cp is the command of the Unix operating system that is used to copy files.
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cp all files in the same directory, but exclude subdirectories/files
I'm looking for a way to do something like this:
cp -R jquery-ui-1.10.3/themes/base/minified ui
..but to let it match all files in the minified folder (and only it's root) and except all ...
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How to copy with cp to include hidden files and hidden directories and their contents?
How can I make cp -r copy absolutely all of the files and directories in a directory
Requirements:
Include hidden files and hidden directories.
Be one single command with an flag to include the ...
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How can I use cp to copy a directory but ignore a certain sub directory in Linux
Due to a Hard disk problem I am trying to shift a partition from one hard disk to another. I am following http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-partplan.html article to do that. In the copying ...
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Unix command for recursively copying files
I need a unix command for the following:
Directory Structure
/project
/images
/products
/cup.jpg
/laptop.jpg
/designs
/alpha.jpg
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Copy the contents of a directory into another
I would like to copy the contents of a directory into another. I don't want to copy the directory and all files and directories under it, but just the contents of the directory just as if it were a ...
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can not copy big file to usb device
I mount usb device like this:
sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usb
and then copy a big file which about 1Gb to the device:
sudo cp ~/big_file /media/usb
Ordinary, if I copy a big file to usb, ...
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Different performance for different USB 2.0 devices
I copied a 3.5GB file from my SATA HD to my Seagate USB 2.0 external HD in about 3 minutes.
I copied the same 3.5GB file from my SATA HD to my USB 2.0 SanDisk Cruzer and it took more than 15 minutes. ...
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How to copy files in Terminal without writing failures?
I have an external HD that has crashed, and is badly corrupted. I want to copy whatever is intact off of it, which means doing so in Terminal as the Finder will of course give up at the first ...
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How can I copy (cp) a directories contents without the directory itself
I want to copy the contents of ~/old contents to ~/new without the ~/old directory itself
However when I do
cd ~/new
cp ../old ~/new
or
cd ~
cp -vr ~/old ~/new
or
cp -vr ~/old/ ~/new/
the ...
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Linux copy to fat32 filesystem: invalid argument
When I copy files from an ext3 partition to a fat32 one using cp:
cp -R /ext3/stuff /fat32/partition/
I get invalid argument messages for all files with colons and question marks in.
Is there any ...
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How can I copy a (big) directory over another changing only the files that differ?
I have directory a and directory b. They are big. b is almost identical to a. "almost" means that 4-5 files differ, and I don't know which they are. I want to copy b over a, but only the files that ...
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cp - copying and keeping different version
How to copy all .aze files that have different contents into folder3 ?
The screen show what I don't want to do.
What I want to get close is to have in folder 3, file1(1).aze and file1(2).aze (and ...
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Why does my Bash script display the “too many arguments” error at the cp command?
Here is my script, I get the error "line 33: [: too many arguments", I'm confused why, surely only 2 arguments are being provided to cp here?
I am providing two directories to the script with no ...
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cp into destination hierarchy with symbolic link?
I am trying to write a site deploy script that will copy files like so:
SOURCE
.
..
src/
html/
DEST
.
..
src/
html/ -> /var/www/ftproot/mysite
I want the files in SOURCE html to go to DEST ...
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Reuse text on a bash command
If i'm writing a long command or just typing an extensive file path, is there any that i can "reuse" it with some command shortcut?
e.g:
1.cp /home/myuser/really/big/file/here/and/there.png ...
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Copy multiple files via cp from a string
I'm trying to copy multiple files to a directory from within a shellscript. These files contain all sorts of "ugly" characters, such as whitespaces, brackets and what not else. However, I'm stuck when ...
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Copying all files inside subdirectories and renaming instead of overwriting
I have a number of images inside subdirectories of another directory which I'd like to copy to one single directory so all the images are in one place.
After a bit of searching, I found and then ...
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ssh Mac Unix: copy a file with special characters and spaces
I am remote logged into a Mac and trying to copy a music file from one directory to another, but I am getting an error. I think it's caused by spaces or special characters, but not sure.
the file ...
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How to copy a list of files from one directory to another and modify the destination file name on the fly
Could you propose a way to copy a list of files from one directory to another.
During copying the script should capitalize the first letter of the filename and lowercase all other letters.
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How to Copy Large Directory to External Hard Drive Linux
I've formatted a 3TB external hard drive as ext4 using fdisk (actually gnu fdisk), mounted it at /media/external and am trying to copy my entire home directory to it.
My first attempt I thought was ...
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cp -r overwrite
This is not a problem as much as my curiosity of the different cp -r behavior.
This is on the latest Ubuntu.
I have an outdated copy in a directory with several subdirectories. I'd like to update
the ...
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Linux: Copy all files by extension to single dirrectory
I am trying to copy all *.tif files from ./old to the ./new. In ./old i have lots of subdirs with different files, and in ./new i need only TIF files, without folder tree.
So, I had tried cp -vR ...
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backup time machine style
I would like to find a more solid and handy solution to my small problem.. My idea is to backup every midnight my home directory incrementally, so I want only the modified files (of today) to be ...
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Using find command with recursive copy without -r or a while/for loop
I have the following problem. Normally one would use the command find exec cp -r to copy everything from one directory to another. In this case I am not allowed to do so, or use a while/for loop for ...
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Get all files from a directory without read permissions?
In Linux/Unix, if I am inside a directory of another user, but cannot view the contents of the directory by typing "ls," how do I get a copy of all the files?
Is the only way to guess what the file ...
