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Disable “Recently used” in GTK file/directory selector
Can I completely disable "Recently Used" feature in GTK's file / directory selector?
Sometimes programs default to this but since it's not useful in my work-flow and with the way I organize my ...
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How to disable trash can in Thunar/XFCE?
I found myself always holding Shift when I delete a file with Thunar (the XFCE file manager).
When I was using Windows I was always disabling "recycle bin" immediately after installation. I've looked ...
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What is the difference between > and >> (especially as it relates to use with the cat program)?
Suppose that I have a file called temp.txt. Using the cat program, I would like to add the contents of this file to the end of myfile.txt -- creating myfile.txt if it does not exist and appending to ...
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How to copy/move/delete files from the shell?
It's surely easy to do while using a graphical environment, but when I'm using the shell I have no idea on how to do that, I already tried to use copy, move, delete, and I discovered that these word ...
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Organizing messy folder based on filetype
I have music lying on my desktop and in my downloads and Music folders. Similarly, I have .odt files lying all over my home folder (mainly desktop). Is there a tool (preferably GUI so my parents can ...
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Copy a File From One Zip to Another?
I have a file named 'sourceZip.zip'
This file ('sourceZip.zip') contains two files:
'textFile.txt'
'binFile.bin'
I also have a file named 'targetZip.zip'
This file ('targetZip.zip') contains ...
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Copy/rename multiple files using regular expression (shell script)
I have a collection of files matching a pattern such as 'assignment02.cc', 'assignment02.h', 'assignment02.txt', etc. I would like to copy/rename these files into 'assignment03.cc', 'assignment03.h', ...
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How do you run a dry run of rm to see what files will be deleted?
I want to see what files will be deleted when performing an 'rm' in linux. Most commands seem to have a dry run option to show just such information, but I can't seem to find such an option for rm. ...
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Copy a file from a nautilus-script to clipboard
I have a nautilus script that generates an archive file based on the files selected in the nautilus window. This archive file is created in the /tmp directory. I want a way to copy this file to the ...
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How to de-unzip, de-tar -xvf — de-unarchive in a messy folder?
Usually, I unarchive things by $ mkdir newFolder; $ mv *.zip newFolder; $ cd newFolder; $unzip *.zip but sometimes I get lazy and just do in an arbitrary folder $ unzip *.zip so time-to-time messing ...
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Gentoo default application for opening files
On my Gentoo box running without a desktop environment, every time I try to open a file the system tries to open it with Firefox. I understand that without a desktop environment "open file" cannot ...
