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How to copy a directory from one hard drive to another with every single file?
I have a folder I just luckily recovered sitting on:
/media/sdc1/Pictures
with a BUNCH of subdirectories and files that I need.
I want to copy these to a folder on:
/media/sdb1/Pictures
What ...
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Copy the content/file to all subdirectory in a directory using terminal
I wanna copy a file to all sub-folders of a folder. A command example would be very helpful.
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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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Copy file to External Hard Disk
My UBUNTU (desktop part) do not boot completely because of low disk;
When I log-in to terminal by username and password, try to copy some file from /home/UserName/Desktop to my external hard disk by ...
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Ubuntu copying file problem (cannot stat file)
I've faced a problem when copying a file with the commands,
cp ~/Downloads/sample.pdf ~/Desktop/
But the terminal gives me a message, cp: cannot stat 'sample.pdf': No such file or directory.
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How to copy into with cp if destination folder already exists?
Example...
This is what I want.
/tmp $ cp -f -R --verbose /tmp/a /tmp/b
`/tmp/a' -> `/tmp/b'
`/tmp/a/file2' -> `/tmp/b/file2'
`/tmp/a/file1' -> `/tmp/b/file1'
This is what I do not want.
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issue with cp command when i was copying in /var/www
i am not able to copy file in /var/www with
sudo cp /home/index.html /var/www
the error is
cp:omitting directory '/home/index.html'
then i used -r, sudo cp -r /home/index.html /var/www, then the ...
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cp hangs on certain Windows files
I am currently trying to use Ubuntu 9.04 live CD (it's what I had when my computer took a dump) to copy some Windows files from an old drive to a new drive. I'm using cp -Rvf source dest. The issue ...
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Copy entire filesystem in a folder where a raid-1 array is mounted
I am trying to migrate from a single disk drive system to a double disk drive software raid-1 system that already has a running system on it. Meaning that formatting and having a new installation of ...
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Can I verbose output during a copy command processing?
Situation: If I entered a copy command like cp -rf /src/ /dsc/ then I am waiting several minutes for copy large directories. I forgot to put -v flag to verbose an output, Can I do it during copying?
