I am trying to copy the RPM alsa-lib-1.0.23-1.fc13.rpm package into a directory i created called /var/www/html/updates. I can copy the file onto the desktop and in home but when i try to move it to the created directory it tells me permission denied. I even tried to change the mode and i get a message saying I'm not in the sudoers file
View 1 Repliesi want to copy a few files from my windows directory into the wine directory - its no big deal, just a few preference files so i dont have to set something up all over again. trouble is, i had the files copied, but i cant find the wine/ c: drive directory anywhere, anyone know where this can be found??
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View 7 Replies View RelatedTrying to watch videos for the first time using Fedora 13 there was just a black screen where the video play button should be, both on Firefox and Google Chrome, and the message: ?You need to upgrade your Adobe Flash Player to watch this video?. So I downloaded Flash Player 10.0 for x86_64 from Adobe Labs. They advised: To install it, copy libflashplayer.so to your 64 bit browser plugins directory (such as /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/). How do I do this? I know how to sign in as root, but don?t know how to go to /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/, nor do I know how to ?copy libflashplayer.so to your 64 bit browser plugins directory?
View 14 Replies View RelatedWhy do I always need to write "su" then my password to extract or copy any file in fedora 11. How to configure so that I always be in my root directory.
View 3 Replies View RelatedMaking a script. This is for my linux class. Basically when you run it, whatever directory it is in, zips everything, backs it up to the folder its in, and also makes a copy of it in the root directory. Here is what I have, but its not running right.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
echo
echo
echo "Automate Backups"
echo -n "Would you like to backup? Y or N:"
read answer1
if [$answer1 = "y"]
then
if [$USER = "root"]
then
echo
tar -cPvzf "$USER"_backup.tar.gz.`date +%F` /"$USER"/*
cp "$USER"_backup.tar.gz.`date +%F` /backups/"$USER"_backup.tar.gz.`date +%F`
echo "Successful Backup"
fi
echo
tar -cPvzf "$USER"_backup.tar.gz.`date +%F` ~/"$USER"/*
cp "root"_backup.tar.gz.`date +%F` /backups/"$root"_backup.tar.gz.`date +%F`
echo "Successful Backup"
I downloaded a mouse theme form gnome look and installed it in the themes. But it has not appeared in the pointer themes section in custimation even though it said that it is installed correctly.When I drag the file to install it again it says something along the lines of it cannot copy a directory over a directory.Where can I find where the mouse/pointer theme is located and delete it. I have searched filesystem, google and these forums and not had any luck yet.
View 1 Replies View RelatedAfter i try to find logfiles follow date/month/year. i want copy this files to another directory with name's directory is time you find(date/month/year).
View 4 Replies View RelatedI am in my current directory. I want to copy a directory somewhere else into this current directory. Lets say I want to take it from direc1/direc2 and the directory I want to take is called demo.
Code:
That is what it shows in the man pages, but when I do that, it says cp: no match
I'm facing a little trouble with copying a .txt file(only) from a directory and subdirectory to another directory. -R command don't work I think if I want to do this, since I don't want to copy subdirectory.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am using my media server as my podcast collector. I am in the process of learning the ins and outs of NFS so i can mount a NFS directory and transfer my podcasts from server to player. For now i am using scp to transfer podcasts from server to desktop then to player. The problem is the path to the directory of one of the podcasts is /home/user/gpodder-downloads/The BILL&TIMMY Show Podcast.
whenever i try and run my scp command it fails because it thinks that TIMMY is a script i want to run in the background. I have tried to back-slash escape the character, i've tried single quoting and double quoting the character and i still get the same problem. as it sits now i have to move all podcasts to another directory and then transfer them to my desktop...but i would like to transfer the podcasts without un-necessary steps.
I want to do the following.
1. have a directory full of subdirectory
2. Pick the first file from every sub and copy that to the main directory and also rename that file to the same name as the subdirectory's name
3. need to work in commandline best is a simple script.
Is it possible to copy files from directory of one user to directory of another user in linux?
View 7 Replies View Relatedi have installed dhcp server on RHEL5.after instalation when i want to restart it.it shows failed message. rpm package is also installed.(dhcp-3.0.5-13.el5) dhcpd.conf file is also in /etc directory
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhy can't I copy a directory without using -R ? It shows "cp: omitting directory" .
View 3 Replies View RelatedI frequent update and install packages on a lots of machines using apt-get update and install.
