Questions tagged [directory]
A file system structure in which to store computer files.
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Practical Linux Advanced question: Directory empty but cannot be deleted
I am currently following the linux book by Sobell; I found that as a great resource; however I was stuck on an advanced problem and that bothered me enough to come here; anyone could chime in?
$ ls -l
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move files to directory according to prefix
I'm in the following situation
> ls
H9/ HG01109_chr1_hap1_contigs.list HG01952_chr1_hap2_contigs.list HG02572/ HG03486_chr1_hap1_contigs.list
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Is make's $(<D) affected by nearby spaces?
Is there any hope of using $(<D) here?
Any hope of avoiding the mystery dots?
$ cat Makefile
D=$(HOME)/Downloads
test: $D/DreamHost\ Web\ Panel\ _\ Mail\ _\ Message\ Filters.html
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Is there an equivalent of /dev/null or tmpfile() for directories? [duplicate]
I use an application that when it starts up, it creates lots and lots of files in a specific directory.
These files are apparently useless, as I frequently remove them and I have never seen any ...
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Borg files in `~/.local/share/` occur a “dir_open: [Errno 13] Permission denied” error
General overview
With BorgBackup, I do a backup of my whole $HOME. However, some files (all located on ~/.local/share/) occur a rights error. Probably cause it’s ephemeral files belonging to root, I ...
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Make Qutebrowser download in specific directory
General overview
The goal is to make Qutebrowser store downloads in a subdirectory of ~/downloads named after the ISO date of the day when the download happend.
What I alredy did
In my ~/.config/...
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How to show directory sizes in tree format with correct values and depth control
I can't solve what I want using the tree, du, or df commands.
I'm using:
du version 9.6
tree version 2.2.1
What I want:
For the current directory, list all directories recursively to a depth of 3, ...
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package installation directories
When you automatically download and install packages through the apt or dpkg command , it installed in in a very detailed instructions(i mean perfectly in usr/share and usr/lib);
i wanted to know :
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Change the MIME type for a directory in Linux
I've recently realized that I can play my old DVDs (yay!) on my old laptop with a DVD tray using VLC. This is all working fine, but I was wondering how I can get any directory named VIDEO_TS to open ...
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Deleting a directory
I am working through a tutorial - The Linux Command Line for Beginners - and I want to delete my work so far and start over. I have a directory called tmp within the root directory which has a solid ...
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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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Linux Debian 7 cluster /root directory (/) space needs reduction
I have a Linux cluster running Debian 7. Its root directory disk space has almost reached its capacity and needs immediate space reduction.
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Group permission on a folder
I need to set a directory in which each member of the group can read/write/execute the scripts/file created by other member of the group.
I set my folder like this (getfacl results):
# file: dir/
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