I have many files and folders in my source folder. I want to copy some files and folders from that source folder to destination folder. What should be require to given with the "cp" command?
View 1 RepliesIn Linux bash shell, for a given directory, how can I list:The create date for that directory The number of files in that directory The number of subdirectories in that directory.
View 3 Replies View RelatedAt the moment I'm using:"cp -ap . /destination-folder"to copy everything from the folder I'm in to another folder.That works.Is it possible to cp everything except:folder1/folder2/in the current folder I'm in?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI wanna copy all folders and files created from 01.01.2011 until today to new placeie:cp -r /home/moviecar/public_html/wp-content/uploads/ /home/teaser/public_html/wp-content/uploads
View 4 Replies View Relatedi need to copy files from a folder called output files to another folder called running but im not able to do it i always get a stat error
View 14 Replies View Relatedjust installed ubuntu couple of days back on my netbook. I am still a beginner, enjoying my adventure exploring ubuntu. I have another desktop which runs on XP. I am able to access XP shared folders through my netbook(linux). However, i wanted to copy files from XP infact folders using TERMINAL in my netbook, not copy and paste using my mouse. Are there any commands for it?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am using secure delete to remove files from a Debian Linux PC. However, secure delete does not remove folders. This has lead me to look at writing a script that would move files to a predetermined folder for deletion. My plan is as follows:I have a folder on my desktop called shredder where I move the contents of the waste bin to. The script needs to identify all files within the folders and sub folders, within the shredder folder, and move each file to the shredder folder and then delete the folder. At this point secure delete can be used with a command like shred -v -u *.*on the shredder folder.The problem I have is in creating the code to move files from the different folders and then deleting the folders. Note that the names of the files, folders and subfolders will not always be known
View 12 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to copy a list of files except the files which has ".log" in the filename to another folder.I can run it correctly when I am located in the Source folder, but not when I am in any other location.cd /home/me/Sourcels /home/me/Source -1|grep -v "^.*log$" |xargs -n 1 -iHERE cp -r HERE /home/me/DestinationHow can I indicate both Source and Destination Folder?
View 2 Replies View Relatedsudo cp ../../../rootfs_maker_ramdisk drivers/filesystem/ -rf
give below errorCode:cp: cannot create special file ...._rootfs/dev/hda4': No such device or addressi get this error only in some specific locationsif i dont use sudo then i get permission denied msg
Terribly new to Linux and find it mindboggling. I work on brain imaging and unfortunately all of the analysis runs on Linux, and I do not understand computers well coming as I do from a medical background. So my question - There are various folders of patient MRI scans (folders called P1, P2, P3 etc) and within them are enclosed certain files that I am interested in (always called the same name in all folders, say image001). I would like a script that enables me to copy and move this image001 in all these individual folders to another folder altogether.
View 13 Replies View Relatedmake a simple script to copy files from my "hfiles " directory to a "www" folder at leats I think its a directory, it has the permissions as "lrwxrwxrwx " but its like a public branch So I proceeded to make a file entittled MkPublic to copy the "hfiles" directory to the "www" branch
here is the code i used:
#!/bin/sh
# COPIES FILES
echo "copying files"
[code]....
when i try to run the script it tells me that there is a syntax error and an unexpected end of file and nothing seems to get copied anywhere so clearly there is something wrong with one im doing, i tried multiple ways : using the quotes, spacing the equal signs, but I seem to still get the same results.
Is there a way to recreate all the folders from one directory to another without copying over the contents of the folder? I've been trying to do something like this,
Code:for i in `ls $X`; do mkdir $PATH/$i; doneUnfortunately $i is deliminated by whitespaces in the filenames and not the actual folders.
$X contains only other folders so I dont have to worry about regular files but any kind of more "advanced" solution would work.
Is possible to make a folder permission like below?
-User can create files/folders in the shared folder.
-But the files/folders they created, cannot be delete/change by em.
(only can be delete by root users)
-Each new files/folders created will auto owner to root only.
i want make a bash panel and i want he will copy files from orginal folder to $user folder i mean when for explame i type i want install some server he say cp: cannot stat 'root/Desktop/2/files/beckup/sa-mp-steam': No such file or directory.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI'm attempting to find a particular word wherever it appears within a massive directory listing of teeny tiny text files -- and then copy all files containing this word into a "staging" directory.
Whenever I use the command below (on a test folder of smaller scale), it never carries the directory structure but attempts to copy all files within the "output" folder.
Code:
cp `grep -ir 'word' *` output
how to copy all these text files and have them retain some sort of directory structure?
when I try to copy some files and folders to the usb memory fails me. What if I copied it from console or dolphin. I get this console error:
cp -r /home/jonatan/Documentos/carpeta
cp: no se puede crear el directorio �./carpeta/ejemplo�: Argumento inv�lido
If I try to copy the data to an ntfs partition I have no problem.
I have encountered a problem:I have "while" loop; at each run a set of outputs is produced but then I need to shift them into a corresponding folder ; otherwise next run the new outputs will be over-written. Furthermore, I need to pipe what I have on the screen inside a file. I have put my code in the following:
Code:
# !/bin/bash
jf="GeoQuery.jar"
[code]...
