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How to open a directory contains “-”? [closed]
How can I open a directory via PUTTY that contains -?
For example the name of dir is:
some-thing-dir
cd /some-thing-dir not working.
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3answers
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Is there a hard limit to the number of files a directory can have? [duplicate]
Wondering if there is a limit to the number of files that can be stored inside a directory, in CentOS 6. There is one particular directory which could potentially have millions of subdirectories.
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compare 2 directories and copy differences in a 3rd directory
Running ubuntu 12.04, I want to compare 2 directories, say folder1/ and folder2/ and copy any files that are different to folder3/. There are also nested files, so matching subdirectories should be ...
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2answers
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How to “cd” to non utf8 directory
How can I change directory to directory that name consists of non ASCII default characters?
root@senior:/media/data/hudba/# ls . -l
total 3096
-rwxr-xr-x 2 user users 3160192 Jul 31 2006 Lucie ...
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1answer
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Linux directory moved
a directory was moved with mv command in a Linux box, what logs should be looked at for such action? in root bash_history i can see the command was used, unfortunatly bash_history was not recording ...
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Linux workstation and Active Directory authentication
I read a few articles regarding "How to Authenticate Linux Clients with Microsoft Active Directory"
My question before I do it: what will happen to Notebooks that try to login when the Active ...
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2answers
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Is it necessary to include the /run directory in backups?
I use a variant of the simple script below from the Community Ubuntu Documentation described
tar -cvpzf backup.tar.gz --exclude=/backup.tar.gz --exclude=/proc --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/sys ...
1
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1answer
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How to setup usernames for websites
I have a news server. It may be possible that there will be multiple virtual hosts on it.
There are two approaches that I see around.
One is to login as root and create files under /www/etc, Like;
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Ensuring a repeatable directory ordering in linux
I run a hosted continuous integration company, and we run our customers' code on Linux. Each time we run the code, we run it in a separate virtual machine. A frequent problem that arises is that a ...
2
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2answers
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How to write protect a directory?
I have some directories and files that looks like this one
drwxr-xr-x. 2 ss ss 4096 Oct 3 2004 backup
Notice the . in the permissions.
The user ss can not delete this directory.
Question
How ...
0
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1answer
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Dreamweaver not recognizing symbolic link as directory
I have this directory
drwxrwxr-x 6 awdfiles pasgroup 4096 Jan 31 17:20 awdfiles
Which I want to access via another FTP connection. The user is part of the pasgroup
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0
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1answer
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Directory structure on Linux EC2
First, I'm a complete newbie to Linux and Tomcat. I'm not technical either. I get my stuff done by feeling my way around the dark until things work. I do read a lot though.
I have a dev machine ...
3
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1answer
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How To Inherit Parent Directories Group
I have a directory /applications which is owned by root and group git.
The problem is when I create a new directory inside /applications, its owned by root and group root, not group git. How do I ...
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2answers
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Directory in Linux(ext3) with only 2 files occupies 32000 blocks(16Mbytes)
IIRC my Operating Systems classes, the size of a directory in Linux is given by the number of files it contains([wikipedia link])1
So, why a directory with only 2 files occupies 32000 blocks?
# stat ...
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3answers
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/var and /home folders clogged up on cPanel (Linux)
Recently the /var and /home folders have been clogging up on my server and I received a 'critical error' email saying that the /home folder was 100% full. I managed to fix it using the LVExtend ...
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2answers
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linux: share directory between different users
i need to have this directory, which is created under FTP User1:
/home/User1/public_html/jobs_html
readable by a different FTP user, call them User2 ...
ie, when logged in thru SSH under User2, ...
3
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2answers
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Linux Directory Structure for non-root users
I am new to the world of Linux and am about to make a complete transition from Windows to Linux so I can really get into it. I understand that Linux has a hierarchical structure however am unclear ...
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2answers
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Move content of one folder to another
I Have a directory say abc in var/www/ on my server
Now i want to move all the content of abc/ directory to var/www/
What will the linux command for this. New bie in linux
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directories with two one dot (.) entries
I'm trying to clean up my lost and found, and I've managed to remove most things, but I'm left with "almost" empty directories, like:
lost+found/#14042862:
total 1324
dr---wx--- 2 76040 43010 ...
2
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1answer
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Shrink/reset directory size?
Is there a way to shrink a directory entry?
My dovecot maildir directories have increased in size from the default 4096 to several megs, and it is messing with disk quotas.
The only way that I have ...
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3answers
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On linux, what does it mean when a directory has size 0 instead of 4096?
Here's a strange thing I haven't seen before -- a directory whose size is reported by ls as 0 instead of 4096, and I can't create any files within it.
# ls -ld lib home
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 0 ...
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4answers
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optimal folder structure for storing 100k files on a USB drive
I need to store 100k files (around 40GB) in a USB drive. Each file has a unique int id (e.g 45000).
Option one is to put all files in a single folder:
root/
root/1.pdf
root/2.pdf
root/3.pdf
...
...
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3answers
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Linux directory conventions for custom service
I'm writing a custom application that will be run as a service/daemon. According to convention, the binaries for it should be in /opt/appname. However, where do I put files such as:
Config files
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4answers
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How to copy file preserving directory path in Linux?
I have Eclipse projects and ".project" file in them, the directory structure looks like 'myProject/.project'. I want to copy these '.project' files to another directory, but I want the enclosing ...
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2answers
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Common /home for a couple of Linux distributions
I want to learn one more Linux distribution. I'm serious and "one more" means the second one. I've been using a Linux distribution for almost a decade, I like it very much, but I want to learn ...
