A file system structure in which to store computer files.
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enable apache mod rewrites to load clean-urls
In CentOS, a2enmod rewrite results in “command not found” but httpd -M lists rewrite module as listed and shared. I'm trying to enable it so can then have these rewrite rule apply so I can switch back ...
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cat files in current folder and all subfolders
I want to cat a file in current folder and all files in all subfolders (and subsubfolders).
Here is my directory structure
$ tree
.
├── f
│ └── foo
└── yo
I want to cat foo and yo.
I've tried ...
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Dir diff and removal
Is there a simple way to (recursively) remove all files from a directory A that are identical (same name and same hash) to files in directory B while preserving the structure?
e.g. A/file1 gets ...
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Walking through files in directory randomly
How to change for track in *.mp3; do so that all .mp3 files in the current directory are walked through but in a random way?
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find command: how to ignore pathname?
I have to find some type of files in a directory and it's subdirectories and I only have to print out the filenames.
So here's the main command:
find -type f -name "*.c"
Now, how could I cut the ...
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The result of ls * , ls ** and ls ***
I know using the command ls will list all the directories. But what does the ls * command do ? I used it and it just lists the directories. Is the star in front of ls means how deep it can list the ...
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4answers
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Find and copy directories containing file type
I have a directory "Movies" containing subdirectories "Movie Name". Each subdirectory "Movie Name" contains a movie file and related image/nfo files etc.
I'm trying to copy all directories containing ...
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Passing multiple directories to the -prune option in find
I am using find to locate and delete backup files but wish to exclude certain directories from the search. The backup filenames could terminate in .bck, bak, ~, or backup.
The Minimal Working Example ...
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How can I delete a hardlink to a directory?
Before I get 100s of answers that tell me it is impossible to hardlink directories in linux: yes, I know that.
The file in question appeared in lost+fount after I checked the filesystem with e2fsck ...
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1answer
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ACL, ls, “permission denied” and a lot of questionmarks
I have two users, Alice and Bob. Bob should be allowed to list, ls, Alice's home directory. Alice also has a file in her home directory that Bob should also be allowed to read.
I run these commands ...
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Script to monitor folder for new files?
How do I detect new files in a folder with a bash script? I would like to process the files as soon as they are created in the folder. Is this possible to do so or do I have to schedule a script with ...
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How do I get the MD5 sum of a directory's contents as one sum?
The md5sum program does not provide checksums for directories. I want to get a single MD5 checksum for the entire contents of a directory, including files in sub-directories. That is, one combined ...
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centos httpd.conf set different ip for a directory
I have 3 ips in my server, i want use them to increase twitter api limits.
How to set a different ip for a directory in centos 6.1 httpd.conf (apache 2.3.1)
I added these line in the bottom of ...
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What does the .d stand for in directory names?
I know many directories with .d in their name:
init.d
yum.repos.d
conf.d
Does it mean directory? If yes, from what does this disambiguate?
UPDATE: I've had many interesting answers about what the ...
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1answer
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Share a directory over FTP with chroot_local enabled
I'm using vsftpd. By default, when I create a user, they are jailed in their directory which is /home/user.
I have enabled chroot_local_user=YES.
On the other hand, I also wanted to create a shared ...
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0answers
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How to get a pointer for an inode of a file [migrated]
In order to add some security measure for Linux kernel I am trying to add extra flags in the inode structure.
A system call would check this flag if its set for a certain file.
So how can I access ...
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2answers
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I can not remove folder from server
Accidentall I created the folder on remotely server (Server OS is Linux) using php: mkdir("folder_name",0);
Now I can not delete this folder from server. I think this is from permission, because 0 is ...
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Is it possible to make multi-level directory? [duplicate]
Using mkdir() (the C function) I can create a 1-level directory, if I want to create multi_level directory like:
folder/subfolder/subsubfolder
is it possible? if so, how?
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Best way run a command on each file in a directory tree
There appear be a number of ways to do this including loops in shell script, find and xargs. Which of these is best, and which is most portable?
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2answers
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rm -fr not working
I have a directory that was generated by mistake by an application and this directory has a structure that involves more than 2000 directories, one inside a another, something like:
Directory aaaa ...
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2answers
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How to set default file permissions for all folders/files in a directory?
I want to set a folder such that anything created within it (directories, files) inherit default permissions and group.
Lets call the group "media". And also, the folders/files created within the ...
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4answers
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Find directories that do not contain subdirectories
I'm writing script is ksh. Need to find all directory names directly under the current directory which contain only files, not subdirectories.
I know that I could use ls -alR and recursively parse ...
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using root to mkdir in another users home directory
having a bit of a difficult time trying to create a folder under another user's /home/devuser1/pubic_html folder. I'm trying to avoid using sudo and looking for an alternative. The permissions on the ...
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1answer
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Error writing /home/alessiomtx/.config/tint2/tint2rc: Not a directory
I need to edit my ~/.config/tint2/tint2rc because the file is blank and so I don't have tint2 shown in my desktop, but when I try to save I have this error:
[ Errore durante la scrittura di ...
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2answers
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Permissions for FTP directory: Inherit directory owner
I am making multiple folders for users (userA/, userB/, etc.) where anyone can create/read a file/folder in any directory (userC can make fileX inside userA/). However, only the directory's owner can ...
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How can I create a /dev/null-like “blackhole” directory?
I would like to create a "/dev/null" directory (or a "blackhole" directory) such that any files written to it are not really written, but just disappear.
