I'm working on a little bash script for copying files from one location to another, while sending the verbose output of cp to a text file.
how can I append a time stamp to the verbose lines in the log file.
The command:
Code:
cp -fRcp dir1/* dir2/ >> log/$(date +%y-%m-%d)_log.txt
Again, I want to know how I make the time stamp appear in front of the line inside of the log.txt.
suppose I have a tree structure like this:
/home/mahmood/sim/a/b/file1.cpp
/home/mahmood/sim/a/b/file2.h
/home/mahmood/sim/a/c/file3.txt
/home/mahmood/sim/d/file4.txt
How can I copy all of them to /home/mahmood/sim. So that when I run "ls" in /home/mahmood/sim, I see all files:
file1.cpp
file2.h
file3.txt
file4.txt
Can 'cp' search for all file and copy them in another folder?
Is there any windows equivalent tools (like tera copy, Fast copy in windows) for linux for fast copying data from one location to other?
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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.
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The rsync command is this:
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Is there some way that I could access her computer and just copy files to mine?
(I picture two folders, one on hers, one on mine, and I just dragging an icon from one to the other - but I don't suppose anything's THAT easy...)
Naturally, her computer would have to be on, and I assume she could not be using it herself. Naturally also, I would get her permission first...
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How can I copy some files from a windows machine to Linux machine ?
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I'm running squeeze on i686, my last update was this morning (9/9/2010). Running the stock kernel 2.6.32-5-686
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how to debug this after a hard reboot?
This has only just started happening, last night was the first time.
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I'm rsyncing between 2 USB external hard drives. One hard drive is FAT32 and one is NTFS. I've examined some of the files and believe that the difference is that there's a 1-second modtime difference developing in some of the files somehow.
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Code:
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scp foo host
instead of
scp foo host:
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But the permission is denied.
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