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Getting all the lines containing a specific string from a Text File in windows

I have a text file on my windows machine. I have a matching string. Say "check_time". I need to get all the lines which have these strings and copy them in a separate file. Only the lines ...
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Docker ERROR: failed to solve: cannot copy to non-directory when copying to

Similar to this question, but when copying from a previous FROM target (source): COPY --from=sqitch-build /app . This worked fine until recently, when it started emitting this error: ERROR: failed to ...
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How do I set FastCopy as the default copy handler? [duplicate]

Teracopy and killcopy, and ultrafastcopy all have a feature to be set as the default copy handler, fastcopy does not. Is there some reg tweak the others are doing to achieve it? I'd like to be able to ...
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Need Help To Copy "AppData" Folder Onto External Storage

I've asked around a number of forums to learn about the least-troublesome, most-straightforward means of backing up the "AppData" folder from an external laptop disk drive onto an external ...
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Copy Excel row of information being pulled from a tab into a second row, but only changing the tab it's being pulled from

I currently have an Excel row on a Summary Tab that is pulling information from a separate tab. (="Hood 1'!G12) is an example of one of the cells. Since there are over 800 cells in the row, I'm ...
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Copy a file only if it does exists in a source directory

We need to copy a file only if it exists in a source directory. Right now when the command runs, even if the file doesn't exist in the source directory, it copies and creates a file in the target ...
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How to set multiple keyboard shortcuts in Notepad++ to the same function?

I am used to Ctrl+Insert as my shortcut for "Copy to clipboard". Also Shift+Insert for "Paste" and Ctrl+Delete for "Cut". Recently, these shortcuts stopped working in ...
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How to get and copy all files that have the same file name but different extension name using Powershell?

I've been trying to filter out my RAW images(.ARW) from my SONY camera to my PC and was thinking to do it by viewing all .JPG images and deleting other .JPG images I do not like. Once I get the chose ....
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How can I copy a folder so that Windows Explorer takes into account file overlap before computing if there's enough storage space to copy the files?

As I was copying a few files between two external hard disks with Windows Explorer, my laptop running Windows 10 crashed. I restarted Windows, and I am trying to reinitiate the file copy operation. ...
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How to batch copy "date modified" from files in directory to other files with identical names (but compressed) in another directory?

I have been compressing my 500++ MP4 videos from 2 years ago with Handbrake, however, as the compressed files are registered as new files, they do not retain their original metadata attributes (date ...
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What's the formula for referring cell values from every column in a row from Sheet 'A' to every 'nth' column in a row in Sheet'B'?

Cell values in Sheet'A' : A1 - 1 B1 - 2 C1 - 3 D1 - 4 E1 - 5 F1 - 6 G1 - 7 H1 - 8 I1 - 9 J1 - 10 K1 - 11 L1 - 12 M1 - 13 N1 - 14 O1 - 15 P1 - 16 Q1 - 17 And so on... Values required to copy in Sheet&...
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Command Prompt link folder files to another drive and folder like a shortcut

What is the command syntax to link file folder files from one drive to another drive, folder Example: Link drives from a full drive C: Documents (all files) to D: Documents (linked back to the C: ...
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PC to phone file transfer speed

I have a OnePlus 10 Pro device with USB Type C 3.1 (according to gsmarena). I am trying to transfer huge files from it to my pc using the USB cable, but the speed is only 45MB/s which is the max speed ...
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ffmpeg fails to detect subtitles

Just encoding an episode of Game of Thrones, Season 5, Episode 6 - Unbowed Unbent Unbroken. First copy to a temporary file, and thats whats fails to detect all subtitles. Here is an example that works,...
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Copying to Microsoft Excel with specs of text

When I copy text from another program to Excel, it does not preserve the properties of the text, such as being bold or italic. It pastes it as a plain text. Is there any way to save the text to Excel ...
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How to emulate rsync into cp to copy all files from source that dont exist in destination disk and update existing ones?

