under '/root' directory tree	find /root -name FindCommandExamples.txt
Find all files/directories named 'file1' under current directory tree	find . -name file1 -print
Find all files/directories named file1 in maximum 2 levels down the current directory	find -maxdepth 2 -name file1
Find all files, folders, symlinks, etc matching pattern "*.php" in the current directory recursively	find . -name \*.php
Finds all files having text "texthere" recursively in a current folder, and precedes found string with string number in file and file name.	find -type f -exec grep -Hn "texthere" {} +
find all the files in the current folder which which have been modified yesterday and day before yesterday and whose name is of length 1	find . -name \? -daystart -mtime +0 -mtime -3
Find all the files in entire file system which are accessed 50 days back	find / -atime 50
Find all the files in file system which are accessed 50 days back	find / -atime 50
Find all the files in file system which are accessed in last 1 hour	find / -amin -60
find all files in the file system with the permissions 777 and having the word "filename" in their name.	find / -perm 777 -iname "filename"
find all the files in the filesystem which do not belong to any group	find / -nogroup -print
Find all files in the home directory tree that are owned by another user	find ~ ! -user ${USER}
find all files in the home folder that are modified in the last 24 hours	find $HOME -mtime -1
Find all files named "something" in the current folder and below and run them through the ls -l command, one by one.	find . -name something -exec ls -l {} \;
Find all files named "test2" in the current directory tree	find -name test2
Find all the files named 'vimrc' anywhere on the system	find / -name vimrc
Find all files that contain the case insensitive regex 'stringtofind' in maximum 1 level down the / directory without descending into other partitions	find / -maxdepth 1 -xdev -type f -exec grep -li stringtofind '{}' \;
Find all the files that end with the extension “.java” in the current directoy tree	find . -name "*.java"
Find all files that have the SUID bit set	find / -perm -u+s -print
find all the files that have the word "fstab" in their name in a folder	find /etc -name fstab
Find all files under current directory	find -type f
Find all files under current directory	find . -type f
Find all files under current directory	find . -type f -print
Find all files under current directory that were modified less than 1 day ago	find -mtime -1
Find all files under current directory whose status was changed less than 3 days ago and show last 5 lines of output	find . -type f -ctime -3 \| tail -n 5
Find all the files whose name is FindCommandExamples.txt in the current working directory	find /root -name FindCommandExamples.txt
Find all the files whose permissions are 777	find . -type f -perm 0777 -print
Find all files with the name "MyProgram.c" in the current directory and its sub-directories while ignoring the case of the file name.	find -iname "MyCProgram.c"
Find all file.ext files/directories under current directory with "FooBar" in their paths and copy them into the current directory	find . -name "file.ext"\| grep "FooBar" \| xargs -i cp -p "{}" .
Find all foo.mp4 files in the current directory tree	find ./ -name "foo.mp4" -exec echo {} \;
Find all hidden files	find /tmp -type f -name ".*"
find all the log files in the file system which are present in the current partition	find / -xdev -name "*.log"
find all the perl files in the current folder and search for a pattern	find . -name '*.pl' \| xargs grep -L '^use strict'
Find all readme.txt files/directories under your home directory	find ~ -name readme.txt
Find all regular files with '.txt' extension excluding 'README.txt' files under current directory tree	find . -type f -name "*.txt" ! -name README.txt -print
Find all regular files with 755 permission under current directory tree and change their permission to 644	find . -type f -perm 755 -exec chmod 644 {} \;
Find all SGID files in entire file system	find / -perm +2000
Find all SGID files in entire file system	find / -perm +g=s
Find all symbolic links containg 'vim' in their names under '/usr/bin' directory tree	find /usr/bin -name 'vim' -type l
find all the text files in the current folder	find . -name "*.txt" -print
find all txt files under the current folder except ./misc folder	find . -path ./misc -prune -o -name '*.txt' -print
find and delete all the empty directories in the current folder and all its sub directories too	find . -depth -empty -type d -delete
find and delete all the files in the entire file system whose size is greater than 100MB.	find / -size +100M -exec rm -rf {} \;
Find directories modified in last 7 days	find . -mtime -7 -type d
Find every vim undo file in the current directory tree	find -type f -iname '*.un~'
Find file `foo.bar' and delete it	find /home -name foo.bar -type f -exec rm -f "{}" ';'
Find files/directories greater than 10MB in your home directory	find ~ -size +10M
Find files and directories in the /tmp/ tree that contain spaces in their names and replace those spaces with underscores	find /tmp/ -depth -name "* *" -execdir rename 's/ /_/g' "{}" \;
Find files/directories in entire file system with at least 644 permission	find / -perm -644
Find files/directories named 'aaa.txt' under current directory tree	find . -name aaa.txt
Find files and directories that are at least seven levels of nesting in the directory /usr/src excluding CVS directory	find /usr/src -name CVS -prune -o -depth +6 -print
Find files/directories that is under group 'root' or have no group and set their group to 'apache'	find /var/www -group root -o -nogroup -print0 \| xargs -0 chown :apache
Find files/directories that does not have write permssion for group or others	find /path ! -perm -022
Find files in the /home/user directory tree changed exactly 10 minutes ago	find /home/user/ -cmin 10 -print
Find files in the current directory recursively that are not readable by all	find -type f ! -perm -444
Find files in the current directory tree that are named "some_pattern" and move them to directory "target_location"	find . -name some_pattern -print0 \| xargs -0 -i mv {} target_location
Find files in the current directory tree whose status was changed within the last 60 minutes	find . -cmin -60
Find files modified within the past 24 hours	find . -mtime 0
Find files named tecmint.txt of owner root in the entire file system	find / -user root -name tecmint.txt
find the file with inode $inum under the current directory and delete it	find . -inum $inum -exec rm {} \;
Find out all hard links in the /home directory to file1	find /home -xdev -samefile file1
find the regular/normal file "myfile" in the folder /root	find /root/ -name myfile -type f
Find regular files larger than 500MB in the current directory tree	find . -type f -size +500M
Find regular files modified within the last ten minutes under /etc	find /etc -type f -mmin -10
find regular which case-insensitive name is foo in current directory	find . -iname foo -type f
Find writable files in the current directory tree	find . -writable
Fix files to default permissions 755	find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
Give all files in the /path/to/base/dir tree read privileges	find /path/to/base/dir -type f -exec chmod 644 {} +

