A component of a Unix filesystem which contains other items, to organise the filesystem
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Cut WHOLE folder if it contains .jpg files
I am switching to UBUNTU from W 7. I have been using both for a while, and the perfect time has come to really switch just to Ubuntu now that my w7 crashed for good.
The big problem is, all my files ...
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Differences between /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/sbin
I'm running an Ubuntu Server 13.04, but I see the same on a 12.04: I have six directories with command files. These are:
/bin
/sbin
/usr/bin
/usr/sbin
/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/sbin
What are the ...
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How to Search for Files Recursively into Subdirectories
I am trying to look for all XML files in a particular directory and all sub-directories (recursively) inside it.
ls -R *.xml is only listing files in the current directory. I am quite sure, the ...
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Installation directory of thunderbird
I want to lock the settings to use by user so that i find my thunderbird installation directory but i couldn't. please help me and tell me the installation directory of thunderbird in ubuntu 12.04.
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Any way to change bluetooth folder?
I'm looking to change the default bluetooth received files directory in /home/user/Public....
Is there a dconf key or some other way to change it?
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how do you add files to existing programs
How does the file system work with Ubuntu. How do you find where a program is and if needed how do you add file to it?
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Can't open Firefox after upgrade to 13.04
I just upgraded my 12.10 to 13.04 with "great" difficulty, but a few issues persist.
Firefox refuse even to open when I click the icon. I had to tweak a bit to complete the 13.04 upgrade, so it may ...
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Ubuntu jumps folders when saving files
Whenever I want to save a file in a directory that has 1 sub folder, Ubuntu has this REALLY annoying habit of jumping into that folder when I click save and I specifically ask it to save in the first ...
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How to use change directory in zenity?
how to use cd command for change directory in zenity, my simple script like this
#!/bin/bash
a=`zenity --entry --entry-text="input directory name"`
cd $a
but, when cd [The cd (ChangeDirectory) ...
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Shared folders stuck when I access it from Windows 8
I share some folders from server running Ubuntu 13.04 (Desktop) and I access it from Windows 8.
When I enter into folders from windows, the window stuck for a while and the address bar shows loading. ...
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How to get r/w permission for a directory for a particular user?
In my ubuntu server a directory named "softwares" is shared via samba for windows clients. The directory has only read permission. I am the system admin working on the ubuntu server. I am also not ...
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Nested Sequence of Directories!
When I searched for a file where one could (semi)control brightness I accidentally found a nested sequence of directories like below
aneesh@nb-14:~$ cd /sys/class/graphics/fb0/device
...
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Where is usr/local?
I ran the following code in a terminal:
python -c "
import sys
sys.path = sys.path[1:]
import django
print(django.__path__)"
This returns the following path:
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Lost access to windows 7 folders
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 as a dual boot with my Windows 7 installation.
(I had 12.10 but it wouldnt lost the task bar - gave up on fixing it).
Anyhow, so I initially had a /host directory and could ...
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Ubuntu randomly will tell me an internal error has occurred, and suddenly is unable to find basic folders (pictures, music, etc)
I use it as my NAS, and when this happens, it also becomes inaccessible over the network, which is very frustrating. The only thing I recently did was attempt to setup my Tonido home cloud software to ...
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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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How to allow Guest session to access /home or other directories? [duplicate]
I want the Guest session to be able to access /home, maybe as read-only, and other directories as well.
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Why are python3 and python3.3 separate directories?
I'm working on getting pygame set up so I can read and follow Making Games with Python & Pygame, and when I was looking in /usr/lib, I saw that while python2.7 had a single directory, there were ...
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How should I Change Permissions (Dirs & Files) recursively in an mp3 external hard drive?
this is not that simple as it sound, so please read carefully before answer (I really tried before writing this).
So, the problem is the following. I have an external hard drive, NTFS of 2TB. It is ...
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Deleting folders and files from a directory
How do you delete all folders and files in a directory and subdirectory?
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Automatically cd into directories?
In the terminal You use cd ../../........ to get to wherever you want,
But I am lazy, I am wondering if it is possible to automatically cd into the directories if the command is simply the directory.
...
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Where has the .themes folder gone?
I'm now running 13.04 and wanted to install some of my favourite themes, but found that the folder .themes was just missing. Does it work to just make the folder?
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Upload folder with subfolders containing files
I am new to ubuntu. Ubuntu caught my attention, because I tried to send a bigger attachment via Thunderbird.
Now I want to upload a folder containing subfolders containing 216 files, overall 1,57 GB ...
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Open file or folder location directly when searching for it - Nautilus
I currently use nautilus as my default file manager. When I search for some file or folder, I also need to switch to the directory that contains the particular file or folder. It feels tedious to go ...
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How do I create a path shortcut?
I have a very beginner question. I would like to create a shortcut to a directory that is global so that when I do something like
cd $dir
It will take me to the specified directory. Or if I am ...
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LaTeX filepaths in Ubuntu
I'm sorry, this is quite a specific and esoteric question, but I thought if anyone could help...
Well, anyway, last night I used ls to look at a directory and noticed some junk hidden files I didn't ...
