Using "List View" in Nautilus (Ubuntu 9.10), is there a way to preserve the column width? If I manually change the column width and click into another folder, the width automatically reverts to the old width when I return.
View 4 RepliesI would like to know how to make the file browser column width smaller than I can normally adjust with the mouse. I have minimized with the mouse, it is still too wide. Is there a minimum column width setting I am supposed to specify somewhere?
View 2 Replies View RelatedIs there any way to configure Nautilus to remember my preferred column widths so I don't have to fiddle with them every time I open a Nautilus instance?
View 2 Replies View RelatedA couple of days I started using latex and have still one question about the table width. My table is too wide for a page. How can I adjust it so that it fits on the full width of a page? Can I use a command or do I have to specify each column widths by hand?
My table looks like this;
I did try several commands likeextwidth, esizebox, setlength but didn't found the solution yet.
I use ioctl to get the cosole window size (the SSH window).
I use the following code:
When I debug on linux pc, it gives me the correct window width. But after I try it on router (this is my enventual place where my code shall run), ioctl always give me 0 width, that is, numberOfColumnsOfTerminalWindow == 0. but the returnValue is 0 which means that the function call succeeds.
How would i calculate following values.Initial file
10 3
20 4
How would i calculate 3rd column which should be addition of value in 1 and 2nd column.File after calculation
10 3 13
20 4 24
I have a multicolumn datas, like
a1 b1 ... f1
a2 b2 ... f2
. . ... .
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I would like to make a file with all these data in one column, like
a1
a2
.
.
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Can it be done with awk or some other command? Also, is it possible then do add another column in front of this one with numbers of the lines (for every previous column), like
1 a1
2 a2
. .
. .
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i use this script to get the time and date of back and fourth transactions for a particular execution id. I use a substr command on the 5th column to to cut the milli seconds off the time value. - otherwise the times would look like 08:30:04.235
grep <executionID> <auditfile> | awk '{ print $1, $2, $3, $4, substr($5,1,8}
FIX -> Mon 3/1/2010 08:30:04
FIX <- Mon 3/1/2010 08:32:36
FIX <- Mon 3/1/2010 08:35:08
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anyhow - i append two sed commands to further clarify the direction of the message.
awk '{ print $1, $2, $3, $4, substr($5,1,8} | sed -e 's/->/ ->IN/g' | sed -e 's/<-/<-OUT/g'
FIX -> IN Mon 3/1/2010 08:30:04
FIX <- OUT Mon 3/1/2010 08:32:36
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I tried using an awk gsub () command within the string instead of the two seds, but it did not work:
awk '{ print gsub(/<regex>/, <replace with>,$1), $2, $3, $4, substr($5,1,8}
the sed works ok, but it would be cooler to make the replacement within the awk command:
gsub(/->/,-> IN, $1)
Is there a way where i could replace the value of the $1 column in the awk print string?
currently my installation is on sda1, while /home is on sdb1. I'd like to wipe sda1 and reinstall Ubuntu 10.04 from scratch.
Can I just run the 10.04 installer, reformat sda1, install 10.04 over it, then follow a guide to remount sdb1 to /home (and chown the new /home)?
I installed Mythbuntu, got some Wine apps up and running, then discovered my Nvidia DualTV MCE won't work with Myth. So I'd like to try a different variant, either the plain vanilla Ubuntu or UbuntuStudio.Can I just use Mythbuntu to create a new partition, move /home/* to it, and then reformat and install over the original Mythbuntu partition? When I reinstall the new version, how do I tell the installation process to use /home on the other partition (without overwriting it) instead of creating a new one from scratch?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm using two NTFS formatted partitions. One is internal and holds all my data. The other is on an external hard disk and is where I back up all my data to. What I'd like to do is copy all my files from the data partition to the backup partition and preserve all the windows' timestamps (including the file creation dates).How hard can this be? Well it appears that in the case of Ubuntu the answer is very hard indeed.I'm aware that Linux does not support the concept of a file creation date natively. However, according to the ntfs-3g website, all of the windows' timestamps (including the creation date) are mapped on to the system.ntfs_times extended attribute (link). So if you preserve the extended attributes when making a copy then, in theory at least, the timestamps should also be preserved.
I read on another forum that a file's timestamps will be listed (albeit in an unreadable hex format) if you run the following command:getfattr -h -e hex -n system.ntfs_times <filename>Unfortunately however, I just cannot get it to work. With every file I've tried I simply get a message saying "no such attribute".
