General :: Command To Overwrite A Directory?
Jan 18, 2010there's a command to overwrite a directory.
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General :: Command To Overwrite File With Sed Output?
Jan 5, 2010For example I want a file to be processed by sed, and then overwrite the file with sed's output. I would try this:
Code:
sed '<regex goes here>' myfile > myfile
But it doesn't work as expected, instead it empties the file (I am thinking that as the first byte comes out of sed, it overwrites the whole file and sed has nothing more to do). How can I make this work?
General :: Unzip Command: Option To Force Overwrite?
Jan 26, 2010I am writing a shell script that unzips a ZIP file into an existing hierarchy of files, potentially overwriting some of the files. The problem is that the unzip command asks for confirmation: replace jsp/extension/add-aspect.jsp? [y]es, [n]o, [A]ll, [N]one, [r]ename: y
This is unacceptable for a script.I need an option to force unzip to overwrite the files.I did not find in the man page nor with Google.
General :: Suppress "Do You Want To Overwrite" Prompt While Using Cp Command?
Feb 27, 2010How to suppress "Do you want to overwrite" prompt while using cp command. I tried "cp -fr", but it isn't worked
View 4 Replies View RelatedFedora :: Make Mkdir Silently Overwrite Any Existent Directory?
Feb 19, 2010I am working on a bash script which among its operations creates directories using the mkdir command. However, when the directory already exists mkdir mentions that in the command line output.
Is there any way I can make mkdir silently overwrite any existent directory? (no messages in the output). For the same price, could it be done with other commands such as cp or mv?
Fedora :: Command For Overwrite Menu.lst?
Mar 6, 2011I've modified by mistake my menu.lst file. Both menu.lst and grub.conf are empty. how to fix this? Is there any command to quickly rewrite those files?
View 2 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Use Mkdir Command To Create 'local' Directory In /usr - There Are Error - Cannot Make Directory
Jun 16, 2010I am a student studying computer science course.
Well, I am facing problem when doing lab questions.
I must use DLXLinux bundled in Bochs (bochs.sourceforge.net).
I am required to use the /usr/local directory.
In /usr directory, there is no directory named 'local' but there is one thing called 'local@'. So, when I try to use mkdir command to create 'local' directory in /usr , there are error "cannot make directory.....".
Look at my screenshot at [url].
General :: Find Directory Older Than X And Mv Directory With Sub Files Command?
Jul 13, 2011I'm quite new to linux but I have configured a simple ftp server and it's working great. I have a FTP-Shared folder with upload and download subfolders. Under upload's and download's I have identical category subfolders like mp3's, movies, software etc. in both. As the guy's upload, I would like to create a line crontab where I can move all the content under /FTP-Shared/upload/mp3/* older than 14 day's to FTP-Shared/downloads/mp3/ recursively (Like in cp command), but the timestamp must be searched on the first directory and not sub files example: /mp3/Club Dance/CD1/Hallo world.mp3This is how far I got:[root@clients ~]# /usr/bin/find /FTP_Shared/upload/Mp3s/ -depth -mindepth 1 -mtime +14 -type d -exec mv -f {} /FTP_Shared/download/Mp3s/ ;This command moves the directory and files, but it is not recursively
View 4 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Does The SVN Command Work In One Directory But Not Another?
Jun 10, 2011I used SVN to check out the code of an open source project. When I typed the following command:
[user1@smallfox]~/workspace/project1% svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/mahout/trunk
It worked just fine. However, when I typed the SVN command in the root directory, it did not work and gave me an error message:
[user1@smallfox]~% svn co http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/mahout/trunk
zsh: command not found: svn
General :: Tar Command For Directory With Files
Feb 24, 2011Using tar command. All I need the usage, and basic explanation. Let's assume I have a directory with files that I need to tar, how do I go about it.
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Apr 28, 2011Does anyone know how to stop the du command from displaying the directory name?
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Feb 23, 2011What 's the most popular command to do such things in terminal in linux?