Delete recursively empty files named 'bad'

find . -name bad -empty -delete

display ten files in the current directory

find | head

display all files in current folder which have not been modified in the last 60 minutes

find -mmin +60

display all the files in the home folder that have been modified in the last 24 hours

find $HOME -mtime -1

display all the regular/normal files in the entire file system

find / -type f -exec echo {} \;

Display detailed usage help of the 'cp' (copy) command.

cp --help

Display differences between list of files in /bin and /usr/bin.

diff <(ls /bin) <(ls /usr/bin)

display the list of all the text files present in the current directory excluding the search in certain paths.

find . -type f -name "*.txt" ! -path "./Movies/*" ! -path "./Downloads/*" ! -path "./Music/*" -ls

Display system information: kernel name, hostname, kernel release and version, machine architecture, processor type, hardware platform, and operating system type.

uname -a

display the version of find

find --version

Execute the 'echo' command on each file from the current directory tree individually

find . -exec echo {} \;

Extract the second-to-last slash-separated path component, ie. "90_2a5" in this case.

echo 'test/90_2a5/Windows' | xargs dirname | xargs basename

Find *.html files in the current directory tree that were last modified more than 7 days ago

find . -mtime +7 -name "*.html" -print

Find the 5 largest regular files in the Downloads folder of tecmint's home directory.

find /home/tecmint/Downloads/ -type f -exec du -Sh {} + | sort -rh | head -n 5

Find a directory named 'project.images' in the entire filesystem

find / -type d -name "project.images"

