Ubuntu :: Can't Delete / Rename File
Feb 6, 2010
I have moved all files from one hard drive to another but one file remains that I cannot move, delete or rename.
From a fresh boot, nothing nefarious running in the background...
Using Nauitilus, find a file called: .goutputstream-59R62U
It appears to be a 1.5Gb MPEG file. I can click on it and it plays in MoviePlayer. I can drag it into VLC and it plays normally. But I can't move it, delete it or rename it and I can't do the same to its parent directory or the parent of that directory.
Running sudo nautilus from Terminal it doesn't appear at all.
Running Gnome Commander it doesn't show up either. When trying to delete its parent directory (with permissions set to rwxrwxrwx) I get the following error:
Error while deleting ".goutputstream-59R62U"
File not found
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May 20, 2011
I am happy to report I successfully setup a cloning station using Ubuntu 10.4 Lucid Lynx and Clonezilla. I learned the hard way you have to restore images to a hard drive of a larger size than the drive the image was ripped from. I had already ripped 6 or more images and have them in the Home_Partimag folder and cannot delete or rename these images. I want to remake these images and rip them from smaller hard drives. Any commands I can use to be able to do this?
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Apr 17, 2010
We have a problem at work that we are using Word Press And now for security we have to delete install.php in WP-Admin and rename upgrade.php and install_helper.php to *.bak
Im a noob in Script creating (Had a bit practice a couple of years ago but allready forgot T.T) So what i ask that is there a way to make a script
That:Finds wp-admin(if it exists) folder enters into it and there deletes install.php and renames upgrade.php and install_helper.php to *.bak and the makes the same process again untill theres no wp-admin folders left with these files, We have alot of web pages so manually it would take about a month to find em all (about 3000 pages :
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May 12, 2010
Can't rename, move or delete files or folders that have a foreign character.
Code:
The file or folder /data/down/done/1999 Taraf de Ha-douks does not exist.
Kubuntu Karmic. Fails in konqueror and dolphin.
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Aug 28, 2010
how to change (rename, delete) lines from boot list in grub 2, Ubuntu 10.04? For example, when I boot my pc, I have a boot list with options "Ubuntu 10.04", "memtest" and "Windows 7". I want to delete "memtest" line, as I don't need it, and rename "Windows 7" line to, for example, "Windows 117". How can I do that? Where I should look and edit? In old grub it was enough to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst, but in Ubuntu 10.04 there is no such file and other grub2-related files (like grub.cfg) do not contain this info to rename or delete lines. So, I can't figure out what to do.
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Feb 13, 2011
I'm using Ubuntu for about a half year. Currently version 10.10. The next problem I have with Nautilus: He have it in ListView. If I want to rename a file then the entire file is selected and not only the first part. So the file extension is also selected. I think this is a bug, whoich can be found on the Internet, but I do not find a solution. Does anyone here have a solution?
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Feb 18, 2010
Why is there no Delete when I right click like there is with Windows in ubuntu? Pretty much everything else is there like new folder and so on Is there some way to add it? Also why when i delete something does it not ask me if I am sure that i want to delete that file?
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May 11, 2010
I used a script that renamed my file eg 'echo webutil.olb | tr [A-Z] [a-z]' i wanted to rename it back to webutil.olb. How do i do this for many other files that i have
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Jan 17, 2010
I backed up all my wallpaper files to a folder in Dropbox. I want to rename them all to wallpaper and let the file system add the number to the name, similar to Windows XP function. I selected all the files but the rename option is not available.
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Feb 15, 2011
I want to rename some image file extensions from upper case to lower case but renaming all the images in all directories and subdirectories. the following code works if I am inside the folder but how do I make it work recursively?
Code:
for f in *.JPG; do mv $f `basename $f .JPG`.jpg; done;
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Nov 22, 2010
i'm just try to rename a particular file with php script
#/var/www/rename.php
<?php
rename('/var/www/welcome.txt','/var/www/welcome1.txt');
?>
showing error
Warning: rename(/var/www/welcome.txt,/var/www/welcome1.txt) [function.rename]: Permission denied in /var/www/rename.php on line 2
but i'm already open all permistion to rename.php & welcome1.txt file
#chmod 777 /var/www/rename.php
#chmod 777 /var/www/welcome.txt ....
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Nov 4, 2010
is there a way in terminal to rename a file to system date?
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May 19, 2010
How would I rename a file say old.txt to new.txt in Linux using commands?
would it be...?
rename old.txt new.txt
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Apr 12, 2011
About php upload. I want a php upload script that renames and overwrite every uploaded file as onscreen.jpg I googled it but only found random number rename. Not working for me I want file name change and overwriting file on server.
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Feb 10, 2011
I need a sed and renaming the text in file. we have this one:
Quote:
Originally Posted by nickname
nickname presents: $subject
Size: size
[code]....
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Jan 9, 2011
I have a folder containing the output from Windows XP "File and Settings Transfer Wizard" - the folder refuses to be imported into any flavour of Windows and the original windows system is no more - so I found a little program called fastconv [URL] which extracted all the files but fails to rename them - been working on this solidly for 3 days now, there are 47,000 files in 20gb, so naturally the customer is very concerned.
