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transfer files from icloud and one drive to desktop running ubuntu
Great question!
Like most things on Linux thesedays, there's a snap for that! I've listed native apps avaliable which will let you bulk download all your files, and even sync them with the cloud! This ...
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How should I glob for all hidden files?
In case anyone need an alternative that doesn't require environment variables or shell options enabled like dotglob or extglobyou can use the following:
.[!.]*
it works because it matches at least two ...
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What is the difference between the properties of using ZFS on whole disks, partitions or files as a volume?
Disclaimer: This may or may not directly answer your question.
ZFS is an advanced block storage technology, primarily geared towards enterprise-level storage arrays.
Let's take a look at man zpool: (...
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Too many open files
I think, there are different cases why this might happen:
System wide limit (Run cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max to see the limit, for me it's 9223372036854775807)
Hard user limit (Run ulimit -nH: 1048576)
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Text editor to edit large (4.3 GB) plain text file
I used madedit in the past, the only one that survives opening files more than my RAM.
https://github.com/madedit/madedit
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Why is it possible to convert a file just by renaming its extension?
On the command line, you can also use file to give some basic information about the file, e.g.
cp test.png test.png.jpg
file test.png.jpg
Output:
test.png.jpg: PNG image data, 557 x 237, 8-bit/color ...
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How to generate multiple files in sequence with data in sequence?
From google bash loop padded to StackOverflow How to zero pad a sequence of integers in bash so that all have the same width? I ended up with:
for i in $(seq -f "%02g" 1 50)
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Can't access Google Drive via Files
This issue cleared up for me when I removed the account from the Settings Online accounts panel and readded it.
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How to change the location of a swapfile?
You can create a new swap file anywhere you like. Then update /etc/fstab and add there the new path, also remove the old one.
Then you can reboot and delete the old swap file.
It can be done without ...
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Getting rid of the p7m file extension
Nowadays (not sure if this work in the 2015's version of openssl) one can use just
openssl smime -inform DER -in smime.p7m -verify -out email_body
openssl smime itself is able to get the certificates ...
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'Files' icon on lock/login screen
This occurred for me as well 22.04, this is what did the trick for me to stop it from showing up.
Settings > Notifications > Files
Uncheck Lock screen notifications
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Is it possible to create a series of text files with names based on a pattern and fill them with X characters from /dev/urandom?
In bash, you can use a for ...; do ...; done loop with braces expansion(e.g. {00..10} or {000..999} etc.) with head -c 256 to read 256 bytes(IMO more than that is an over-kill for your purpose and a ...
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Is it possible to create a series of text files with names based on a pattern and fill them with X characters from /dev/urandom?
One option would be to pipe data to the split utility
NAME
split - split a file into pieces
SYNOPSIS
split [OPTION]... [FILE [PREFIX]]
DESCRIPTION
Output pieces of FILE to ...
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