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Frequently accessed files and I/O usage
I'm curious, from a performance standpoint, is there an advantage in storing all files in one directory versus having each file in a separate directory? I'm not concerned about organization.
Also, ...
1
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4answers
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How can I see the permissions of a directory with `ls`?
I want to see similar output like:
ls -l /etc/php5/php.ini
Which would give me:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 40344 Jun 14 14:33 /etc/php5/php.ini
Except the file in question is a directory, and doing ...
7
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4answers
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Where is a good permanent place to install custom bash scripts?
I'm about to install "leiningen" which is a bash script for the clojure programming language with a lot of usefulness... ...but I'm not sure where it is appropriate to -put- a executable script in ...
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5answers
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What do these abbreviations stand for?
Some directories are easy to understand the meaning
/usr
/bin
...
But for the next ones, I have no idea.
/etc
/opt
opt for optional?
etc for electronic t...... configuration (no idea for t)
I ...
7
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2answers
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What is the difference between /usr/local/bin & /usr/local/sbin
I wrote a simple script which I want to share with my colleagues.
Should it be in /usr/local/bin or /usr/local/sbin? What is the typical usage for these directories?
2
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1answer
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How can I sort ls -l /dev by type and major and minor device number?
How can I sort the /dev directory by type and major and minor device number when doing ls -l?
The best way I've found so far is:
ls -l /dev | sort -k 1.1,1.2 -k 5n -k 6n | less
Is there a better ...
0
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1answer
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Determine group of unreadable unix/linux directory
dcoles1@shovel:/ $ cd /DriveXT
dcoles1@shovel:/DriveXT $ ls
. unreadable
dcoles1@shovel:/DriveXT $ cd /DriveXT/MML/
dcoles1@shovel:/DriveXT/MML $ ls
. unreadable
dcoles1@shovel:/DriveXT/MML $ ...
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4answers
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How can I set full premissions to a user in a specified dir?
How can I set full permissions to a user in a specified dir in linux?
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Hard Link for Directories in linux
Hai,
How can i create hard link for my directories ?
When i use to make link from /var to /home it shows error on "Invalid cross-device link", How can i over come it ?
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2answers
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What is the maximum number of files a file system can contain?
Given the current structure of a directory entry on a ext4 file system on Ubuntu, what is the maximum number of files a file system can contain?
What is the general method of calculating the maximum ...
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2answers
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Plesk directory structure problems
I have an entire website with the following directory structure:
/example.com
/html (public)
/css
/js
index.php
/lib
session.php
other_lib_files.php
...
5
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5answers
7k views
Check to see if a directory exists remotely (shell script)
Is there a way to see if a directory exists on a remote server?
Perhaps there's a better way, but I'm writing an application deployment script, and I want to create a directory on a remote server if ...
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6answers
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Should websites live in /var/ or /usr/ according to recommended usage?
According to a guide on the Linux directory structure, /usr/ is for application files, and /var/ is for files that change (I assume this means "files that belong to the applications"). Is this ...
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7answers
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Different files of two directories
There are two directories I'd like to compare. I tried diff but it includes the changes inside the files. All I want is something like this
file a is just in /A
file b is missing in /A
file c ...
12
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10answers
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Linux - What directories should I exclude when backing up a server?
I'm backing up a linux server and storing it on some other server. I started off with a simple
rsync -aPh --del server.example.com:/ /mnt/backup
Then someone pointed out that I shouldn't back up ...
4
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3answers
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System to use to maintain a corporate directory
I work for a small-but-growing startup that needs a corporate directory to keep photos and contact info for the company. Eventually we'd like to maybe use this system for login credentials and the ...
2
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2answers
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Linux directory permission problem
Why can't I access a directory that I should have access to by group? My user belongs to the group www-data, and the directory has permissions granted for this group. But I cannot access it.
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3answers
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Unix Linux directory compare
I have a known good directory structure that I'd like to compare owner/group and permissions against another server and flag any files/folders that need to be changed. Since I wont have access to both ...
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How do I change to the directory I just moved that file to?
So lets assume I've just done:
mv ./myfile /to/some/other/place/
And I now decide I want to follow the file, and go into that directory.
Whilst I could head for the mouse, select the text, type ...
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How to solve linux subdirectories number limit?
I have a website which will store user profile images. Each image is stored in a directory (Linux) specific to the user. Currently I have a customer base of 30+, which means I will have 30+ folders. ...
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5answers
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How do I find (or exclude) all directories and sub-directories matching a certain pattern (in Linux)?
I'm trying to use the Linux find command to find all directories and sub-directories that do not have .svn (Subversion hidden folders) in their path. I can only get it to exclude the actual .svn ...
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3answers
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Un-tar a specific directory inside of a tar
I have the Wordpress tar, latest.tar.gz. Within it is the following structure
/wordpress/dirtories/files
When I do the following command I would prefer if I could have it unpack starting at ...
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8answers
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Linux Recursive Delete Keeping The First Dir
First question here, I'm usually on StackOverflow.
I need to delete all the contents of a directory, but not the directory itself as I don't have permission to delete that actual directory. This ...
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1answer
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linux: directory created with Access: (0000/d---------)
On a Linux (ubuntu) machine, an automated script running as a normal user is creating a subdirectory under its home directory. For some reason, the directory is created with Access: (0000/d---------). ...
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3answers
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Fast way of knowing real directory size on linux/bsd
What is the fastest way of computing real directory size? I somehow catch myself needing that a lot.
Simply doing:
# du -hs /dir
Is too slow. Is there any service I could run which would ...
