I'm trying to tar a collection of files in a directory called 'my_directory' and remove the originals by using the command:
tar -cvf files.tar my_directory --remove-files
However it is only removing the individual files inside the directory and not the directory itself (which is what I specified in the command). What am I missing here?
I recently installed rtorrent on a server in order to download the CentOS 5.4 DVD. I then decided against using this particular server and instead installed it on a different one. When I initially installed rtorrent, I installed two other packages to satisfy rtorrent's dependencies as shown below:
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Installing:
rtorrent i386 0.8.4-2.el5.rf rpmforge 448 k
Installing for dependencies:
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From the terminal I got this message: The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libqt4-opengl freemat freemat-help libgfortran3 libsdl-ttf2.0-0 libmikmod2 libqt4-svg libblas3gf libamd2.2.0 libsdl-mixer1.2 libumfpack5.4.0 freemat-data libsmpeg0 Ok, what I really don't understand is that why is it that Freemat, my most important software, is listed as "no longer required"? Of course if I use sudo apt-get autoremove will remove all the mentioned packages including Freemat.
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I want to move all the contents of something including hidden files up to the site root at: /var/www/html/
What is the proper command for this?
I had Vista on my laptop and then started dual booting with windows.downloaded ubuntu today and installed but just not feeling it. i have looked in add remove programs but its not there. can someone point me in the right direction. How do i remove ubuntu including the grub screen and free the space up on the hard disk because i'm missing 25gb.
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> rm directotyname
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how can i remove the symbolic link and make sure it will not happen again ?
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each directories have index.html file now i want to replace the index.html file alone from the other directory /var/tmp/vhosbak
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How we can do this using script?
I want to find out what is the size of a package including its' dependencies.
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I'm building the 2.6.34 kernel and I notice some interesting options, which you may want to consider including in the build, if you are building it:
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I have local Wordpress database that got corrupt as a result of an abrupt power outage (I wasn't even editing it!).
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I checked the wp-content directory, but apparently this is not where the content is:
Any idea which file(s) I should be restoring and what their path is?
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Errors:
->limits.h:No such file or directory
->assert.h:No such file or directory
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