Rsync is halting when reading bad sectors, then the hdd is going in a very bad mode than needs special rescue. It is the 3rd time that this happens to my disks. The disk was very functional except for ...
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What is likely to cause very slow file copy over 10Gb NICs?

Copying data across my local network is extremely slow. The network in question is 10Gbe only. That is everything on the 10.0.2.0 subnet is 10Gbe and every device/switch is on the same VLAN with jumbo ...
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Scheduled robocopy in PowerShell from WebDAV shares not work with IIS share but with Nginx share

Please, help with my WebDAVs scheduled copy. I have two WebDAVs, one on Debian11/Nginx, the other on WindowsServer2019/IIS. I want to make a scheduled backup copy from both on my Windows 11. Fragment ...
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Copying Sheets and cell references

Let's say I have "Sheet A" and "Sheet B" within the same workbook. Sheet B has a cell that references Sheet "A" i.e. ='Sheet A '!Q20 I want to copy Sheet B and Create &...
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clone/copy/create a new skype group from another skype group with removal of some of the participants

I want to create a new Skype group with almost all the participants from another Skype group (~100 participants); how can I do that, without noting down each colleague's id and, latter, add him/her in ...
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Bring back "Copy, but keep both files" option in Windows 10? Some users seem to have it, others don't

Somewhere during the release of Windows 8, the option to "keep both files" for whenever you copy a file with the same filename from a different directory was removed. It was instead replaced ...
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Copy all files except those already present

So my problem is I have to move a folder with 120k files from a to b via c. (As a and b are not on the same system, but c is available to both) The systems are debian-based. However c is limited in ...
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Why do I lose clipboard data after copying a file?

Wondering why I lose clipboard data when copying a file. After selecting a string of text and copying it to the clipboard this copied text data is somehow lost if I select a file and copy it in ...
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Copy several files listed in a text file to a new folder when list file contain different paths

I would like to copy several files (with different paths) in one folder. I tried this solution explained here page of example on stackexchange but when I run the file (I choosed .bat file) I have &...
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Windows 10 - script with regex to compare partial filenames and copy over ones that don't exist

I'm running Windows 10. I'd like to copy many files from a folder into another, and probably I need a script, or any else solution that can do it. I have 2 folders: the folder A contains files named ...
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How to compare files by dimension (pixel resolution) when copying in Windows 7

How to compare files by dimension (pixel resolution) when copying in Windows 7? When copying a file into a folder Windows compares them by size and date modified: Is there a way add a third compare ...
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Bitlocker -> usb read only

I have Bitlocker installed and want to copy a file to a usb stick. Bitlocker denies that and consider the usb drive as write protected. I do not want to encrypt the stick. Is there any way to bypass ...
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Copying Specific Subfolder from Multiple Top Level Folders to a Network Path

I have multiple top level folders (about 30) with one particular subfolder I need to copy to another network path (Windows10). I am trying to see if there is a script or PowerShell command that will ...
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Windows 10 adds blank clipboard entry after copying

Windows 10 adds blank clipboard entry after copying a selection: I don't know why it happens. I use murgee maybe it causes this problem?
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How to copy Files from One folder to another using third folder as a reference ? (Ubuntu/Linux/rsync)

OS - Ubuntu Linux , Utility preferred - rsync Is it possible to copy all files from first folder (1/folder) to the third folder (3/folder) that are newer than or not existing in the second folder (2/...
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Moving or copying single character folders names in windows explorer causes explorer crash

I have found a very specific bug in Windows in which folders whose names only have a single character cannot be copied/moved. If I have a folder named 'Q', and in explorer attempt to drag copy or move ...
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Retrieve the latest data in a column

I have 3/4 columns with revision numbers (P01, P02, P03 etc.), I would like to construct a formula that shows me the latest revision number in a new column so that i don't need to scroll to the far ...
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Is it possible to switch between items copied in the clipboard?

