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Download files and create same file structure as the source

I have a config file which consists of list of URIs I want to download. For example, http://xyz.abc.com/Dir1/Dir3/sds.exe http://xyz.abc.com/Dir2/Dir4/jhjs.exe http://xyz.abc.com/Dir1/itr.exe ...
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How to visualize directory tree structures?

I know I can use tree to show the nested content of a directory. Alas, its output is hardly beautiful as I want to include it in a documentation. So eye-candy is a requirement. So I was wondering if ...
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Why do I get 3048 MB from a 64 MB flash memory?

I have a Linux based STB (set-top-box) and it features a 64 MB flash memory and 256 MB of RAM. I wanted to take a backup of some of my settings before I flash it with another image, but I wasn't sure ...
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Transform directory structure

I have the following folder structure root folder |-al2 |- GER.zip |- ENG.zip |-ww |- GER.zip |- ENG.zip and so on. The folder names are random strings. I want to sort the files in ...
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How does the Linux file structure work?

I see the different folders bin, dev, mnt, proc, srv, sys, etc. What are the properties of all these different folders? What are there purposes? Are there files in some of them that I should not ...
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Find the total size of certain files within a directory branch

Assume there's an image storage directory, say, ./photos/john_doe, within which there are multiple subdirectories, where many certain files reside (say, *.jpg). How can I calculate a summary size of ...
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What's so special about directories whose names begin with a dot?

I was wondering what the difference between these two were: ~/somedirectory/file.txt and ~/.somedirectory/file.txt It's really difficult to ask this on Google since I didn't know how to explain ...