I've set up a multiboot with XP, Vista, Windows 7, and Ubuntu 10.04.1, installed in that order in five individual partitions on a single hard drive (fifth is for the Ubuntu swap area). Everything is working well: On boot, the GRUB menu comes up first, with the usual Ubuntu choices and "Windows 7 (loader)". When I select that last option, I'm then given the Windows boot menu that allows "Earlier Version of Windows", "Windows 7", and "Microsoft Windows Vista". They all boot properly, and I don't mind having to use the second menu. I would like to reinstall XP (only) to the same partition it now occupies. I suspect this will mess up my current booting scheme, correct? Is there a way I can prevent this, by saving the GRUB configuration or whatever?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have two partitions: one for / and the other for /home ; now how do I reinstall ubuntu in the '/' partition so that I can reuse /home as it is?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am switching to Ubuntu soon for security purposes. I have 3 hard drives, one with my OS, one with nothing, and one with all my junk. I was wondering if there is anyway that I can only reformat and install Ubuntu onto the drive with windows, reformat the empty drive, and then transfer files from my junk drive onto the empty drive, and then format the junk drive and move all of the files back onto the junk drive? Or is the junk drive accessible from Ubuntu and not worth trying to switch formats on?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI am going through the motions of migrating from Rhythmbox to Banshee so that I can field questions about the process as Banshee takes over for Rhythmbox in Ubuntu. I have solved a silly issue about importing playlists (they must be imported from /home/username/ or you must alter the paths in each entry). But there is another issue which I am at a loss to explain.
My playlists are like mixed tapes. They are in a specific order. When I import a playlist into Banshee that order is not preserved. I have checked the files and they are definitely ordered and numbered in the playlists just as they are in Rhythmbox, but Banshee refuses to import them with the order respected regardless of the smallness of the list.
What's going on and how can I correct this?
I'd rather not have to reconstruct all of these playlists.
I could understand the idea of security "if I haven't touched the file in 9 days, and the timestamp was changed, I know someone was in my system". But, is there any other purpose for preserving timestamps?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI prefer to do a clean install of each new version of Ubuntu.I do have a separate /home partition which I preserve during each new install. I also have many additional packages installed.My question is:How do I preserve the list of installed additional software so that I may readily reinstall all of it after each upgrade?
View 9 Replies View Relatedcp (GNU coreutils 6.9).
I have these files:
Code:
I want to copy them to /xp/borrar/ such that the result is
Code:
Can this be done with the cp command alone?
I need to copy my data from the pc to an external hard drive with keeping the attributes; so i used the command
cp -rp ~/sourceDir ~/Destination
but when i am coping it it give the error message "cp: failde to preserve ownership for 'file' : Operation not permitted and it copied the files to the destination but the attributes has changed from
-rw-r--r-- to
-rwxr-xr-x
I tried to copy it by loging as the root also but still the same thing happens. how to copy the files with preserving the attributes
How to backup my Linux server for preserving data in case if hard disk crashes?
View 2 Replies View RelatedHere are the contents of the file
1600
1900
2200
2800
I want to read file content using shell script and check if the difference between the two line count is 300
I disliked LXDE's pcmanfm so much that I've switched over to feh and idesk but for the life of me I can't get feh's wallpaper setting to stay between sessions. Typing 'feh --bg-scale /usr/share/lxde/wallpapers/lxde_blue.jpg' immediately gives me what I want, but next login it's gone again. I know I have to put an entry in ~/home/pargoo/.config/openbox/autostart.sh but nothing works. So far I've tried:
eval `cat $HOME/.fehbg` &
eval `cat $HOME/pargoo/.fehbg` &
eval `cat ~/.fehbg` &
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My samba-shares are mounted in fstab. Everything works fine except for one small issue: when copying files from the local PC to the share the files are copied but the timestamps and permissions of the files are not. Instead a message "operation not permitted" appears. 'root' on the client can copy files WITH timestamp etc, a normal user cannot.
Below the line in fstab on the client and smb.conf on the server.
How do I change the default scrollbar width in ubuntu 10.10? I tried this but it doesn't seem to work on 10.10: [URL]
Should it work on 10.10?
I have looked and cannot find how to change the width of the scroll bars, I find mine a bit too small, i would like to make them wider. How do you do that in 10.04?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm going to move from Linux Mint (Debian Edition) to Debian on my Laptop (3 user). The current setup is LMDE-Cinnamon, with 4 partitions; /, swap, home and data. All the important data lives in data while home is used for preferences only.
Am I right in thinking that preserving the data partition is as simple as not formatting it during the installation?
And what about home? Obviously this now contains a lot of irrelevant stuff (Cinnamon settings for example) and many programs will be in different versions...
- Just keep it (after all the irrelevant stuff should not do anything bad?)? And if so how do I tell the installer to do this?
- Format and restore the relevant preferences manually from the backup?
- Format and have everybody set up their preferences as needed?
If I have a partition like /dev/hd1 that is unencrypted and want it to be encrypted, but want to keep everything currently in that partition, how can I do that?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm searching for a tutorial on how to convert my videos (AVI, WMV and MKV formats) to a format that offers both good quality and small size.The audio part should be 128 kbit/s mp3 lame.I'm using Fedora 14 with an rpmfusion repo. It would be especially nice to be able to batch-convert the AVIs.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI would like to find the command that copy my eclipse options to another workspace code...
It doesn't work, and it could be source of error to write the path .metadata/.plugins manually. It certainly a better idea to create a complete script ?
My Debian Squeeze server that I'm trying to make a LAMP server is currently a LAM server. I get these errors when trying to install php5:
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