Act to duplicate file(s) or string(s)
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Program a flash drive to automatically copy a specific folder when plugged in?
I'm looking for a way to plug my flash drive into a computer and have it automatically copy all the files from a specific folder when it's plugged in? My son is being secretive about a party he went ...
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Why is the “replacing” speed of files slower than removing the file and copying it again?
When I replace a 1 gb .iso file, the speed goes as low as 900 KB/s, but when I delete it first by moving to trash or using rm, the copy speed is at its maximum. Is this because of the file system ...
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Global keyboard shortcut for copy, cut and paste
How can I define a global shortcuts for copy, cut and paste?
I'm used to Mac's ⌘+C for copy and ⌘+V for paste. They are global, so I can use them interchanging data between CLI and GUI apps.
How can ...
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My 'USB flash' does not have right permission. I can't copy files into it via Nautilus?
I have a USB cooldisk 8.0 GB. it was full of Windows viruses. I tried to delete them under Ubuntu 13.04, but it didn't allow me to delete anything!
I formated it by the software 'Disks' to FAT ...
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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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Highlight does not copy content in Xterm
I'm trying out Ubuntu 13.04 in VMware 9.02, which it running on desktop that has Ubuntu 12.04LTS, I notice when one highlight text in xterm in 13.04 it doesn't copy the content to the clipboard as it ...
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how to setup an ubuntu installation partition
I've had it with Windows, but I don't have a burner, my USBs are full (and probably too small as they are old), and I don't want to spend on a new USB.
Is it possible to setup an installation ...
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How to make drag&drop to move files instead of copy on Xfce desktop?
On the Xfce 12.10 desktop drag&drop to move files into a folder would copy them instead of moving (cut/paste) them.
I tend to have many files on the desktop and usually I grab them and put them ...
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Copy files to guest in QEMU
Is there any chance to successfully setup a way to let QEMU copy files from the host to the guest system?
I've already tryed with SSH (as explained here) but I can't connect to the guest.
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how to install Copy on ubuntu 12.04
How can I install Copy on Ubuntu 12.04? I have a .tgz and I don't know what to do next.
PS: I'm new on linux.
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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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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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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 to usb stick never finished
I tried to copy 3.3GB iso file into a 64GB usb stick, the progress bar show completed but the copying operation windows doesn't closed after almost an hour now and still hanging not closed.
I'm using ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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How do you monitor the progress of dd?
dd is a wonder allowing you to duplicate a hard drive to another, completely zero a hard drive, etc. But once you launch a dd command, there's nothing to tell you of it's progress. It just sits there ...
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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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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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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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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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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 ...