I have an application that writes out large ...
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Rsync adding a “?” at the beginning of directories
I currently have many of these commands running in a .sh file that looks like this:
rsync -avz -e ssh --rsh='ssh -p1337' --bwlimit=10000 root@DestinationIP:/home/backup /home/localbackup
rsync -avz ...
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1answer
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Directory stack order in zsh
I am working on Zsh 5.0.2 (latest stable version), and I noticed that:
dirs -v
and
cd -<TAB>
show a different list of directories (or at least directories in different order).
Moreover, ...
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8answers
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remove content of directory in elegant way
I would like to remove all content of the current working directory.
How to do it in efficient and elegant way?
I have several files, directories and some of them starts with dot, like:
touch .abc; ...
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4answers
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Is there a command to list files, exclude sub-directories and display size and date?
Before I begin please assume I have only basic knowledge in UNIX. Basic meaning I have only started reading about it since last week for a work related purpose.
I have been experimenting with the ls ...
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1answer
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Listing both ls information and mount points of a directory?
On my Ubuntu Natty, typically all new drives inserted (e.g. USB Flash thumbdrives) are mounted under /media. So, on my system, I can do something like this:
$ mount | grep '/media'
/dev/sda6 on ...
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How to strip directory structure with command line (or script)
I have a large collection of files packed into a two-level directory structure with many, many, many folders.
In other words, I have a folder with a great many subfolders in it. There are no ...
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Apache created files and its permissions for CentOS 6.x
In short, I have an authenticated HTTP-POST that:
posts a jpg image (created as 666 apache:www) into /directory1 (777 ftpuser:www)
creates /directory2 (created as 666 apache:www) in a 777 ...
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3answers
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What has happened to the file when I entered “mv file.txt ../”?
I wanted to move 'file.txt' one folder up, but instead of mv file.txt ../file.txt I entered mv file.txt ../.
Now the file is gone and I didn't get any error message. So it seems the some action was ...
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1answer
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How do I manually modify an inode?
I am using Ubuntu Linux and, just for fun, I want to create a hardlink to a directory (as seen here). Because I'm just doing this for fun, I'm not looking for any sort of pre-developed ...
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1answer
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Why is the output of find sorted in Cygwin but not in Solaris?
I wonder why find does not behave in the same way in Solaris as in Cygwin or Linux.
I have a bunch of directories that have files called CS##########. Each # is a digits but there are always 10 ...
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increasing a logical volume
I need to increase the logical volume of the var directory, the maximum size of var right now is 10GB, I need to make it 50GB. I have a Centos 6 server.
The output of df -h is:
Filesystem ...
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mark or color empty directories for `ls`
ls's -F flag allows to see the types of file and distinguish directories. Is there a way to add a functionality to distinguish an empty directory?
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How do I remove all sub-directories from within a directory?
This question is kind of a phase II to the first question I posted at here
I have a directory that contains a bunch of sub-directories, .zip files, and other random files not contained within a ...
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1answer
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how are directories implemented in UNIX filesystem?
This question is extension to How are directories implemented in Unix filesystems?
I'm aiming to implement basic filesystem: After reading inode number and name we come to know Name of file and hence ...
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Why do . and .. have a file size of 4 kB and 12 kB, respectively? [duplicate]
As displayed by ls -al, for example:
drwxr-xr-x 9 jb jb 4.0K Mar 8 18:05 ./
drwx------ 49 jb jb 12K Mar 17 14:15 ../
I assume this is the minimum amount of space required to store the inode's ...
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What does size of a directory mean in output of 'ls -l' command?
What does size of a directory mean in output of ls -l command?
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“Recently used” directories and files in bash
In Firefox under Ubuntu, when I try to save some webpages to my local computer by Ctrl+S, there will be a window popping out for me to select the destination, where I can choose "Recently Used" ...
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1answer
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Using '@' for a directory name
Though Unix/Linux will technically allow any character in file and directory names, using punctuation is almost always fraught with peril due to the extensive use the O/S makes of punctuation for ...
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move a directory with a single character (back quote) as its name [duplicate]
How can I move a directory whose name is just a space?
ls -lah
drwx------ 4 user1 user1 8.0K Mar 13 14:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 60 Mar 13 13:48 ..
drwx------ 18 user1 user1 4.0K Mar 13 11:18 ...
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How to recursively find the amount stored in directory?
I know you are able to see the byte size of a file when you do a long listing with ll or ls -l. But I want to know how much storage is in a directory including the files within that directory and the ...
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Why can't I navigate into my Documents directory?
I'm in bash and running F17 as su. My pwd is
/home/user
and when I ls I see
Desktop Documents Downloads Music Pictures Public Templates Videos
However, I'm unable to cd into any of these. My ...
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Determining number of files in a directory without counting them
Related: What's the best way to count the number of files in a directory?
I have a system with a largish number of files in a directory
$ ls -god xml
drwxrwsrwx 7 7070720 Mar 12 11:51 xml
...
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Reorder folders on FAT32 drive
My car can read MP3 files from a FAT32 flash drive. I have a folder for each artist on the drive, then MP3 files in those folders.
However the car does not read the folders alphabetically, but by the ...
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2answers
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PATH work with relative directories
I'm trying to get a program to work that isn't in my distro's package manager. It doesn't provide a makefile or sources, just binaries. If I copy the whole folder to /usr/local and then add that to ...
