Questions tagged [directory]
A component of a Unix filesystem which contains other items, to organise the filesystem
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Cannot change directory evenif it exists
I am trying to changed directories but I get this instead:
cd -/idea
bash: cd: -/: invalid option
cd: usage: cd [-L|[-P [-e]] [-@]] [dir]
It is acting like it doesn't exist. What gives?
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Where is BLAS and LAPACK installed - the directory?
I am trying find which directory path BLAS and LAPACK are installed on.
I tried:
$ type libblas-dev
bash: type: libblas-dev: not found
Then:
$ apt-cache policy libblas-dev
libblas-dev:
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Can't access Ubuntu's shared folders from Windows 7
In Ubuntu Maverick, I've shared some folders using the Nautilus "Sharing Options" GUI.
I can see them from Windows 7, but when I try to access them (from Windows) it asks for a username and ...
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Can I change personal folder locations?
I did this in Windows 7. My Documents, Videos, Music and other personal folders are in D:\ because it is my media disk.
In case of a system failure, I will always have access to these files when I ...
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Recursivly Deleted Root Directory [duplicate]
I recursively deleted the contents of my root directory with sudo privileges. My display reset, and windowing stopped working. I could no longer run non-buitin commands. Most of my directories (...
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Is it possible to use album art as an icon for a folder in Nautilus Elementary?
I run Ubuntu 11.04 with Nautilus Elementary. Is it possible in Nautilus to use album art as an icon (miniature) of a folder where the album is stored?
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How can I hide a folder on my desktop?
I have tried to use a dot (.) to hide a file/folder and it works fine within the Home>>Desktop menu . I tried hiding a folder Applesauce by renaming it to .Applesauce it was shown as hidden when ...
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Importing a case insensitive directory
I am using Ubuntu with a case sensitive file system, and I have downloaded some zipped directories from Dropbox. I assume the zipped directories were created on a case insensitive file system, ...
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Ubuntu background changer not showing new images in /usr/share/backgrounds
I am using Ubuntu 14.04 and I wanted to add some more wallpapers to it. So I copied some wallpapers to /usr/share/backgrounds. But the wallpaper changer (All settings --> Appearance --> Look) does not ...
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'ls' shows more files in directory than nautilus
In home directory ls shows the following:
But let's look what is in Nautilus.
I refreshed Nautilus many times. rm 1.1.c returns a error there is no such file in directory.
What's wrong?
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Symbolic link with relational path
I am using volumes that are mounted at different path locations at each boot.
I would like to create symbolic links on the volumes that link to other folders within the same volumes, without them ...
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Wine can't run bad exe file
I'm trying to download an application and wine keeps giving me the message of a bad exe file.
I've tried the simple cd /Downloads and then wine applicationname.exe but I got the error message and ...
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How can I monitor a directory for copy & pasting files?
How can I create a script for monitoring file transferring including the source location and the destination location ? ( example : Test.file from /home/Desktop to /home/Documents ) .
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Folders showing lock [duplicate]
Whenever I open my documents, all the folders in it are displayed with a lock icon. Therefore, I cannot delete any file or folder in it.and also can't change folder permission.so, give me solution how ...
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16.04 - attempting to take ownership of home directory of other user via shared group privileges
As the title says, I'm attempting to make it so my primary account on my ubuntu machine has rwx privileges over the home directory of another account. I made a group for both accounts to share and ...
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How are there two identical folders in the same location?
This is a picture of my desktop, with the main folder in which I store pretty much everything. At some point in time, the computer sprouted a twin. They both have the same name, and go to the same ...
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How to rename many folders? [duplicate]
I have so many folders with (2) at the end. But the Folders list is huge and it is not feasible to rename them individually. The only pattern is that all ends with (2) as shown below. Is there a way ...
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Can a folder have 2 or more owners?
Can I set 2 or more owners for one folder?
For example:
2 users can read/write,
DC group users can read,
others can't see
How to I achieve the above configuration on that folder?
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Problem with desktop screen after upgrade
After doing a software upgrade on my Ubuntu 16.94 now when PC boots the contents of my home screen are displayed on the desktop. Any ideas how to stop this please ???
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Accessing Files in Other Users FTP Folder?
I have a wifi security camera that writes to an FTP server located on a 16.04 LTS system. I create the user in Ubuntu and that automatically creates a home folder. When I create the user in the ftp ...
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Linux Touch Directory Command
What does the command 'touch' when applied to a directory?
$ mkdir test
$ ls -l test
drwxrwxr-x 2 dragos dragos 4096 Oct 27 18:08 test
$ touch test
$ ls -l
drwxrwxr-x 2 dragos dragos 4096 Oct 27 18:...
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Nautilus scripts in top level of contextual menu
Is it possible to have Nautilus scripts appear in the top level of Nautilus' contextual menu, rather than in a Scripts folder?
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Don't have write privileges in Rstudio using Ubuntu 16.04
I apparently do not have write access in Rstudio (3.3.2) installed on Ubuntu 16.04., i.e. I cannot "write.csv".
Here is the command that does not work:
write.csv(data_frame, file = "file_name.csv", ...
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rsync: Sync folders, but keep extra files in target
I'm getting started with rsync and tried to use it to keep two folders on local system synced. I have a source folder, whose content changes over time (some files get added, some changes and some ...
