⌨️ Linux Command Builder

🎯 Preset

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🧰 Tool

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⚡ Quick example

📝 Parameters

No parameters required.

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📤 Generated command

{{ command || '# Pick a tool and fill in parameters to generate a command.' }}

⚠️ Warnings

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📁 Files this command reads / writes

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📖 Flag-by-flag explanation

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ℹ️ About Linux Command Builder

What this builder does

The Linux Command Builder assembles invocations for the eleven utilities you reach for on the command line every day: find, grep, sed, awk, rsync, tar, curl, ssh, scp, ffmpeg, and ImageMagick's convert. Pick a tool, fill the relevant fields, and the page emits a shell-quoting-safe command line, a per-flag explanation table, a list of files the command will read or write, and warnings for destructive or insecure choices.

The page never executes the command — it only generates the text. Copy the result into your own shell to run it. Every user-supplied path, pattern, or value is single-quoted (POSIX style) so that a malformed payload cannot produce a broken or unsafe command.

Tools this builder covers

  • find — recursive tree walk with name/type/size/mtime filters and -print / -print0 / -delete / -exec actions.
  • grep — content search with recursive (-r), case-insensitive (-i), line numbers (-n), counts (-c), invert (-v), context (-C), regex (-E) and fixed-string (-F) modes.
  • sed — stream editor with in-place (-i) editing, backup suffix, extended regex (-E), and quiet (-n) modes.
  • awk — pattern/action programs with custom field separator (-F).
  • rsync — archive mode (-a), delete extras (--delete), dry-run, excludes, SSH key + non-default port.
  • tar — create / extract / list with gzip, bzip2, xz, or zstd compression; exclude patterns; --strip-components.
  • curl — full HTTP control: method, headers, body, basic / bearer auth, redirects, max-time, output file, verbose / silent / insecure flags.
  • ssh — identity file, non-default port, local / remote / dynamic port forwarding, agent forwarding, host-key checks, verbose mode, remote command.
  • scp — recursive, preserve modes, non-default port (uppercase -P), identity file, compression.
  • ffmpeg — input/output paths, video / audio codec, bitrate, scale, start time, duration, strip audio or video.
  • ImageMagick convert — resize, quality, rotate, blur, grayscale, strip metadata, format conversion.

Warnings the builder surfaces

  • find -delete is destructive — preview matches with -print first; there is no recycle bin.
  • rsync --delete will erase files in the destination that are absent from the source — always pair with --dry-run on the first run.
  • curl -k disables TLS verification entirely; only use it against local self-signed test endpoints.
  • ssh -i with a permissive key file mode is rejected by OpenSSH — chmod 600 the key first.
  • sed -i without a backup suffix is GNU-only; on macOS / BSD use -i '' (empty argument) or supply a backup suffix like .bak.
  • rsync source without trailing slash copies the directory itself, not its contents — a common foot-gun.
  • scp uses uppercase -P for port; ssh uses lowercase -p — easy to confuse.

Shell-quoting rules used by this tool

Every user-supplied value passes through a POSIX-safe single-quote escape: empty strings become '', alphanumeric / dot / dash / underscore / slash / colon / at / percent / plus / equals are passed through verbatim, and anything else is wrapped in single quotes with embedded single quotes escaped via the close-quote / literal-quote / open-quote idiom (O'Reilly → 'O'\''Reilly'). This keeps the generated commands safe to copy/paste into any POSIX shell.

Source references

API Usage Example:

POST /api/tools/linux/linux-command-builder
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "tool": "find",
    "fields": {
        "path": ".",
        "size": "+100M",
        "mtime": "-7",
        "fileType": "f"
    }
}
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