Use this tag for questions about file management and operations on files.
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How can I backup a directory to NTFS while preserving Unix file attributes?
I want to make a backup of my home directory to an NTFS partition (an unfortunate limitation). However, when I last tried using just cp, the attributes (owner, etc) went away. How can I make a backup ...
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1answer
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Script to check a folder, print the files then delete those files
I am looking for some guidance on creating a script that will check a specific folder, print all documents (if any) and then delete those documents. I would also like to run this script as a cron job. ...
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1answer
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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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Existing file can not be found? [duplicate]
/usr/share/tipp10$ ll
insgesamt 9408
drwxr-xr-x 3 myname ssl-cert 4096 Feb 26 20:07 ./
drwxr-xr-x 288 root root 12288 Feb 26 20:07 ../
-rwxrwxrwx 1 myname ssl-cert 9480 Okt 6 2010 ...
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1answer
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“rm -rf Filename.iso ” Permission denied
Hi I am facing an issue while deleting an .iso file from Linux x86_64 GNU/Linux.
Here are the permissions for the file:
# ls -lrt
-rwxrwxr-x 1 dev devgrp 2687934464 Apr 12 14:13 ...
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1answer
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Transfer 150GB of files from an old MacBook Pro with Ubuntu 13.04 Live DVD
My girlfriend's old MacBook Pro 2009 (5,4) stopped working. I have tried several times to reinstall OS X, but could not do so. There appears to be something really really wrong with the OS.
Since she ...
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Cannot access any files Manjaro Linux
I cannot open any files on my Manjaro Linux laptop. I really can't remember why it happened but I restarted my computer and now I dont have read/write access to any folder or file even though I've ...
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1answer
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File inventories and logrotation
I want to collect a huge amount of data files on my actual netapp storage with the command file - f /path... > logfile.txt.
Through the huge data amount, the size of the logfile will be critical. ...
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1answer
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Back up snapshots without being admin
I would like to make a back up/snapshot of a folder where I have built various programs (~4.1 GB in size). The idea is to be able to quickly restore everything in this path to it's original state in ...
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2answers
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How to scp/tar files that are in between specific days?
I need to copy db log files between two suse servers where I am interested in files ONLY in between 10.3.2013 - 13.3.2013
It is desired to compress the files before copying so I tar them and scp. ...
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1answer
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Searching for multiple files and changing file extension [duplicate]
I want to search and identify multiple files, within a directory, having a particular file extension (.txt) and changing the extension to (.fasta). This is considering not changing the file itself, ...
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2answers
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Delete whitespace in filenames in directory
I have a directory where some filenames have been wrongly named something .pdf rather than something.pdf. Is there a quick one liner I can use to delete the whitespace in the filenames.
I have tried ...
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1answer
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Download files and create same file structure as the source
I have a config file which consists of list of URIs I want to download. For example,
http://xyz.abc.com/Dir1/Dir3/sds.exe
http://xyz.abc.com/Dir2/Dir4/jhjs.exe
http://xyz.abc.com/Dir1/itr.exe
...
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6answers
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How do I can get the size of a file in a bash script?
How do I can get the size of a file in a bash script?
How do I assign this to a bash variable so I can use it later?
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1answer
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Create link to folder in Elementary-OS
When I used to use stock Ubuntu, you could create links to folders and put them in other folders. How can I do this in elementary 0.2?
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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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3answers
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Is there a robust way to cache contents of usb on local hd?
I'd like to switch between working on a laptop with a debian vm and a desktop pc running debian while carrying all my work files in a usb. Is there a robust way to automatically start caching the ...
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2answers
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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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3answers
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Linux ls to show only filename date and size
How can I use ls in linux to get a listing of filenames date and size only. I don't need to see the other info such as owner or permission. Is this possible?
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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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1answer
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Quota utilities
Are there any command line utilities that make it easier to read quotas (e.g. showing percentages, approximate size in MB, etc.). Perhaps something like what htop does for top, but for quota?
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How to list files that were changed in a certain range of time?
How can I list recursively all files that were changed between 22.12.2011 and 24.12.2011?
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4answers
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How to count recursively for the number of files in several directories?
I have a directory, containing a lot of files and directories.
I am trying to get the number of files (and directories) contained recursively in every directory.
I tried the following approach:
for ...
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votes
1answer
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Copy file permissions from user to group
I have a folder with some files, which each have different permissions. Some are read-only, some are read/write, some are read/execute.
How can I copy the permissions from user to group, so that for ...
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1answer
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View temporary files which exist for milliseconds
I'm trying to debug a program which is not logging the information I need. Fortunately, it does write temporary files which should contain the information. These files are written to a directory like: ...
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5answers
105 views
Create and open file with one command?
I want to create a text file and open it in a text editor with a single command.
I know touch file.txt creates a file and open file.txt opens the file, but is there a way to do this with a single ...