I was wondering if I can just update and install on one machine and then copy those cached file
undar /var/cache/apt to other machine, so I can save downloading time while do apt-get install.
I tried, but seems apt-get ignored those files and downloading from source anyway. Any idea?
I moved to Mac OS X recently and bumped into the "feature" of Mac where copying files from an external drive resets the file modification/update date/timestamp to the current date (which Windows does not), causing a disaster for my 10+ years of backup work files where date is important. So, before I learned how to avoid that (e.g. using the -p "preserve" flag in the "cp" copy command) I have in the meantime added to my new Mac hard drive many more files as well as updating existing old files.
I have a backup external hard drive with all my old data and proper modification dates. I have a Mac hard drive with reset modification file dates (a single or two particular days). The Mac hard drive has all the "true" and "current" file contents with files modified and added. I need to Copy all the original files from the external harddrive, preserving file metadata (really only modified date), but ONLY overriding the new internal Mac hard drive IF
The file contents (md5 or whatever) is the same or The file was updated after the day (which of course I can see on all files) on which the original disasterous cope was performed (implying the file is new or modified) Ensure the copy leaves all the new and modified files completely intact on the Mac internal hard drive. "No prompting/stopping of the copy of any kind (i.e., not verbose) is required but is o.k". "Recursive copy - obviously I would like to copy all* files folders and subfolders found in export".
I would like to copy the contents of a directory into another. I don't want to copy the directory and all files and directories under it, but just the contents of the directory just as if it were a regular file. Doing cp -r target dest copies the directory and the entire hierarchy rooted in it. I get error if I do not include the -r option. (I am calling cp from within a C program.)
View 3 Replies View Relatedi just started using an ubuntu 9.10 distro, installed a bunch of software to make it a file server, now i am using an excel sheet on it, i want to make a script to back it up at a certian time,template of a script to do this and how to use it.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have this scripts that is meant to create certain files and a directory by date and once its finished its meant to copy that direcory an the example ftp server.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to copy a directory (retaining the permissions and owners) without copying the contents of the directory?
If there is no such thing... then I need a way to determine if a target path is a file or a directory, and if it is a directory I need to make a new directory elsewhere that has the same name, owner and permissions.
Basically, I'm trying write a script to copy 200 GB of files over a network to a new server, and I'd like to do it by generating a list with the find command. That way, I can migrate large chunks of the files over the course of a week, and on the day of the migration generate a new list of files that changed in the last week and then copy just the chagned files over minimizing the down time. However, the list will contain directories that I can't just use the 'cp' command on because it will copy all the contents of the directory.
I installed a new music application. It reads covers.jpg as the cover of the album, however, my covers files where named album. I dont want to rename, I want to make a copy of album.jpg and if possible as well rename it to covers.jpg. The file has to be in the same folder that it currently is. I have looked around to see how I can do this but have not been able to.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI have four directories and i want to copy only the files in the directory to a single directory, how can i do it with the cp command.
The directories names are dir1, dir2, dir3 and dir4 and i want only the files from these directories to a single directory called mainDir.
Is there a way to copy a directory without copying the contents, but preserving ownership, timestamp etc of that directory?
I've looked at the cp man page, but I don't think it supports it. I'm thinking one would have to write a script to gather the info, and then mkdir, chown and touch. Does this seam right?
I am trying to copy the contents of one directory to another
rsync -av /old /new
when I do this /old is being copied into new
/new/old/files from old
but what I want is the files from old to be moved to new
/new/files from old
how can I do this?
I have a 160GB harddrive which I installed a F12, would like to upgrade to a bigger drive, but I hate to have to re-install everything.
Recommend a good disk copy utility? The utility should be able to not only copy files, but boot sector and everything. So I just need to make a copy, change my BIOS to boot from the new drive and run everything as before.
How Can I Copy Everything in Current Directory to Subdirectory in linux console
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have a system where the permissions of many files are messed up. I have another system that has the same files, if I put that hard drive in, without simply overwriting the files, is there a way where I can recursively set the permissions of each file to that of this other directory?
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View 7 Replies View RelatedI am using Gpodder for the moment and would like to copy the 3 most recent podcast episodes of every podcast to a second directory (in fact the second directory resides on my android phone, mounted via usb)The setup is as followsGpodder downloads the episodes in
/home/PODCASTS/podcast 1/
/home/PODCASTS/podcast 2/
/home/PODCASTS/podcast 3/
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