After 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 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??
View 8 Replies View RelatedOriginally Posted by Kenny_StrawnPlease wrap [CODE] tags aroung any code posted here. The full source that way could still be posted.I am trying to copy all the files in the directory based on the modification date (i.e created on Dec 29). Not able to find the proper command for this. This is what I have tried.
(none) login: root
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# cd /mnt/hd/
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There are millions of files in many directories. Wherenver i try rm * or find or use xargs, they say 'argument list too long' and exit. How can i deleted files in a directory with so many files without deleting the directory itself.
View 3 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.
Is it possible to copy files from directory of one user to directory of another user in linux?
View 7 Replies View Relatedsomewhere lurking is a file containing the default print resolution, which is not being overwritten by printer settings or cups management. I've asked on the cup forum and nothing successful.
So here's the question:
How can I configure grep to search recursively through all files in a directory, or if need be starting from root to find the pattern "2880" I've looked in the man page for grep and I can't see how to do it, is grep the right tool to use for this ?
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 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.
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That is what it shows in the man pages, but when I do that, it says cp: no match
I 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.
I 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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i just need to make copy files have 2 year old to another directory i know how to use cp command but i am not able to do that
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am trying to read mulitple files and copy its contents (files) to a respective directory. I have a folder "Oracle". Under this i have mulitple files as mentioned below.
Each of the above has a list of files in them.
Now i have created new directories with the same name as the above files in another location say
The script that i looking at has to read the files from Oracle, backup its contents to its appropriate new directory.
Example:
I want to know how to copy a range of files from one directory to another.
For example say I list the contents of a directory, how would i copy files 5-15 to another directory?
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 RelatedThis is a bit of a basic question but I'm trying to copy all .doc files I find in a directory and copy them to another directory.I know each command:
find -name '*.doc' .
and:
cp filename location
how can I combine the two commands?
I have directory a and directory b. They are big. b is almost identical to a. "almost" means that 4-5 files differ, and I don't know which they are. I want to copy b over a, but only the files that differ. i'm in bash.(no, I can't simply delete a and replace it with b, because 1) a is version-controlled 2) a full copy (or a mv) would take too much. I want to copy only the files that differ).
View 4 Replies View RelatedWe have two folders: source folder and destination folder. In source folder we have many sub folders and many files of different type!Script that would copy or move defined number of files from source to destination folder. Files must be selected randomly and sub folder in source folders must be selected randomly and we don't copy or move defined number of files just form one sub folder in source folder. In destination folder sub directory structure of source folder should not be preserved. Solution should be robust and as simple as possible.
View 9 Replies View RelatedHow can I use rsync to copy ONLY the my home folder (and nothing inside of it, just the folder name) to another machine. I've tried things like
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rsync -av /path/to/src /path/to/dest/
or
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rsync -av -f"+ */" -f"- *" /path/to/src /path/to/dest/
This last option recursively (through the -a switch) copies only folders, including all subfolders. If I try
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rsync -v -f"+ */" -f"- *" /path/to/src /path/to/dest/
nothing is copied (not even my home folder.
I have a number of crash.log files scattered about my system and I would like to run a command to find all the crash.log files on the system and copy them to a single directory; each with a unique filename. For example, copy crash.log from ~/directory_1 , ~/directory_2 , ~/directory_3 and so on to ~/crash_logs/crash.log1 , ~/crash_logs/crash.log2 , ~/crash_logs/crash.log3 etc.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI was trying to develop a script which needs to check the count of files on hourly basis and if it find any addition it has to sftp and send a email on the status with filenames and number of files copied via sftp. I will put it on cron to run every hour.
I'll use ls /abc|wc -l to count the no. of lines for the first time and from then whenever a new file will be inserted it'll copy that file to another location or I'll take the date of the files and whichever is having a new date that will be copied to another location.
I am trying to create a simple bash script to rsync some folders within a directory stucture. I am using wild cards, in the rsync source directory structure, but my command always fails. I believe it is the way I am using wild cards within my for loop. Here is my command ;
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for seq in `cat test.txt` ; do rsync -nvP /folder/folder/folder/folder/folder/**/$seq /folder/folder/folder/ ; done This always fails, where if I do a ls to the destination, to test the path, it always works.
Is there a simple command to copy files that have been created within the past 2 hours?I've been looking through the man pages for unisonrsyncfindcpand I can't find anything I'm looking for.All I need is a simple command.Code:Copy folder a to b if created < 2 hours.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to copy a sample set of files/pictures to a directory on my desktop. For my sample from /home/user/pics containing 7,000+ pictures, I have a desired list of:
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user@computer:/home/user/pics$ ls | tail
I use that to generate a list of a few files that I'd like to move to my desktop. I tried:
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user@computer:/home/user/pics$ ls | tail | cp /home/user/Desktop
I thought that might dump the tail list of files for an argument in the cp command, but no luck. I then tried:
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user@computer:/home/user/pics$ ls | tail | cp . /home/user/Desktop
"ls | tail" output, but no luck.
copy a compact flash card with a form of Linux on it (Found out it was custom version based on Fedora Core 3). The flaky USB card reader seems to have hosed the flash card, it shows up with unknown volume after ejecting the card and reinserting it. My troubleshooting: I have Ubuntu on a flash drive that I used to start all this to read the flash card.
- I tried Disk Utility to reformat the card as Master Boot Record and the volume as ext3 with flag set to Bootable and copied the files using cp in command line.
- I tried ISO Master & mkisofs to make an ISO that the USB thumb drive tools can use, but it wouldn't copy all the files. Looks like symbolic links either were ignored or couldn't find the source file with -f.
- I learned that I might need a boot partition with a boot image, which I think I have in initrd-2.6.14.7img, but I don't know how to do that. Do I also need a swap partition?
My updated goal: using the files from the flash card, make a bootable compact flash card with Fedora Core 3.
I have a directory and sub-directories (4 or 5 depths). There are several type with extension in them (*.mp3, *.wma, *.jpg, etc). I would like to copy the whole directory to another location recursively but only *.mp3 files.
View 11 Replies View RelatedUse file globbing to copy all the files in the /labs/data directory that end with a .out to the lab05 directory.
Use file globbing to copy all the files in the /labs/data directory that start with a c, d, or n into the lab05 directory.
want to write a shell script to copy database archivelog files sequential from one directory to another directory within a server. I am hereby enclosing the sample archivelog file name. Archive log filename : log_0000118432_1.arc (Here number 0000118432 will be sequentially incremented by 1 for next filename). Here the catch is all Archivelogs must be copied to destination directory. Previously copied files should not be copied.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI need to copy all subdirectories and files from one directory to another ever 5 minutes or so, with the old data automatically being overwritten with the new data. I'd also like this to run at startup. Is there any way this can be done? If so, what program would I need to schedule the automation and what is the command line I would need.
View 2 Replies View RelatedHow would i go about copying files to a directory, yet skip the files that already exist in the directory, and also remove the files that are in the directory. For example:
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$ls /dir1
img001.jpg
img002.jpg
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Now i would like to copy from dir1 to dir2, but the contents of dir2 would be:
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$ls /dir2
img003.jpg