GWHed/nl2bash · Datasets at Hugging Face

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Find smallest file in the current directory with find commad	find . -type f -printf "%s\t%p\n" \| sort -n \|head -1
Find SQL files with text `expression'	find . -name "*.sql" -print0 -type f \| xargs -0 grep "expression"
Find string "STRING" in files residing in the current directory tree, case insensitive	find . -type f -print \| xargs grep -ni "STRING"
Find the string 'joomla' case insensitively in all the php and html files under current directory tree and display the matched lines along with the file names and line numbers	find . \( -name ".php" -o -name ".html" \) -print0 \| xargs -0 grep -Hin "joomla"
Finds strings having text "searched-string" in all files recursively in a current folder.	find . \| xargs grep "searched-string"
Find strings with 'Features' in /var/run/dmesg.boot' file	cat /var/run/dmesg.boot \| grep Features
Finds strings with 'TEXT' from *.log files and prints all but first field from any space-delimited string.	grep -e TEXT *.log \| cut -d' ' --complement -s -f1
Finds strings with text "searched-string" recursively in all files of current folder and prints names of files with matched strings.	grep -r -l "foo" .
Finds string with text "string to be searched" in any cased files like "*.cs" recursively in a current folder.	find ./ -type f -iname "*.cs" -print0 \| xargs -0 grep "content pattern"
Finds strings with text "text" in all files named "string to be searched" recursively in a current folder.	find . -name "string to be searched" -exec grep "text" "{}" \;
Find StringBuffer in all *.java files	find . -type f -name "*.java" -exec grep -l StringBuffer {} \;
find StringBuffer in all *.java files	find . -type f -name "*.java" -exec grep -l StringBuffer {} \;
find StringBuffer in all *.java files, ignoring case	find . -type f -name "*.java" -exec grep -il string {} \;
find suffix tcl files under all directories started with 'n'	find ./n* -name "*.tcl"
Find SUID files	find / -perm +4000
Find SUID files	find / -perm +u=s
Find suspicious PHP files	find . -type f -name "*.php" -exec grep --with-filename "eval(\\|exec(\\|base64_decode(" {} \;
find symbolic link file that name match '*sysdep.c'	find . -lname '*sysdep.c'
Find symbolic links in /usr/lib and /usr/lib64 to files whose pathnames contain "libstdc++"	find /usr/lib/ /usr/lib64/ -lname "libstdc++"
Find symbolic links in /usr/sbin and /usr/bin to files whose pathnames end in "*/systemctl"	find /usr/sbin /usr/bin -lname "*/systemctl"
Find symbolic links in directory /etc and below	find /etc -type l
Find symbolic links in lpi104-6 and research/lpi104-6 to files whose pathnames end in "file1"	find lpi104-6 research/lpi104-6 -lname "*file1"
Find symbolic links under /etc/	find /etc -type l
find symbolic links with pattern` '*sysdep.c'	find . -lname '*sysdep.c'
Find symlinks under and below the "test" directory and replace them with the content of the linked files	find test -type l -exec cp {} {}.tmp$$ \; -exec mv {}.tmp$$ {} \;
Find text in whole directory tree	find . -type f \| xargs grep "text"
Find things changed today	find /path/to/search -daystart -ctime -1
Find the top 25 files according to their size in the current directory and its subdirectories	find . -type f -exec ls -al {} \; \| sort -nr -k5 \| head -n 25
find the top 25 files in the current directory and its subdirectories	find . -type f -exec ls -al {} \; \| sort -nr -k5 \| head -n 25
Find the top 5 big files	find . -type f -exec ls -s {} \; \| sort -n -r \| head -5
Find the top 5 biggest files	find . -type f -exec ls -s {} \; \| sort -n -r \| head -5
Find the top 5 small files	find . -type f -exec ls -s {} \; \| sort -n \| head -5
Find the total size of *.jpg files within the current directory tree	find . -type f -iname '*.jpg' -print0 \| du -c --files0-from=-
Find the total size of *.jpg files within the directory tree ./photos/john_doe	find ./photos/john_doe -type f -name '*.jpg' -exec du -ch {} + \| grep total$
find the type & description of all the regular/normal files in the home folder	find /home -type f -print0 \| xargs -0 file
find the type of all the regular/normal files in the current folder	find . -type f -exec file {} \;
find the type of all the regular/normal files in the current folder	find . -type f \| xargs file
