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How to move a directory, file by file? (instead of “copy then remove”)
My computer has one 500GB drive.
I want to move 400GB of data from /unencrypted to /encrypted.
Both directories are on the same partition, but /encrypted is handled by ecryptfs, so mv /uncrypted/* ...
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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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Copy and paste a file/directory from command line
Instead of using the following command:
cp {source file} {dest file}
I want to be able to copy a file into the clipboard, and paste it somewhere else, in another directory. something like this:
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How do I copy all files and directories except certain ones over ssh?
Using the Linux command line, I use the scp command to copy up all the files and folders from a certain directory. However, I don't like to consume wasted bandwidth for copying up things I rarely ...
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Copying large files in Linux
What is the effect of copying a file say fileA.big (900mb) from location B to locationC. If during that cp operation, say 35% through the process, fileA.big is appended with new information and grows ...
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How can I copy a file and create the target directories at the same time?
I want to cp aaa/deep/sea/blob.psd to bbb/deep/sea/blob.psd
How do I do the copy if the deep and sea directories don't exist under bbb so that the copy both creates the directories that are needed ...
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Best way to continue stopped move (mv) by merging directories?
I have moved (mv) a pretty large directory on my NAS (Linux based), but had to interrupt the procedure. Not being a regular Linux user, I though I could just continue and merge the rest later in.
mv ...
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How can you move (or copy) all files to a directory with the same filename prefix?
Using Bash
So let's say I have a bunch of files randomly placed in a parent directory ~/src, I want to grab all the files matching a certain suffix and move (or copy) them to a ~/dist directory.
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Easiest way to duplicate directory over FTP
I want to duplicate a directory on an FTP server I'm connected to from my Mac via the command-line
Let's say I have file. I want to have files2 with all of file's subdirectories and files, in the ...
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How can you move (or copy) all files of a certain type to a directory in Unix?
I'm not very familiar with all the tricks of grep/find/awk/xargs quite yet.
I have some files matching a particular pattern, say *.xxx. These files are in random places throughout a certain ...
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Resume interrupted copying process
How to resume securely and reliably process of copying file $A into backup location $B done with pv "$A" > "$B" or cat "$A" > "$B" ?
(let's assume file $A is very big, e.g. LVM2 snapshot file)
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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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How do I save changed files?
I have two folders:
ORIGINAL/
ORIGINAL_AND_MY_CHANGES/
My friend has a copy of ORIGINAL/. I would like to generate MY_CHANGES.tgz -- it should contain only new/changed files from ...
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Modifying zsh globbing patterns to use with cp
I'm trying to write a script to copy files recursively from a particular folder except files A.extn, B/*.extn and C/* where B and C are directories and extn is just some generic extension. This is ...
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mkdir based on input from other directories
I have a directory full of albums I've ripped to FLAC format. Folders are named "Artist - Album [flac]" I need to create matching directories named "Artist - Album [mp3]" but only for certain ...
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“Permission denied, try again” while transferring files with scp
I have two servers (A and B) and my local machine. I'm trying to transfer a file from server A to server B.
From server A:
scp ./backup.tar user@server.b:/home/public/
Permission denied, please try ...
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Automate file transfer from Windows to Unix
I have the following situation: users update csv/txt files on daily basis on Windows. I use those flat files as input for my Oracle scripts which is on Unix. I need help on script/method of ...
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What filesystem should be used when transfering files between Linux systems?
I often need to move files between two Linux computers via USB. I use gparted to format the USBs. When I formatted the USB to use FAT32, the USB was unable to copy symlinks, so I had to recreate the ...
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How can I automate the process of copying files from one folder to another in Centos
I have a statistical application which runs every minute and creates charts accordingly.
In order to make these charts available to other users, I need to copy the whole folder containing the charts ...
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Permissions “problem” using SCP to copy to root owned folder from local
I'm taking some early forays into setting up a basic LAMP box. It's my first time setting up the software I'll use as opposed to just being handed a working environment, so go easy on me :)
I have ...
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Copy files with renaming
I have a huge file tree. Some files have same name but in different case, e.g. 'some_code.c' and 'Some_Code.c'.
So when I'm trying to copy it to NTFS/FAT filesystem it asks me about whether i'm ...
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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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Terminal command vs. GUI drag & drop when copying large no. of files: Any tangible benefit?
I'm finding myself in a terminal more and more often these days as I learn to do certain types of things quicker or more conveniently.
However, when it comes to copying a large amount of data (i.e. ...
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GNU “install” -d flag — how's it work?
I'm trying to write a makefile rule to copy a directory, maintaining its structure, and since all the other rules in our makefiles use install, I wanted to be consistent.
In the manpage, it says:
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Advanced file filtering
I have 3 distinct folders: history, inbox, backup.
I need to copy all the files from 'history' to 'inbox', only if they are not present in 'backup'.
How to do this?
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How to add/replace only modified/updated files recursively for some 2 folders?
