Ubuntu :: Move / Copy Files From Terminal?
Sep 11, 2010
im using ubuntu 10.04 sometimes i find more useful to use the terminal to copy or move folders or files to other directories (more important when they need admin permission)
today i tried to copy ALL files from a directory to another. and i realized that i dont know. i know that that "~ mv /ThisThing/ /ThisFolder/" "~ cp /ThisThing/ /ThisFolder/" but howould i be able to copy EVERYTHING from a folder into another. tis is diferent from copying the folder itself (which i also would like to know)i bet is a simple thing that i havent figured out!
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Jul 9, 2010
just installed ubuntu couple of days back on my netbook. I am still a beginner, enjoying my adventure exploring ubuntu. I have another desktop which runs on XP. I am able to access XP shared folders through my netbook(linux). However, i wanted to copy files from XP infact folders using TERMINAL in my netbook, not copy and paste using my mouse. Are there any commands for it?
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Aug 25, 2009
How can you create a script to move or copy files from a main directory into multiple directories below the main directory.
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May 14, 2010
I have to copy and move files over two systems all the time. So when I am on system 1, I simply use the command
Code:
$scp * system2:/some_directory
There are many files in PWD of system1 with different extensions. Of all the files in the PWD on system1, I don't need a file called *residual.dat as it it particularly big and wastes a lot of time copying.How can I make a shortcut so that every time I do scp, it copies everything but the *residual.dat file?
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May 7, 2011
We 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.
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May 28, 2011
I wonder if it's normal that when:-I copy files; -I move files;-I download data (files, video, etc.) from the Internetthe CPU is completely loaded at 100%. In comparison, on Windows XP (SP2), on the same computer, the same situation makes the CPU consumes only half of the processor, oscillating near of 50%.N.B. RAM is not affected by the above problem. My computer is equipped with:-CPU AMD Athlon XP 2400 + (2.0 GHz)-685 MB of RAM-Motherboard: SiS-741
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Jul 20, 2010
I can't perform any of those.Except from the Terminal.I didn't edit any permission... nor installed anything.Don't know what to do.Also, "Move to Trash" appears grayed out, in the right-click menu (for all the files/folders).
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Aug 13, 2011
I am runnig WinXP and OpenSUSE 11.4 on dual boot.Generaly i am using SUSE, XP only for UpNP Media Center(server) to watch movies stored on my computer on TV via STB.For this i am using TVersity for wich i not found yet Linux alternative - or better say - i found it but is too heavy for my PC(P4 1.6 Mhz, 768 MB RAM, an dinosaur from Nvidia Vanta with 64 MB RAM)But this is not a part of my question.My question is how to transfer(copy, move...?) files from SUSE to WinXP?A large files like avi, mkv, mostly movies.I solved this to copy them on USB and then from USB to Win.This is a very slow proces because my PC have only USB 1.0And before asked me - all files are legaly downloaded from paysites.From SUSE, partitions(disks), folders and files under WinXP are visible but is not possible to copy files on them - acces is denied.Is there any way to do this?Suse is insatlled on LVM - /root/home/swapI am interesting ONLY to copy files from SUSE to Win, not at al from Win to SUSE.Code:
Directory: /home/janez
Sun Aug 14 07:53:26 CEST 2011
janez@linux-cia6:~> su - root
[code]...
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Jun 27, 2010
Is it possible to move multiple files and folders at once in terminal?
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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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Apr 22, 2011
Im usign photorec to recover some files that i lost during a format to my hard drive.
The program works like a charm but put all the files on differents folders. i use the find command to put on a list the jpg files but how i use the cp or the mv command to move that files in the list to another folder?
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Feb 3, 2011
I want to know how to modify copy to /move to in the right click on the mouse ?
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Mar 23, 2010
I am able to view my windows network from my UBUNTU desktop after being prompted for a username and password to the windows network. No problem. But how can I accomplish this from the command prompt?
Here is my windows directory; smb://corpserver/d$/Data
And here is what I am trying to accomplish;
Code:
mv /var/lib/mysql/RSecuredData.csv smb://corpserver/d$/Data/Common/Secured%20R%20Reports/$(date +%Y%m%d)_RSecuredData.csv
Basically taking a csv file and moving it from mysql directory on my Ubuntu machine to a network folder on my windows server. (Windows Server 2003)
When I try that command from the command prompt I recieve;
Code:
mv: cannot move `/var/lib/mysql/RepoSecuredData.csv' to `smb://corpserver/d$/Data/Common/Secured%20Repo%20Reports/20100323_RepoSecuredData.csv': No such file or directory
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Dec 4, 2010
When we right click on files and folders..copy to and move options are there in my system. only home folder and desktop are shown under these options..i want to add some of my own directories too..how do i do that ?
