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Is there a way to determine the optimal value for the bs parameter to dd?
On occasion I've seen comments online along the lines of "make sure you set 'bs=' because the default value will take too long," and my own extremely-unscientific experiences of, "well that seemed to ...
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How can I copy a subset of files from a directory while preserving the folder structure?
I want to move some subset of files from dirA to dirB (let's say files with "blah" in the filename), but I want all the nested directories to be the same in the new location. How can I do that?
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Copying large tree from one machine to another, maintaining ownership
I am trying to copy a large folder structure between machines. I want to maintain the ownership/rights during the copy as it is not reasonable to 'fix' the privs afterwards.
Therefore, I am using the ...
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read only access to all files in a specific sub-folder
I have got a specific folder located in "/home/.../reboot/". I have a series of users that require read-only access to the ever changing files within. My problem is that the same users are not ...
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How to clone/copy all file/directory attributes onto different file/directory?
I want to copy the attributes (ownership, group, ACL, extended attributes, etc.) of one directory to another but not the directory contents itself.
This does not work:
cp -v --attributes-only A B
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