i was reading on how to do scheduled tasks, however i couldnt find anything that was a scheduled task to copy a whole folder to a NAS(Network Storage) thats linked on my ubuntu desktop every 4 hours or so.
View 1 RepliesI have my background as a satellite picture of the earth. Right now I have a scheduled task to grab that picture off the internet (the website updates it every three hours) so my background is a 'live' snapshot of the earth.
I want to set up a scheduled task to take a screen shot every three hours, so that I can see, for example, the way the earth changes over the course of a day...a week, etc. I already have the Scheduled Task Manager from Gnome, but would anyone know what command I could use to do this?
My biggest problem is figuring out how to change the name of the picture it saves it as every time. (e.g. earth1.jpg, earth2.jpg, earth3.jpg, etc.)
I am trying to get Scheduled Task to run a bash script (which runs an rsync command) but it does not seem to be running. I can run the script from the command line with out a problem, but I have it scheduled in Scheduled Tasks to run once everyday and I can't find any evidence of it running or any indication why it does not run. is there a better GUI for scheduling tasks? I am running 10.04 server with xbuntu desktop
View 5 Replies View RelatedI centos version 5 installed on server 2, and I want to make a scheduled task that executes a shell script.This script should copy some files and directories from one server to another. I do not use DRBD and Heartbeat.
View 1 Replies View RelatedSince I'm not building a specific piece of software but a shell script, I hope this is in the right forum. At work, we use RHEL for the basic system but have Windows clients attached as well. On the Win side, there's a program that I'm trying to duplicate on the Linux side. Because of established procedures, I can't change the way files are named so please don't suggest I do that (my boss would not be happy). We have files stored on an NFS share we manipulate on either side.
The program is used to copy files from one directory to another, based on the filenames. The first two characters of the filename are ignored (they're for human-readable sorting purposes only), the next four characters are the time, and then all characters after that are ignored. The time is read and the file gets copied at that time. (This was all done in VC++ many years ago, and nobody knows where the source code is.) For example, a file named 2d0730abcd.txt would be copied from the source directory to the destination directory at 7:30am.
It seems to me that it should be fairly straightforward to build a shell script on the Linux side to do the same thing, but darned if I can figure out which magical combination of commands to use. Would the shell script end up creating a giant pile of AT commands?
i want make a bash panel and i want he will copy files from orginal folder to $user folder i mean when for explame i type i want install some server he say cp: cannot stat 'root/Desktop/2/files/beckup/sa-mp-steam': No such file or directory.
View 6 Replies View RelatedThe task bar manager swallowed my desktop folder when I was moving it around. Now, I have a little folder icon that pops up a menu when I click it. How do I put my desktop folder back on the desktop w/o endangering my task manager?
View 4 Replies View RelatedIs there a way to recreate all the folders from one directory to another without copying over the contents of the folder? I've been trying to do something like this,
Code:for i in `ls $X`; do mkdir $PATH/$i; doneUnfortunately $i is deliminated by whitespaces in the filenames and not the actual folders.
$X contains only other folders so I dont have to worry about regular files but any kind of more "advanced" solution would work.
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.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI should know this but I figured I'd ask before I screw something up.
What is the command to cp just and only the contents of a folder, not the folder itself, into a new folder?
Code: cp -R /path/to/folder/ /to/new/folder/
Is this right?
i need to copy files from a folder called output files to another folder called running but im not able to do it i always get a stat error
View 14 Replies View RelatedWhen i want copy a file or folder in some system folder like sbin,Etc.show me error about privilage but when I'm in console i use su command for become admin and i can copy my file or folder.in other operation system like windows user can copy anything,i want know for direct copy my folder in linux without console what should i do? i must join my user name in root group?
View 4 Replies View RelatedAfter upgrading from 10.10 to 11.04 all of a sudden, the task manager or task bar, keeps changing length. The individual window "buttons" themselves keep changing size - flashing even, and the space between them also changes. It is driving me nuts! The little system tray(?) icons no longer appear in the system tray, but all stacked on top of each other in the top left corner.
View 1 Replies View RelatedAnybody knows how to fix overlapping tasks in KDE system taskbar?Here System Monitor overlaps with digiKamWorkaround to rearrange icons - start any new task.Sorry for taking real photo of the screen. When I do PrintScreen KSnapShot task appears in the list and makes all task to rearrange. The resulting screenshot contains already fixed view.
