if i was in /home/user/directory1/directory2/directory3/directory4 and i changed directory to /home/user/, how do i quickly go back to my previous directory (namely //home/user/directory1/directory2/directory3/directory4 )
View 3 RepliesIf I wanted to back up a large directory (13 GB) to DVD, what would be the best way to do this? Basically, what is the easiest way to make an archive that is split into volumes small enough to burn to disc?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI was trying to install google earth. This is what I did:1. Open a terminal and change to the directory where the installer downloaded to. (on desktop) :cd ~/Desktop2. Change the permissions on the installer so you can run it:chmod +x GoogleEarthLinux.bin3. Run the installer as the root user:sudo ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin4. The installer dialog will open. The default install paths work fine. Click Begin Install.Once the installation is finished you can click Start to launch Google Earth.HOW DO I CHANGE BACK TO THE CORRECT DIRECTORY IN THE TERMINAL
View 5 Replies View Relatedyou can use backspace as a shortcut key to go back the the under directory. How can I do that here in nautilus.
View 9 Replies View Relatedlong time reader and this is the 1st time i have ever had to ask any thing. i got a new hdd and installed it in my laptop, i cloned my partitions but i ended up with a misaligned drive. i backed it up to a usb drive with the idea of just copying every thing back to the new drive when fix, that didnt work. i had made a back up of my home directory with out encryption but i was stupid and accidentally deleted it. now i am out of ideas i have tryed mounting my home directory in a live cd using
Code: Recovery of an Encrypted Home Directory is possible from an Ubuntu 9.10 LiveCD. Mount the disk partition containing the Encrypted Home Directory:
ubuntu@ubuntu$ sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
Establish a proper chroot environment:
ubuntu@ubuntu$ sudo mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev
ubuntu@ubuntu$ sudo mount -o bind /dev/shm /mnt/dev/shm
ubuntu@ubuntu$ sudo mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc
ubuntu@ubuntu$ sudo mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys
ubuntu@ubuntu$ sudo chroot /mnt
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My problem is music playback it seems to act as if it is buffering every few seconds ,at some point playback just stops and seems to freeze up the rythmplayer, I had the same problem with ubuntu, linux mint now I'm trying fedora 14 wich i seem to be having the best luck, with my msi 7142 M.B.I did find one forum here with that sounded much the same but was unsolved.
1: how do I get back in to the terminal as root ?
2: how do I check DMA on my cd/dvd -cd rom ? if thats the problem
3: could it be my sound card? turtle beach santa cruz [/B]
(right now the pc i was using to check out the the diff distro's is using debian so far it is playing a cd just fine, the problems seem to just be on my main pc)I really really could use the help I've been working on this for over a month,searching, reading threads, all I can to even just learn in hopes of escaping windows during this doing a duel boot caused windows to crash (kinda funny, but a pain, good thing I backed up my music.
So, I wanted to give myself a short cut to not just login to a remote server, but also change into a particular directory once I got there. This was harder than I expected, but this finally worked when I wrapped this up into a shortcut:
ssh -t user@example.com 'cd /var/www/mydir; bash'
And I just alter the directory path to make another shortcut to a different place on the same server. This does work, however, it seems when I log in this way, some of my environment is lost, and my locale is set back to the default "POSIX". That's not good. I'm running Gentoo Linux (amd64).
Our office housing keeping guy sat on my linux (Fedora 7) system and somehow removed the main panel. By panel I mean where all the menus are there - Applications, Places, System etc. and contains a tab for every running application. I brought back the panel but now I don't see the terminal launcher and I can't find it anywhere.It used to be there in "Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal" but now the System Tools option itself is not present there. System -> Preferences -> Look and Feel -> Main Menu. There one System option is unchecked but I can't check it and apply. I am logged in as root.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIn order to make this conversion I have to use a text editor. This is tedious. Is there an easier way to do it, like some program I can run from the Linux or OSX terminal?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI need to backup my home folder (and a few other folders) on an organizational Linux NFS system where my account will be expiring soon, onto a personal hard drive (which is not using a Linux filesystem). I access the account through SSH and SFTP. I want to backup all metadata for these files and directories and everything in them, including dates, owners, groups, UID/GID numbers, CHMOD permissions, etc. How can I go about doing this? Do I need to run the LS command recursively on the directory with certain settings of what information to display, and pipe the results to a file so that the information will be in a file regardless of which filesystem I move it to? Or is there a way to save all the metadata using something like TAR/GZ? If it's with TAR/GZ, then how do I view this metadata on other filesystems that I move the archive to, and will the users/groups stored remain intact as long as it's not extracted?
In addition, do you know how to do this for SELinux metadata and AFS (Andrew File System) metadata too? (These will be for another filesystem later on, but if don't know the answer to either of these, please still answer the above.)
