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Create a symbolc link in the /system/folder1 to root folder
ln /system/folder1 -s /
Remove files in the /system directory tree modified more than 31 days ago recursively
find /system -type f -mtime +31 -print0 | xargs -0 -r rm -f
Write the current date and time followed by " 1" to the console and append to "/system/folder3/temp/empty.txt"
echo $(date) "1" | tee -a /system/folder3/temp/empty.txt
Concatenate all .txt files residing in the /system tree into a single file "/system/folder3/temp/empty.txt"
find /system -name "*.txt" -exec cat {} \; > /system/folder3/temp/empty.txt
compresses all the files in the /system folder with default depth to /backup
find /system -depth -print | cpio -dump /backup
Copy all files in the /system directory except those containing 'text' to '/system/folder3/backup_dbg/backup'.
find /system -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*text*' -exec cp {} /system/folder3/backup_dbg/backup \;
Rename "/system/folder3/temp/temp1" to "/system/folder3/temp/temp1_old" and backup to "/system/folder3/temp/temp1_old.old" if "/system/folder3/temp/temp1_old" exists
mv /system/folder3/temp/temp1 /system/folder3/temp/temp1_old -b -S .old
Dump "/system/text1.txt" as ASCII characters
od -t c /system/text1.txt
create a compressed archive of /system/folder1 "compress_folder1.tar.gz" with verbose output
tar -zcvf compress_folder1.tar.gz /system/folder1
download content from "http://example.com/textfile.txt" and output to 'textfile.txt' in /system
curl http://example.com/textfile.txt -o /system/textfile.txt
Search in /system downwards all files whose size is 10 bytes ( Characters ) .
find /system -size 10c -print
Calculate the md5sum of each ".txt" file under "/system", sort the output, and calculate the md5sum of that
find /system -type f -name '*.txt' -exec md5sum {} + | awk '{print $1}' | sort | md5sum
Search for the system host name in "/etc/hosts" and print the IP address in the first awk field
more /etc/hosts | grep `hostname` | awk '{print $1}'
find files in /workspace directory which are modified 30 days ago
find /workspace -daystart -type f -mtime -30
find files in the /workspace directory with pattern` *.c that larger than 1 Kilobytes
find /workspace -name '*.c' -size +1k -print
find files in the /workspace directory and sub-directories, that changed within last hour
find /workspace -cmin -60
find files in the /workspace directory and sub-directories, that were accessed within last hour
find /workspace -amin -60
list all the drectories present in the /workspace directory and do not search in the sub directories.
find /workspace -maxdepth 1 -type d
list all the files in the /workspace directory which are of size 0 bytes.
find /workspace -empty
list all zero-length files under the /workspace directory
find /workspace -empty -exec ls {} \;
locate and remove large files (> 1 KB) in /workspace
find /workspace -type f -size +1k -delete
long list al the files in the /workspace directory which have only read permission to the group
find /workspace -perm 400 -type f -exec ls -l {} \;
long list al the files in the /workspace directory which have all the permissions
find /workspace -perm 777 -type f -exec ls -l {} \;
long list the details of all the shell scripts in /workspace directory
find /workspace -name "*.sh" -exec ls -ld {} \;
move all files in the /workspace folder to / and do not move the files in the sub folder
find /workspace -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec mv -t / {} +
move files in /workspace accessed more than one day ago to directory /
find /workspace -atime +1 -type f -exec mv {} / \;
print all filenames of files under /workspace/dir1 dir containing 'hello', case-insensitive
find /workspace/dir1 -type f -exec grep -il 'hello' {} \;
print disk usage of files or folders in /workspace
du -sh /workspace
print the last word in /workspace/dir1/long.txt
tac /workspace/dir1/long.txt | awk 'NF{print $NF; exit}'
print top 3 largest files and /workspace
du -a /workspace | sort -nr | head -3
prints first line of "/workspace/dir1/long.txt"
head -n1 /workspace/dir1/long.txt
prints the last non-empty line of "/workspace/dir1/a.txt"
tac /workspace/dir1/a.txt | grep -m 1 '.'
prune all the files in the /workspace directory
find /workspace -prune
search for all the files in the /workspace directory which have size greater than 1KB (approx) and less than 32KB(approx).
