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Is it possible to build a bootable CD Extra (i.e. 1 audio track & 1 bootable data track)?
More precisely, I was wondering if the standards for "CD Extra" and the El-Torito extension to ISO9660 are compatible and allow to create an enhanced CD with one audio track (readable on a CD player) ...
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bash 4.2 autocd command default over directory
Just switched from tcsh to bash 4.2 on OSX, and autocd was what allowed me to do it. But it seems that by default if you type the name of a directory that also happens to be the name of an executable ...
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BD/DVD/CDROM Drive doesn't read certain audio CD's/burning media issues
...Plus, when I put discs in the drive I hear this terrible whinning sound, as if the disc in the drive is warped, or something. It does this to almost all of my CD's now, and didn't before, using the ...
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How to get Gnome to open CD automatically
Having switched from Ubuntu back to Debian (a), the one thing I miss is the auto-opening on CDs when inserted into the CD drive.
There's nothing immediately obvious under System | Preferences to do ...
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Directory “Bookmarking” in Linux
Aside from aliasing and links, is there an easy way in Linux to tag commonly used directories and to navigate to a commonly used directory from the terminal.
To be clear the disadvantages I see with ...
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cd Command Linux and Mystery Flags
Platform: CentOS 6.2 Shell:tcsh
I'm playing around with cd for a BASH script, and noticed the wondrous cd - option, but was left with many questions...
Why the cd -? Isn't this redundant with cd ...
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Shortcut to cd (change directory)
Is there a way I can set up some shortcuts to my most used directories?
I mean "cd trunk" would always get me to my trunk location (e:\projects\work.....) from any place ?
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CD/DVD image mounting on Windows 98
Which software (and which version) can i install on old computer with Windows 98? All i can find is designed to xp and newer systems and dint even installs on 98.
I made old computer to play old ...
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DVD/Blu ray burning too fast
Suppose I burn a dvd or blu-ray too fast(faster than the media says it is capable of) but the data verification is a success, Will the dvd be identical to a slower burned one that was also ...
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CD rom cannot open any disc, it say to burn new disc
No disc can be read by the Fujitsu L series laptop's DVD R/W optical drive. Whenever a disc is inserted, it says to burn the disc even if it's not a blank disc.
OS is windows 7 ultimate.
What should ...
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Why doesn't “cd D:” change the command context to D:? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Using cd Command in Windows Command Line, Can't Navigate to D:\
Every time I want to change directory context to another drive (D, E, F, or whatever..) on a Windows ...
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Windows 7 CD Command only echoes directory
The path for every new instance of the shell starts in my user directory (C:\Users\user).
Within this directory or rather drive (in this case C:) I can't use the cd command as I'm used to - it only ...
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How can I use an USB-stick as an CD-disc?
I'm currently using Ubuntu (11.04), and I'd like to use an USB-stick as a CD-disc to "burn" the JNode operating system on it. Is there an easy way to do this?
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How to create boot cd from an already burned one?
I have copied a knopix cd from my friend. But unfortunately the cd was not a bootable one.I have already copied all of the contents and when I run from windows it works fine.
How can I enable the ...
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How to split a DVD into multiple CDs
I have Windows 7 bootable DVD, My DVD writer is not able to load a DVD, but it can load CDs. Is there any way that I can convert my windows 7 DVD to multiple CDs so that it can be installed from DVDs?
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install GRUB onto a CD
I have got about 10 Linux installation ISOs. I want to put them all onto 1 CD/DVD, so that when the CD/DVD gets booted, it will give me a GRUB menu asking which Linux I want to install.
How do I do ...
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cd without escaping spaces
How would I go about creating a command that is like cd, but you do not need to escape spaces? (Assume there are never more than one space in a row.)
Example usage:
cds some directory
vs.
cd some\ ...
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Change directory in batch file with PowerShell
I need to changed directory using batch file in PowerShell.
Let's say the batch file named go.bat has the two lines of code. And I'm in q: directory.
c:
cd c:\abc\def
When I run go.bat, I'm ...
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Zsh, directory tab-completion with prefix
I have a directory where I put all my projects in, let's say it's ~/projects as an example. I've made a command called s which takes one argument, and moves me into that directory. E.g.: s foo moves ...
