General :: Change Directory Upwards To Specified Goal
Jun 1, 2010
I'm often deep inside a directory tree, moving upwards and downwards to perform various tasks. Is there anything more efficient than going 'cd ../../../..'?I was thinking something along the lines of this: If I'm in /foo/bar/baz/qux/quux/corge/grault and want to go to /foo/bar/baz, I want to do something like 'cdto baz'. I can write some bash script for this, but I'd first like to know if it already exists in some form.
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Nov 30, 2010
lets say I install Ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop. I check the box that says encrypt my home directory, and my password is a randomly generated 10 character password using uppercase and lowercase letters and numbers. The next day my laptop gets stolen or something. How hard would it be for someone to decrypt the home directory if that were the goal?
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Nov 19, 2010
newbie changing to Linux, but not comps.as I said in newbie forum, putting them together since mid 80's w/5150's. that said most exp is old dos command line and commodore 64 basic. our economy here in USA causes change for many of us. I am now reading CompTIA study guide for Linux+ certification by Robb H. Tracy, pro Linux administration by James Turnbull,Peter Lieverdink, and Dennis Matotek. I have downloaded and installed PcLinuxOs, Fedora, SuSe.(three separate disks) have Linux Mint, Ubuntu, on cd. I also have Helix, DEFT, FIRE, FCCU, and Live Forensics Toolkit for Windows. because of pending legislation in our state and current or pending in others, taking classes@community college for private investigator. end goal?: Linux Systems Administrator/security/private investigator specializing in forensics?as I learn I'll probably install a server version on 1 of my drives and ask some of you to use it to work with/hack me/give me help in general.
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Jun 29, 2010
In the old days of M$-DOS, there was the NCD (Norton Change Directory) utility. Anything of the sort in Linux?Explanatory note: you typed out the name of the directory you wanted to go to, that is, last element of the dir path.And you were, ipso facto, in that dir. If that was the only one by that name, good. When not, and if that wasn't the intended dir, you typed the same command again and you were in a second dir of that name. If this was the intended dir, good. And so on. It simply maintained a data base with the whole tree, and updated it when invoked from a newly created dir o by means of an option, NCD/R.
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Jan 4, 2011
I have 3 images made by clonezilla now I want to restore 1 of them, but when I try to use clonezilla to restore, there's no option to restore image. I can see the images in home directory and file is owned by root in my home directory. I'm trying to transfer image to usb hdd.
Did I place image in wrong directory or is it permissions problem.
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Jul 27, 2010
I can change to a nother directory in home folder using cd command.I have several partitions in my hard drive.But i want to know ho to cheng to a directory in nother partition or flash drive using command line.how can i do that
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Jun 29, 2010
want to change my log server directory /var/log/secure to any other places.
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Oct 5, 2010
For a user on a Linux host, I need to make everything inaccessible besides his home directory. I have heard that this is usually done by changing the root directory for the user (and setting it to the user's home directory), however I couldn't find the way to do it.
I thought about the chroot command, but it seems it just runs the specified command, considering the specified directory as the root directory. So it seems chroot is not what i need. So my question is: what is the command which changes the user's root directory?
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May 28, 2011
How can I get the last time any of the files in a directory or its subdirectories has changed?
e.g
Dir - changed 1/1/1
Sub Dir 1 - changed 2/1/1
Sub Dir 2 - changed 3/1/1
File 1 - changed 10/1/1
File 2 - change 5/1/1
The output for this for Dir should be 10/1/1 (File 1 was the last modified one). Getting the last file name to be modified is a bonus but isn't necessary.
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Jul 2, 2010
Installed Sidux over LennySidux didn't want to take my usual username, because a folder with that name existed in my home directory.So, I just mounted the home partition and changed the name of my home directory from shay to shay1.Don't know what that did or didn't do permission wise to the files in my old home directory, but I've got a few unowned files floating around my home directory anyway that have been dragged in from old harddrives and such.
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May 9, 2010
How do I change user's home directory, because right now everything saves into File System and it's almost full(I got windows and Ubuntu installed in the same partition), while the other 120Gb filesystem is unused..
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Aug 5, 2010
I have noticed that on a Mac which is Unix based too there is a different home directory which is NOT /home/user/ but /Users/user. How can I change my home directory in linux to something else? Even as an experiment? Is it possible? and how?
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 GNOME
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Jun 24, 2011
I've already done the following commands
Code:
su
chown theif519 /home/theif519
chmod 775 /home/theif519
exit
#usermod -d /home/theif519 login
I've logged out and logged back in, and I was successful in making it the default directory it logs in to. Still, afterwards I noticed that that when I use the list all commands "ls -l" it shows that root owns it and it also shows that I do not, by default, have read write execute over it, only read execute. I'm using Slackware 13.37* in a Virtual Machine* Another thing, I don't think I added any rights to my user, how do I give it more rights as well? Like, wheel and sudo and all of that stuff. Also, this was the website I was using *Although it didn't help much, the comments sure did [URL].
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Jul 5, 2011
I have rhel5.4 in my vmware , i am trying to install yum repositories in /home/Server bcoz i dont have enough space in /var/ftp/pub. i installed vsftpd ,createrepo rpms and index is installed, but when i check for yum list its saying cannot change directory.
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Jul 9, 2011
I am not an expert when it comes to crontabs and linux but i can survive in its world :P I've modified a script i found on the net to do a simple crontab job. Basically its a backup script (backup_auto.sh) that in the end of it, it updates the crontab also.
