Questions tagged [recursive]
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How long does it take to modify the permissions of /home/?
So I am using Transmit.app for my SFTP client and I changed permissions in /home/ and pressed the "Apply to Enclosed..." option as well. So essentially it is applying the desired permission to every ...
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how solve Recursive Queries error in intodns web site?
Please see the below link :
intoDNS Web Site
How can I solve Recursive Queries error!
the entire error is below :
Recursive Queries I could use the nameservers listed below to
performe ...
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Can Hyper-V run in a virtual machine?
Ok, we all know (or should know) that Microsoft's answer is a plain "NO!".
But we also know that recent hypervisors can support nested/recursive virtualization, provided the underlying CPU offers ...
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Change group of only cache folders, recursive
I have a document root folder and I want to cange the group of only the cache directories. How can I do this recursive?
The cache directories are always below templates/html, and I want to change it ...
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revert chmod 777 / -R
while executing a command i made a mistake and executed (ubuntu 10)
sudo chmod 777 / -R # okay you may laugh
now all my filesystem has 777 permitions , obviously i dont know which ...
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Massive amount of subfolders and long subfolders. How can I delete all of them?
We have a little problem here.
We have a share with the backup of all the server's offices, Its a really big share with more than 8.000.000 files.
Our users usually give long names to the folders ...
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How to upload a directory recursively to an FTP server by just using ftp or lftp?
I am writing a Linux shell script to copy a local directory to a remote server (removing any existing files).
Local server: ftp and lftp commands are available, no ncftp or any graphical tools.
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logrotating files in a directories and its subdirectories
Is it possible to get logrotate to consider logfiles in a directory and all its subdirectories? (i.e. without explicitly listing the subdirectories.)
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Finding/deleting top level folders not containing any files
I want to delete the top level directory which does not contain any files, but can contain other empty (meaning again not containing files) directories. For example:
$ ls -R
.: foo/
./foo/: bar bar1
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Linux & SVN: How to remove all versioned files but KEEP directory structure, ignore .svn dirs?
I want to remove all the versioned files from my repository, but KEEP the versioned directory structure. Obviously I want to leave all the .svn directories untouched.
In other words, I want to ...
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Can an active directory group indirectly include itself in a cycle?
Is it possible for a group to directly or indirectly include itself?
In other words, is it possible for the following structure to be created:
Group-A
└─ Group-B
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How do I change folder timestamps recursively?
I was wondering if anyone knows how to change the timestamps of folders recursively based on the latest timestamp found of the files in that folder.
So for example:
jon@UbuntuPanther:/media/media/...
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How can I recursively bzip2 all files that aren't bzipped?
How can I recursively bzip2 all files that do not end with the .bz2 extension in Linux?
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Must the authoritative DNS server for a domain allow recursion to allow CNAME records pointing to other domains?
So I've got a domain registered with Dreamhost, which apparently does not do recursive lookups, and an app on Heroku. Heroku apps are always configured to use a CNAME record to proxy.heroku.com.
So:
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How to change permissions on folders, but not files?
Is there a concise linux command (that will work on OSX) to change permissions on folders and all of their contents, but leave files in the current directory untouched? For example:
/parent/...
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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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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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Using wget to recursively download whole FTP directories
I want to copy all of the files and folders from one host to another.
The files on the old host sit at /var/www/html and I only have FTP access to that server, and I can't TAR all the files.
Regular ...
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Recursive move utility on Unix?
Sometimes I have two trees that used to have the same content, but have grown out of sync (because I moved disks around or whatever). A good example is a tree where I mirror upstream packages from ...
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