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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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3answers
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Getting size with du of files only
How can I get the size of all files and all files in its subdirectories using the du command.
I am trying the following command to get the size of all files (and files in subdirectories)
find . ...
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2answers
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BASH reading txt file and storing in array
I'm writing my first BASH script , I have some experience with c and c# so I think the logic of the program is correct..it's just the syntax is so complicated because apparently there are billions of ...
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1answer
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Debian VirtualBox Guest - Common Files to Remove for Space Saving?
I have created a VirtualBox guest using debian-6.0.7-amd64. I am using it as a clone template to create Java work nodes, so my needs are pretty much limited to the JVM, networking, SSH and the basics ...
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2answers
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Merge chunks from multiple files
I need to merge chunks from a few but large files. Each line contains the file name and byte offsets.
# file begin end
foo/a 11970 12010
foo/a 22995 23035
foo/b 45090 45130
foo/b ...
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How tell gzip to keep original file?
I would like to compress a text file using gzip command line tool while keeping the original file. By default running the following command
gzip file.txt
results in modifying this file and renaming ...
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2answers
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Cleaner way to delete files on Linux which include a datestamp as part of file name
I have a new requirement to purge MySQL dump files that are older than 30 days. The files use a naming convention of "all-mysql-YYYYMMDD-HHMM.dump". The files are located on SAN mounted file system, ...
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Solaris 10 modified time
In Solaris 8, when we access the file, the access time changes but modified time remains same. But in Solaris 10, we see that both access and modified time changes when accessing the file. We checked ...
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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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2answers
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Find and remove large files that are open but have been deleted
How does one find large files that have been deleted but are still open in an application? How can one remove such a file, even though a process has it open?
The situation is that we are running a ...
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What's the best way to join files again after splitting them?
If I have a large file and need to split it into 100 megabyte chunks I will do
split -b 100m myImage.iso
That usually give me something like
xaa
xab
xac
xad
And to get them back together I have ...
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no such file or directory [duplicate]
I have a 64-bit Ubuntu and want to execute a 32-bit FreeRTOS binary. The error message says no such file or directory. The files are there I can read them with ls -l.
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Is there a top-like command that shows the network bandwidths and file accesses of running processes
For example, we'd like to see:
PROCESS IF TX RX FILE(regular) R/W
prog1 eth0 200kB/s 12kB/s -- --
wlan0 12kB/s 100kB/s -- ...
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2answers
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Merge a number of text files into one with next line for every file
I have 2 files. I want to merge them.
File1 contents:
abc
File2 contents:
def
Combined File should be:
abc
def
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1answer
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Better way to copy multiple directories to new directory
Is there a better way on the command line to essentially accomplish the following but with a single command
cp -r css/ ar/
cp -r images/ ar/
cp -r js/ ar/
cp -r backups/ ar/
I've just been ...
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4answers
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Piping output to text file within a for loop
I'm trying to do the following within a for loop:
Find files that satisfy a condition
Echo the name of the files to a log file.
Gzip the file.
I can get the script to find the files and echo their ...
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2answers
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A bunch of files have 777 permissions
I have been learning Python and Bash scripting, and I up to now I have given my scripts 777 permissions. Having learned more about how to set permissions, and knowing this is a bad idea, I ran the ...
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5answers
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Delete files in directory without erroring if it's already empty
As part of a deployment script, I want to dump some cached stuff from my temp directory. I use a command like:
rm /tmp/our_cache/*
However, if /tmp/our_cache is empty (fairly common when pushing ...
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votes
4answers
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Move all files with a certain extension from multiple subdirectories into one directory
Suppose I have a bunch of zip files in several directories:
Fol1/Fol2
Fol3
Fol4/Fol5
And I want to move them all to a common base folder. How would I do this?
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How do I make a file NOT modifiable?
While logged in, I can do the following:
mkdir foo
touch foo/bar
chmod 400 foo/bar
chmod 500 foo
Then I can open vim (not as root), edit bar, force a write with w!, and the file is modified!
How ...
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3answers
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Delete files if contents do not match pattern
There are hundreds of .html files in a directory. I need to delete files that don't contain word bluecar in their contents.
I thought sed with rm would do that, but I don't know how to combine them.
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Log4j File Location
I have a Webapp running on an Amazon EC2 Linux AMI. I've been trying to configure my Log4J file for logging but haven't been able to figure out where the logs are getting created.
This is my log4j ...
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1answer
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How to decrypt single EncFS encrypted files?
Is it possible to decrypt single EncFS encrypted files with access to .encfs6.xml configuration file and without the proper directory structure it was created?
With a little help from google I found ...
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How to properly and easy configure `xdg-open` without any enviroment?
I'm using OpenBox window manager without any desktop enviroment.
xdg-open behaves strangely. It opens everything with firefox.
$ xdg-settings --list
Known properties:
default-web-browser ...
