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Cannot delete file from /home by rm command
I cannot delete a file in my /home folder.
Terminal output give me the message:
~$ rm /home/goldap/Загрузки/Put Don Kihota (1934)
bash: ошибка синтаксиса около неожиданной лексемы '('
Roughly ...
2
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1answer
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Fail to log in Ubuntu for deleting my home folder
I moved my home folder("huangzhiwu") to /usr/share carelessly. Then after i noticed that ,i make a new folder named huangzhiwu in /home ,and moved all files from /usr/share/huangzhiwu to the new home ...
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16answers
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How do I open a text file in my terminal?
There is a file named RESULTS.txt and I want to open this file in my terminal. (I mean I want to see the file contents be displayed in the terminal and not in some text editor)
How do I do that ?
4
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3answers
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“/proc/partitions not found” error is showing up
I am configuring a webserver in Ubuntu 10.04. More particularly I am installing DataStax OpsCenter.
Unfortunately, the logs are spammed with this error:
ERROR [pool-3-thread-7] 2013-02-15 ...
0
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2answers
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How to install a program from a .tar.gz [duplicate]
I already extracted the file and when I drag the file to the terminal this is the directory I get " '/home/ali/Downloads/Stencyl-2.1.0 ". Now can someone give me exact instructions for this ...
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0answers
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private folder in file server
I have active directory with 400 users. all the users have user accounts but all the pcs are not join the Active directory.I want all users who has not join the AD (can not log in AD)can have his own ...
0
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1answer
42 views
Can I save the command output to a file other than text-files?
I don't even know if it is possible. I've been trying to find an answer, and couldn't so I turn to everyone here for help! (In the event that it is possible.)
I know it is possible to save the ...
2
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2answers
45 views
Write numbers to multiple files
I want to write the numbers 1-10 to two different files.
I guess I should use the for loop to both print to the files and count from 1 to 10 as it loops but I don't know how.
1
vote
2answers
48 views
“No such file” error when directing output to a file
I am running Ubuntu 12.04. In my accounts .bashrc file I have the line
alias ftreport='cd / && sudo tree > /home/<user name here>/Documents/Reports/Tree_$(date +%s).txt'
After ...
27
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3answers
844 views
How can I open a file when I do not know what command opens it? [duplicate]
Ubuntu noob here. How do I open a file in a working directory? I have already tried
./MyFile.jpg
And it replies with
bash: ./MyFile.jpg: Permission denied
Now, that got me thinking that I had ...
0
votes
1answer
108 views
How should I remove or empty these files or folders?
Below are the instructions that I need to carry out:
1. Navigate to the Symantec AntiVirus virus definitions directory (default location is: `/opt/Symantec/virusdefs`) in the terminal.
2. Remove any ...
18
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5answers
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Is there a file explorer/manager for the command line?
I would like to know if there is something like DOS interface for Ubuntu. I mean a "GUI" that can run from the console (for example if you are using Ubuntu Server). Some file explorer like Nautilus ...
1
vote
1answer
98 views
How do I move .doc and .xls files to a new folder?
Situation: I finally convinced my dad to let me install Xubuntu on his desktop, since Windows XP had become extremely bloated, old - it's a mess. So I installed Xubuntu 12.10 alongside the Windows ...
0
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1answer
28 views
command to view the time lapsed [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Progress and speed with ‘cp’?
I am executing a lot of commands of transferring data in Ubuntu using command line and these are really big file (both in numbers and ...
3
votes
1answer
175 views
Argument list too long when copying files
I just asked a question related to how I can count the files of particular extension. Now I want to cp these files to a new dir.
I am trying,
cp *.prj ../prjshp/
and
cp * | grep '\.prj$' ...
2
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2answers
100 views
How to rename more than one files in ubuntu?
I have so many images more than 100 in a folder such as:
apple.jpg
grapes.jpg
orange.jpg
....
I want to rename all of them at once with ascending order numbers such as:
1.jpg
2.jpg
3.jpg
....
...
3
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2answers
132 views
How to copy many photo file names with date and time to spreadsheet
I have numerous motion detector photos (JPGs) I copy to a DVD every day. I would like to copy the file name, original creation date and time of each of these photos and then extract this information ...
1
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2answers
93 views
Command like inotify - or another solution?
Is it possible to recursively scan changed files from more than 3 weeks ago with inotify, or is inotify only for starting cron jobs? What other command can I try for checking for changed files that ...
5
votes
1answer
299 views
Is there a centralized history file for all the commands run from various terminals?
I am aware that every terminal has it's separate history,which can be viewed by the history command. Commands issued on suppose terminal tty1 will be shown in the history of tty1 only and not in the ...
4
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1answer
3k views
How do I extract a specific file from a tar archive?
Hi is possible to restore a single file from the .tar backup ? I dont want to restore total backup . i just want to restore one single file from the backup .
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4answers
2k views
Opening a file from terminal
When we want to open an application or file from the terminal, we type, say,
okular file.dvi
This opens the application, but also shows the status of the application. We cannot close the terminal, ...
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vote
2answers
839 views
How do I combine all lines in a text file into a single line?
I want to get all lines in a text into one line. I'm a beginner at coding trying to learn by doing. I've spent four hours trying to solve this problem. I know there's a simple solution to this ...