find /workspace -size +1000c -size -32000c -print
search for all the files in the /workspace folder and sort them in the order of their depth and display the file names
find /workspace -type d -printf '%d\t%P\n' | sort -r -nk1 | cut -f2-
search for all the files in the /workspace folder which are bigger than 1KB and display them biggest file
find /workspace -size +1k -exec ls -ls {} \+ | sort -n | tail -1
search for text files in the /workspace folder which do not have write access to others
find /workspace -type f \( -iname "*.txt" -not -perm -o=w \)
search for the directory "mysql" in the entire file system
find /workspace -name mysql -type d
Print a list of all duplicate case insensitive filenames in the /workspace directory tree
find /workspace -type f | awk -F/ '{print $NF}' | sort -f | uniq -i -d
search for the file foo in the /workspace folder and display a long listing of it in sorted order of modification date
find /workspace -name foo | xargs ls -tl
search for the word "hello" in all the regular/normal files in the /workspace folder and display the matched file name
find /workspace -type f | xargs grep -l "hello"
Calculate the md5 sum of all files in the /workspace directory with the filename printed first
ls -p | grep -v /workspace | xargs md5sum | awk '{print $2,$1}'
Calculate the md5 sum of the contents of all files sorted in directory tree "/workspace"
find /workspace -type f | sort -u | xargs cat | md5sum
Change directory to the alphabetically last path under the /workspace directory
cd $(find /workspace -type d -print0 | sort -z | tr '\0' '\n' | tail -1)
Count the number of unique 3 to 6 character file extensions are in the /workspace directory tree
find /workspace -type f -name "*.*" | grep -o -E "\.[^\.]+$" | grep -o -E "[[:alpha:]]{3,6}" | awk '{print tolower($0)}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
Create a copy of the /workspace directory structure in the /usr directory,
find /workspace -type d -print|sed 's@^@/usr/@'|xargs mkdir -p
Display a long listing of the oldest file under '/workspace' directory tree
find /workspace -printf "%T@ %p\n" | sort -n | head -1 | cut -d" " -f2- | xargs ls -al
Find the largest 2 directories under /workspace directory
find /workspace -type d -print0 | xargs -0 du | sort -n | tail -2 | cut -f2 | xargs -I{} du -sh {}
List all files with their paths that have identical content in /workspace directory
find /workspace -type f | xargs md5sum | sort | uniq -Dw32
Make directories for each unique file path in "/workspace/files.txt"
cat /workspace/files.txt |xargs -I {} dirname "{}"| sort -u | xargs -I{} mkdir -p "{}"
Print the total disk usage in bytes of all files listed in "/workspace/files.txt"
cat /workspace/files.txt | xargs du -c | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}'
Unhide all hidden files in the /workspace directory
find /workspace -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '.*' -exec sh -c 'mv "$0" "${0%/\.*}/${0##*/.}"' {} \;
Count the number of differing lines in "/workspace/dir1/long.txt" and "/workspace/dir1/terminate.txt"
diff /workspace/dir1/long.txt /workspace/dir1/terminate.txt | grep ^[\>\<] | wc -l
Count the number of differing lines in "/workspace/dir1/terminate.txt" and "/workspace/dir1/long.txt" with 0 lines of unified context
diff -U 0 /workspace/dir1/terminate.txt /workspace/dir1/long.txt | grep -v ^@ | wc -l
Counts lines in file /workspace/dir1/a.txt ignoring empty lines and lines with spaces only.
awk '!/^[[:space:]]*$/{++x} END{print x}' /workspace/dir1/a.txt
Create a symbolic link in directory "~/newlinks" for each file listed in "/workspace/results.txt"
cat /workspace/results.txt | xargs -I{} ln -s {} ~/newlinks
Delete all hidden files under /workspace
find /workspace -type f -name '.*' -delete
Determine if /workspace/dir2/mysql/ exists on a mounted file system.
df /workspace/dir2/mysql/
Display a dump of "/workspace/dir1/long.txt" as floating point values of double size
od -t fD /workspace/dir1/long.txt
Display differences between list of files in /workspace/dir1 and /workspace/dir2.
diff <(ls /workspace/dir1) <(ls /workspace/dir2)
Display the file size of file '/workspace/dir1/sum.c' in bytes
du -sb /workspace/dir1/sum.c | cut -f1
Display the last slash-separated part of each filename path in /workspace/dir1/file.txt
rev /workspace/dir1/file.txt | cut -d/ -f1 | rev
Display the sizes and filepaths of all files/directories in /workspace directory sorted in descending order of size
du /workspace -a -h --max-depth=1 | sort -hr
Print percentage of the space used on the /workspace directory.