So I currently do stuff like:
rm -rf ../../../$CLOUD_INSTALL_SUBDIR/lib_boost
mkdir ../../../$CLOUD_INSTALL_SUBDIR/lib_boost
cp -r ../../../$BOOST_ROOT_DIR/$BOOST_INSTALL_SUBDIR/lib/* ...
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bash force copy over same file
Our sysadmin has created a backup system that creates snapshots of the hard drive.
When I try to restore an older version from the snapshot:
cp /path/to/snapshots/foo.bar /path/to/folder/foo.bar
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How to quit GNOME file copy GUI after it hangs
Many times I find GNOME file copy GUI tool (Nautilus) irritating when it stops working. It happens when:
I cancel the copy or move
I try to copy to blue tooth exchange folder to my friends ...
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How do I only copy files to a remote folder on another server that don't already exist in the folder… from the command line in linux?
I have two folders on two different servers.
I want to sync files between A and B, however, I only want to copy files that don't already exist in folder B because these files are huge. I don't care ...
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How to make duplicates with different names from a single file? [closed]
I want to duplicate the contents of a file. Suppose there is a file named "Hydrogen.element". I want to duplicate the contents of this file with a different name ie.make another file named ...
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Fast way to copy a large file on a LAN
I am having some trouble with NFS, and I'd like to try using just plain old TCP.
I have no idea where to begin, though.
Hardware-wise, I am using an ethernet crossover cable to network two netbooks.
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How to copy a list of files and adjust destination filenames on the fly?
When I don't need to adjust destination filenames I can do something like this:
$ find -type f -name '*.pat' -print0 | xargs -O cp -t /path/to/dest
It is safe because the filenames may even ...
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Finding corrupted files
I have a directory that have zillions of files. As soon as I try to copy this directory, I receive a message that a file could not be copied (corrupt ?) and the copy stops.
Is there any command I ...
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Copy/Move whole folder but with certain extentions
I have a backup copy of my site located in /tmp/backup and want to copy it to /home/mysite/public_html
But my aim is to copy only the .php files (with nested folders) and replace.
If I don't have ...
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How to copy only matching files, preserving subdirectories
Is there a way to do this: "How can I copy a subset of files from a directory while preserving the folder structure?", but without using rsync?
Is it possible to be done using only cp, find and grep?
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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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Find Directory and copy another directory to found directory?
I'm attempting to find a directory A that could be in a variable location and copy another directory B into the found directory. So, I'd like to find directory A, and copy Directory B into Directory ...
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How to copy a partition over network
I want to copy a Windows 7 partition that came installed on my laptop to my desktop computer.
I've tried:
# bzip2 -c /dev/sda5 | nc 192.168.1.1 2222 # on laptop
# nc -l 2222 | bzip2 -d > ...
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Interesting Secure Copy Behavior
I'm not entirely sure where to ask this question, so if this is not the right place just let me know and I'll move it.
Today I was trying to using recursive scp to copy a directory between two Linux ...
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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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RPM skipping files on install
I am installing an rpm package and it appears to be skipping certain files without giving me any notice as to what the issue is.
When I execute
rpm -ivh package_name.rpm
the rpm provides me with ...
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How do I disable copy permissions?
Can we set permissions, on a Linux box OR for a particular directory (Scientific Linux in my case) that, one can read files but cannot copy, move or delete them?
Update: My Scenario is,
We developed ...
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faster alternative to cp -a
For a simple transfer of /home to another disk i use cp -a that seems to me an extremely slow way. Should like know a more efficient way to complete the task. I have /home mounted as logical volume, ...
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Copying files based on a condition
Here's the problem I'm attempting to solve:
Let's say I have a directory "A", containing some files as well as some other directories.
I want to copy all the files directly under directory A to ...
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Upload file over ssh and execute command on the remote machine
I am trying to find the simplest way to upload a file using ssh and after that run a command on the remote machine within the same ssh session for some post-processing, so that I don't need to login ...
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How can I get the address of my local machine?
I'm on a macbook running Lion. In Terminal I'm connected to my schools server with ssh. I navigated to a folder on the server and have a file I want to copy to my local machine, but I don't know what ...
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SELinux: Can I disable copying of certain files?
Please excuse me if this is too basic and you're tempted to throw an RTFM at me.
I want to prevent users from copying certain files while granting them read access to the same files. I thought this ...
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Translating user id when creating image
I want to create an image (for example ext3 image) from a given directory hierarchy. This directory hierarchy is owned by a given user. But on the final image, I want the files to be owned by ...
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Need small and light stand-alone one-file ftpd server
Can somebody suggest a small one-.c-file ftpd server, so I can run it on any port and it would accept ftp upload with any l/p on that port and put a file into a folder where it runs?
No config files ...
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How to clone a read-only portion of /proc file system
The problem with reading /proc file system is that it is not atomic. I tried using a library (procfs in Python) that wishes to read it, but it has glitches about 5% of the time because the process ...