View 5 Replies View RelatedHow do you launch a task from a terminal command line interface and it not be kill'ed if you close the terminal window. Like if I run jedit I type jedit & which launches jedit as a backgorund task. But, if I close terminal window, jedit dies to. How do I laucnch jedit and completely divorce it from the terminal task?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI 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"
View 4 Replies View Relatedi have a folder with 250 subfolders and each one of them has (at least) one image in it (along with other stuff)how can i 1)copy all the images from those subfolders and paste them into one folder together (other than by hand, obviously)?2)optional : copy only the images of a certain size and above?
View 2 Replies View Relatedlately, after shifting to 10.04, when I copy files from the Ubuntu to my XP shared folders, it goes very very slow. i restarted the router and nothing changed. I can see the folders, but the copy speed is still very slow.
View 2 Replies View RelatedFirst off I'm running a headless Ubuntu server 10.10 box.I have a single folder on a ntfs drive that I wish to copy somewhere else on the same HD. I'd like this to automatically happen about once a week or so. It would be even better if it would tarball the copy also..but this isn't a 100% necessary.
Something like "XFOLDER" would be copied to "/backup/XFOLDER1.tar" then next time "/backup/XFOLDER2.tar" and so on.
I installed Kubuntu 9.1 and then I downloaded Xampp of Linux to the desktop, however I have to extract it to /Opt/lampp. And that's the problem. I don't seem to have access or permissions to ?? I tried right-click | properties | permissions but the fields are greyed-out to make any changes.I am logged-in using the same user id/password I created when installing K9.1.
View 14 Replies View RelatedI need to copy a file from my desktop to a system folder but unsure how. It needs to go to the "etc/X11" folder
View 6 Replies View Relatedi'm confronting atm. I need to create a folder where ppl can copy files and i need to be sure that those files cannot be deleted after they are copied there. The folder will be accessed over network, and i need to be sure no one will delete somebody else's files.Also i need to tell you that i'm working with regular users, so creating a folder for each user and chown/chmod-ing it won't do the trick(allready tried and ended up with a whole lot of files in the parent directory).I also tried chattr +a but that doesn't allow them to write new files in the folder.
View 2 Replies View Relatedi want to copy one folder to server using terminal. iwant to copy datatable folder to server. it like this:
copy from
user: /home/qa/html/datatable
to
server: www/html
how to do that...i'm new about this..i try like this:
1> qa@qadesktop2:~$ ftp 10230.35.211
2> fill password
3> ftp>cd www/html
4> ftp>mput
(local-files)/home/qa/html/dataTable-1.6/*
I downloaded the bin file, and installed it but I haven't realized that I made the folder in the current directory. I would like to install in /usr/java.
Can I now just copy paste it there. Or I need to re-install to desired location I installed JRE , is that ok or I need to install sdk
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
I want to copy location of every .avi , .jpg file present in a folder or in subfolder present in a direcotry and save in a textfile how to doex : /home/username/Desktop/bookofeli/video/book.aviit should give full locaiton of path how to do
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm using Ubuntu 10.10. I want to copy all the pictures from various folders in my Documents to a single folder. So in Nautilus, I clicked on Places > Search for Files. Then chose the Documents folder and typed *.jpg in the search criteria. It found all of my pictures just fine. However it would not let me copy and paste them into a folder I put on my desktop. Copy is not on the "right" click menu and Ctrl C did not work for the highlighted search results. This is so simple in Windows but it does not seem to work in Ubuntu.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI then installed Chromium OS on my EeePC 1000HE with internet through a wired connection. All was great until I unplugged and realized that the wireless did not work. I have spent more hours than I am willing to admit at this point trying to get it to work. I found the drivers and firmware but would get messed up in the process with my little knowledge with installing them.I then installed Ubuntu on my netbook and the wireless worked just fine right after install. So now, I have a working copy of Ubuntu on one SD card and a copy of Chromium on another SD card without wireless capability.
My question:
Is there a way that I can copy the drivers and firmware folder from Ubuntu and put it into Chromium? I am familiar with navigating around at command prompt and mounting the USB drive that I would like to have the drivers and firmware folders copied to.I believe I know the location of both drivers and firmware, but since I am so new to this.Once those folders are copied into place, do I need to do anything else to get them to work?
I'm trying to copy a list of files except the files which has ".log" in the filename to another folder.I can run it correctly when I am located in the Source folder, but not when I am in any other location.cd /home/me/Sourcels /home/me/Source -1|grep -v "^.*log$" |xargs -n 1 -iHERE cp -r HERE /home/me/DestinationHow can I indicate both Source and Destination Folder?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am trying to use the cp command to copy some files around but want to preserve the entire folder structure. Example:
Then within the /backup location I want to see /backup/folder1/folder2/file.
I have tried cp -a and cp -p but neither give me the above.