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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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Does copying files from NTFS to EXT4 degrade/corrupt the files?
The reason I ask is I am very new to Ubuntu, but I want to get into mobile development. I installed Ubuntu alongside windows 8 but it just doesn't run quite as well as I would expect so a friend ...
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Copying files from to shared computer or USB
I tried copying files from windows 7 laptop using samba service though network connection via LAN. after a point the copying simply stops, does not close the copy windows. no error messages are shown. ...
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file copy to ntfs usb drive from ext4 very very slow [duplicate]
I am getting very slow copy speeds (506.4 kB/sec is average) when copying files from my ext root partition or any other ext4 partition onto an external usb ntfs partition. When I was using Ubuntu 11 ...
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File operations freezes
Got newest Ubuntu 13 with all updates and when copying files to my 32GB sd card, the file operations freezes just before it finishes and it does not complete. Files greater than 10mb do this, anything ...
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Pasting previous text from clipoboard
I have problem with clipboard. Best explanation will be by example:
I want to send to my friend two texts: AAA and BBB.
I make copy/paste of first one. Then I'm making copy/past of second one and I'm ...
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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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Files 3.6.3 overwrites existing files when merging two folders
I've upgraded from Ubuntu 12.10 that I installed with Wubi, to Ubuntu 13.04.
When copying a folder from my secondary hard drive to a folder located in "/host/" with the same name, "Files" asks me if ...
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GNOME-Terminal - Copy file and place in separate directory
I was wondering how I could copy a file and paste it in a separate directory (like a different folder besides the current one) in the GNOME-Terminal. Any suggestions? Thanks!
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copying files and inherit permissions of target folder
When I copy files to a USB disk or another account on the same disk the permissions are not changed to the target. For example, when I copy files from account X to a folder of account Y, than the ...
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How can I access my Ubuntu boot disk files as external USB disk on Centos 6.3?
Not sure whether this would be more appropriate in a Centos forum, but I'll post it here for starters as I am more comfortable and familiar with Ubuntu. I recently purchased a server with Centos 6.3 ...
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How to avoid the “dangerous copy and paste” problem
A brief quote from the article "Old tricks are new again: Dangerous copy and paste" at The H Security website:
Copying and pasting something does not necessarily mean the user will get what they ...
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Copy file or folder in ubuntu one
How can I copy ubuntu one file or folder from one folder to another? I want it through api also.
Thanks
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File copy freezing with large network copies
I'm using version 12.10. When I do large file copy from windows network share it always hangs the copy process. Rest of machine is fine, just the copy process is hung. I connect to the share by ...
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Is it possible to key-bind the pasting of the x-clipboard? How?
I was wondering if it is possible to add a keybind to paste the x-clipboard in Lubuntu.
(primary selection)
If possible to keybind it, would you still be able to use the middle-click too?
Is there ...
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How to copy a subset of files from a certain folder
I have the following directory structure.
dirA/[fileA, someB, barC, fileD, someE, barF]
dirB/[fileA, barC, someE]
I want to copy only files from dirA to dirB which are already present in dirB. How ...
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How do I to copy files to flash drive in a recovery mode?
It seems like to deleted too much files by rm -r and now I have the error of "the system is running a low-graphic mode" in Ubuntu and I have to work in Windows because of that.
However I can load it ...
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Mouse text selection to paste buffer using middle click
Background
I have a Logitech Marble Mouse Trackball, with its scrolling ability configured as follows:
#!/bin/bash
dev="Logitech USB Trackball"
we="Evdev Wheel Emulation"
xinput set-int-prop "$dev" ...
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How do I copy and paste files from one directory to another using the mouse?
On Microsoft Windows, I right-click on the file and choose "Copy". I place my cursor on the target directory, right-click on it and choose "Paste". The file will be copied to the target folder.
It ...
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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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Copy app to Rackspace from Different Network
I want to copy files from my system to rackspace (aws), ( there is a way to use scp but i am in my office network, rackspace bought at aws), any package is there ? for this need.
Help me to copy my ...
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Copy speeds drop down all the time?
I use Ubuntu 12.04.
I have a good PC , a Dell XPS, with 8 GB of memory and a 1TB HDD and an i5 processor.
When I copy files internally (to and from the internal HDD), nautilus initially shows speeds ...
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How to rip a DVD in codec H.265 [closed]
Is it possible to rip a DVD in the new H.265 Codec?
I only found tools for AVC / H.264
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Moving bytes from one files to 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 it's. So if the whole file is 00000000000000... ...
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Can I make a second startup USB by simply coping the contents of existing one?
I'm trying to setup a bootable firewire device. For some reason the startup disk creator keeps crashing. I already have a bootable USB. Can I just copy and paste the files from the USB to the firewire ...
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Mouse Copy/Paste Problem
It seems that since I switched to 12.04.2 my mouse copy/paste is not working properly. It takes 2 to 4 middle button clicks to get it to paste. You can't really tell when it's going to paste.
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How to avoid the change of timestamp of files when moving then from directory
When I move files from one directory to another, the timestamp of the files changes. For example, if the file was created with a date 2013-01-01, when I move it to a different directory, the final ...
