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How-to overwrite directory on multiple places with 1 source directory
So today I encountered one of my PHP files was outdated so I've got to overwrite the phpthumb directory on the entire server.
Multiple websites use this folder on multiple unknown locations, so how ...
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top not showing the memory usage of cat
I wanted to generate some waste file of 50 GB. so i wrote this
eightnoteight@mr:~/ while true; do
> cat txt >> tmp
> cat tmp >> txt
> done
and when i ran top,watch to observe. ...
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One-way-sync a directory, but leave deleted files deleted on the destination
I want to sync a directory between two systems. To make it more interesting the syncing must only be done in one direction, i.e.:
if a file is deleted in the source directory, it must also be ...
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Copy a folder and its content to all Nginx vhosts host
I am interested to know if a single command line that would allow me to recursively copy a folder to all of our NGINX Virtual Host htdocs folders:
I need to copy that folder to all hosts located in ...
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Full DD copy from hdd to hdd
UPDATE: 2
This seems a lot better than before (Thanks to Groxxda for the suggestions):
sudo dd if=/dev/sdb bs=128K | pv -s 3000G | sudo dd of=/dev/sdc bs=128K
ETA is about 9 hours for 3TB, whereas ...
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Copy-paste for vim is not working when mouse (:set mouse=a) is on?
I was trying to copy paste something from vim to another application and also, from that application to vim using right click with mouse and then copy and paste (or with Ctrl+v and Ctrl+c and also ...
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How to copy contents of command line search result in unix to a file?
I would like to accomplish the following.
Copy the contents of all search results into a single file.
I don't want to copy the search result but the file contents of the search result.
For example ...
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Use SED or AWK to move string to new column and row
I have a .csv file that is tab delimited and I need to move the header row information to a "new" column at the beginning and a specified numbers of rows down. Please forgive any formatting errors for ...
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Disk copying with two OS on it
I want to change HDD in my laptop to bigger one. I have installed WIN XP and Mageia Linux and GRUB ver 1 as bootloader.
So I want to use such procedure for copying and changing disk:
plug new one ...
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Copy selected files had subtitutions in name
I have some folders:
oldA with A_1.aaa, A_2.aaa, A_1.bbb, A.def, A.ghi
oldB with B_1.aaa, B_2.aaa, B_1.bbb, B.def, B.ghi
and so on
and need to copy them to another folder with selection.
I want ...
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How do I copy a file from multiple servers to my local system?
We have multiple deployment of an application on servers such as app00, app01 and so on. I need to copy a single log file from all these servers onto my local mac so I can perform some grepping and ...
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Copy a directory containing links and their targets in Linux
I have a directory:
/home/username1/dir_1
This directory contains two folders, folder_1 and folder_2. In folder_2 are links to files present in folder_1.
Now, I want to copy dir_1 into ...
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Qemu Backing Files Question
If I'm creating a new.qcow2 qcow2 image based on a backing file (called base.qcow2) and the backing file is located on an nfs share. What happens if someone tries to modify, replace, or delete the ...
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copy files from one path to another path in linux
I am new to linux. I am trying to copy files from one path to another path. I have a text file which has all names of files in the following pattern:
file-1.txt
file-2.pdf
file-3.ppt
....
I created ...
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Transfer 2 drive raid0 / lvm2 system to new drive pair
I have a multi-boot, multi-drive system that I want to transfer onto 2 bigger drives.
Currently pc has 2x1TB drives with Fedora 19 running, using RAID0 drive mirroring, with LVM2 on top of the md. I ...
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Make disk/disk copy slower
Is there a method of slowing down the copy process on Linux?
I have a big file, say 10GB, and I'd like to copy it to another directory, but I don't want to copy it with full speed. Let's say I'd like ...
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Best way to sync files - copy only EXISTING files and only if NEWER than target
I'm doing this sync locally on Ubuntu 12.04. The files are generally small text files (code).
I want to copy (preserving mtime stamp) from source directory to target but I only want to copy if the ...
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CP: max source files number arguments for copy utility
Consider that there are countless number of files under /src/
cp /src/* /dst/
How many files cp will successfully process?
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Copy files via a complex ssh connection?
Suppose I have host A from which I ssh to host B, where I sudo -U some_role and from under it ssh to host C. My goal is an interactive shell on C.
Assume that from C I cannot ssh back to A.
What is ...
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Need to copy files to existing directory and remove files already there with the same name but different extension
EDIT: Total rewrite of question for clarity.
I have a directory tree (new) with a bunch of files of with an extension of .new. I have an identical tree (old) where many of the files have names ...
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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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Merging two directory without copying the files
Let's say I have as follows :
Folder A
C1
file a
A2
Folder B
C1
B2
file b
B3
What I want is to merge these two folders, which would give me :
Folder C
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Take copy of TTY0 text
I have some output in TTY1 that I think might hold clues as to why my last GUI session froze (CtrlAltBackspace was able to get me back to the terminal and I reloaded the GUI).
