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rsync all directories that start with a specific digit

I have directory loaded with thousands of sub directories: /home/tmp/ 1 12 123 1234 2345 234 3456 345 34 ...
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Copying a directory to multiple users home dir and changing user/group ownership

On my Ubuntu server there are about 150 shell accounts. All usernames begin with the prefix u12.. I have root access and I am trying to copy a directory named "somefiles" to all the home directories. ...
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Copy file from Windows shared folder to Unix

I am totally new to Unix. I am writting a script which will copy files from a Windows shared folder to Unix. In Windows, when I type \\Servername.com\testfolder in Run command I am able to see ...
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Will files created under source directory after running `cp` be copied?

Suppose I use cp to copy a directory to another place. If the process takes long, and I create a new file under the source directory, will it be copied, or it depends? Thanks!
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Copying files between users Using Telnet

How to copy a file from home directory User A to home directory of User B using telnet.
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Insert selected filename while copying in Midnight Commander

Is it possible to paste the selected filename into the copy popup, so when I hit F5 this filename will be in the 'to' section, so I can adjust it? For example: I want to copy ...
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File manager with spring-loaded folders?

One thing I miss about Finder, Mac OS X's file manager, is the spring-loaded folder function where if you drag a file(s) over another folder long enough, the folder would open and you can "navigate" ...
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How to configure character encoding in OpenFT?

When transferring files over: http://ts.fujitsu.com/products/software/openseas/openft.html then the charset of files get's scrumbled...I can't seem to find any character encoding settings, how to ...
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Creating the first backup

I heard that rsync isn't the best one when creating the first backup in terms of performance. Instead it is the best for the later backups. So I wonder what are some better commands for creating the ...
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How to copy files nested in directories that match a pattern?

I'm looking to copy files from subdirectories that match this pattern vendor/plugin/*/tasks/*.rake into a folder lib/tasks I think that this could be done several ways, but wanted to see if a ...
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USB copy hangs for a while when reach the 100%

When I copy files of a considerable size (for example right now one of 689MB) to a USB stick, the copy hangs at 100% for 5 min or more. I have tried both Nautilus and rsync --progress. With the ...
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how to copy files from windows to linux witout password using a script or program?

I did this to copy files between Windows and Linux. C:\Documents and Settings\668340\My Documents\putty>pscp "C:\Documents and Settings\563456\abc.txt" "auto_root@10.39.5.41:/home/auto/" But it ...
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Is there a command line utility that copy files with progress information? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: move files with progress bar cp gets the job done but it would be nice if it had a little more feedback. Are there any utilities out there that do this? Personally, my ...
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Using .. and . to copy files from dirctories

I'm trying to copy a file from the home directory to the current directory( which is a subdirectory of a directory in home) using .. and . instead of path names or ~ This is what I tried, but it ...
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Copyed mysql files from previous system now error while connect, what to do?

Fist of all I have the files but the old system is gone. I took the folders in /var/lib/mysql/ and gave then the permissions the mysql folder that was in there had. user mysql group root only ...

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