find the type of all the regular/normal files in the current folder (plus takes bulk of files as input to the file command)	find . -type f -exec file {} \+;
Find user daniel's files of type jpeg	find . -user daniel -type f -name *.jpg
Find user daniel's files of type jpeg without `autumn' in the name	find . -user daniel -type f -name .jpg ! -name autumn
Find users whose names begin with "ab" and ends with "1"	who \| cut -d ' ' -f 1 \| grep -e '^ab' -e '1$'
Find users whose names begin with "ab" or whose terminal from which they are logged in ends with "1"	who \| grep -e '^ab' -e '1$'
Find which ruby files under current directory contain the string 'jump'	find . -name '*.rb' -exec grep -H jump {} \;
Find with combine multiple search criterias , in this command serach files that begin with abc in there name and dont have .py extension .	find . -type f -name 'abc' ! -name '.py'
Find writable regular files in the current directory	find -type f -maxdepth 1 -writable
Find writable regular files in the current directory	find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -writable
Find writable regular files omitting those that contain sites/default/files in their names	find . -type f -writable \| grep -v sites/default/files
Find x* files/directories under /tmp directory whose status was changed less than 1 day ago	find /tmp/ -ctime -1 -name x*
Find x* files/directories under /tmp directory whose status was changed less than 1 day ago and move them to ~/play	find /tmp/ -ctime -1 -name "x*" -exec mv '{}' ~/play/
Find x* files/directories under /tmp directory whose status was changed less than 1 day ago and move them to ~/play	find /tmp/ -ctime -1 -name "x*" \| xargs -I '{}' mv '{}' ~/play/
Find x* files/directories under /tmp directory whose status was changed less than 1 day ago and move them to ~/play	find /tmp/ -ctime -1 -name 'x*' -print0 \| xargs -r0 mv -t ~/play/
Fix files to default permissions 644	find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
Fix permissions for a group of files with given extension	find /usr/local -name "*.html" -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
Follows symbolic link $BASH_SOURCE, and prints path to its target.	$(dirname $(readlink -f $BASH_SOURCE))
Follow symbolic links for the full path of "lshw"	readlink -f $(which lshw)
For each item in array "alpha", display the basename, that is the part following the last slash, or the whole item if no slash is present.	basename -a "${alpha[@]}"
For each line in file2 whose first field appears as a first field in file1, print an output line constructed following the specified -o format.	join -11 -21 -o1.1,1.2,1.3,2.3 file1 file2
For each line of colon-separated information in files 'empsal' and 'empname' whose first field matches in both files, output: first field of empname, second field of empname, fourth field of empname, and third field of empsal.	join -j 1 -t : -o 2.1,2.2,2.4,1.3 <(sort empsal) <(sort empname)
For each line of the sorted output of both file1 and file2, print lines whose first field of file2 does not appear as first field of file1.	join -v1 <(sort file1) <(sort file2)
For each line which has a common first field in file1.csv and file2.txt, output the first 4 fields of file1.csv	join -o 1.1,1.2,1.3,1.4 -t, <(sort file1.csv) <(sort file2.txt)
For each line which has a common first field in file1.csv and file2.txt, output the first 4 fields of file1.csv - both files must be sorted first.	join -o 1.1,1.2,1.3,1.4 -t, file1.csv file2.txt
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 <(sort test.1) <(sort test.2)
For each line whose first field is the same in file1 and file2, output the common first field followed by all other fields in file1 and file2.	join -j1 file2 file1
Force create a hard link in "/usr/local/bin" to "findpdftext"	sudo ln -f "findpdftext" /usr/local/bin
Force create a hard link named "non_secret_file.txt" to "secret_file.txt"	ln -f secret_file.txt non_secret_file.txt
Force create a hard link named '/home/user/Musik/youtube converted/aesthesys~ I Am Free, That Is Why I'"'"'m Lost..mp3' with target '/home/user/Musik/mix-2012-13/aesthesys~ I Am Free, That Is Why I'"'"'m Lost..mp3'	ln -f '/home/user/Musik/mix-2012-13/aesthesys~ I Am Free, That Is Why I'"'"'m Lost..mp3' '/home/user/Musik/youtube converted/aesthesys~ I Am Free, That Is Why I'"'"'m Lost..mp3'
Force create a symbolic link as a file named "/usr/lib/jvm/default-java" to "$default_java_dir" with verbose output	sudo ln -sTfv "$default_java_dir" "/usr/lib/jvm/default-java"