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Sep 1, 2010
I have a 160GB harddrive which I installed a F12, would like to upgrade to a bigger drive, but I hate to have to re-install everything.
Recommend a good disk copy utility? The utility should be able to not only copy files, but boot sector and everything. So I just need to make a copy, change my BIOS to boot from the new drive and run everything as before.
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Sep 4, 2010
For anyone experiencing dolphin freeze ups after updating to KDE 4.5.00 For openSUSE 11.3 users experiencing Dolphin freezing up when cut and copying use the following link to update dbus-1:
For 64-bit users:
http://download.opensuse.org/reposit...7.1.x86_64.rpm
For 32-bit users:
http://download.opensuse.org/reposit...-27.1.i586.rpm
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Dec 17, 2010
I want to move my working copy of an SVN repository from /usr to /homeCan I just move the repository using mv or is there something else that needs to be done?The same goes for deleting a working copy of a repository, if I wanted to delete my working copy could I just go ahead and delete it or is there some administration that needs to be done first?
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Jun 2, 2010
How do I disable the file move/copy confirmation in Gnome Commander?
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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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May 7, 2011
1. Every Sunday2. Find all files older than 1 day3. Gzip these file4. Tar up the gzipped files into one tar file.5. Name the tarball with a date stamp indicating what day it was created, so we know that week's files are in the file
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Aug 18, 2009
Being relatively new both to Linux and this forum, i am sorry if i make a post that already is, evn though i couldn`t find it.My problem is i can`t move downloaded files over to root filesystem, i have downloaded and unpacked them to files. to change it`s looks and downloaded a skin, i open root, go to usr---> amsn ---> share --> skins, now i am to copy the file of the skin over to the root directory, butI also tried alt+f2, writing sudo conqueror, as an advice i got, but there was noe difference.
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Dec 17, 2009
what I got - from a crontab run a script (understand that part), this script needs to count the amount of files in /outgoing/, then take 30 less that number, and move that many files from /readycalls/. I need to keep the asterisk outgoing que full of .call files with out having to many in there at any given time.
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Jul 14, 2010
I'm running Lucid, and whenever I run a program in gnome-terminal that captures the mouse (dvtm, elinks, mc) I cannot highlight any text, which prevents me from copying any text from the terminal.
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Aug 26, 2010
I'm attempting to write a bash script to retrieve information from a websitemy problem is I can't seem to figure out how to simply copy the text from the website (I have tried multiple text-only browsers but they all seem to require some input to be able to do this where I'm looking for it to be done silentlyThe purpose of this is I have created a google doc that is a bash script itself and I want the one I'm writing to download this bash script and execute it (the original will be hard coded on a cd and I'm doing it this way for easy updating) only thing is when I use wget it downloads the html file with the script embedded in it and not the script itself
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Jan 25, 2011
I found this great script that let me add a open as admin option to my right clickso I was wondering if anyone knows of or can whip up a script that would let me highlight text for example on a web page right click and have an option to open and terminal and paste the text with one click.Instead of highlighting text right clicking selecting copy, then opening terminal and pasting manually. just an idea I had for a time saver but what I have tried didnt work right
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May 29, 2011
I installed the LAMP packages and got them up and running.
Now I want to use a cms: modx and I need to copy paste the cms files in the root folder. But I am not able to paste anything in the root folder. I figured out that apache directories are readonly for a general user. So how do I paste that as a super user? I know about the sudo command but that works only in the terminal. Is there a command to copy paste the whole directory from the terminal?
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Jun 24, 2011
I wish to copy o/p of lsusb command to gedit.But I am getting following error>
root@jay-laptop:/home/jay/proj# lsusb -v |
gedit No protocol specified
(gedit:4310): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0.0
root@jay-laptop:/home/jay/proj# lsusb -v | gedit hi
No protocol specified
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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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Jan 27, 2010
I have been sitting here practising linux commands and I cannot seem to copy a picture from home/pictures to the desktop, specifically a folder I created on the desktop "test"
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Mar 29, 2010
I have found KRename to be very useful for bulk find and renames; however, I'd like to do a find a copy, which KRename doesn't appear to do.
For example, I'd like to (case insensitively) search all subdirectories for files called "cover.jpg", "cover.gif", or "cover.png" and create a copy of these called "thumb.xxx", in the same subdirectory the original is found, with the same extension as the original.
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