Find all $2 files in $1 path excluding /proc and search for the regex expanded by $3 in those files

find $1 -path /proc -prune -o -name "$2" -print -exec grep -Hn "$3" {} \;

Find all *.jpg files and copy them to /

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

Find all *stat files/directories under /usr

find /usr -name *stat

Find all .c, .h files in the current directory tree and search them for string "expr"

find . -name '*.[ch]' | xargs grep -E 'expr'

Find all .txt files in the user's home directory and below.

find ~/ -name '*.txt'

Find all 777 permission files and use chmod command to set permissions to 644

find / -type f -perm 0777 -print -exec chmod 644 {} \;

Find all directories containing 'linux' in their names under '/root' directory tree

find /root -type d -iname "*linux*"

find all directories in the current directory

find . -type d

find all the directories in the current folder which have been modified in 24 hours and move them to the folder /path/to/target-dir

find . -depth -type d -mtime 0 -exec mv -t /path/to/target-dir {} +

find all the directories in the current folder which have been modified in 24 hours and move them to the folder /path/to/target-dir

find . -type d -mtime -0 -exec mv -t /path/to/target-dir {} +

find all the directories in the current folder which have been modified in 24 hours and move them to the folder /path/to/target-dir

find . -type d -mtime -0 -print0 | xargs -0 mv -t /path/to/target-dir

find all the directories in the current folder which have been modified in 24 hours and move them to the folder /path/to/target-dir

find . -type d -mtime 0 -exec mv {} /path/to/target-dir \;

find all the directories in the entire file system whose size is greater than 50KB

find / -type d -size +50k

Find all empty files under a certain path

find /tmp -type f -empty

Find all Executable files in the file system

find / -perm /a=x

Find all files and directories containing "disc" in their names

find . -name *disc*

Find all files/directories in entire file system more than 700 Megabytes

find / -size +700M

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

find /root -name FindCommandExamples.txt

Find all files/directories named 'file1' under current directory tree

find . -name file1 -print

Find all files/directories named file1 in maximum 2 levels down the current directory

find -maxdepth 2 -name file1

Find all files, folders, symlinks, etc matching pattern "*.php" in the current directory recursively

find . -name \*.php

Finds all files having text "texthere" recursively in a current folder, and precedes found string with string number in file and file name.

find -type f -exec grep -Hn "texthere" {} +

find all the files in the current folder which which have been modified yesterday and day before yesterday and whose name is of length 1

find . -name \? -daystart -mtime +0 -mtime -3

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

find / -atime 50

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

find / -atime 50

Find all the files in file system which are accessed in last 1 hour

find / -amin -60

find all files in the file system with the permissions 777 and having the word "filename" in their name.

find / -perm 777 -iname "filename"

find all the files in the filesystem which do not belong to any group

find / -nogroup -print

Find all files in the home directory tree that are owned by another user

find ~ ! -user ${USER}

find all files in the home folder that are modified in the last 24 hours

find $HOME -mtime -1

Find all files named "something" in the current folder and below and run them through the ls -l command, one by one.

find . -name something -exec ls -l {} \;

Find all files named "test2" in the current directory tree

find -name test2

Find all the files named 'vimrc' anywhere on the system

find / -name vimrc

Find all files that contain the case insensitive regex 'stringtofind' in maximum 1 level down the / directory without descending into other partitions

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

Find all the files that end with the extension “.java” in the current directoy tree

find . -name "*.java"

Find all files that have the SUID bit set

find / -perm -u+s -print

find all the files that have the word "fstab" in their name in a folder

find /etc -name *fstab*

Find all files under current directory

find -type f

Find all files under current directory

find . -type f

Find all files under current directory

find . -type f -print

Find all files under current directory that were modified less than 1 day ago

find -mtime -1

Find all files under current directory whose status was changed less than 3 days ago and show last 5 lines of output

find . -type f -ctime -3 | tail -n 5

Find all the files whose name is FindCommandExamples.txt in the current working directory

find /root -name FindCommandExamples.txt

Find all the files whose permissions are 777

find . -type f -perm 0777 -print

Find all files with the name "MyProgram.c" in the current directory and its sub-directories while ignoring the case of the file name.

find -iname "MyCProgram.c"

Find all file.ext files/directories under current directory with "FooBar" in their paths and copy them into the current directory

find . -name "file.ext"| grep "FooBar" | xargs -i cp -p "{}" .