I am using back in time to back up files from home and from another mounted directory on my system (ntfs). The back-ups are occurring automatically and appear to be complete; but, I cannot delete old back-up snapshots in the backintime GUI Also with sudo nautilus or as root in terminal with (rmdir) I cannot delete the snapshots. My drive is filling up and rather than uninstalling back in time, I would like to simply delete the unneeded snapshots. How can I delete these files? Is there an rsync file that I should configure to delete these? My expectation of backintime was that it would back-up at the requested frequency and not create complete duplicate copies of the files, but, use symbolic links to unchanged files. How can I verify if this is the case? Does the cron file control this>
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm constantly going 'cd ../../../../'. Is there a command/alias that could let me go 'cmd 4' and I'd be taken back 4 directories?
View 8 Replies View RelatedGot directories dated of 2009 2008, What is the best way to ls the directories, sort them by date, redirect the output to a file and then delete them?
View 14 Replies View Relatedno matter what i do in there terminal when it comes to changing directorys or copying items it just dont work.this is what im typing
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Is there any way we could display dicrectory's size in terminal? Because I need to copy directories to external devices like USB, so I need to know there is enough space left on my USB for those directories or not. I tried ls command but still couldn't find out.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWhen I booted up this morning the contents of my Home directory are all showing up on my desktop, and there is no single Home folder. How did this change, and how can I change it back so that the Home folder is on my Desktop with the contents inside of *it*?
View 5 Replies View Relatedwhen we navigate into directories withing directories the terminal displays the entire path right from the root. Now how to make it just show the current directory I am working in? For examplevineeth@vineeth-laptop:~/Desktop/linux_programming/python_programming/project_duplicate_zip_files$ as you can see that I am in the current project_duplicate_zip_files directory but it displays right from the root. how to just make it something like below:vineeth@vineeth-laptop:/project_duplicate_zip_files$
View 2 Replies View RelatedSo for example, I go to PLACES -> DOWNLOADS and somehow open up a terminal for that rather than opening up a terminal to type "cd ~/Downloads" I know its simple to do that but when your dealing with some crazy directory like:
/media/2TB-DATA/BackUps/Regular/Downloads/Pictures/Family/Me/HiDef/ or something, and ur already browsing through it using the file browser, it would be nice to be able to open up a terminal for that directory.
I wonder if there is a directory for a terminal commands that may I can backup the commands I have used in the terminal before.
View 7 Replies View RelatedAfter upgrading to Lucid, gnome-terminal and xterm both start in the root directory (/); I'd like for them to start in my home directory instead. I had added "cd /home/myname" to the end of .bashrc, and this worked well as a temporary fix, but was never necessary in Karmic. Furthermore, modifying .bashrc in this way renders Nautilus' "Open in Terminal" menu item useless, as it still opens the home directory instead of the folder Nautilus was viewing.
View 9 Replies View RelatedLike the title says, I want to be able to open the directory I'm browsing in nautilus.To clarify this, as I barely understand what I said, I'll give an example.
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cd ~/what/ever/this/is/complex/path
Hmmm.... A lot of files in here with long complex names and I only want to move certain ones..... Better open it in nautilus with my handy dandy script/alias!
what I'd like to have is a way to open a terminal directly from Nautilus and the terminal's active directory should be the one that is opened in Nautilus. Does Nautilus have a plugin system or is there another way to add this functionality?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI run Ubuntu 10.10. and I have one annoying problem. When I want to set my Desktop directory in terminal by typing this: "cd ~/Desktop" I get an error: "bash: cd: /home/izvanzemaljac/Desktop: No such file or directory".
I really dont know what to do, I checked Google for this error and I didnt find a solution.
is it possible (and how) to create keyboard shortcut/binding that would give window-focus back to Tilda terminal? Currently, it is necessary to LMB-click inside Tilda (or at least drag mouse-cursor over Tilda) to resume typing.
View 3 Replies View Relatedi'm trying to install the your-tube downloader so i can get stuff off videos again, but having trouble. the instructions say to open a terminal at the directory of the extracted files and run the yourtube-downloader file, but i don't know how to do that. i tried just opening a terminal and running it, but it doesn't work. how do i do this?
View 10 Replies View RelatedHow can I find a particular directory in a terminal window in Linux? I think it involves using grep, but I'm not sure how.
View 3 Replies View RelatedSometimes you get more than you ask for and in this case, I did: I had no idea (had the computer for a few years now) that I was running a dual core 64 bit machine. The silly thing is that I have 32bit Fedora 11 on it, 32 bit versions of all my installed software...etc., etc. Am I able at this point to salvage anything or is it best to just back up the home directory and then do a reinstall?
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This is step 2.2:
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Open a terminal and change the directory to the download destination.
I'm not entirely sure what that means! I've tried doing the other steps without doing that one and it doesn't seem to work.
I deleted by mistake my /www/ directory in terminal with rm -rf command. Is there a chance to get it back? I tried with TestDisk but I can't find it.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI have a directory '/usr/local/games/quake4'. I want permissions for the directory, along with everything in it set to:
Owner: Create and delete files
Group: Access files
Others: Access files
What would I type in terminal to make this happen?