Ubuntu :: Copy Files Via Command Line?

Dec 14, 2010

I'm looking for a way to copy files with a certain file extension over to another folder. For exampleSource Folder: /home/user/downloadsFile Type: *.epubDestination Folder: /home/user/epubs/The downloads folder has several folders that may go as deep as 2 or 3 levels.I tried this but it didn't seem to work (and I'm not really sure what to do to modify it to get it to work).Quote:find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec grep -q "pattern" '{}' ';' -exec cp '{}' /path/to/destination

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Ubuntu :: Command Line To Copy Files From One Location To Another / Retain Source Files Group / User?

Feb 20, 2011

Is there a method at the command line to copy files from one location to another and retain the source files group and user?I'm migrating some MySQL files from one machine to another.I want to back-up the original files in the directory presently. They have owner:group of mysql, some have owner:group root:mysql and so on. To copy them under cli or Nautilus everything changes to root for I execute sudo cp or gksudo nautilus and copy via gui.

Since it is MySQL data I could simply do a dump of the database and restore it on the other machine. But there's about 20 db's and I want to do this via a copy for it will be faster - at least that is what I think.

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Ubuntu Multimedia :: Take Screenshots And Copy Image Files To Clipboard From The Command Line?

Feb 17, 2011

install imagemagick python, and pygtk.

Code:

sudo apt-get install imagemagick python pygtk

Now save the following script somewhere as imgclip.py. This is a simple python script which takes an image file and puts it in the gnome-clipboard.

Code:

#! /usr/bin/python
import pygtk
pygtk.require('2.0')

[code]...

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General :: Command Line - Automating A Task - Copy All Subdirectories And Files From One Directory To Another

Jun 10, 2010

I 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.

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Ubuntu :: Copy A Hard Drive From Command Line?

May 4, 2011

Ubuntu is getting stuck at the loading screen after an aborted attempt to upgrade to 11.04. It's my own fault - the install was running out of room on /, and I, like an idiot, decided to delete some package files under /var/something/archive, thinking they were "old"... I quickly realized they were in fact the new packages being installed... anyway after killing the thing and rebooting it is pretty damn broken (mostly because I can't get networking going so running in dpkg repair mode doesn't do much because, well, I deleted the packages).

I want to copy all the files off my /home and other meaningful partitions onto an external drive so I can just do a clean install. I can actually login to the command line under recovery mode, but I can't get the GUI started. I know it's possible to copy the contents of the partitions to an external

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Ubuntu :: Xfce4-screenshooter Copy To Clipboard From Command Line?

Mar 10, 2010

My xfce4-screenshooter GUI has the option Copy to the Clipboard, but I could not find this option in its' cI'm trying to bind printscreen key with this. I know that in order for the option to work I need to have the application always running (in GUI thre is option Close the application after screenshot , again somenthing that I can not find in command line).

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General :: Copy A Picture To Clipboard From Command Line?

Jun 24, 2011

I can copy image in Gimp and paste it to OpenOffice document.

How to do it (copy or paste image) from command line?

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General :: Copy-paste From Editor To Command Line?

Dec 23, 2010

I am trying to upgrade PHP on our linux box ( CentOS ) I copied the configure command from the phpinfo and now I want to execute that.I am not able to copy the command from an editor in linux to the command prompt, clicking the wheel om my mouse does not work, neither does shift-insert or ctrl-shift-insert.It does work in the editor itself.Is there a way to do this ?Or is there a way to execute the command in linux while it is in the file ? Like a bat file on Windows ?

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Ubuntu Servers :: Command Line To Copy File To Root Directory

May 12, 2010

I want to copy file from the Server cd drive and USB drive to the server root directory, but I haven't find any command of listing the cd drive or usb drive.

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General :: Command Line - Move Or Copy Selected File

Jul 16, 2011

How do I move around select a file and move or copy it. All tutorials I have seen are not simple enough.

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Ubuntu :: Copy A Line By Number In Text Files On Terminal?

Apr 10, 2010

I got a text file. Now I want to write a line by its number in a bash variable. That is all.

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Programming :: Copy And Replacing Specific Line From File1 To File2 Line By Line

Mar 22, 2011

I have two files, file1.traj and file2.traj. Both these files contain identical data and the data are arranged in same format in them. The first line of both files is a comment.

At line 7843 of both files there is a cartesian coordinate X, Y and Z ( three digits ). And at line 15685 there is another three digits. The number of lines in between two cartesian coordinates are 7841. And there are few hundreds of thousands of lines in a file.

What I need to do is copy the X Y Z coordinate (three digits) from file1.traj at line 7843 and paste into file2.traj at the same line number as in file1.traj. The next line will be 15685 from file1.traj and replace at line 15685 at file2.traj. And I dont want other lines (data) in file2.traj get altered. This sequence shall be going on until the end of the file. Means copy and substitude the selected lines from file1.traj into file2.traj.

I tried to use paste command but I cant do for specified line alone.

Here i showed the data format in the file. I used the line number for clarity purpose.

Code:

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Programming :: Copy An Entire Line And Add That Copy At The End Of The Same Line?

Feb 6, 2011

how do you copy an entire line and add that copy at the end of the same line?

For example, sometimes I rename a collection of files with a command like:

"mv oldfilename newfilename;"

I am able to add "mv" at the beginning, the semicolon at the end and sometimes replace a word in the middle, but... how to change a line "oldfilename" into "oldfilename oldfilename"... that is already long time a mystery to me...

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General :: Copy Mutiple Files Over Scp In One Command?