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How can I recursively copy files by file extension, preserving directory structure?
At the Linux command line, I'd like to copy a (very large) set of .txt files from one directory (and its subdirectories) to another.
I need the directory structure to stay intact, and I need to ...
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how to join paths to {} inside an -exec option of a find command?
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I'm trying to copy several files scattered in a directory structure to another one where such files already exist but without write permission allowed. So I used a find command with ...
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Original files corrupted from cp, maybe bad hard disk
I've been having a big problem with corrupted files on my machine. I'm running Debian Wheezy (very minimal install) on an Acer Aspire One netbook.
I've been trying to download a 200 mb file. The ...
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xargs and cp: find-style “{}+” multiple expansion?
I'd like to copy a group of files to destination folder. But without needing to spawn a new instance of cp for each operation.
The arg format for cp seems to be:
cp src_file1 src_file2 src_file3 ...
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How can I copy files recursively without overwriting the directories
On linux, let's say I have some files like this:
dir1/file1
dir2/file2
and I want to copy them to a destination that already have dir1 and dir2 and looks like:
dir1/file1
dir1/file1a
dir2/file2
...
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Using cp command in linux shell, how do I copy a whole directory into another directory?
I have a directory, let's say, "work": ~/work/
This directory has some sub-folders (d1, d2...) in it and files in these sub-folders. I want to make a backup copy in the same folder, so it would be ...
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Is there a shortcut for unix `cp` to copy a file to the current directory with the same filename?
I'm hoping there's a shorter way of copying a file from a given directory to the current working directory than typing cp /path/to/file.txt file.txt
I tend to use this command a lot, and reiterating ...
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cp didn't copy all files few files were missing
How is it possible that cp didn't copy all files from a huge directory?
I did cp on a large directory with 5000 files. I checked contents with diff and it was not matching! How is this possible?
I ...
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cp: reading `filename': Input/output error WHY?
I wish to know what could be the possible cases for this error:
cp: reading `filename': Input/output error
I am getting this message when I am trying to copy a big file of around 50MB.
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how to stop cp: overwrite './xxx' ? prompt
How can I stop the cp command from prompting to overwrite. I want to overwrite all the files with out having to keep going back to the terminal. As these are large files and take some time to ...
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In Power SHell set alias cp to cp -v
I have cp for power shell. But I want to use cp in verbose mode without writing -v. So cp should be aliased to "cp -v" command. How to alias cp to "cp -v" in power shell?
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shortcut to recursively copying a directory preserving modes, ownerships and hard and symbolic links
I am using the following to recursively copy a directory while preserving modes, permissions as well as hard and symbolic links:
cp -pr --preserve=links dir-a dir-b
However I have the following ...
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Copying files with SSH
I am trying to copy a file from my other computer, to another computer. (both running Ubuntu 9.10)
So say:
I've ssh'ed into the other computer;
i 'cd' to the directory; and i entered cp File.zip ...
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Copying many files without stopping on errors on OSX
I need to copy several Gb from an external HD to my moan hd and some files will cause errors. If I do this with the finder, it will stop on the first error.
Is there a way to copy everything no ...
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How to copy symbolic links?
I have directory that contains some symbolic links:
user@host:include$ find .. -type l -ls
4737414 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 user group 13 Dec 9 13:47 ../k0607-lsi6/camac -> ../../include
4737415 ...
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Copy files from a numeric range to another folder
Slightly stumped on what CP command would copy files numbered 14 trough 39 into a directory called Volume2 from the following example:
01.mp3 04.mp3 07.mp3 10.mp3 13.mp3 16.mp3 19.mp3 22.mp3 ...
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Copy list of files
I have a list of files separated by spaces in a file list.txt. I'd like to copy them to a new folder.
I tried to do:
cp `cat list.txt` new_folder
but it did not work.
How would you do this ?
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How do you use regular expressions with the cp command in Linux?
I am attempting to only copy a subset of files from one directory to another using cp however am greeted with the message cp: cannot stat [^\.php]': No such file or directory. Is there a way to use ...
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cp --update still copies unchanged files
I'm trying to copy only changed files using 'cp -pu' under Linux (Red Hat 6.1, source/destination FS are GlusterFS mounted partitions) but I found that it still tries to copy file seemingly old and ...
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cp command inquiry
If I am in a directory called /usr/share/tcl8.3/encoding, what command would copy all files begining "cp" that also contain an even number (from the following list):
cp1250.enc cp1255.enc cp737.enc ...
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Symlink all files in a Folder to a new Folder
Ideally what I am seeking is a way to rename all my anime keeping original files intact without using extra data space
The solution I can think of is creating a duplicate folder path to another ...
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rtorrent copy after download
so I`m trying to do the following:
When rtorrent finishes download, it should copy files from download dir to another dir called uploads, so the file would be in Downloads dir AND in Uploads dir.
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Linux permissions and owner being preserved with cp
I can't understand the following behavior:
I have a file named someFile under /opt/com/internal/someFile
If I do ls -all /opt/com/internal/someFile the permissions are 700 user:userGroup
I am root ...
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Use rsync to copy all files except for certain filenames with a certain extension
I have two same-size flash cards, and I want to copy contents of one to the other based on the following rules:
I want all directories and subdirectories in place
I want to exclude files of type ...
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Copy file in GNU/Linux with progress bar and rate limiting
Is there any good tool in GNU/Linux that copy files like cp, but also shows progress and limits speed (and changes limit without interruption) like pv?
Prototype:
find source_directory | cpio -H ...