I'm using Clipboard Indicator listed here: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/779/clipboard-indicator/ This allows me to keep multiple items in the clipboard and select or use them without having ...
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How to copy files changed in last 20 days to a different location recusively

I found a code here (on this site) which allows copying of files changed in last 20 days. My issue is that I have a folder with many subfolders and some subfolders could be 8 or more levels deeps. I ...
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How to copy text from the chat window in the Zoom meetings desktop client?

Until recently, it was trivial to copy text in the chat window in Zoom meetings within the Zoom desktop application: you simply selected the desired text and used the standard keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+...
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Winzip cmd line gives fatal error

I'm trying to add folders from a mapped network drive into a zip file using winzip command line but everytime I am receiving this error: FATAL ERROR: assert failure (WzZipAdd.c@1346) Please send the ...
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Can I force Linux to write data at the start of a file system?

TLDR; Is there a command to force Linux to write a file (for example a PDF file, MP3, anything really) at the start of a file system ? I don't thing that # dd does the trick, because the inode table ...
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ddrescue: proper command to make copy of a copy

I am copying my failing/dying hard drive with ddrescue, and after almost 15 days, the process is around 84% and expects to finish Pass 1, in next 4 or 5 days hopefully. History (With reference to ...
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7zip how to copy file from zip to another zip

In 7zip with 2 panel view, I have 2 different zips open on both sides. I can drag and drop one file from inside the zip on the left side inside the right hand side zip file but it only preserves the ...
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How to copy folder structure without files into a new directory on MacOS Catalina?

I've looked this up and tried everything using rsync and involving find ., but keep getting errors. Using rsync I get "rsync error: errors selecting input/output files, dirs (code 3)", and ...
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Linux copy all files and folders except for one folder to another folder

I have the following content in a folder Folder 1 Folder 2 Folder 3 File 1 File 2 File 3 I'm trying to use the command line to move all folders and files except Folder 1, to Folder 1. That is, Folder ...
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Why does not PRIMARY buffer work in VIM sometimes?

I edited /var/log/cups/error_log with VIM and, as I usually do when I have to copy from VIM and paste at some place else, I used the PRIMARY buffer. So far it never failed; but this time it did not ...
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Copy multiple files/filetypes - from different folders (list of paths) - to a other folder

Like the title says. I found this here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1294140 set dSource=C:\tmp\Aufgaben\Tom VPKs set dTarget=C:\tmp set fType=*.eps for /f "delims=" %%f in ('dir /a-d /b /s &...
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Backing Up Large File with Small Changes

I have a large file that is backed up to a USB drive. Can I avoid having to copy the entire file each time a small change is made? I need something like rsync, but for Windows and without the need for ...
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ddrescue, second diskcopy when used larger disk for diskcopy for first copy form a failing HDD

I have a failing hard drive and after first using Testdisk which was going on very slow, I am using ddrescue to copy the disk. The original disk is a 2TB drive and had 4 NTFS partitions (which I had ...
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Auto Copy Selected Text to Clipboard [closed]

I would ask for a script that copies selected text to the clipboard of windows touch screen to use with the dictionary app. I found scripts that will auto copy the selected text to the Window ...
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How can I copy a comment from a PDF opened with Google Chrome's built-in PDF file viewer?

I opened with Google Chrome's built-in PDF file viewer. The PDF contains a comment: How can I copy the text of a comment from a PDF opened with Google Chrome's built-in PDF file viewer?
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Why website copy tools like Cyotek WebCopy and HTTrack cannot find files that search engines like Google can?

I would like to keep the target website private, but here are some details: It's a personal (as in single-author) public documentation / portfolio / blog sort of website It seems to be hosted using ...
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Clone Folders with Same Cloning technology as actual cloning software. Windows 10 Copy does not work for me

Win 10 Pro - one a Solid state drive I have this 300gig folder called "all MicroSds" When I try to copy this folder it is impossible with cut and paste and it fails both on a move and on a ...
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Robocopy Hangs / Gets Stuck - Move to Next File Command/Timer?

I have an issue when I utilize Robocopy. I have a fairly homogeneous directory and I am trying to move it from one drive to another. The drive where the files reside must be corrupted. I would ideally ...