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Mounting a directory
I have a directory in the /dev dir called media/windows. I need to mount the /windows directory to a ntfs file system partition in /dev called sbd1. I have tried mount /dev/media/windows /dev/sdb1 and ...
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Direct file downloads based off file extension?
Is it possible to make it that whenever I download a file, it is redirected to a certain folder based on its file extension?
Eg, *.jpg, *.gif, *.png, etc, that it downloads to my pictures folder, ...
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How to make folders ' seen' by PLEX
When I want to add a folder to PLEX I cannot find it.
I have 2 harddrives in my computer. Ubuntu 13 installed on the 120GB SSD and another 1TB normal harddrive which contains 1 Folder called 'Films'. ...
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Hide and unhide folders
is there any way to unhide folders other than removing the "." in fornt of it. becasue i have minecraft and the folder which you install mods to is called ".minecraft" and its in /home/usr but i want ...
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Flatten directory with incrementing names
i need a bash script for flattern a directory with same names, and get an ordered output after a conversion.
input folder structure:
/in1/file1.wav
/in1/file2.wav
/in1/file3.wav
/in2/file1.wav
...
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What is the best directory for script files?
I have my own shell script files and I want to run them in terminal, keeping them in /usr/bin folder. But my question is: which directory is best for keeping files of my own script? I want to use this ...
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Problem with creating folders on Gnome app menu on Gnome 3.8
Trying to create AppFolders by dragging one icon to the next but nothing seem to work. I am running Gnome 3.8.
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Cannot create a directory to /home
Is it normal that I can't create directories in /home partition as a normal user?
Example:
user@pc:/home$ mkdir test
mkdir: cannot create directory ‘test’: Permission denied
Is that normal?
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How to find the directory of a USB port
I am trying to find the name of the second USB port in my computer in the director /dev/ since I am trying to find where my AVR micro-controller programmer location to execute this command: avrdude -p ...
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How to customize (add/remove folders/directories) the “Places” menu of Ubuntu 13.04 “Files” application?
I can't seem to find a way to customize (add/remove folders/directories) the "Places" menu in the most recent "Files" application of Ubuntu 13.04. The procedures used with "Nautilus" in the previous ...
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Enable desktop wallpaper change with elapsed time [duplicate]
Is there a way to randomise the ubuntu desktop wallpaper with time for each displayed wallpaper.
This will randomly select a wallpaper from the pictures folder and display it for the specified time ...
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Lock icon in external drive's folders
When I attach the external hard drive, the folders have a lock icon on them and i am unable to delete them.
I tried to use sudo chown -R $USER:$USER $HOME but to no avail, this did not work.
Please ...
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Contents of Downloads folder are gone ubuntu 12.04
My downloads folder was there till evening. I went to my room and did a ssh onto my work machine and I find that the downloads folder is empty. I have some important files in downloads folder. Can ...
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How to create a new FTP user and specify which folders they can view
I was wondering how to create a new FTP user, set the password and whatnot, and also specify which folders they can view. I want to be able to use the users in filezilla. Thanks!
Note: I am doing ...
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Thunderbird : How to set unique folders for several e-mail accounts?
I'm using more and more e-mail lately and I would like to put some order into that. The thing is that I have two different accounts (Yahoo and Google)
The problem is :
I created a folder in ...
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How to reopen the folders that were open before shutdown? [duplicate]
I know how to configure it on Windows but don't know if Ubuntu has this feature.
Is it possible?
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How to create a permanent link to your Windows desktop on Ubuntu?
I want to have a way to easily access the desktop of my Windows user account from my Ubuntu account on my dual-booted machine.
Of course, I can easily create a link on my Ubuntu desktop to the path ...
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What's the difference between “cd ../” vs. “cd /..”?
What do these two commands mean?
cd ../
cd /..
I am ending up in two directories upwards the tree on the first command and in the root directory from the second command. Why does that happen?
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Ubuntu 12.04 Can not remove directory
I am using dual operating system on a single machine- windows and ubuntu.
There is a folder in windows C:\ProgramData\Folder_name which seems to be a virus to me, as it does not get deleted whenever ...
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How to wildcard directories and all files in them
Lets say I wanted to wildcard directories and then wildcard all files in those directories.
How would I do so?
I know * is to wildcard all files, but I don't know how to wildcard directories.
For ...
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Konsole appearance. Directories in mounted NTFS partition and home directory
I see that directories in mounted NTFS partition and in my $HOME look different. How to make directories from the NTFS partition look like the directories from my $HOME?
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Setting permissions for home server directories
I am fairly new at all this.
I have set up a home server using an old laptop and Ubuntu 12.04 to stream media to my LG TV through their DLNA system called MediaLink. This is being done through Plex ...
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How to protecting cd command to deal with parentheses?
I asked here how to make cd protect spaces. Tab completion is great, but sometimes you paste the path from the clipboard so this is useful.
The solution breaks with parentheses however. No matter how ...
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virtual directory to ubuntu on windows?
Is it possible to create a virtual directory in windows that links to a directory on an Ubuntu 12.10 server?
If so, how?
I'd like to do it this way because it slows me down to constantly save & ...