I've got a folder called Foo. In foo, there are 20 folders called bar1, bar2, bar3,...,bar20. In each of those barXX folders there are 2 files. How can i move those 2 files up one level into Foo with one command?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI dual boot a computer from separate hard drives in Windows XP and Ubuntu 10.04. Here is the deal: On my windows drive I have a folder that is filled with folders inside folders packed full of files in all the folders. There is a 100% possibility that I have multiple copies of any file in multiple locations. Is there any nice command or program to move all the files in all the folders to one central folder and in any way get rid of the multiple copies? Also, how do I compare to files that may or may not have the same name, but otherwise be identical to see if they are identical?
View 9 Replies View RelatedWay to test permissions on all files/folders into a folder recursive, then if those are not user:user then do :
Code:
chown user:user thatconcernedfile
The problem with that
Code:
chown user:user -R /folder
is that it is doing changes on file permissions whihch are already ok. If you wanna maintain a specific permission on a folder this is really not good this :
Code:
while [ 1 ] ; do
chown user:user -R /folder
# /folder contains 6.0 Tb
sleep 2s
done
i have a folder with 250 subfolders and each one of them has (at least) one image in it (along with other stuff)how can i 1)copy all the images from those subfolders and paste them into one folder together (other than by hand, obviously)?2)optional : copy only the images of a certain size and above?
View 2 Replies View RelatedHow can you create a script to move or copy files from a main directory into multiple directories below the main directory.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI am using evolution for my email client, and it shows me hidden files and folders in the folder tree. Basically, my email folder is in a unix folder on a system, and that system logs me into my folder when I try using evolution. The downside is that files like .bashrc, .bash_profile and other weird stuff end up in the foldertree view
See how the tree would show bashrc and .lynxrc?The folder "documents" shouldn't be showing either.Yeah, that's really annoying. It showing the contents of the $HOME folder that I login to.In thunderbird those things wouldn't show.It must be evolution specific.Anyone have an idea how to fix this issue?
I had Fedora 7 and Windows-XP dual operating system. Few weeks ago, there was GRUB error. Now I want to install Fedora 14, but before it I want to back up all data in one external hard drive. I used Fedora 13 live-CD I could access all the drive formatted as NTFS, but I couldn't access /home and the drive formatted (ext2) and owned by the user-name.
Please, inform if there is any idea to copy my files that remains in the home folder. (I can see them but copying is prevented)
i'm confronting atm. I need to create a folder where ppl can copy files and i need to be sure that those files cannot be deleted after they are copied there. The folder will be accessed over network, and i need to be sure no one will delete somebody else's files.Also i need to tell you that i'm working with regular users, so creating a folder for each user and chown/chmod-ing it won't do the trick(allready tried and ended up with a whole lot of files in the parent directory).I also tried chattr +a but that doesn't allow them to write new files in the folder.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhat would be the best way to automatically copy all of the data off of a library of cds to a specific folder on the computer? I was thinking of running a bash script but I've run into a few snags figuring out the correct way to do it. Mainly due to the fact that the cd drive is mounted in a different folder in /media each time I insert a new diskAlso, the mounting and unmounting process causes it's own problems, but I think that could be covered by a for loop that checks /mtab every few seconds or so.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have around 150+ folders in one directory. All contains some pdf files. Now i want to give some prefix no. to folder only not the files inside. How can i give the prefix to all my folders?Eg : Suppose i want no. 8562 then i want it like as follows
OLD FOLDER NEW FOLDER
ABC/ 8562-ABC/
AABC/ 8562-AABC/
When i installed ubuntu. I made a seperate partition so that i could copy an ISO image onto it of an up-to-date version of ubuntu. I wanted to then boot the ISO up so i could install the version that way.I've already tried doing it through the update manager but it'll download, almost be done with installing and it freezes on me. so i figured this would be easier. However i do not know how to gain access to the other partition to copy the ISO image.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI wanted to queue up all audio files in particular folder which also has .txt files.I tried$find /data/songs -iname '[^txt]' -exec totem --enqueue '{}' ';'Thinking that this will exclude txt like expression in 'grep'.It did not work
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've discovered that Dolphin seems to lose random files when copying many large folders.
I first noticed this a few months ago when I tried to copy my music library from one folder to another on the same HDD. It consisted of around 600 folders and 6500 files. During the copy there were no errors but after the copy I found that some of the newly copied folders were missing files. I put it down to human error or a glitch.
Yesterday I tried to copy 13 folders containing rips of some of my DVDs. Each folder basically had one film of either 700MB or 1.4GB. Again no errors showed up during the copy but I found 3 of the newly copied folders were empty.
It's not so critical with music or films but I can't afford to lose work data like this.
Has anyone experienced or seen a similar problem with Dolphin? I'm going to have to do some more extensive testing but this is not good.
The first time I noticed the problem I was running KDE4.3.4 (I think) and now the latest was with KDE4.4.0.