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Why wouldn't cd <drive letter>: work? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Using cd Command in Windows Command Line, Can't Navigate to D:\
I am in the C partition and I type at the prompt:
c:\> cd d:
... and it echoes:
d:\
c:\>
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cd ~ not working on Windows 7
On one of my computers cd ~ (cd tilde) has stopped working. It says the desired path can not be found.
Any idea what could cause this? I need it for git. (it does work in Git Bash though)
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cd ~ dumps me in a seemingly empty directory
This is on a Linux mint box.
I'm told everywhere to use the command
cd ~
To switch to the root directory before doing some command line magic. For some reason though, it dumps me in a directory ...
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Any quick way to call a directory using an environment variable in Powershell
Say I have a user environment variable named p and it's value is the path where I store my projects.
In Command Prompt you can use them to quickly access a particular directory from anywhere on the ...
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navigate back and forward using cd
Is it possible to use cd command to navigate back and forward (like browser)?. Something similar to cd - but it only swaps current and last location. I know I can push dir on stack, it would be great ...
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How can I change to the previous directory instead of going up?
I currently spend a lot of my working hours moving back and forth between two paths which are very far down the tree and divert from each other at root. It strikes me that my life would be a lot ...
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How to cd to a newly created dir?
cd "$(mkdir -v "$(date -R)"|sed s+.`(.*)'.*)"
This is meant to create a dir named $(date -R). I could simply cd $(date -R), but the culprit is the date could change since the previous command was ...
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CD into directory with “-” in the beginning
I have a problem with cd-ing into folder named "--Recovery Files" and can't remember how to escape dashes in the filename. Any ideas?
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Alternatives to cd/ls for command line navigation?
I generally work a fair amount from the command line in order to launch vim, git, ssh and so on. However, I find the Finder's columnar view more natural for browsing through my files. Unfortunately, ...
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Is it possible to override the command line's built in “cd” command?
Just about every time I 'cd' to a different directory on my machine (in this case, running Mac OS X 10.6.7) via the command line (which is bash), I immediately type 'ls' to get the list of contents in ...
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Bash = Shortcut to making a copy of a file in a remote directory?
Is there a one-line bash shortcut for making a copy of a file in another directory, into that same directory?
For example, creating new Apache vhost using an existing vhost file as a template, ...
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“cd -” equivalent on Windows? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Navigate to previous directory in windows command prompt
Is there an equivalent of Linux's cd - (change to previous directory) in Windows?
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Why is cd in Windows not able to switch between drives?
Why, just why, is cd in Windows so stupid and does not do what it's supposed to do in the situations like this:
I:\Documents and Settings\blah\>cd C:\somedir\
I:\Documents and Settings\blah\>
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bash: Is there a way to use tab completion through out CDPATH?
After reading this article, I set CDPATH=.:~. However, I do not have tab completion through the directories in my home directory. I was wondering if anyone was aware of ways to do this.
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using xargs to cd to a directory
Feeling like an idiot right now. Why does this not work?
echo "/some/directory/path" | xargs -n1 cd
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How do I 'cd' into a folder that has a '\' in the folder name
I have a folder named abcd\fff\ggg\ddd
How do I cd into it?
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Smart tab completion (for directories)?
Are there shell versions that have a more intelligent tab completion?
I'd like to be able to type
cd foo-<TAB>
Then it would show me the possible completions along with numbers that I can ...
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Is there a shortcut to mkdir foo and immediately cd into it?
This is something I do frequently
$ mkdir foo
$ cd foo
This works as a single command, but it's more keystrokes and saves no time.
$ mkdir foo && cd foo
Is there a shortcut for this?
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Using cd Command in Windows Command Line, Can't Navigate to D:\
This may be a stupid question, and I think I have looked elsewhere to find the answer... Might be a path issue, but when I open the command line and type from the C:\>:
cd D:\
I cannot get to ...
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How do I turn of “auto-echo” in bash when I 'cd'?
I don't know when this started happening but now, every time I cd to a directory it echoes the path right before it changes directories. This happens when I log into a server but doesn't happen on my ...
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Change directory cd to another terminal's cwd
I would like to create a command like cd - (lets call it cdp) that will change directories to the last changed-to directory from another terminal window similar to the option to open a new terminal in ...
