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Bitmask permissions
It's a tutorial problem in a Linux course: The command ls -la / gives this result: total 72 drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Apr 15 23:39 . drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Apr 15 23:39 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 ...
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Trying to unrar specific files within a specific directory
I have a bash script that extracts files from a .rar file. I want to extract only *.foo and mydirectory/*.bar. I followed Unrar specific files using wildcards to get at the first group of files, but ...
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Linux permissions for a user not logged in sudoers
There is a server to which I have access (login and password). Logging in as this user on this server it is found that my user is not logged into sudoers. No additional information is available, I ...
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How to loop over a list of extensions to check that files of each type exist?
I have the following directory structure: main_dir/ │ ├── randstr1.randstr2.tar.gz │ ├── randstr3.randstr4.tar.gz │ ├── randstr5.randstr6.tar.gz │ ├── randstr7.ext2 │ └── randstr8.ext3 ...
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Rsync command to move directories and overwrite existing ones
I need an rsync command that moves directories from a source folder to a remote folder and overwrites existing directories on the remote side. I don't want to write into existing directories on the ...
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Why do "force create mode" and "force directory mode" parameters exist in smb.conf?
I am reading How to Set Up a Network Shared Folder on Ubuntu With Samba. At the "Step 2: Configuring Samba" section the following configuration is given: [sambashare] comment= Network Shared ...
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Ubuntu - trying to delete a file that has no inode
I try to delete a file that is left in a directory, but even an ls -i will not give me an inode to remove it. Deleting/removing the directory won't work even with the inode. $ ls -ila ls: cannot ...
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Any command to exclude all types of files only? [duplicate]
Does rsync or cp have a command to exclude any type of file besides manually excluding extensions such as *.txt, *.pdf, *.jpg OR setting -maxdepth or using --exclude=dir/* (used with rsync which ...
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Checking if there's a file with a particular name in a lot of directories
I'm new to Linux, but I'm wondering if this is possible: I want to check if a directory has a file with a .bam filename suffix, and there are hundreds of directories to check. I don't really want to ...
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Symbolic link on Linux to a Windows-like file - not sure this is possible
I have to migrate a Windows application to Linux. The directory/filename format within this Windows application are of the form C:/dir/dir/file (I know, not exactly Windows format with reference to ...
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How to iterate through directories of zip files and locate & append files without a .zip extension
I have a directory of sub-directories that contain sub-directories which are supposed to be compressed archive files. Structure is illustrated below ParentDirectory |-SubDirectoryA |-File Mr X.zip |-...
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Find files with matching substrings and move them into directory
My directory contains a list of .idat file pairs ending with either _Grn or _Red. For each pair, I want to create a directory named after the substring before the first _ delimiter and move the files ...
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Is there a generic term for working with files and directories?
I was wondering if there is a generic term that describes working with or manipulating files and directories that includes all the different ways of manipulating files? Similar to the term coding that ...
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How can numbered files be moved and renamed to subsequent numbered files to correct directory?
In ~/wrongdir there are mpv-shot0001.jpg, mpv-shot0002.jpg, mpv-shot0003.jpg, mpv-shot0004.jpg, mpv-shot0005.jpg where the screenshot key was pressed when a mpv was initiated in ~/wrongdir. The ...
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How do I delete files with the same names in multiple sub-folders from the command line?
I have a folder called simulations, which contains 101 subfolders. These sub-folders are named posterior_predictive_sim_1 to posterior_predictive_sim_101. Each subfolder contains five files: seq.nex, ...
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