Force create a symbolic link named "$*" to the canonical absolute path of "$1"	ln -sf "$(readlink -f "$1")" "$*"
Force create a symbolic link named "$lines" to "$c" without dereferencing "$lines"	ln -sfn "$c" "$lines"
Force create a symbolic link named "$pdir" to "$pluginpath" with verbose output	sudo ln --symbolic --verbose --force "$pluginpath" "$pdir"
Force create a symbolc link named "/usr/local/bin/fpt" to "/usr/local/bin/findpdftext"	sudo ln -s -f "/usr/local/bin/findpdftext" "/usr/local/bin/fpt"
Force create a symbolic link named "currentDir" to "newDir" without dereferencing "currentDir"	ln -sfn newDir currentDir
Force create a symbolic link named "id_rsa" to "$keyname"	ln -sf $keyname id_rsa
Force create a symbolic link named "mylink" with target "/apps/myapps/new/link/target"	ln -f -s /apps/myapps/new/link/target mylink
Force create a symbolic link to "$f" in "~/my-existing-links/" with name the basename of "$f"	ln -sf "$f" "~/my-existing-links/$(basename $f)"
Force create a symbolic link without dereferencing named "$SYMLINK_PATH" to "$lastModified"	ln -nsf $lastModified $SYMLINK_PATH
Force create a symbolic link without dereferencing named "alpha" to "alpha_2"	ln -nsf alpha_2 alpha
Force create a symbolic link without dereferencing named "mylink" to "dir2"	ln -nsf dir2 mylink
force create hard link between $GIT_DIR/../apresentacao/apresentacao.pdf and $GIT_DIR/../capa/apresentacao.pdf	ln -f $GIT_DIR/../apresentacao/apresentacao.pdf $GIT_DIR/../capa/apresentacao.pdf
Force decompress all files into '/etc'	gzip -d --force * /etc
force delete all the core files in the home folder	find $HOME -name core -exec rm -f {} \;
force delete all the directories the folder "test folder"	find 'Test Folder' -type d -print0 \| xargs -0 rm -rf
Forcefully delete all files in the current directory that begin with spam-	find . -name 'spam-*' \| xargs rm
Force delete all files in the current folder	find . \| xargs -i rm -f "{}"
force delete all the files in the current folder expect xml files	find . \| grep -v xml \| xargs rm -rf {}
Force delete all files in the temp folder which have not been accesses in the last 240 hours	find /tmp/* -atime +10 -exec rm -f {} \;
Force delete all jpg files in current directory which are less than 50KB and do not search in the sub directories	find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*.jpg" -size -50k -exec rm {} \;
Force delete all jpg files in current directory which are less than 50KB and do not search in the sub directories	find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*.jpg" -size -50k \| xargs rm -f
force delete all the regular/normal files in the current folder	find . -type f -exec rm -fv {} \;
Force delete all the regular/normal files in the current folder and do not search in the sub folders	find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec rm -f {} \;
Force delete all the regular/normal files in the current folder and do not search in the sub folders (print0 is used to handle files which have newlines in their names or files with the name only as spaces )	find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -print0 \| xargs rm -f
force delete all the regular files with the name "test.txt"	find /home -type f -name test.txt -exec rm -f {} \
force delete all the temp files which are of size 0 bytes and which have not been accessed in the last 10 days	find /tmp -size 0 -atime +10 -exec rm -f {} \;
Force the group stickiness for directories under /var/www	find /var/www -type d -print0 \| xargs -0 chmod g+s
Force pseudo tty allocation on connection to "somehost" and execute "~/bashplay/f"	ssh -t somehost ~/bashplay/f
force remove all the c files in the current folder	find . -name "*.c" \| xargs rm -rf
force remove all the c files in the current folder, print0 is used to handle all files with new lines in their names or files with only spaces in their name	find . -name "*.c" -print0 \| xargs -0 rm -rf
force remove all the directories with the name logs in the folder /var/www	find /var/www -type d -mtime 0 -name logs -exec sudo rm -fr {} \;
Force remove all files and folders in the physical current working directory	rm -rf "$(pwd -P)"/*
force remove all the regular/normal files which begin with sess in the temp folder	find /tmp -type f -name sess* -exec rm -f {} \;

