Use this tag for questions about file management and operations on files.
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need help in making script
I want to automate one task in UNIX and make one script.
There is directory in which everyday 2 files comes and that files come anytime in between 10 pm to 1 am.
file name is ...
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Map file to URL
I'm looking for a way to do something like this:
some_tool --go-to-background http://server.com/~me/uber_vimrc ~/.vimrc
After which, reading ~/.vimrc would give the data downloaded from that URL. ...
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listing for files for today which come in between 10 pm to 1 am [on hold]
i want to automate one task in unix and make one script.
There is directory in which everyday 2 files comes and that files come anytime in between 10 pm to 1 am.
file name is ...
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How am I supposed to edit files on a network with Vim?
Currently I'm doing it by SSHing into a server, and executing Vim on the server. This has the benefit of not having to deal with cumbersome syntax of opening files from a remote server over SCP, and, ...
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tar and if-statement
I have a script that check if a file exist inside a tar file but something's wrong because it always go to the else part of the script. I am pretty sure that it shouldn't be that way.
The date is in ...
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Where are command line history and clipboard content stored? [on hold]
I suppose that it must be in a file somewhere. I am trying to view all the commands that I used, and everything that was in the clipboard as one text file.
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Select a range of files from directory structure /year/month/date.db
I have databases stored in the directory structure
year/month/date.db
an example would be
db/2013/10/15.db
I need to be able to select a range of these with a script ("dbSelect ...
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How to recursively move batches of 20 files into numbered folders from folder of 1000 files
I have a folder full of 1000 (or more) files. I want to have a script that creates a numbered folder and then moves the first 20 files (ordered by name) into that folder. It should then do this for ...
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Which Unixes support cross-device filesystem links (in particular for rename)?
Just read the following on the FreeBSD man page for the rename syscall:
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[EXDEV] The link named by to and the file named by from are on
different logical devices (file systems). Note that
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In which way is a commented line active in a program file?
To solve the bug reported here the solution seems to be commenting, not just adding a certain line in a file - as explained here and here.
That is - to make that bug disappear in Xfce, a certain line ...
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How can I make Krusader show real size of symlinked files?
In the "size" column in Krusader, there is a link's size noted, instead of the size of the actual file. This is the same as what ls -l shows (the full address of the target file, e.g. 64 B instead of ...
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How to rename files and directory with *.~1~ suffix to original name?
I have a directory named underscore.~1~ and several files inside with names like main.js.~1~, index.js.~1~ etc.
How can I rename the directory underscore and the files inside to the original names ...
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permissions 755 on /home/<user>/
I am wondering why by default my directory /home/<user>/ has permissions set to 755. This allows other users to enter into directories and read files in my home. Is there any legitimate reason ...
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Use case of providing file-like API to terminal/console
It was explained in this Stack Overflow thread that each logical terminal has a "pseudo-terminal", and that writing to one:
$ cat some-file.txt > /dev/ttys002
will cause the data to appear in ...
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Ensure data doesn't linger after being deleted [migrated]
I'm trying to make a service that keeps as little data on its users as possible. To that end, I want to make sure that someone using forensic tools won't gain any more information than I would by ...
