Questions tagged [directory]
A file system structure in which to store computer files.
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How to masquerade a file path as another in Linux
I want to have the file path /var/test appear as /root for the user test123. I don't want them to actually be in the root directory but I want it to appear as being in /root so that they can't tell ...
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Getting find: bad option -o -name abc -o -name xyz when perform search for *.properties excluding set of directories from search [closed]
#!/usr/bin/ksh
# *****************************************************************************************
# copy_properties.sh
# This script copies *.properties files from all directory excluding ...
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Mv several file to directory with same basename
I have several files with different extensions and directories with the same basename, like this example.
FileA.txt
FileA.html
FileA.directory/
FileB.txt
FileB.html
FileB.directory/
FileC.txt
FileC....
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cannot permanently delete Xcode.app in trash, not even if with “sudo rm -rf” because directory is not empty?
I run on osx 10.14, and I was trying to delete and reinstall xcode. I have also tried the following in safe mode but have the exact same problems.
I moved xcode.app to trash, right clicked and chose ...
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Sort directories before files and underscore first with ls
When using 'ls' i want to sort directories first and then all files AND sort directories/files with underscore first. Here is an example:
_folder2
folder2
_file2
file
I can sort directories first ...
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Does Linux represent an opened directory in the same way as an opened file?
Linux kernel represents an opened file as an entry in the file descriptor table, an entry in the v-node table, and an entry in the open file table.
Does Linux kernel represent an opened directory ...
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How to store backup outside home directory [closed]
I'm using Linux Mint 19 Tara with home folder encryption enabled. Now I want to configure home backups with backup tool, but I don't want to store backup inside home directory. I don't want to store ...
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How to recursively move one file type but only when another file type is also present?
In my directory tree, some subfolders contain both *.flac and *.mp3 files, but other subfolders contain only *.mp3 files. I'd like to move all of the *.mp3 files to another destination (a different ...
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Checking for the existence of multiple directories
I want to check for the existence of multiple directories, say, dir1, dir2 and dir3, in the working directory.
I have the following
if [ -d "$PWD/dir1" ] && [ -d "$PWD/dir2" ] && [ -...
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how to find the real path of folder with regular expression
presto is distributed SQL query engine ,
and when we installed the presto then it should be created the following home folder
/application/DB/presto/presto-server-0.216
so we can say that
in ...
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Move or rename subfolders
I have a folder structure like this:
/ms/files/a/
/fb/files/a/
/db/files/a/
It should be like this:
/ms/files/b/
/fb/files/b/
/db/files/b/
I can find the folders I need to move or rename using
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How can I use SFTP to transfer a directory to my local PC, but make the transfered directory have a different name on my local PC?
I'm going to do a reinstall on my laptop and want to backup my .config. But the issue is that when I tried to do it I think it replaced my desktops .config because they both have the exact same path.(...
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Strange case of truly invisible file (?) and undeletable directory on macOS [migrated]
I'm having issues deleting a directory on my macOS Mojave 10.14.3 system.
The filesystem is APFS and these are the symptoms:
$ rm -rf strange/
rm: strange/: Directory not empty
$ sudo rm -rf ...
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Copy specified subdirectories
I have a bunch of folders in an external HDD and I want to copy a part of them. The folders have the following structure:
A001A
A003A
A004A
etc...
...and all the folders contain similar directories ...
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Why is the size of a directory either 0 or 4096? [duplicate]
$ ls -l
total 28
drwxrwxrwx 1 t t 4096 May 8 2018 dir1
drwxrwxrwx 1 t t 0 Mar 12 2015 dir2
drwxrwxrwx 1 t t 4096 Jan 17 2014 dir3
drwxrwxrwx 1 t t 4096 Jun 12 2017 dir4
drwxrwxrwx 1 t t ...
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bash: cd: <path> : No such file or directory [duplicate]
I upgraded to the latest version of Kali Linux and all of a sudden I can't open up files. The file manager shows the files exist and I can get in them through the file manager but cannot do so through ...