I noticed that Ubuntu cleverly recognises the type of file, assuming its looking at the contents of the file rather than the extension.
Is there any way I can automatically rename the files based on the mime type?
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Feb 22, 2010
I've tried "rename" off the right context menu in XFE (ver. 1.32.1)
I've tried Krename.
I've tried quoting;
$ mv ' Outlander - 2009.avi' 'Outlander - 2009.avi'
mv: cannot stat ` Outlander - 2009.avi': No such file or directory
I've tried escaping;
$ mv Outlander - 2009.avi Outlander - 2009.avi
mv: cannot stat ` Outlander - 2009.avi': No such file or directory
I've tried forgetting about it & hoping it will go away...
GNU bash, version 4.1.0
Debian Squeeze with 2.6.32-trunk-686
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Apr 27, 2010
I'm using 11.2 GNOME for a while now..
As far as I know, GNOME can't act like MS or OSX when we wan't to rename a file..you know, when you slightly re click the file name and its ready to be renamed.. instead, I should go right click - context menu - rename to do that.
Is there any setting or apps for these?
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Jun 25, 2011
Y want to rename a bunch of files and directories to remove the space on the names, easy enough right?
Code:
for source in $(find ./); do target=$(echo "$source"|sed -e 's/ /_/g'); mv -f "$source" $target; done
Well, I thought that should have work but the problem is that $source comes up broken, when I run it with echo instead of mv I get the echo with broken names.
Code:
In this case "$source"="This is the file I want to rename"
$ echo "$source"
[Code]....
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May 15, 2011
I need your inputs on performing some operations:-
a. Traverse from top Level directory, find all the directories
b. Rename all these directories to <original name>.dir
c. Once the renaming is done - search from top level and retain only those directories which has .txt content in them.
d. Delete rest all.....
Can i use xargs here to perform operation a and b , or will sed will be useful.
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Sep 16, 2010
I have a program I use that downloads a file a couple times a day, but it does not name it how I want it named. So I am looking for something that i can run as a daemon that will rename the downloaded file as soon as it is downloaded to my specified directory and rename it according to my needs.
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Aug 2, 2011
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Aug 26, 2009
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abc123.txt
abc124.txt
abc125.txt
to
abc.txt.123
abc.txt.124
abc.txt.125
Basically, I want to move the digits from the filename to after the extension.
It works for one file if I type:
rename 123.txt .txt.123 abc.txt.123
but I have thousands of files like these.
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Jan 30, 2011
I want to do the following.
1. have a directory full of subdirectory
2. Pick the first file from every sub and copy that to the main directory and also rename that file to the same name as the subdirectory's name
3. need to work in commandline best is a simple script.
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Jun 26, 2010
Create a copy of the file above and call it commands.sorted. Use the vi command to manually sort this file. I.e. use yy to copy a line, P or p to paste a line, and dd delete a line. Order the commands with the two lines starting with double quotes first. Then list the rest of the command in alphabetical order.
Anyone have any ideas what he's talking about? Can I copy a file and rename it at the same time while copying it to the same exact directory again? Now sure what the two lines things means either. I have an email out to him but it usually takes a long time for him to answer me. I got alot of work to do so everytime I get hung up it kills me.
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Apr 12, 2010
I'm writing a bash shell script that among various other things will traverse through a directory with hundreds of files and rename those who match a pattern found in a config file. It's expected that only about one in ten files will actually match, and those who don't, will simply just be ignored for this purpose.
This should for instance cause the file "dBase program file December 1987.prg" to be renamed "Clipper source code December 1987.prg", and conversely "C++ source August 1996.cpp" to be renamed "C source code August 1996.cpp" etc.A sample file such as "Random Data File.dat" should not be renamed here since it's not mentioned in the config file..What is the quickest, most elegant way to do this in bash?I am thinking of using bash's built-in regex matching combined with the /bin/rename utility, but don't quite know how to get started to catch this..I guess there are plenty ways of doing this in perl and elsewhere as well, but since this has to integrate into a pre-existing bash script, that's what I'm looking for.Anyone out there with a spare moment to offer a hint in the right direction?
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Mar 28, 2011
I am trying to rename a lot of files but need to keep the extension :
the files are films names :
a.b.c.d.***.iso
the result should be replacing "." by spaces " "
this command :
for files in *.iso ; do mv "$files" `echo "$files" | tr '.' ' '`; done
put a space also before the extension iso ??
How can I rename files from
"a.b.c.d.iso" to "a b c d.iso"
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Jul 25, 2011
How would I rename all files with a leading decimal point recursivley? I some how got all my music files to have a decimal point.I tried the below and got a " sed argument to long".[CODE]find /media/MUSIC -type f -name "*.wma" | xargs -0 sed -i 's/.(.*)/1/'[CODE]
Another question, can i just use -type f with out -name ? I am sure that all the files got the decimal point added as the first character.
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Oct 21, 2009
Many folders within a subdirectory some of which have lots of data in and some of which have only one specific file called produkt.fil inside.I need a command to find and delete those folders that contain ONLY the file produkt.fil - if other files exist (doesnt matter what they are) then they should be left alone. Note: produkt.fil exists in all of the folders always.
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