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ubuntu after copy files owner changes
When I copy my files from development to production /var/www the owner and permission of the files copied changed. What are the perimission/owner of the files in /var/www so that it is not a security ...
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unable to access files in home folder by using ubuntu 12.04 live cd
I was trying to access my files in home folder of Ubuntu but I was using liveCD to access those files. I got the following error:
Error while copying
The folder ... cannot be copied because you do ...
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How can I get access to the folder that I've copied to /opt?
I've just copied a folder named journey to the /opt directory of home folder using the following command:
sudo cp -r '/media/B60EB9810EB93B67/xampp/htdocs/journey/' '/opt/lampp/htdocs'
Now I can't ...
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Copy files from one home directory to another
I've upgraded my laptop with a new ssd and installed Ubuntu 64bit version on it. On the old hard drive, several operating systems are installed among others my old Ubuntu 32bit Installation. Now I ...
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Lenses & Scopes - Is it possible to copy content by clicking on it in the Dash?
I just got an idea to create a lense that would work as a Character Map. I need character copying very often, and on Windows there was a very useful programme (PopChar), but on Ubuntu I haven't found ...
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copy paste not working in virtualbox from Ubuntu [host] to Ubuntu [guest]
How to copy & paste with VirtualBox from Ubuntu (host) to Ubuntu (guest)?
I installed virtualbox guest edition on Ubuntu [guest] system. But still its not working. If anyone can have some ...
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Very slow copying Ubuntu 12.10, AHCI
I have two disks, SSD (Samsung 830 128GB) and normal HDD (WD 1TB) and Ubuntu 12.10 installed. AHCI enabled in the BIOS. I have a problem with extremely slow copying in all directions ...
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Local file copy using SMB shares
I created two SMB shares for my local disks on my server: disk1 and disk2. Using my laptop I can access the shares. If I try to copy files between these two shares using my laptop the speed is very ...
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getting active pastable locations in the current session?
Well i was trying to implement a feature which could do away with the selectall-copy-paste option in the text editor kwrite. I was trying to get all the pastable locations such as (current open ...
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Problem with smb-shares in nautilus
I have major problem with SMB-shares in nautilus. When I try to copy large files it stops working after a few minuts. Sometimes I get a error message to check my internet connection but often I don't ...
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How to copy symbolic links while preserving the validity of the link?
Say under directory /usr/local/boost_1_52_0/stage/lib, I have a symbolic link: libboost_timer.so, which points to the regular file libboost_timer.so.1.52.0 in the same directory.
How can I cp the ...
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Better file copying?
On my windows machine I have a few utilities which makes it easy to copy/move large numbers of files from and to different directories, Teracopy is the one I use most. I cannot do the same on my ...
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How to create an image of my ubuntu 12.10
Hi last week I installed ubuntu 12.10 on my laptop and Today I have my system more or less configure as I like.
I would like to know how can I create an image of the system that can use to install ...
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How to access and copy files from an old/other Ubuntu system's partition?
I'm getting permission denied when I try to access my old 10.04 partition. I'm trying to get into the home folder so that I can back up the data before I do a fresh install of 12.04.
I know the ...
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How does copy-paste work with xterm?
Left-down-clicking in xterms starts the selection of something to be copy-pasted.
Double-left clicking selects a word.
Triple-left clicking selects a line.
All this works under unity in 11.04. ...
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Why when copying to an external drive the progress window is not correct
Feel free to edit the title to explain better what I am going to write here.
When I copy big files to a pen drive for example, the progress window shows an estimate that most of the time does not ...
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Archive Manager is causing Nautilus to hang, how do I troubleshoot this?
I downloaded a tar.gz file and opened it with archive manager.
When I try to copy files and folders from the archive, the copy files process will hang after a few files has been copied successfully.
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How can I show special characters in a terminal when I copy a file from my local Mac to my remote Ubuntu server?
When I copy a webpage from my local machine (Mac) to my remote server (Ubuntu), the special characters in the text are ending up in squares in a browser or question-mark-symbols in the terminal.
I ...
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copy ubuntu with my personalizations [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Creating an install of Ubuntu to clone
Reinstall software after installation of newer version Ubuntu
I have just installed ubuntu on my friends laptop. I will install ...
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How do I copy files faster on USB 2 external drive via LAN/SAMBA?
Is there a way to copy faster multiple files on an external USB 2 drive via LAN through SAMBA?
When using Nautilus the speed is about 1.6 MB/sec. Theoretically the max speed should be 60MB/sec?
The ...
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Is there anything to remember when I exchange my /?
I have a laptop computer with the following setup:
/ on a btrfs /dev/sda3 subvolume @
/home on a btrfs /dev/sda3 subvolume @home
/boot on an ext4 /dev/sda2
/boot/efi on a vfat /dev/sda1
no swap
/tmp ...
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How to speed up copying files to NTFS drive?
I recently bought new USB 3.0 flash drive (write speed: 110 MB/s, read speed: 190 MB/s). And I have Dell XPS 13 (it has SSD and USB 3.0).
My problem is speed of copying files to the USB flash stick.
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How to copy files while keeping directory structure?
This is for a java project, but the same concept can be applied more generally:
Basically, I have a projects with all *.java files located in some sub directory of src. Now I want to grab all ...