Find smallest file in the current directory with find commad

find . -type f -printf "%s\t%p\n" | sort -n |head -1

Find SQL files with text `expression'

find . -name "*.sql" -print0 -type f | xargs -0 grep "expression"

Find string "STRING" in files residing in the current directory tree, case insensitive

find . -type f -print | xargs grep -ni "STRING"

Find the string 'joomla' case insensitively in all the php and html files under current directory tree and display the matched lines along with the file names and line numbers

find . $ -name "*.php" -o -name "*.html" $ -print0 | xargs -0 grep -Hin "joomla"

Finds strings having text "searched-string" in all files recursively in a current folder.

find . | xargs grep "searched-string"

Find strings with 'Features' in /var/run/dmesg.boot' file

cat /var/run/dmesg.boot | grep Features

Finds strings with 'TEXT' from *.log files and prints all but first field from any space-delimited string.

grep -e TEXT *.log | cut -d' ' --complement -s -f1

Finds strings with text "searched-string" recursively in all files of current folder and prints names of files with matched strings.

grep -r -l "foo" .

Finds string with text "string to be searched" in any cased files like "*.cs" recursively in a current folder.

find ./ -type f -iname "*.cs" -print0 | xargs -0 grep "content pattern"

Finds strings with text "text" in all files named "string to be searched" recursively in a current folder.

find . -name "string to be searched" -exec grep "text" "{}" \;

Find StringBuffer in all *.java files

find . -type f -name "*.java" -exec grep -l StringBuffer {} \;

find StringBuffer in all *.java files

find . -type f -name "*.java" -exec grep -l StringBuffer {} \;

find StringBuffer in all *.java files, ignoring case

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

find suffix tcl files under all directories started with 'n'

find ./n* -name "*.tcl"

Find SUID files

find / -perm +4000

Find SUID files

find / -perm +u=s

Find suspicious PHP files

find . -type f -name "*.php" -exec grep --with-filename "eval(\|exec(\|base64_decode(" {} \;

find symbolic link file that name match '*sysdep.c'

find . -lname '*sysdep.c'

Find symbolic links in /usr/lib and /usr/lib64 to files whose pathnames contain "libstdc++"

find /usr/lib/ /usr/lib64/ -lname "*libstdc++*"

Find symbolic links in /usr/sbin and /usr/bin to files whose pathnames end in "*/systemctl"

find /usr/sbin /usr/bin -lname "*/systemctl"

Find symbolic links in directory /etc and below

find /etc -type l

Find symbolic links in lpi104-6 and research/lpi104-6 to files whose pathnames end in "file1"

find lpi104-6 research/lpi104-6 -lname "*file1"

Find symbolic links under /etc/

find /etc -type l

find symbolic links with pattern` '*sysdep.c'

find . -lname '*sysdep.c'

Find symlinks under and below the "test" directory and replace them with the content of the linked files

find test -type l -exec cp {} {}.tmp$$ \; -exec mv {}.tmp$$ {} \;

Find text in whole directory tree

find . -type f | xargs grep "text"

Find things changed today

find /path/to/search -daystart -ctime -1

Find the top 25 files according to their size in the current directory and its subdirectories

find . -type f -exec ls -al {} \; | sort -nr -k5 | head -n 25

find the top 25 files in the current directory and its subdirectories

find . -type f -exec ls -al {} \; | sort -nr -k5 | head -n 25

Find the top 5 big files

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

Find the top 5 biggest files

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

Find the top 5 small files

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

Find the total size of *.jpg files within the current directory tree

find . -type f -iname '*.jpg' -print0 | du -c --files0-from=-

Find the total size of *.jpg files within the directory tree ./photos/john_doe

find ./photos/john_doe -type f -name '*.jpg' -exec du -ch {} + | grep total$

find the type & description of all the regular/normal files in the home folder

find /home -type f -print0 | xargs -0 file

find the type of all the regular/normal files in the current folder

find . -type f -exec file {} \;

find the type of all the regular/normal files in the current folder

find . -type f | xargs file

find the type of all the regular/normal files in the current folder (plus takes bulk of files as input to the file command)

find . -type f -exec file {} \+;

