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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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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Aug 28, 2010
I'm pretty sure this is doable from the command line, but my CLI skills have degraded a lot since my pre-Y2K admin days. The goal is to search all the files in the directory for a very long string of text and replace it with another string of text. The text being searched for is my Google Adsense code (which will be stripped from my website) and it will be replaced with a placeholder so I can easily tack something else in there in the future.
Seeing how I have that long snip of code on about 100 pages, automating the process would make life easier.
If I was searching for a single word, I can see ways to do this.
If I paste the code I'm searching for into a text file, is there a way to:
find (contents of oldstring.txt) and replace with (contents of newstring.txt)?
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Mar 5, 2011
I am using ubuntu and mysql.I have a list of many .sql files, like 1.sql, 2.sql, 3.sql ... 100000.sqlI need to insert them into the database mysql mydb < *.sqlGives me: -bash: *.sql: ambiguous redirect
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Apr 27, 2010
I want to (from the command line) be able to counte lines in a bunch of files of a specific type in a folder and all its sub-folders. How would I do this?
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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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Sep 12, 2010
I currently have 3 files with floating point data that I wish to have in a single file with the format:
Code:
F1 F1 F3 Output
a1 b1 c1 a1 b1 c1
a2 b2 c2 a2 b2 c2
a3 b3 c3 a3 b3 c3
a4 b4 c4 a4 b4 c4
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Mar 8, 2011
I have a set of files containing data that I need to re-arrange into one single property list.
The files that I have look like this:
Code:
# cat uk
<string>10</string>
<string>11</string>
...
<string>29</string>
[Code]....
So the lines in the files match up but I haven't found a way of reading several files line by line.
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Jul 31, 2010
Is there a way to reposition the Gnome panels from the command line?
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Feb 20, 2010
how do i move multiple files at once using the command line?
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Jun 27, 2010
Is it possible to move multiple files and folders at once in terminal?
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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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Sep 21, 2010
I want to know the command, so that i can move back two days i.e. all the changes i made during the two day is rolled back .
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Jun 17, 2010
I'd like to move a selection of files from all the sub-directories within an overall directory to a single destination. I don't want any of the directory structure, just the files themselves. This is what I tried so far:
mv /dir1/*/igs*.sp3.Z /dir2
There are other .sp3.Z files in the * directories within /dir1 but I just need the ones that start with igs..
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Apr 27, 2010
how to use multiple linux cut comman to display on same line ?
e.g ls -il | cut -f6 d:
ls - il cut -f9 -d:
The linux script output is
filename
123
How to use cut to display on same line ?
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Feb 22, 2011
I've seen a few tutorials that have commands and parameters on multiple line, like the one below:
Code:
chkconfig --levels 235 mysqld on
/etc/init.d/mysqld start
I can copy and paste this in Putty, but what if I want to manually type it? If I press return, the first line gets processed, so how do I insert a new line?
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May 21, 2011
I am trying to get 2 things to operate on the same line, for example echo Current Version: [cat /file/ver.txt] is there a way to do this?
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Mar 26, 2010
I have an older computer with Arch installed that I want to use to accomplish most of my daily tasks using the command-line (Mailgrab, IRSSI, mpg123, Elinks, Vi, etc). I realize that there are many lightweight WMs out there that support multiple monitors, but it'd be nice if I could just use Screen or something to that effect to distribute my windows across two or three displays.
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Feb 15, 2011
Is there any way to quickly remove multiple related packages from the command line instead of having to enter the name of every single one? I am trying to remove OpenOffice from my server running 10.04. It would work nicely if I could get a list of packages without line breaks, such as the list displayed by aptitude when upgrading. That way I could just paste the package list into the terminal. However, "aptitude search 'openoffice'" dumps a long list on many lines that cannot be used that way.
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Mar 12, 2010
I'm doing a little work on my media center and the scrappers seem to do a much better job when each movie is in a directory with the name of the movie. However that's not how i have things set up.I have a few hundred avi files i need moved to directory named the same as the avi file.
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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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Nov 2, 2010
I have run a command which finds a lot of files based on some search criteria. It returns the files like so:
./somepath/somepath/file.something
./asdf/asdf/s.php
./etc/a.php
./a/b/c/d/e/f/g.jpg
So I was wondering, if I capture this output into a file (ie. one file per line), can anyone help me write a command which iterates through the file and moves the files one by one to a specified directory?
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Dec 4, 2010
So, I usually write/find a test case generator for any code that I write. This type of code generally leads to some file output. To be thorough, I try and generate many different files to test my code on.
Say the command is like this:
Is there a way to automate this for many different values of the parameters and generate many different files?
I tried:
I wasn't able to use the $i in the filename, and without it the command gave me no errors, but did nothing else either. I know the Unix command line is very powerful, and I have a feeling that this should be possible, but I just don't know how to do it.
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Jul 21, 2011
I want to take a graphics file and make 10 copies of it to the same directory, each with 001, 002, or some such designation at the end of each file name so they have discrete files names. Is this possible using cp?
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Jul 13, 2010
Hello, I need some help searching through multiple files, finding a line and replacing that line. The line I am searching for is:
password key ******* 1222554
ultimately I want to be able to delete the numbers after the asterisks . my thoughts are to create a script that will search for the line password key ******* and delete it then replace it with password key ******* my files are located in /opt and they are all txt files.
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Nov 22, 2010
I have 10 files of .dat formatsayA MCDR .datB MCDR .datand so one upto 10 dat filehow i convert these 10 dat files to txt files using single command or script
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Nov 11, 2009
I have a large file 'NS0923.csv' with data like the following. There are two records in this multi-record sample.
Code:
E60898,4578910,03/06/09,BEN BOYD RD,61,82,,,127,3,,52000.3046.001,3155,4.00,,PLT,1356,1.00,05/06/09,Y,Y,0551
,,,,,,,,,,,,4057,1.00,CLEAN CAR SHARE SIGN,LAB,0551,1.00,,,,
[code]....
2. I still have to create a file 'transaction.csv' that should retrieve data from $13 - $15 with the identifying column $1. Required output:
Code:
E60898,4057,1.00,CLEAN CAR SHARE SIGN
3. And finally another file 'quantity.csv'. Retrieving data from $16 - $18 with identifier $1. Required output:
Code:
E60898,PLT,1356,1.00
E60898,LAB,0551,1.00
E60898,LAB,3065,1.00
[code]....
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Jun 11, 2010
I have a folderA that contains folderB that contains a lot of files. I would like to get rid of folderB, but not its contents. I want those contents to be inside of folderA. How can I accomplish this on the commandline?
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Mar 18, 2009
I'm trying to find a proper command to move a certain set of files according to date/time range. I am thinking that the command should be something like:
Code:
ls -l | grep 'date/time range' | mv /folder
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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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