df -k /workspace | tail -1 | awk '{print $5}'
Print the contents of "/workspace/dir1/long.txt" in reverse order
nl /workspace/dir1/long.txt | sort -nr | cut -b8-
Create an empty file "Icon" with a carriage return character in the end of its name.
echo $'Icon\r' | xargs touch
Create a symbolc link in the /workspace/dir1 to root folder
ln /workspace/dir1 -s /
Display permissions, user, group, and full path for each file in the /workspace directory tree
tree /workspace -p -u -g -f
Search for 'hello' case insensitively in all files under /workspace directory tree and show the matched lines with their filenames
find /workspace -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -iH "hello"
Split the output of "/workspace/archive.tar.gz" into files of at most 10 MiB in size and use prefix "output_prefix"
tar -xf /workspace/archive.tar.gz | split -b 10M -d - /output_prefix
Unpack all *.gz archives in the /workspace directory tree
find /workspace -name '*.gz' -print0 | xargs -0 gunzip
Uncompress "/workspace/archive.tar.gz" and extract the archive to "/backup"
gzip -dc /workspace/archive.tar.gz | tar -xf - -C /backup
Create a symbolic link to "/workspace/dir1/terminate.txt" named "/workspace/test"
ln /workspace/dir1/terminate.txt /workspace/test
Retrieve only build number of current kernel, ie. #104
uname -v | grep -o '#[0-9]\+'
Print reverse lookup for adress 127.0.0.1
dig -x 127.0.0.1
List file information of the full path of command "c++"
ls -ald `which c++`
Extract host name part from "http://www.google.com"
echo "http://www.google.com" | cut -d'/' -f3
List environment variables and their values, escaping all semicolons with a backslash.
env | sed 's/;/\\;/g'
Displays a tree of all process alongside their command line arguments.
pstree -a
Create intermediate directories "dir" and "subdir" as required and create "subsubdir"
mkdir -p dir/subdir/subsubdir
Change to the directory of the executable "python"
cd `dirname $(which python)`
Print numbers 1 through 10 separated by ":"
yes | head -n10 | grep -n . | cut -d: -f1 | paste -sd:
print all readline bindings
bind -P
list names of bind functions containing "p"
bind -l | grep p
List all files on smbfs mounts
mount -v | grep smbfs | awk '{print $3}' | xargs ls -ls
Save first IP address of domain 'google.com' in 'address' variable and display it
address=$(dig +short google.com | grep -E '^[0-9.]+$' | head -n 1) && echo $address
Remove all characters except ";" and digits from the string " Hello world;876 "
echo ' Hello world;876 ' | tr -cd ';0-9'
Remove leading and trailing spaces or tabs from " Hello world! "
echo ' Hello world! ' | sed -e 's/^[ \t]*//' | sed -e 's/[ \t]*$//'
Remove the last 3 characters from "987654321"
echo 987654321 | rev | cut -c 4- | rev
Print source of the file system containing current working directory.
df . | tail -1 | awk '{print $1}'
List all variables (names only) with names containing "H".
env | awk -F= '{if($1 ~ /H/) print $1}'
Print a list of unique users who are logged in
who | cut -d' ' -f1 | sort | uniq
Ping hostname, grep for 192.168.11 and print the IP from the output
ping -c 1 hostname | grep 192.168.11 | grep 'bytes from' | awk '{print $4}' | sed 's/://g'
Print a line of 99 '=' characters
seq -s= 100|tr -d '[:digit:]'
Counts all business days in a current month.
cal -h | cut -c 4-17 | tail -n +3 | wc -w
Count number of users logged in
who | awk -F' ' '{print $1}' | sort -u | wc -l
Displays calendar of a previous, current and next month for December of 2120 year.
cal -3 12 2120
Extract, sort and print only group names from /etc/group.
cut -d: -f1 /etc/group | sort
Store system load average number in the 'proc_load_average' variable and print it.
proc_load_average=$(w | head -n 1 | awk '{print $NF}' | tr ',' '.') && echo $proc_load_average
Calculate the sum of all the numbers from 1 to 10
seq 10 | jq -s 'add'