Find user daniel's files of type jpeg

find . -user daniel -type f -name *.jpg

Find user daniel's files of type jpeg without `autumn' in the name

find . -user daniel -type f -name *.jpg ! -name autumn*

Find users whose names begin with "ab" and ends with "1"

who | cut -d ' ' -f 1 | grep -e '^ab' -e '1$'

Find users whose names begin with "ab" or whose terminal from which they are logged in ends with "1"

who | grep -e '^ab' -e '1$'

Find which ruby files under current directory contain the string 'jump'

find . -name '*.rb' -exec grep -H jump {} \;

Find with combine multiple search criterias , in this command serach files that begin with abc in there name and dont have .py extension .

find . -type f -name 'abc*' ! -name '*.py'

Find writable regular files in the current directory

find -type f -maxdepth 1 -writable

Find writable regular files in the current directory

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -writable

Find writable regular files omitting those that contain sites/default/files in their names

find . -type f -writable | grep -v sites/default/files

Find x* files/directories under /tmp directory whose status was changed less than 1 day ago

find /tmp/ -ctime -1 -name x*

Find x* files/directories under /tmp directory whose status was changed less than 1 day ago and move them to ~/play

find /tmp/ -ctime -1 -name "x*" -exec mv '{}' ~/play/

Find x* files/directories under /tmp directory whose status was changed less than 1 day ago and move them to ~/play

find /tmp/ -ctime -1 -name "x*" | xargs -I '{}' mv '{}' ~/play/

Find x* files/directories under /tmp directory whose status was changed less than 1 day ago and move them to ~/play

find /tmp/ -ctime -1 -name 'x*' -print0 | xargs -r0 mv -t ~/play/

Fix files to default permissions 644

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

Fix permissions for a group of files with given extension

find /usr/local -name "*.html" -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;

Follows symbolic link $BASH_SOURCE, and prints path to its target.

$(dirname $(readlink -f $BASH_SOURCE))

Follow symbolic links for the full path of "lshw"

readlink -f $(which lshw)

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[@]}"

For each line in file2 whose first field appears as a first field in file1, print an output line constructed following the specified -o format.

join -11 -21 -o1.1,1.2,1.3,2.3 file1 file2

For each line of colon-separated information in files 'empsal' and 'empname' whose first field matches in both files, output: first field of empname, second field of empname, fourth field of empname, and third field of empsal.

join -j 1 -t : -o 2.1,2.2,2.4,1.3 <(sort empsal) <(sort empname)

For each line of the sorted output of both file1 and file2, print lines whose first field of file2 does not appear as first field of file1.

join -v1 <(sort file1) <(sort file2)

For each line which has a common first field in file1.csv and file2.txt, output the first 4 fields of file1.csv

join -o 1.1,1.2,1.3,1.4 -t, <(sort file1.csv) <(sort file2.txt)

For each line which has a common first field in file1.csv and file2.txt, output the first 4 fields of file1.csv - both files must be sorted first.

join -o 1.1,1.2,1.3,1.4 -t, file1.csv file2.txt

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 <(sort test.1) <(sort test.2)

For each line whose first field is the same in file1 and file2, output the common first field followed by all other fields in file1 and file2.

join -j1 file2 file1

Force create a hard link in "/usr/local/bin" to "findpdftext"

sudo ln -f "findpdftext" /usr/local/bin

Force create a hard link named "non_secret_file.txt" to "secret_file.txt"

ln -f secret_file.txt non_secret_file.txt

Force create a hard link named '/home/user/Musik/youtube converted/aesthesys~ I Am Free, That Is Why I'"'"'m Lost..mp3' with target '/home/user/Musik/mix-2012-13/aesthesys~ I Am Free, That Is Why I'"'"'m Lost..mp3'

ln -f '/home/user/Musik/mix-2012-13/aesthesys~ I Am Free, That Is Why I'"'"'m Lost..mp3' '/home/user/Musik/youtube converted/aesthesys~ I Am Free, That Is Why I'"'"'m Lost..mp3'