Find all foo.mp4 files in the current directory tree

find ./ -name "foo.mp4" -exec echo {} \;

Find all hidden files

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

find all the log files in the file system which are present in the current partition

find / -xdev -name "*.log"

find all the perl files in the current folder and search for a pattern

find . -name '*.pl' | xargs grep -L '^use strict'

Find all readme.txt files/directories under your home directory

find ~ -name readme.txt

Find all regular files with '.txt' extension excluding 'README.txt' files under current directory tree

find . -type f -name "*.txt" ! -name README.txt -print

Find all regular files with 755 permission under current directory tree and change their permission to 644

find . -type f -perm 755 -exec chmod 644 {} \;

Find all SGID files in entire file system

find / -perm +2000

Find all SGID files in entire file system

find / -perm +g=s

Find all symbolic links containg 'vim' in their names under '/usr/bin' directory tree

find /usr/bin -name '*vim*' -type l

find all the text files in the current folder

find . -name "*.txt" -print

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

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

find and delete all the empty directories in the current folder and all its sub directories too

find . -depth -empty -type d -delete

find and delete all the files in the entire file system whose size is greater than 100MB.

find / -size +100M -exec rm -rf {} \;

Find directories modified in last 7 days

find . -mtime -7 -type d

Find every vim undo file in the current directory tree

find -type f -iname '*.un~'

Find file `foo.bar' and delete it

find /home -name foo.bar -type f -exec rm -f "{}" ';'

Find files/directories greater than 10MB in your home directory

find ~ -size +10M

Find files and directories in the /tmp/ tree that contain spaces in their names and replace those spaces with underscores

find /tmp/ -depth -name "* *" -execdir rename 's/ /_/g' "{}" \;

Find files/directories in entire file system with at least 644 permission

find / -perm -644

Find files/directories named 'aaa.txt' under current directory tree

find . -name aaa.txt

Find files and directories that are at least seven levels of nesting in the directory /usr/src excluding CVS directory

find /usr/src -name CVS -prune -o -depth +6 -print

Find files/directories that is under group 'root' or have no group and set their group to 'apache'

find /var/www -group root -o -nogroup -print0 | xargs -0 chown :apache

Find files/directories that does not have write permssion for group or others

find /path ! -perm -022

Find files in the /home/user directory tree changed exactly 10 minutes ago

find /home/user/ -cmin 10 -print

Find files in the current directory recursively that are not readable by all

find -type f ! -perm -444

Find files in the current directory tree that are named "some_pattern" and move them to directory "target_location"

find . -name some_pattern -print0 | xargs -0 -i mv {} target_location

Find files in the current directory tree whose status was changed within the last 60 minutes

find . -cmin -60

Find files modified within the past 24 hours

find . -mtime 0

Find files named tecmint.txt of owner root in the entire file system

find / -user root -name tecmint.txt

find the file with inode $inum under the current directory and delete it

find . -inum $inum -exec rm {} \;

Find out all hard links in the /home directory to file1

find /home -xdev -samefile file1

find the regular/normal file "myfile" in the folder /root

find /root/ -name myfile -type f

Find regular files larger than 500MB in the current directory tree

find . -type f -size +500M

Find regular files modified within the last ten minutes under /etc

find /etc -type f -mmin -10

find regular which case-insensitive name is foo in current directory

find . -iname foo -type f

Find writable files in the current directory tree

find . -writable

Fix files to default permissions 755

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

Give all files in the /path/to/base/dir tree read privileges

find /path/to/base/dir -type f -exec chmod 644 {} +