Mar 4, 2010

I have to transport a lot of files from one pc to another (both Linux). I would like to use scp for that, but scp only allows for transferring one file at a time. How can I do this?

I have No possibility to use rsync or any other protocol No possibility to use passphrase free certificates (but have a certificate with a passphrase) A list of files to transfer and a list with the destination path of the files on the other server The files are spread out over a lot of directories, and not all the files in the directories I want to copy If possible I would like to gzip and ungzip transparently to save bandwidth!

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Ubuntu :: Command To Copy Files In Directory Created Within 2 Hours?

Apr 22, 2010

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.

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Ubuntu :: Creating PDF Files From A Command Line In 10.04?

Sep 15, 2010

rying to find a way to generate a PDF file from a text file in a command mode (X is not installed). Is there a simple way to do that?I don't need anything fancy - no special formatting and no images to include, just simple text converted to a PDF format

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Ubuntu :: Command Line Tag Editor For Ogg Files?

Oct 8, 2010

I had a great system going with a bash script to update all of my mp3 files' genre tags. Now that my music collection is ogg, id3v2 doesn't work.

Can anyone recommend a command line tool to edit tags for ogg files please?

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Jan 4, 2011

I have a laptop with Ubuntu 10.04 which appears to be completely wrecked. Even in recovery mode I can't get any GUI. The only access I can get is via command line, which with my limited knowledge of cd and ls commands shows me that the home directory is OK and all the data files present.

How can I get the data files off this machine, eg by copying them to a usb stick, or maybe by copying them to the Windows partition (which still works OK)?

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Debian :: Getting Files With The Command Line?

Dec 28, 2010

how to download or upload files to a Debian machine using only the command line. I well aware of how to do it in GNOME, but seeing as how this is for a web server, I won't be using GNOME. I have a zip file on my personal machine that contains the website files that need to go on the Debian machine that is to be the web server, but I have no how to get it to that Debian machine without GNOME.

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Ubuntu Servers :: Execute .php Files From The Command-line?

Jan 26, 2010

Some time ago I installed LAMP in my server, but now I need to execute .php files from the command-line (in order to execute some manteinance scripts for mediawiki). Seems that the PHP files running in the server are run thru some kind of "module" in apache2. Can I tell apache2 to run a .php file in command-line mode using that php module? Or should I install a fresh copy of php-5? Won't that interfere with apache or mangle the system?

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Ubuntu :: Find Multiple Files In The Command Line?

Mar 2, 2010

command line, I have a server for work that I ssh into and I need to be able to find multiple files (they have the leading text just the date identifier changes) and then zip the files (with bzip) them and then finally scp(Secure copy) them to another server.

These files are always in the same directory and this is a daily task and just want to make into a script that I run once I am logged into the remote server.

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Ubuntu :: Delete Duplicate Files Command Line?

Apr 14, 2010

Is there a way to remove duplicate files from a specific folder through SSH? I've uploaded a lot of flash games on my server and I can see in the Webmin's file manager that I have many duplicates. Their names are different, of course.

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Ubuntu :: Move Multiple Files Via Command Line?

Sep 15, 2010

I liked the idea of the "cosmos" screensaver/desktop, but wanted to add my own pictures to the application. I navigated to /usr/share/backgrounds/cosmos and tried to drag and drop. I quickly found that I did not have permission to do this.

I googled my problem and found some command line tutorials telling me to sudo cp. My problem is that I have about 30 pics that I want to move in there, and I don't think I can just move the directory, they have to be in that folder as the pictures themselves.

I don't really feel like typing the cp line multiple times with multiple randomly named image files.

Is there a way to have the command line cp all of my files from one directory to another?

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Ubuntu :: Copying Files From One File Without Using Command Line?

Dec 9, 2010

Is there a way to copy a file from the desktop to /usr/lib/ICAclient folder that I have, by using drag and drop.For some reason, I thought I was able to do this in Mint.

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Ubuntu :: Put All Of The Current Directory's Files On The Command Line?

Feb 21, 2011

Is there an easy way to put all of the current directory's files on the command line, without tab-completing each individual one?

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Ubuntu Multimedia :: Split Wav Files From The Command Line?

Apr 2, 2011

how to split wav files from the command line?

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General :: Command To Copy Files Older Than <n> Days Keeping Dir Structure?

Jul 6, 2010

I'm trying to truncate a postfix Maildata directory for one of our users. I want to be able to move any files older than <n> days to a new location, but also copying the relevant directory structure. This should be doable in the one comman. I've used find to locate the files, and mv to move them, but I can't figure out how to build the directoryt structure on the fly in the new location.

This is what I have so far:

Code:
find /Maildata/editor -mtime +42 -type f -exec mv -v {} /EditorEmailOld/ ; > ~/editor.txt

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General :: Copy The Contents Of A Txt File To Other Txt Files (with Similar Names) By Cp Command?

Jul 2, 2010

Code:
cp -r aa123.h aa*.h
results in
Code:
cp: target `aa456.h' is not a directory

Yes I read man page cp (1p). There is something written there about it, I couldn't understand though.

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OpenSUSE :: Find Files In 11.2 Without Using The Command Line

May 25, 2010

How do I find files in opensuse 11.2 without using the command line. I see in dolphin "nepomuksearch", but it doesn't work. Even in the command line you cannot whereis a file like Monday, Monday.mp3. whereis also seems to be case sensitive.

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General :: How To Download Files From Command Line

Aug 29, 2010

For example, see this page Advanced Linux Programming.

I want to download all the pdf files linked from this page. Is there a simple commandline way of doing it?

Something on the lines of

download [URL]

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