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Trying to save a photo with python, but when I execute the program with the terminal, It returns that there is no such directory [closed]
I have been trying to execute this program:
1 import PIL as pillow
2 from PIL import Image, ImageFilter
3 photo = Image.open("index.jpeg")
4 b = photo.filter(ImageFilter.BLUR)
5 b.save("/home/...
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Other has permissions with umask 007 on VM with mounted folder
One thing that's odd to me right now is I am playing around with permissions. The way umask works to my knowledge is it basically tells what permissions u g o don't have using octal representation (...
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Make bash understand I want to complete a directory name after “cd”
How to get bash to auto-complete cd commands only with directory names and ignore filenames (just as CMD on Windows)
Example:
I'm in
/some/folder/
I have
-rwxr-xr-x filesharp
-rwxr-xr-x ...
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fstab bound folders show as disks in GUI
I'm trying to mount different folders on sda7 in the folders in the /home folder. like documents, pictures, and music.
I always did that like this:
/media/betty/Tuinhuisje/Betty/Documents /home/...
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Is it possible to detect file or folder creation/deletion in real time?
I want to monitor file or folder creation/deletion instantaneously, is it possible?
EDIT:I am using Ubuntu 16.04
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How to switch to the last added folder in that particular folder in S3 bucket
I have a **S3 bucket in which starting of every month ... will be added. And in the month lder daily **new files will be added .
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Who owned the directory and how to remove it?
ls -l /media/debian9/disk
total 1741
drwxr-xr-x 2 100000 100000 3 Jul 20 2018 acct
-rwxr-xr-x 1 100000 100000 1102 Jul 20 2018 anbox-init.sh
Who is the 100000?
cat /etc/passwd |grep ...
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E: Opening configuration file ertificates - ifstream::ifstream (2: No such file or directory)
If I try to launch
apt-get -y install libfontconfig libxtst6 screen xvfb libxcursor1 ca-certificates bzip2 psmisc libglib2.0-0 less cron-apt python iproute2 dbus libnss3 libegl1-mesa x11-xkb-utils ...
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How do you install a package to a directory?
I am a Debian user. Configuring different servers using Debian distro.
I am trying to install packages that locate into my /usr/ directory.
How do you install packages to the /usr/ directory?
I ...
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Failed to activate systemd-timesyncd.service
I've scanned all forums and questions and found no working answer to my problem.
The Network Time Synchronization service doesn't work. The timedatectl service seems to work just fine without it ...
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Creating numerous ranges or blocks of folders/directories?
[EDITED to reflect answers below]
I am looking for a way to create blocks of folders / directories from the command line or a script that will generate a top level folder titled "200000-209999" and ...
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Directory owned by a group that doesn't exist? [duplicate]
I'm witnessing a a directory which has for group owner "1002" ...
However I do not have any group with such ID (verified with getent group | grep 1002 ).
Even history | grep groupadd gave nothing.
...
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AWK- script which lists number and weight of all files created in certain month [closed]
I need to write a script in AWK which will count all the files and their weight in "/home" directory from all the months and display the list in terminal.
The output should look like this:
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How to rename ISPConfig directories set by chattr command
I would to import a restore of a web directories to /var/www/clients/client4/web18/web managed by ISPConfig.
I read ISPConfig put an attributes on this kind of directories.
/var/www/clients/...
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if the member of any group has only the execute permission will the be able to enter into the directory belongs to that group?
# mkdir -p /test/music # created this dir as a root
# chmod g=x,o= /test # rwx--x---
# gpasswd -a x1 root # adding x1 user into the root group
# su - x1 # login as x1
$ cd /test
...
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How to delete corrupted directory on Linux
I have a machine which has a directory that seems corrupt. The output of ls -lah is something like:
??????????? ? ? ? ? ? dir_name
This used to be a valid directory in a ...
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Shell script - directory size
I have to create a script that calculates the size of a directory given as an argument in bytes, like ./du.sh dir. Optionally I have 2 other arguments:
./du.sh dir 1000 files.txt, where 1000 stands ...
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Why directory with large amounts of entries does not shrink in size after entries are removed?
