I have a folder A which has files and directories, I want to move all those files and directories to another folder B, except file, file2, directory, and directory2.
I often have large directories that I want to transfer to a local computer from a server. Instead of using recursive scp or rsync on the directory itself, I’ll often tar and gzip it first and then transfer it.
I was wondering why an empty directory occupied 4096 bytes of space and I have seen this question. It is stated that space is allocated in blocks and hence, the size of a new directory is 4096 bytes.
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I tried “chattr +i DIRNAME”, it’s great, but I cannot create files in the DIR after chattr. What else are there to prevent users from deleting a Directory?
I want to find out what device my file is on so that I can use it in a script. I can get this far:
I have the following directory listing on a Debian Linux system. However, one strange thing is that the file populate.sql does not seem to be sorted with the rest.
Most files on a Linux system are normal files, i.e. they are saved on disk and reading from them just reads from a specified chunk of memory on the disk. How can I make something that behaves like a file in terms of being able to read from it as one would a normal file, … Read more
I have a directory with images. Suddenly I found out that there’s a new image with a new name. The image content is similar to another image in another directory but with a different name. I didn’t copy this image to this directory.
I’m running tests of a variable-size-and-contents test set. Data files are added and removed frequently. I’m looking for an automated way of gathering a file list.