View 4 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Find And Replace Command For Whole Directory
Aug 17, 2011Is there any command in Linux which will find a particular word in all the files in a given directory and the folders below and replace it with a new word?
View 4 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Apply A Command To All Pdf Files In A Directory?
Jul 29, 2011i want to apply this command
Code:
pdftotext article.pdf - | grep DOI
to all the pdf's in a directory and save each line of output to a text file. i.e. i want to collect each line containing "DOI" from every pdf in a text file. I am unable to understand bash scripting enough to write a for loop for this.
General :: Command Line 'last Directory' Button?
Jun 16, 2010in the command line there's a button (tab) for autocompleting commands and I'm pretty sure linux has a button that prints the last directory I used/typed whatever?
View 6 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Can See Properties Of A Directory Using Command Line
Mar 4, 2011I am struggling to learn the command line, and am stuck to the following In my directory ~/Music , I have many music archives , total about 0,8 Gbyte . Yet , changing to this directory ) and giving ls -dlh , I get
ioannis@ioannis-laptop:~/Music$ ls -ldh
drwxr-xr-x 4 ioannis ioannis 4.0K 2011-03-04 14:55
So, only 4 k size and no info about the number of the files in the dir
General :: Root Directory Changed By Using Command?
Oct 24, 2010I am using fedora 13. If is use the command "cd //". It changes to root directory. How is it? What "//" denote?
View 6 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Rm Non-interactive Command - Delete A Directory With Its Files
Sep 28, 2010I wanna delete a directory with its files and I wanna do that as follows: rm -r dirToDelete Unfortunately, I always get asked for EACH single file if I wanna delete this because it is write protected.... Is there a way to suppress this feedback message so that just the whole directory with its contents disappears?
View 5 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Check If A Directory Exists In Command Line?
Jan 21, 2010How to check if a directory exists in Linux command line?
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General :: Tar Command - Making Archive From Current Directory?
Mar 31, 2011I have been playing around with the tar command and I know this is how to use it.
Code:
tar -cf [filename] [directory]
But what I want to make an archive from the current directory I thought just to not enter a directory but that doesn't work. I get an error about creating a empty archive so how to do I make it so how do I tell it to do the current directory?
General :: Extracting Absolute Directory From Type Command?
Sep 26, 2010I need to extract the absolute directory from the type command when I pass it a program name. E.g.
Code:
>type cat
cat is hashed (/bin/cat)
There is one other case (I believe):
Code:
>type lpr
lpr is /usr/bin/lpr
I thought of using regex, but it returns the whole line, not just the match. In addition, there is no option cited in the man page for type that returns just the command directory.
Note: this is part of my solution to a programming assignment in bash shell scripting.
General :: Installing A Program And Have It Accessible As A Command From Any Directory?
Dec 23, 2010I want to install a program (specifically metasploit), and have it accessible from any directory in the terminal. I have it installed correctly, but I have to travel to the directory it is installed in to run it (by using ./msfconsole ). I want to be able to be in any directory and just run "msfconsole" and have metasploit run. I have to copy the metasploit folder to the /opt/ directory? Maybe the /usr/bin/ directory?
View 3 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Ubuntu 10.04 - Tar Command To Archive Home Directory
Sep 3, 2010Ubuntu 10.04. As part of my nightly backup script I archive my home directory with the following command
tar -cvpzf /quitelarge/_mirror/mirror1/home-ken.gz /home/ken 2>> /quitelarge/_mirror/tar-error.log
It seems to work fine and I have recovered files from the archive on occasion. Actually I keep 7 rolling daily backups and a monthly burn to DVD. I had an sftp connection made by Nautilus to my server. Ubuntu for whatever reason places an icon on the desktop showing the connection. When I ran the script it decided to archive everything on my server - all 1.4 TB. I caught the problem when home-ken.gz was about 5 GB. I stopped the process, closed the sftp connection, rolled back the backups and tried again. This time I got a file of the expected size - about 45 MB.
