Ubuntu :: Short Specification Of Root Director For Copy Command
Jan 18, 2011
I would like to copy a file from some random folder and send to a "Test" folder in root directory. But I havn't found how to specify the root directory without using ../ until i reach the root directory.i.e. suppose I'm in my random folder where I want to copy my file sudo cp somefile.txt (root???)/Test
what do i put for root?Just as additional explanation, if I have a Test folder in my home directory that i wanted to transfer to, then i could simply do cp somefile.txt $HOME/Test.
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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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Dec 10, 2010
if we type a command such as "locate somefilename" in the terminal we will get all the paths to the file name as output. If i want to copy only one line from that output how do i do that without using mouse?i need terminal short cut to copy one line
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Mar 1, 2011
I have a quick question: how can I make the path short on the console? My problem is that if I descend 10 levels in a directory tree, the path becomes so long that it takes more, than one line of the console window. Is there a way to shorten it, and show only the name of the current directory, without the whole path, i.e., instead of
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v923z@penguin: first/second/third/fourth/fifth/sixth/seventh/eighth/ninth/tenth>
only
[code]....
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May 30, 2011
I keep get 'Could not change local directory to /home/media/DATA: Permission denied'
How do I over come this?
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Jan 20, 2011
In windows command prompt, F8 key can cycle through your previously entered commands i.e say you enter "ping google.com" and then "pushd <dir>". Next when you type p and then press F8 brings pushd and next F8 brings ping command. You can then hit enter to execute the corresponding command i.e ping in this case.Is there anything similar in Ubuntu Terminal running bash? Very handy to get back previously entered commands.
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Jun 25, 2010
the short file descriptor of an ISO file. I have been assigned with a task to match the short file descriptor of an ISO file(to be provided to the customer) to check if thats "Kudgo Support tools" or not.What linux command should I use?
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Apr 29, 2011
Some of my short cut keys seem not ot be working. Ex Alt +F2 dose not open a pop up command line. Also would like to add some short cuts. Like Ctrl + Alt+ Backspace for reboot. I went to the short cut app and I can add a short cut key, name it, but can't seem to figure out how to assign it a function. Didn't seem intuitive to me. I'm using the UNE version on a asus eel 1000.
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Oct 6, 2010
i need to write a short script that will compress a specific folder that`s on the Desktop (and all it`s content) and also will encrypt it with a password that is inside the script --->meaning it wont ask for a password+verification when compressing+encrypting
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Aug 12, 2010
Is there a command line option that will allow less to return to the command line if there are not sufficient lines in the file to warrant paging.
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Mar 1, 2011
How to copy a Read-Only file in Linux and make the copy writable with a single cp command in Linux (Ubuntu 10.04)? The --no-preserve and --preserve seemed to be good candidates, except that they should "and" the mode flags, while what I am looking for is something that will "or" them (add +w mode).
More details: I have to import a repository from GIT to Perforce. I want that all Perforce depot files are Read-Only (that is how Perforce was designed), while all other files that were derived/copied from depot files are writable. Currently if a Makefile tries to copy a Read-Only file then the derived file will also be Read-only. This leads to build-errors when cp tries to overwrite Read-Only file second time. Of course the --force is a workaround here but then the derived file is also Read-Only. Also I do not want to mess with "chmod" after each "cp" command - I will do that only as the last resort.
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May 23, 2010
Whenever you try to install Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop Edition does not accept me (knowing that the original CD)
Specification of the device is very high
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Mar 19, 2011
I wanted to install Ubuntu 10.10 on my netbook Samsung N150 but the installation from the pendrive freezes after the partition table specification, both in the case of the manual specification and in the case of the automatic path. I (think correctly..) specified 35 GB of ext4 journ (but I tried also with ext3 journ) and 1GB of swap but when I confirm these specs the installation freeze yet at the "Searching for the file system" (I use a localized lang but I think this is a quite literal translation), when I'm asked for the time zone
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Jun 7, 2011
Kernel 2.6.21.5, Slackware 12.0...I have a 2.0 USB device at /dev/sda1. How can I know if my system is using the 2.0 specification?
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Mar 3, 2010
how to know specification of my machine on linux redhat 5?like the size of harddesk and free space on it
Ram , VGA , and so on.
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Mar 18, 2010
How do I find the complete specification listing for my RAM? I am getting ready to order another card--need to know what to order.
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Nov 29, 2010
how can I copy a file into the root. I am new to linux and using fedora 13. I have to install jdk on the linux.