2
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2answers
94 views
How do I paste the contents of a folder into the www root folder?
I want to take the contents of home/magpie/xoops-2.5.5/htdocs/ and put it into var/www using the terminal. I don't want to go downloading anything I don't need.
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vote
2answers
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no sudo permissions to /etc/hostname
When I try to edit my /etc/hostname file, using sudo nano /etc/hostname (or any other editor) I get the following:
Error writing /etc/hostname: Permission denied
I then tried:
sudo chmod u+w ...
18
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3answers
5k views
How can I get octal file permissions from command line?
There is a chmod command to set file permissions, but can I get file permissions in octal mode (such as 755) from the command line?
1
vote
1answer
338 views
Reveal File in File Explorer
I have a Java application in which I need to "reveal" a file to the user (i.e. open the containing folder of the file in an explorer and highlight the file). I have configured it to do so in both ...
0
votes
1answer
162 views
Undeletable file [closed]
Folks, within Terminal, I am unable to chown, chmod, rm -Rf, or shred -vfuz to a file. I can however "echo xyz > fileName. I can create, delete or alter other files. My objective is to delete the ...
2
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3answers
2k views
How to shred a folder?
I want a command to shred completely the contents of a folder/directory (which may be inside folders/directories).
Also please explain the command.
2
votes
1answer
260 views
delete files with particular character length and a extension in a directory using some command in terminal window
I would like to know what command must be executed in the terminal window which will enable us to delete files with a particular extension(say .c) in a particular directory whose name length is 6 ...
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3answers
1k views
How to “search and replace” many files?
I use the grep command to search for a string in many files. Is there something similar to "search and replace"?
6
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1answer
397 views
How can I make a script to place files older than each day before into their own folder?
I'm running an unnecessarily complex script which looks similar to this command:
find /home/user/videos/*.avi -mtime +0 -exec mv -f {} "/home/nb/videos/1 day old" \;
And then I run the same ...
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2answers
4k views
I can't run .sh files [closed]
I'd like to play SuperTuxKart 0.7.3 RC 1 and I have to choose the file run_game.sh to do this.
But I've got this screen each time :
Translation : "Would you like to run "run_game.sh" or show its ...
0
votes
2answers
598 views
Photorec not seeing SD memory of camera
I am trying to recover pictures form a friends SD memory camera. When I connect the camera and run photorec it is not seeing the camera as a drive for me to recover files from. It only shows my hard ...
0
votes
2answers
317 views
How to transfer the whole contents of a folder (recursively) from one server to another?
I have a /home/jbruni folder in a VPS running Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx).
I am about to turn this VPS off and move some things from it to a new VPS, also running the same Ubuntu version.
...
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0answers
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Need a tool to compare the contents of two directories [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
File and directory comparison tool?
I'm looking for a tool(or anything that do the job ) that compare the contains of two folder and show the differences between them. ...
1
vote
1answer
293 views
How detect and run a shell script when any file or folder is being copied/moved to a directory?
How can I detect any file or folder is being copied/moved to a directory and then run a shell script?
The files copied/moved would mostly have the same file names as the existing ones...
6
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3answers
419 views
Command line: create file with new filename if the filename already exists
I was wondering if it was possible have a command that creates one file, but every time the command is executed, it wouldn't overwrite the file created in the previous execution.
For example: touch ...
1
vote
2answers
405 views
How do I find a string (and some lines before and after) in a huge file by terminal?
I want to display three or four lines before and after a certain string in a really huge file, which I can' topen with vi. How is this done?
I tryed
grep -i -n -r 'mysearchstring'
but this only ...
5
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3answers
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Use “locate” under some specific directory?
I was wondering how to restrict the search range of "locate" to some directory?
For example, how to find files/directories with string "math" in their names under some directory "/home/tim/science/"?
...
5
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3answers
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How do I Copy one file to many subfolders?
It sounds like a simple question but if it was I wouldn't be asking it. I can obviously do this by opening all the folders in nautilus and pasting each one individually but the computer is the robot ...
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vote
2answers
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Changing from one file to another
I'm told to go to /home/jbander/Downloads, so how do I do that, I assume you do it in terminal but what do you do next, I can get to home but that is it.
How do I go from one directory or file or ...
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2answers
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Find which files are read or written to
I want to see which files are read or written to.
Is there any program or a command for that? I can remember I used this method to hunt down viruses and malware hiding locations when I used windows a ...
2
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4answers
2k views
Concatenating several .mp3 files into one .mp3
As it was suggested here I am using cat command to concatenate several .mp3 files into one .mp3 file.
Imagine, I have following .mp3 files in the current folder:
001001.mp3 001002.mp3 001003.mp3 ...
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2answers
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Split a large file into smaller files and then integrate them to get the original file
How do I split a 7GB (movie) file into smaller files of (say) 1GB, and then (in another Ubuntu computer) integrate them to get the original file (using just bash commands)?
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1answer
5k views
How can I email an attachment from the command line
Is it possible to email attachments from the command line?
If possible, I'd like something as simple as:
mail -a myfile.txt -t me@example.com -s "Here's my file"
4
votes
1answer
4k views
How to get the mime type of a file from the command line?
I'm trying to get the mime type of a file from the command line as a printed string (eg. application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet).
I looked up how to do this and found the xdg-mime command.
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