Code:
i just put the crontab job of the script....
if [ $CRONJOB -eq 1 ]
then
#Check if user can use crontab
[Code]...
I know for a fact that it doesnt run it because this .sh upload remotely some files for backup, and if i dont run it manually then i dont see any backups on the remote server
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Apr 9, 2010
I have a problem with file names changes. I have a hundred of file with same names and different subdirectories. I want to change that file names by their subdirectery names.
Currently is:
file name------------------------subdirectory name
1_km_16_days_EVI_s2_01200_01200.img --> MOD13A2.A2000049.h23v03.005.dir
1_km_16_days_EVI_s2_01200_01200.img --> MOD13A2.A2000065.h23v03.005.dir
1_km_16_days_EVI_s2_01200_01200.img --> MOD13A2.A2000081.h23v03.005.dir
...
I want to
MOD13A2.A2000049.h23v03.005.img
MOD13A2.A2000065.h23v03.005.img
MOD13A2.A2000081.h23v03.005.img
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May 31, 2011
I've just installed Kubuntu 11.04, switched on wobbly windows effect. It runs very smooth on my Nvidia GeForce 7600 GS with dual screen twinview turned on. However, I get these lines when I drag/move the window upwards - see screenshot:
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Nov 8, 2010
I am installing oracle 11g on Oracle enterprise Linux 5 i applied all the steps in doc [URL] when trying to switch user to user oracle i am facing the below
[root@oel5 ~]# su - oracle
su: warning: cannot change directory to /home/oracle: Permission denied
-bash: /home/oracle/.bash_profile: Permission denied
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Feb 1, 2010
I am in the process of setting up an Asterisk server with Broadvoice services. I am having issues with making outbound calls and Broadvoice suggests I modify the /etc/hosts file in order to add their proxy server IP address and name. I login to my server as root and get the following command line header
[root@root tmp]#
I entered cd thinking this is what I need to change directory but fails. What is the command I need to enter in order to get to the /etc/host file so I can change it? How do I confirm an /etc/host file even exists?
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Aug 13, 2011
i am trying to write a script that does the following..1. checks if a directory exists2. changes permisssions of the directoryi have written a script but it returns a message to say that the specified directory does not exist (but it does).my question is how to i search the entire file system as directory could potenially be anywhere. would cd or su be of any use here.
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Dec 7, 2009
On Debian Standard System I would like to is change /tmp directory from it's original /dev/hda8 to destination /dev/hdd5
Code:
Disk /dev/hda: 6448 MB, 6448619520 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 784 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
[code]...
If I change /dev/hda8 to /dev/hdd5 and reboot the startx command fails to run.
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Apr 18, 2011
I am trying to create a jailed shell for a user Don($UID '500') using my own method(I don't want to use any ready-made "jailkit"). The user don should get a home directory /jail/don instead of /home/don when he login via SSH (So that he will not able to see any other files/directories on the system)
This is what I have done.
Quote:
Code:
It works without any issue ....Home directory changes to /jail/don when I ssh to the system as user don. ie: #ssh don@192.168.0.66
Then I added a chroot command to this code.
Code:
Unfortunately , now I am getting an error message saying that "chroot: cannot change root directory to /jail: Operation not permitted" .. I am not sure how to rectify this error... Is my approach correct to get a jailed shell using /etc/profile file ?
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Jul 15, 2010
I'm in a different type of shell (this is inside "screen"), I guess. It is like this:
Code:
sh-3.2$ cd /home/user
sh-3.2$
It doesn't change the directory.
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Mar 27, 2011
How do I change to the directory /ect so I can add a path variable to the file called environment?
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Jul 15, 2009
I just upgraded to fedora core 11. I need to change the permission of the html folder. The owner is currently set to root. Since there is no longer a root user (I just found out) it will not let my user account change the permissions in that directory from. How do you change directory permissions in fedora 11?
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Dec 25, 2010
Yesterday I installed Fedora 14 on my computer. I was able to log in as root on a terminal fine until this morning. Now when I log in I get this:
Code:
[Silverback@Vanessa ~]$ su -
Password:
su: warning: cannot change directory to /root: No such file or directory
-bash-4.1#
I haven't deleted any files, so I have no idea how to fix this.
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Oct 9, 2010
I have my hard drive arranged with a single large ntfs data partition and a number of smaller partitions for /home etc. Here's the line in fstab:
Code:
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD103SJ_S246J9FZ806954-part2 /home/shmuck/data ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
But the ownership for that directory is root and I can't change it for some reason, using this line:
Code:
sudo chown -R shmuck /home/shmuck/data
It just doesn't do anything.
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Jun 18, 2010
no matter what i do in there terminal when it comes to changing directorys or copying items it just dont work.this is what im typing
PHP Code:[code]...............
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Jan 7, 2011
i used to use synaptic to install packages which seems to be installed somewhere like /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin, so my question is can i change the default or pre-determined installation directory, coz my partition / is kind of short of space.
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Sep 28, 2010
My directory structure is
/3dmodels/work/work
While I am changing to last work directory it's giving th error as:
550 Failed to change directory.
I have tried selinux issues,permission issues, anon issues,chroot issues but no solution.
Is there anything to do more than these issue ?
I am logging in as localuser. I can browse all the contents of 2nd work directory except the last work directory.
But in internet browser all works well,I can change into the last work directory and can also browse the directory but unable in command line.
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