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Copy files from a directory to a sub-directory (excluding the sub-directory itself)
I have created a folder(directory) named 'Parent' which contains several files(namely 'file1', 'file2'...'file100') and a sub-directory named 'Child1'which itself may contain files and folders .
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Is there a way to show progress when copying/moving files using the command line?
sometimes with large files it takes a while and some sort of progress bar to know that its still working would be nice.
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Removing a file extension upon copying
I have a question which is super simple, but I just can't wrap my head around it. Regarding the following command line:
for foo in *.dist; do cp $foo `basename $foo .dist`; done
I know it takes all ...
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How do I move .doc and .xls files to a new folder?
Situation: I finally convinced my dad to let me install Xubuntu on his desktop, since Windows XP had become extremely bloated, old - it's a mess. So I installed Xubuntu 12.10 alongside the Windows ...
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command to view the time lapsed [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Progress and speed with ‘cp’?
I am executing a lot of commands of transferring data in Ubuntu using command line and these are really big file (both in numbers and ...
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Argument list too long when copying files
I just asked a question related to how I can count the files of particular extension. Now I want to cp these files to a new dir.
I am trying,
cp *.prj ../prjshp/
and
cp * | grep '\.prj$' ...