Close vote notice: While the linked duplicate asks same question, the comments and the only answer do not provide an answer which draws from authoritative source. The answer on my question by Thomas ...
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How to escape parenthesis in bash rmdir?
I have a directory that has a name like 10.2 (14C92) i want to remove using rmdir -rf (to include their content). I do know how to pass a space with \ but I got the result:
-bash: syntax error near ...
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Recursive shell script to list files
I'm trying to write a shell script that lists certain types of files in a Directory (and sub-directories). I'm struggling with the recursive part.
Here's what I have:
#!/bin/sh
#download dir
...
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How to delete all directories in a directory older than 2 weeks except the latest one that match a file pattern?
I have the following path:
/dir1/dir2/
In this path I have the following directories containing various (not relevant) application detrius:
follower1234 1-Dec-2018
follower3456 2-Dec-2018
...
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A specific directory is completely invisible to “ls” and “ls -la”, but I can “cd” into it
This started happening out of the blue. Originally, I was able to "ls" my "Storage" folder and all 3 subdirectories were listed accordingly. ('Beta Profiles' 'OS Backups' 'Software')
Starting ...
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Check if any file exist in a folder when traversing through it
I have this script:
local_dir="/some/dir1/"
cd $local_dir
for i in *.*
do
# do something ........
# [...........]
rm $i
done
It throws an error when the folder is empty.
*:...
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Tool for creating and calling folder structure templates?
Is there a Linux utility for creating templates for directory structures, outside of the scripts packaged with a DE like Gnome or LXDE? (I run openbox and would like to avoid a DE at all costs)
There ...
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How to create multiple directories in Ranger?
As in the equivalent of mkdir dir1 dir2 when running in bash. This creates two separate directories, dir1 and dir2.
If you run :mkdir dir1 dir2 in ranger, it simply creates a directory called 'dir1 ...
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print all 3-character-sub-directories using shell script in AIX
In my system, there is a /Test directory under which many directories are available. I want to print all directories with 3-character-name, in AIX system.
I got code for Gnu/Linux.
find /test -...
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Calling dir names from a paramater list file
Wondering if there is a best way to call directory names and iterate as parameter from a list.
Example
cat /dropbox/script/DirList.txt
DIR_A
DIR_B
DIR_C
DIR_D
/dropbox/dev/inbox/<DIR_A>/ *.*...
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Flattening directory hierarchy preserving directory names in new directory name
I basically want to go from this:
.
├── Alan Walker
│ ├── Different World
│ │ ├── 01 Intro.mp3
│ │ ├── 02 Lost Control.mp3
│ │ └── cover.jpg
│ └── Same World
│ ├── 01 Intro.mp3
│...
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Nginx requires identical permissions for a whole path up to a directory “assets” of my app to be able to read and serve assets
I have a web app in the folder:
/home/main_user/dir1/dir2/my_web_app/
In there I have an executable file and the folder assets.
Nginx is setup this way - to serve assets only:
location ~ ^/...
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Shorten very long dir name in bash prompt
How to get from this prompt
~/this/is/a-very-very-long-directory-name/dir
to this
~/this/is/a-ver...name/dir
in a bash prompt?
So shorten directory names longer than nn (20+) characters to ...
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How do I make a file in a user's home directory uneditable to that user but leave the home directory editable?
I've tried a LOT of stuff with chmod and chown, and combinations thereof.
I still want the files in the home directory of this user to be readable to the user, just not writable or executable. ...
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How to split a large folder into smaller folders of equal size [closed]
I have one big folder with many file types in it (e.g .txt, .sh). It's about 40Gb. I would like to split it into four parts of 10Gb each. How can I achieve this?
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Trying to remove current directory using rmdir
I created a directory dir at Desktop and then i keyed in cd dir so as to make dir as my current directory and then i typed in the terminal rmdir /home/user_name/Desktop/dir from the dir directory ...
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Using find to list directories that haven't been accessed since a certain date?
Using the stat command one can see and format the last date a directory was accessed. The adate
Is it possible to use find to find the directories that were changed before a certain date using a ...
