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Best way for repair files names?
I'm trying to backup directory, but some file names are "corrupteds":
rsync: recv_generator: failed to stat "/media/[...]/Ford transit/Porte v#351lo Ford Transit.odg": Invalid or incomplete multibyte ...
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How to use commands on files which have “-” at the start of their names?
This may be a simple question, but how do I use files starting with "-" with command line programs?
For example, I am trying to use pdfgrep on a file named -2013-01-01.pdf but it complains that ...
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How to run a cron entry periodically?
I have a line of script that works through terminal and works through cron to run one time: it downloads a file from the internet and saves it in a specific place named as the date it was found:
cd ...
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Can't work with files named with russian characters
After saving file in LibreOffice with russian name it displays in Nautilus like "??????.odt". This file correctly opens in LibreOffice, but with "??????.odt" title in titlebar.
Another side of ...
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How can I make the dash display full file names instead of shortened ones? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I stop Unity Dash truncating file names?
I have some files which follow a very similar naming scheme. Due to that, they can't be distinguished in the shortened ...
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How to make archive manager recognize Cyrillic chracters?
I have some files with Russian titles that are archived in a .rar file . When extracting them with the archive manager in Lubuntu, their names contained odd characters and the comment(invalid ...
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Rsync'ing long filenames from HFS+ Journaled to ext4
I am rsync'ing long filenames from HFS+ Journaled to ext4 and most of them give me this error:
rsync: recv_generator: failed to stat (...) : File name too long (36)
Filenames use non-Latin ...
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How to resize a folder name area in Ubuntu 12.04?
I am having folders on my desktop. The folders names exceed the folders icons. So that makes me difficult to read the folder names whenever I align all folders in a same line. What I want is to ...
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Can I do filename pattern matching in a bash script?
Can I do filename pattern matching in a bash script?
test is a directory with the following files ...
bob@bob-laptop:~/test$ ls
exclude exclude1 exclude2 include1 include2
From the ...
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Is it possible to increase the size of thumbnails in the filename conflict dialog?
When the files being moved or copied are images, bigger thumbnails would make it easier to see the file contents and decide on how to solve conflicts. Is there any way the default thumbnail size in ...
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What happens when you change the name of a file or folder that is synced to Ubuntu One?
I've been using Ubuntu One for the last year or two to sync/backup specific important files and folders on my computer. Rather than just using it like "Dropbox" (i.e., putting files I want to sync in ...
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How to download torrents with long filenames?
There is a known problem with transmission: it can't download torrents with filenames longer than 255 bytes. What are the workarounds?
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Gibberish on file name-squeres and numbers. link to example file and a picture
I'm using 12.04 LTS.
If more information is needed, please tell me and I'll add it.
I'm having some problem of gibberish in filename. picture:
That how the Gibberish is look. here also a download ...
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How long can file names be?
How long can be files names and folder names in Ubuntu Linux and what characters are allowed in file name and folder name in Ubuntu Linux?
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Is it possible to search for a package by filename? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I figure out what package something is in without resorting to Google?
Sometimes it is useful to search for a package that contains a certain file? For example, ...
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How to use find when there are spaces in the directory names?
I need to find all .nfo files in my media directory so I can use sed to change some parts. The problem is my folders have spaces in the names.
find /media/media1/HDTV -name \*.nfo -type f
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Why does japanese filenames not show on ubuntu server and samba?
I've installed japanese fonts
sudo apt-get install ttf-takao-mincho
and I mounted my drive specifying utf8
sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 /media/HERMES -o ...
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Where do files ending with a ~ come from?
Sometimes duplicate filenames occur while working on Ubuntu which differ only by a ~ from the original filenames.
I know kate generates backup files and calls them your_file.py.swp. Is this ...
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Why is there 'amd' in the ubuntu iso filename?
If you download iso file with ubuntu you will get something like this:
ubuntu-10.04.3-server-amd64.iso
ubuntu-11.10-desktop-amd64.iso
Every part in the file name is pretty clean to me, except ...
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What's the maximum filename length in encrypted ext4 partition?
I'm using a two-partition setup with ubuntu (one partition for the system, one for my home directories). Until now I had an ext3 formatted home partition, which I'm currently trying to migrate to an ...
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Get todays date and use it in filename
Using the command-line, I want to create a log file with today's date in the name (for example, today is 05/17/2011, so the filename would have to be log051711).
I know how to create the file (touch ...
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How can I stop Banshee from renaming files during a sync? [closed]
Currently I have sync set automatically and to transcode my flac files into mp3.
For multi-disc albums I have my tracks sometimes like "1-01 First Song First Disc.flac" and "2-01 First Song Second ...
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how to use grep in a conditional search previous to a sed text replace command
I am trying to change the path in whole lot of m3u files.
I know I can do it with regexxer f.e. but I'm trying to learn bash.
This is the command I figured out, but it is not working.
grep -lr -i -e ...
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Automatically insert date into filename
Is there a simple way (maybe a script), to automatically insert the current date into the filename of a newly created document either in nautilus or in Libreoffice?
A function like that would be ...
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How can I change all files prefixes in one command?
I need to change the postfixes of all files (all the same .JPEG) to .jpeg (Capital vs. lower case).
Is there a quick way of doing so?
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Strange file exist with name '* (star, asterisk)'
What is this strange file with name '*'
I cannot even guess..
$ ll
total 549M
-rw-r----- 1 jaewan eng 0 Apr 29 18:37 *
drwxr-x--- 21 jaewan eng 4.0K May 20 08:21 ./
drwx------ 19 jaewan eng ...
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How do I remove a file with 2 hypens in the name, like --karmic.list
How can I read, write, or delete a file which has a name beginning with a pair of hyphens?
In my /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ there is a set of files whose name starts with --karmic.list .
When I try to ...
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Cross-platform non-ASCII symbols in filenames with TrueCrypt
I have a TrueCrypt volume created under Windows 7. Some folders and file names contain Cyrillic symbols. When mounting the volume in Ubuntu 10.10, I see question marks instead of those letters. Is ...
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Filenames in the apt cache directory
Why the packages in the directory
/var/cache/apt/archives/
have names like:
*x11proto-damage-Dev_1%3a1.2.0-1_all.deb* where the "strange" in this case is "%3".
In fact, if I download it ...
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How do you rename files ignoring file extension in terminal?
I have several folders of video files that need to be renamed to something uniform, eg: foldername.videotypexvideonumber.avi. I have looked at creating a shell script to make this easier. The mv ...
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Can I use standard tools to get the full name of a process, when its name has embedded spaces?
I understand that it may be a rare situation for an executable to have spaces in it, but it could happen.
An example may be the best explanation..
Using standard tools, I want to determine the ...