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I deleted var folder accidentally in my ubuntu 12.04. please help me to get back my home folder [duplicate]
I did something really stupid. I apologize!! I just wanted to learn laravel framework and installed.
The bad time came to use "gulp" command in terminal.
Next what all happened I don't know. My ...
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Special directory permissions for new user
I need to add special permission for new shell user.
After using adduser command new, the user can read all directories into shell account.
Command adduser user1 brings us new user which has own ...
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What are these lock icons in my "computer"?
Does this look right to you?
I'm new to ubuntu, and I have feeling that it didn't used to be like this. I must have done something! How can I undo whatever I have done to it?
Edit: I log in like ...
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Directory disappear suddenly, but detected with ls
So, i have a external hard drive and it is working normally, until suddenly i realize (when using windows) that some directory is missing.
so I tried to access my external hard drive using ubuntu (...
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Hidden files found only by command line?
I have a directory with a bunch of images. Going there with the GUI and pressing CTRL+A (selecting all files) it counts 5058 images. Doing `ls . | wc -l files it counts 5060 files.
I have the ...
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Why can't g++ find my source code?
I just started with C++ on Ubuntu and I'm already stuck.
I made my first .cc program and tried to compile it with g++.
I named it variabili.cc and saved it in a folder called Esercizi on my Desktop.
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16.04 - How To Grant Read Write Access To Folder / File after Messing Up
Folder : /usr/share/themes
I was trying to beautify my desktop so downloaded some themes. Found out that I don't have permission to paste the theme files to the above folder. So I used the guide here:...
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Permissions of newly created directories
In my workplace we have a server running Ubuntu, where many of us do data analysis on. Since we're often working on the same data, everyone usually has access to all files and directories. ...
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Is it possible to lose files simply from moving them folder to folder?
I recently moved a file from one folder to another, and in the process, lost the files. All I did was drag the files from one folder to another, yet it somehow got lost on the way. I have tried every ...
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In a bash script, how can I go to a directory whose name is stored in a variable? [duplicate]
I'm doing a FileCreator script:
#!/bin/bash
echo "Welcome to the file creator! Please type the directory name:"
read dirName
mkdir $dirName
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what is the difference between /bin and /usr/bin [duplicate]
Just like the title says, what is the difference between the /bin directory and the /usr/bin and what are they for?
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What Not to Delete [closed]
I've been messing around on VM's, trying to figure out the best way to secure/ clean Ubuntu, and twice- in all my brilliance- I managed to delete a key component in starting Ubuntu (eg. init) because ...
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add folder to home directory
Instructions on the airwave github requires me to download and install the Audio Plugins SDK.
This step confuses me as new Ubuntu user:
Unpack the VST SDK archive. Further I'll assume that you ...
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How Do I Access HDD OS When Booting from Live-USB?
I've been advised to check some log files in the flaky 14.04 pre-installed by Dell on my Inspiron 15-3552 laptop. I've booted from a 14.04 live-USB but I reckon the folders shown under Files/Computer ...
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Folder icons showing up like files
Hi. I am running Ubuntu 13.10.
The icons of MOST folders on my drive and desktop are showing like never-before-seen "file" icons. I can click on them and they'll open, and inside any of the folders, ...
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Give permission to debian-transmission to write into a www-data directory
I want the transmission-daemon to have permission to write to a directory called /opt/www/ that already has the owner set to www-data(in order for the web server to serve files in it)
The ...
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Why can't I cd into a directory with a user not owner group
I created a user on my server specifically for an external application. I want the application to be able to ssh into the user account and cd into a directory. However, it keeps saying permission ...
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How can I add back Documents and Music to my folder bookmarks?
I deleted my Music and Documents folder. Now after recreating these, I don't know how to add them back to the bookmarks pane shown below.
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How to rename folders in terminal? [duplicate]
I need to change baseoa to quake3. How would I go about doing that?
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sudo chmod 755 /dev/sda7 -R simply returns a new command prompt line?
I am logged into my computer through the guest account, because i am unable to login through the master/admin. Account via user interface. (simply a blank, blue screen appears upon login . So i'm ...
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rm -rf and rmdir both giving error cannot remove, directory not empty
I am using Ubuntu 14.04
I am user jason. I tried the commands below with sudo but it didn't work.
here are the commands given.
jason@TRZG001:~/plex/trans$ rm -rf Movies/*
rm: cannot remove ‘...
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How do I add Games-folder from Applications-menu to XFCE desktop?
I can add individual games to desktop, but not the whole folder. Adding the folder to Launcher would work too. There are over 200 games in that folder.
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getting directory of files excluding parent folder name
I want to get the names of directories containing particular files but exclude the parent directory name.
For example:
find ./app -name '*.component.html';
When I use this command, it returns the ...
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Difference between executable directory vs executable files
Does having an executable permission on a directory mean that the files inside it are executable too even if the files don't explicitly have executable permissions set ?
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Recover deleted folder 14.04 [duplicate]
I accidentally deleted a few important work related folder from my Ubuntu 14.04. I wanted to recover them. All the options on net gives instruction for recovering files.
I tried scalpel but I don't ...
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Folders are stuck on the top left corner behind the launcher (Ubuntu 16.04)
I have a strange problem where I couldn't find any help in the web so far. Unfortunately, I also do not really know what I have done, at some point it was just as follows:
I use Ubuntu 16.04 with the ...
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