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Delete folders asynchronously
I have a large file system in which I have to delete certain directories from time to time. Currently I have a script which amongst other things, deletes a folder and subsequently generates an email ...
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Where to find the website folder in ubuntu server?
So someone gave me the task to find where is the website code exist on ubuntu server
when I look at the the index.html file path it is
/var/www/example.com/html
but when I go to /var/www directory I ...
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User-Permission on Folder without affecting owner:group
How can I allow a specific user on my Ubuntu desktop to view/open all folders and files in a specific location without affecting or changing the owner:group of that location?
Until now I need to ...
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Explanation :File permissions override folder permissions, unless the Full Control permission has been granted to the folder
According to the article:
http://ntfs.com/ntfs-permissions-precedence.htm
The hierarchy of precedence for the permissions can be summarized as
follows, with the higher precedence permissions listed ...
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How can I rsync a directory that might be busy with updating files?
I would like to transfer a directory of files to a remote destination. Easy.
However, at any given time, one or many of these files may be in-use and being updated by users.
This doesn't bother rsync ...
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.htaccess password protect a file in a certain directory
I have files with the same name in different directories on the serves (example: stats.php), and I want to password protect some of them (.htaccess file in the root directory). I tried "FilesMatch" ...
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Rename and replace parts with different filenames [closed]
I know there are different questions about this topic but I have found nothing that fits my question:
I want to replace a part of a name in a folder but there are different files with different names....
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NGINX Not showing directory contents
I have some trouble with NGINX on my server. I previously used Apache.
When I try to request folder contents on my server (like, 192.168.0.128/files), I get a 403 Forbidden error. Anyone know how to ...
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compare 2 directories with different files names and locations of the files
I'm currently having 2 (top level) directories with a lot of sub directories and files.
There are a lot of duplicate files between those directories but there is one problem with it, the names of the ...
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Remove files from directory path B which are not found in path A on Linux
I have two paths on same system for example:
\mnt\a\data
\mnt\b\data
There are some directories and/or files in b\data which are not present in a\data. How can I remove those extra directories and/...
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ls *.csv --ignore="*pattern*" returns files which contain "pattern"
Why does ls --ignore not ignoring the pattern?
Looking at the below example:
mkdir books
cd books
touch books_abby.csv
touch books_karen.csv
touch books_david.csv
touch books_tom.csv
This creates ...
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Linux, search for extended attribute value
When a directory contains some files with non-empty extended attributes, all the attribute values can be shown as follows:
$ getfattr -d *
# file: file1
user.comment="comment1"
# file: file2
user....
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nginx try_files not finding files in large directory (86k files)
To start out, the nginx config:
server {
listen 443 ssl;
server_name example.com;
ssl_certificate /example/fullchain.pem;
ssl_certificate_key /example/privkey.pem;
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How to "stage" file movements before performing them on Windows?
I have a disk with terabytes of data. I would like to reorganize the disk.
The problem on Windows is that if I move one of the directories to the new place, I have to wait hours for that relocation ...
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Serving images from two different directories with Nginx
This should be basic... I'm brand new, and no amount of googling and searching stack exchange is helping.
I have a website that I want to be able to serve images from, from different directories. I ...
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Could not evaluate: Could not retrieve information from environment bootmaster source(s)
Feeling like a complete newbie to puppet (I admit I am very rusty :-)
So my manifest/site.pp file contains.
file {"/tmp/findme.txt":
source => "puppet:///modules/concat/concatfragments.rb"
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Directory vs Files for efficient search and retrieval of files
I am working on a website where users have ability to store all kinds of media on the server and there can be any number of users.
I thought I would store all the media which users upload like this:
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Bash shell copy files on the hidden directory [closed]
Need help with Unix script.
how do you use /bin/cp to copy files from /somepath/somedir/somewhere/.temp_folder
to /somepath/somedir/somewhere/
my line
/bin/cp -r somepath/somedir/somewhere/.[!.]* ...
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DropBox style folder storage
I would like to set up a storage for people to access. So like I have a network set up with 1 domain controller and a back up server as well and I have user accounts set up in AD and basically I want ...
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How can i manipulate the find command to "find" the directories the "found" file is in?
So i'm trying to use the find command to find all files in my system with mtime -x. It does this but it does not "find" the directories of the file.
find . -mtime -2 -exec rsync -av {} /destination/ ...
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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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Copy files from one server to another with same permissions
Im migrating to new server and i need to move few websites but i need to have same read/write permissions to new serves as they were on old server.
I don't need to keep group and owner id's same but ...
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SBS 2008 Redirection visibility issues - want to move off SBS 2008
I inherited an SBS2008 server which had a corrupt or otherwise lost userid which was used to setup redirects, etc.
I was able to break in by enabling the Administrator ID and resetting the password.
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rsync synchronizing files only without creating folders on destination
Is it possible with rsync to not create directories on destination?
MY SOURCE:
a/
a/x.txt
b/
b/y.txt
b/c/g.txt
MY WANTED DESTINATION:
d/x.txt
d/y.txt
d/g.txt
Is there any way to do this with ...
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How download all files, directories and subdirectoires with wget [closed]
I have some links such as:
http:/foo.com/1/1/1/1.jpg
http:/foo.com/1/2/2/2.jpg
http:/foo.com/1/3/3/3.jpg
...
How I can I download all files and directories with wget?
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How to distribute files and folders to handle large number of files
I want to manage a huge number of files on my server (say millions). It is needed to save files in two or three levels of folders to keep the number of files in each folder low. On the other hand, it ...
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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 ...
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How do I get the last part of directory from a command line
How do I store the last part of directory in a variable?
For example I have the following path: A\B\C\D, I want to store D in variable like file_name=D.
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File and Folder Organization for IT Staff
We are working on a project that will require the creation of new file servers and a migration of countless years of legacy data. Part of that legacy data is this random collection of IT staff files ...
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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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Is there a maximum limit of files per directory
If I were talking about a web hosting server, would there be a maximum limit of files per directory?
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Best method to track folder size growth over time?
I have a file server that has a pretty large folder tree. There's a shared folder, under that are 5 departmental folders. Nested inside of those are thousands of subfolders and files.
I would like ...
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Automatic Notification of New or Changed Files in a Folder or Share [closed]
I'm looking for some Open Source [free] or relatively inexpensive solution for monitoring specific folders on a file system and 'Windows' network with several shares. When a file is added or changed, ...
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