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How do you move all files (including hidden) from one directory to another?
How do I move all files in a directory (including the hidden ones) to another directory?
For example, if I have a folder "Foo" with the files ".hidden" and "notHidden" inside, how do I move both files to a directory named "Bar"? The following does…
Cory Klein
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How to scroll in a terminal using keyboard?
How can I scroll in bash using only the keyboard? If it's not possible in bash, are there any other shells that support this?
Kshitiz Sharma
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tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
root@server # tar fcz bkup.tar.gz /home/foo/
tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
How can I solve this problem and keep the / on file names ?
superuser
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How to skip "permission denied" errors when running find in Linux?
Possible Duplicate:
How do I remove “permission denied” printout statements from the find program?
When I run this command in Linux (SuSE):
find / -name ant
I get many error messages of the form:
find: `/etc/cups/ssl': Permission denied
Does…
user710818
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ssh-add complains: Could not open a connection to your authentication agent
I've been trying to get ssh-add working on a RaspberryPi running Raspbian.
I can start ssh-agent, when I do it gives the following output into the terminal:
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-06TcpPflMg58/agent.2806; export SSH_AUTH_SOCK;
SSH_AGENT_PID=2807;…
Daniel Groves
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Sort based on the third column
I'm facing a huge 4-columns file. I'd like to display the sorted file in stdout based on its 3rd column:
cat myFile | sort -u -k3
Is that enough to perform the trick?
user1058398
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How to check if a shell is login/interactive/batch
I think I understand the differences between an interactive, a login and a batch shell. See the following links for more help:
What is the difference between a 'Login' and an 'Interactive' bash shell (from the sister site: Server Fault)
Difference…
Amelio Vazquez-Reina
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Move folder content up one level
I have a directory that is unpacked, but is in a folder. How can I move the contents up one level? I am accessing CentOS via SSH.
whatshakin
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Human readable memory sizes in top?
Is there an option in top to show memory sizes in human readable format?
Example:
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
3960 phil 20 0 1347280 383112 30316 S 0.0 9.5 …
Philipp Claßen
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Precedence of the shell logical operators &&, ||
I am trying to understand how the logical operator precedence works in bash. For example, I would have expected, that the following command does not echo anything.
true || echo aaa && echo bbb
However, contrary to my expectation, bbb gets printed.…
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Tool to monitor folder for new files and run command whenever new file is detected
How can I immediately detect when new files were added to a folder within a bash script?
I would like the script to process files as soon as they are created in the folder. Are there any methods aside from scheduling a cron job that checks for new…
norq
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Where do I put my systemd unit file?
I read that there are two folders for unit files (not in user mode).
/usr/lib/systemd/system/: units provided by installed packages
/etc/systemd/system/: units installed by the system administrator
Conflicting with this understanding is the answer…
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Copy specific file type keeping the folder structure
I have a folder structure with a bunch of *.csv files scattered across the folders. Now I want to copy all *.csv files to another destination keeping the folder structure.
It works by doing:
cp --parents *.csv /target
cp --parents */*.csv"…
Mojo
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List files sorted numerically
I have a bunch of files from log1 to log164.
I'm trying to LIST the directory (sorted) in a UNIX terminal but the sort functions are only providing the format like this:
home:logs Home$ ls -1 |…
Rabiani
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Why is looping over find's output bad practice?
This question is inspired by
Why is using a shell loop to process text considered bad practice ?
I see these constructs
for file in `find . -type f -name ...`; do smth with ${file}; done
and
for dir in $(find . -type d -name ...); do smth with…
don_crissti
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