In the error log I did find that the tar process was trying to suck the entire contents of the server into the archive file.
tar: /home/ken/.gvfs/sftp for ken on taylor10/proc/asound/ICH5/pcm0c/sub0: file changed as we read it
tar: /home/ken/.gvfs/sftp for ken on taylor10/proc/asound/ICH5/pcm0c: file changed as we read it
tar: /home/ken/.gvfs/sftp for ken on taylor10/proc/asound/ICH5: file changed as we read it
tar: /home/ken/.gvfs/sftp for ken on taylor10/proc/asound: file changed as we read it
tar: /home/ken/.gvfs/sftp for ken on taylor10/proc/scsi: file changed as we read it
tar: /home/ken/.gvfs/sftp for ken on taylor10/proc/acpi/event: Cannot open: Permission denied
tar: /home/ken/.gvfs/sftp for ken on taylor10/proc/acpi/fadt: Cannot open: Permission denied
tar: /home/ken/.gvfs/sftp for ken on taylor10/proc/acpi/dsdt: Cannot open: Permission denied
tar: /home/ken/.gvfs/sftp for ken on taylor10/proc/irq/21/smp_affinity: Cannot open: Permission denied
Is there an option I can place on the tar command to tell it NOT to follow the ssh connection which is sitting on my desktop? The closest thing I see in the documentation is -h which tells tar to "follow symlinks; archive and dump the files they point to." I am NOT specifying -h so if the ssh connection is treated as a symlink by tar I would still not expect the remote contents to be tarred.
General :: /bin Directory Is Deleted After Killed Yum Update Command
Jan 7, 2010I have a serious problem on my VPS. I ran "yum update" and then hit the Ctrl+C to cancel when I realized that I need to specify a package to update, not all of them, but when the console returned suddenly I lost the connection, when I try to reconnect to the machine, it says /bin/bash not found !! even when I try to issue commands from the VPS control panel, it reports that the commands are not there
I can issue a ticket for the ISP to resolve this, but I need to know the risks before I do this, I have no backup on MySQL and 2 live web applications, although they are still running, I am afraid if I restarted the VPS everything will be gone.
General :: Cp + Not Want To Overwrite Permissions?
May 26, 2011How to use cp command without to overwrite target file permissionsFor examplecp /tmp/file /home/fileI dont want to change chown and chgrp on /home/file
View 2 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Navigate To Previous Directory In Windows Command Prompt
Mar 24, 2011Possible Duplicate: Navigate to previous directory in windows command prompt
Is there an equivalent of Linux's cd - (change to previous directory) in Windows?
General :: Finding A Command For Going Back A Number Of Steps In A Directory Without Using Cd?
May 10, 2011I'm constantly going 'cd ../../../../'. Is there a command/alias that could let me go 'cmd 4' and I'd be taken back 4 directories?
View 8 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Execute Command Inside First Directory Of Each Matched Result?
Aug 8, 2011I am working at a client who has a project where code is a mixture of different source control systems. So a layout might be like this
project/a/.svn
/a/subfolder/.svn
/b/.hg
/c/subproject/.svn
/d/.hg
So I am trying to put together a simple command that when executed from the project folder will run the appropriate hg/svn command in each project i.e:
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Since the client has many such projects, Instead I am looking for a solution similar to find -exec where the svn/hg commands are automatically executed on each first level of match (i.e. svn up is run in the project/a folder but not in project/a/subfolder). How can such a command be constructed ?.
General :: Ls Command And Displaying Number Of Files In Current Directory?
Oct 15, 2010What command will provide you with the number of files in your current directory?
Choose one answer.
A. ls -c
B. ls | wc -w (this one)
C. ls -n | count
D. ls -wc (this one ?)
General :: Rsync Command Inserting User Home Directory?
Apr 7, 2011Why would rsync insert a user's home directory path in variable expansion when run via cron, but not when run manually. The gory details... Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 6) Linux 2.6.9-67.0.20.ELsmp The script (parts anyway, and simplified)...
Quote:
#!/bin/bash
. /home/bea/.bash_profile
echo rsyncloc=${rsyncloc} >> ${log}
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