However, I cannot seem ...
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open a file and copy the listed files to another folder
I have a file named file1.txtcontaining file names like below :
filea.txt
fileb.txt
filec.txt
I want to copy the files listed in file1.txt to another folder. What is the UNIX command to use? (the ...
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Why do hard links seem to take the same space as the originals?
Thanks to some good Q&A around here and this page, I now understand links. I see hard links refer the same inode by a different name, and copies are different "nodes, with different names. Plus ...
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Is “zero-copy networking” implemented by default on Linux?
I saw this article:
http://lwn.net/2001/0419/kernel.php3
Zero-copy networking will be in 2.4.4. This patch, by David Miller,
Alexey Kuznetsov, and others, has been in development and testing ...
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copying files from one directory to another
I have to copy a set of files from one folder to another folder and I'm using the following command:
cp -rf `head -n 100 /home/tmp/abc.txt` /home/tmp/test/files
the file contents in abc.txt is ...
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Mass file+folder+directory move
So we have a bunch of src files that are old and out-dated and need to be moved to our new NAS storage. (I don't know why we are keeping them).
Is it possible to copy all the files and folders with ...
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file modified while doing scp/cp [duplicate]
I'm doing scp to a database while it's active. Its not very critical but I would like to know what will happen to a file when it is modified in the middle of a cp process? Does it get corrupted or it ...
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Is there a faster alternative to cp for copying large files (~20 GB)?
I am a graduate student, and the group in which I work maintains a Linux cluster. Each node of the cluster has its own local disk, but these local disks are relatively small and are not equipped with ...
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How can I make multiple copies of one folder without merging?
When two or more identically named folders are to be copied into or moved to the same location, the default option either in the GUI file manager, or using in a terminal cp -r --backup=numbered or ...
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Rsync after copy
Does Rsync after copy only send the differences between the folders, or does it copy the entire folder again since Rsync has never been implemented before on that folder?
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Find and copy directories containing file type
I have a directory "Movies" containing subdirectories "Movie Name". Each subdirectory "Movie Name" contains a movie file and related image/nfo files etc.
I'm trying to copy all directories containing ...
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vi / vim - extra indents when pasting text? [duplicate]
I can copy characters in other apps such as browsers with ctrlc.
I can then press i to enter insert mode in vim and press shiftctrlv to paste the text in.
The problem is that each line gets indented ...
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How do I copy directories and symlink files?
I have got a directory of huge files (total ~ 1TB) and I don't want copy them around. However, I'd like to work around them, so it would be convenient to have them linked in a directory hierarchy I ...
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Unable to preserve ownership in a copy but able with a move?
I have noticed that I am unable to preserve ownership if I rsync -o files. However, I am when I move them. This is all without admin privileges. What is the rationale of this? Several threads e.g. ...
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Copy modified files from one server to other
Scenario:
2 Servers (*.12 and *.13)
CakePHP "application" on both of them.
*.12 is "Production" Server
*.13 is "Development" Server
Now i want to copy all files modified the last 2 days from test ...
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Better way to copy multiple directories to new directory
Is there a better way on the command line to essentially accomplish the following but with a single command
cp -r css/ ar/
cp -r images/ ar/
cp -r js/ ar/
cp -r backups/ ar/
I've just been ...
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Minimal command to make a copy of a file [duplicate]
I often find myself copy-pasting long path in order to create a copy of a file
cp /path/to/file/file1 /path/to/file/file1.bkp
Is there an alternative utility that will NOT require me to type the ...
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How to write file into another
I have an empty file (only zeroes are in it) of size 9,0KB and I need to write another file (with size 1,1KB) to it, but the first file must not lose its size or the rest of its contents. So if the ...
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Copy Sequential Files
I have 12 files named dmp_000, dmp_001, etc, all the way to dmp_011. I would like to copy all of them to rdmp_000, rdmp_001, and so on, sequentially so the numbered files coincide. There must be an ...
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Easy way to copy lines from one file to another [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
cat line X to line Y on a huge file
Very simple issue but can't seem to find a simple resolution!
I have a massive text file from which I only need around 150 lines. ...
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How to copy a folder from remote machine to my system using ssh or any other way
Hi I need to copy a folder of size 885 MB from a remote machine to my system using ssh and port no is 1500
What is the command I can use to accomplish this
path of remote folder is
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How do I copy a symbolic link?
I have a symbolic link to a file in one directory. I would like to have that same link in another directory. How do I copy a symbolic link?
I tried to cp the symbolic link but this copies the file ...
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anyway to fail/delay a cp process?
This is a hypothetical scenario. Say that I have a particular folder that is being synchronized by a process which is receiving a files/folders via the internet. Now while this operation is in ...
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How can I copy a file and create the target directories at the same time?
I want to cp aaa/deep/sea/blob.psd to bbb/deep/sea/blob.psd
How do I do the copy if the deep and sea directories don't exist under bbb so that the copy both creates the directories that are needed ...