Force create a symbolic link as a file named "/usr/lib/jvm/default-java" to "$default_java_dir" with verbose output

sudo ln -sTfv "$default_java_dir" "/usr/lib/jvm/default-java"

Force create a symbolic link named "$*" to the canonical absolute path of "$1"

ln -sf "$(readlink -f "$1")" "$*"

Force create a symbolic link named "$lines" to "$c" without dereferencing "$lines"

ln -sfn "$c" "$lines"

Force create a symbolic link named "$pdir" to "$pluginpath" with verbose output

sudo ln --symbolic --verbose --force "$pluginpath" "$pdir"

Force create a symbolc link named "/usr/local/bin/fpt" to "/usr/local/bin/findpdftext"

sudo ln -s -f "/usr/local/bin/findpdftext" "/usr/local/bin/fpt"

Force create a symbolic link named "currentDir" to "newDir" without dereferencing "currentDir"

ln -sfn newDir currentDir

Force create a symbolic link named "id_rsa" to "$keyname"

ln -sf $keyname id_rsa

Force create a symbolic link named "mylink" with target "/apps/myapps/new/link/target"

ln -f -s /apps/myapps/new/link/target mylink

Force create a symbolic link to "$f" in "~/my-existing-links/" with name the basename of "$f"

ln -sf "$f" "~/my-existing-links/$(basename $f)"

Force create a symbolic link without dereferencing named "$SYMLINK_PATH" to "$lastModified"

ln -nsf $lastModified $SYMLINK_PATH

Force create a symbolic link without dereferencing named "alpha" to "alpha_2"

ln -nsf alpha_2 alpha

Force create a symbolic link without dereferencing named "mylink" to "dir2"

ln -nsf dir2 mylink

force create hard link between $GIT_DIR/../apresentacao/apresentacao.pdf and $GIT_DIR/../capa/apresentacao.pdf

ln -f $GIT_DIR/../apresentacao/apresentacao.pdf $GIT_DIR/../capa/apresentacao.pdf

Force decompress all files into '/etc'

gzip -d --force * /etc

force delete all the core files in the home folder

find $HOME -name core -exec rm -f {} \;

force delete all the directories the folder "test folder"

find 'Test Folder' -type d -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

Forcefully delete all files in the current directory that begin with spam-

find . -name 'spam-*' | xargs rm

Force delete all files in the current folder

find . | xargs -i rm -f "{}"

force delete all the files in the current folder expect xml files

find . | grep -v xml | xargs rm -rf {}

Force delete all files in the temp folder which have not been accesses in the last 240 hours

find /tmp/* -atime +10 -exec rm -f {} \;

Force delete all jpg files in current directory which are less than 50KB and do not search in the sub directories

find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*.jpg" -size -50k -exec rm {} \;

Force delete all jpg files in current directory which are less than 50KB and do not search in the sub directories

find . -maxdepth 1 -name "*.jpg" -size -50k | xargs rm -f

force delete all the regular/normal files in the current folder

find . -type f -exec rm -fv {} \;

Force delete all the regular/normal files in the current folder and do not search in the sub folders

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec rm -f {} \;

Force delete all the regular/normal files in the current folder and do not search in the sub folders (print0 is used to handle files which have newlines in their names or files with the name only as spaces )

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -print0 | xargs rm -f

force delete all the regular files with the name "test.txt"

find /home -type f -name test.txt -exec rm -f {} \

force delete all the temp files which are of size 0 bytes and which have not been accessed in the last 10 days

find /tmp -size 0 -atime +10 -exec rm -f {} \;

Force the group stickiness for directories under /var/www

find /var/www -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod g+s

Force pseudo tty allocation on connection to "somehost" and execute "~/bashplay/f"

ssh -t somehost ~/bashplay/f

force remove all the c files in the current folder

find . -name "*.c" | xargs rm -rf

force remove all the c files in the current folder, print0 is used to handle all files with new lines in their names or files with only spaces in their name

find . -name "*.c" -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf

force remove all the directories with the name logs in the folder /var/www

find /var/www -type d -mtime 0 -name logs -exec sudo rm -fr {} \;

Force remove all files and folders in the physical current working directory

rm -rf "$(pwd -P)"/*

force remove all the regular/normal files which begin with sess in the temp folder

find /tmp -type f -name sess* -exec rm -f {} \;