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Jun 7, 2011
I boot up a Linux appliance entirely in RAM, ie. the image has a Linux kernel and an attached ext2 root filesystem.
Now that it's working, I would like to copy the root filesystem from RAM to a NAND flash memory.
Can I just mount the NAND, run "cp -a /* /mnt/nand", reboot with the kernel command line "root=/dev/mtdblock2 rw", and expect Linux to be happy... or is it more involved than this?
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Jan 2, 2011
I am attempting to make a backup copy of a file, but every time I try to copy the file, I get a "permission denied error -- even when running as root. The file is on a volume mounted as /media/Data . No problems reading/writing other files on the volume.
Here is the info on the file:
-rw-------. 1 root MailServer.img
I've tried chown but get the permission denied as well. This is a virtual machine image that runs fine, but even with the VM completely shut down, I get the same error.
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Jul 20, 2010
Why do I always need to write "su" then my password to extract or copy any file in fedora 11. How to configure so that I always be in my root directory.
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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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Jun 6, 2011
I started to copy a directory using Nautilus. I dragged and dropped a directory from my hosted server to my home drive. It got hung up, and wouldn't download. I clicked the red "stop operation" button, but I have a lingering icon in my upper panel saying that I still have file operations going on, even though it has supposedly stopped. How do I determine from the command line what this process is named and how do I kill it to remove the icon
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Apr 10, 2015
Consider two directories, a and b. b has stuff in it, includling sub-directories and files that begin with ".". For the sake of making this post clear, there is a file named "1" in b. My goal is to copy all of b into a, such that a "diff --brief --recursive a b" indicates that a and b's contents are identical. a is empty.
Code: Select allcp -pr b a
The above copies b (and all contents) to a/, so that b/1 is copied to a/b/1. Our goal is to have a/1, not a/b/1.
Code: Select allcp -pr b a/
The above does the same as "cp -pr b a".
Code: Select allcp -pr b/ a
The above does the same as "cp -pr b a". Unexpected.
Code: Select allcp -pr b/ a/
The above does the same as "cp -pr b a".
Let's try something different, in a different way:
Code: Select allcp -pr b/* a
The above copies inside of b to inside of a, such that a file a/1 gets copied as b/1.
Good: this is the goal.
Problem: it skips hidden (starts with a dot) files.How can one copy the entire contents of a given directory ("b" in my examples) into a second directory ("a" in my examples) in such a way that everything in b is copied to a, but that another b directory is not made inside a, and such that all hidden (starts with a dot) files are copied in?
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Feb 4, 2010
Making a script. This is for my linux class. Basically when you run it, whatever directory it is in, zips everything, backs it up to the folder its in, and also makes a copy of it in the root directory. Here is what I have, but its not running right.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
echo
echo
echo "Automate Backups"
echo -n "Would you like to backup? Y or N:"
read answer1
if [$answer1 = "y"]
then
if [$USER = "root"]
then
echo
tar -cPvzf "$USER"_backup.tar.gz.`date +%F` /"$USER"/*
cp "$USER"_backup.tar.gz.`date +%F` /backups/"$USER"_backup.tar.gz.`date +%F`
echo "Successful Backup"
fi
echo
tar -cPvzf "$USER"_backup.tar.gz.`date +%F` ~/"$USER"/*
cp "root"_backup.tar.gz.`date +%F` /backups/"$root"_backup.tar.gz.`date +%F`
echo "Successful Backup"
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Dec 5, 2010
I back up all my digital photos to a couple of places. I've been using the cp command, but--given the personal value--have started to wonder if there's a more reliable way. I'm no stranger to Linux, Bash, Perl, etc., so I could write something to copy and compare md5 hashes, but I was wondering if something already exists (reinvention, wheels and what-not).
Most of my googling for copy and (verify|valid|check|hash|confirm) turns up rsync. However, as far as I can tell, rsync only uses hashes to see if a file needs to be updated. It doesn't perform a hash comparison afterward. For this use, specifically, the files are binary and typically 8-10MB.
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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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May 21, 2011
I have 2 IDE HDDs, 80Gb and 160Gb. I am trying to copy active partition from 80G to 160G by using dd command as
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After some time with output
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Jun 23, 2010
I want to copy a file into my Root folder but I cant.what should I do?
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Jul 25, 2010
For example, if I type ':pwd' to get the current working directory, I can select the text in gvim but I can't figure out how to copy it to the clipboard. If I try the same in console vim, I can't even select it with the mouse. I would like this to work with all vim commands, such as set guifont to copy the guifont=Consolas:h10:cANSI output.
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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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