A computer file is a collection of information (data) stored in a computer disk drive with an individual name unique to the directory where it resides.
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split a large file with mac in command line by context
I have been trying to split a large file (some GB) into pieces, I need to chunk the file by linenumber (say, containings about 1M lines each).
How could I do?
csplit does not work, goes out of ...
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Dir all hard drives with output in DOS batch
How can I list all files (including system and hidden) on all hard drives (not removable drives)?
I think in something like a:
dir -a -h *.* /s > file.txt
but this is for the specific drive ...
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py appended to filename when saving files
I have firefox upgraded to 9 and then 10. Q installed on ubuntu lucid.
Now when I save an htm file it gets saved as xx.htm.py. When an image is saved it is saved as xxx.jpg.py. Same thing happens ...
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A file shows in “locate” command but don't exist. Why?
I'm having a strange issue.
I am currently fixing a flash install on Backtrack 5 (Based on Ubuntu). I really need to get flash to work, so I looked up on google. On some board, one guy said that on ...
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Saved my excel spreadsheets in a USB and lost the USB without backup?
I lost my USB as mentioned above which contains crucial information but I lost it without backup in my desktop. Now that I had open the file before in Excel and it still has the path saved. I'm ...
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File format of encrypted file
I am interested in understanding the format of the encrypted files produced by the application Data Guardian.
From what I can tell some sort of transformation of the password is stored in the field ...
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Deleting C:\Windows\Installer\ files safely on Windows 7 after running WinDirStat hard drive space usage report [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Windows 7 and large Installer Folder
Has anyone successfully deleted the Windows Installer files successfully before? They are taking up 35.1% of my total hard drive ...
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strange behaviour with last edit (date) on files, after a copy on different place
Time ago I've copied some file from laptop to a micro sd hc (32gb, kingston).
Than, later, I copied the same file to external HD, and copied them on my new Desktop PC.
Both system have Windows 7 ...
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Linux: Browsing Windows file shares with a tree view
In the Thunar file manager, tree view does not expand for 'Network' section even once I click device name,
It is possible to browse .gvfs, but it has problems with file deletion ('can not find ...
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File sync and version control on LAN with a Drobo?
I work in a office with another video producer and we have a networked drobo. Currently we are using Backuplist+ to sync files to a common folder between our Mac Pro's. Works fine, but it's hard to ...
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Perserve icon with rsync
I was under the impression from here among other research, that rsync was the command used to sync directories and any contents they have.
I have tried the following commands:
rsync -avzr ...
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How to rename and move files to new directory
I would like to rename a file that is uploaded to another server from extension .txt to .txt_mvd and move to a different directory for archiving in a Windows batch mode. Can anyone help with what the ...
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Command to list permission of file and all folders from root to the file's path
Given a file, say /var/some_dir_1/some_dir_2/some_dir_3/some_file,
is there a single command that will list the permissions of some_file and all the directories in its path from root, i.e. the ...
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Why can't I edit a “Program Files” file on Windows 7?
I'm having trouble editing this file on Windows 7:
C:\Program Files (x86)\CMake 2.8.7\share\cmake-2.8\Modules\FindJNI.cmake
If I edit it in Cygwin (vi) or TextPad, those two programs see the ...
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Cutting and moving files using the Linux terminal
What is the command I can use to cut and then move a file from one location to another from a Linux terminal?
Is there any website that lists all the commands for a Linux terminal?
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Notepad++ not opening from certain locations
For quite some time now, I experience a weird behavior of Notepad++.
I associated .xml files to Notepad++. For most of the time opening .xml files works fine.
Sometimes though, the file won't open if ...
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How to find out which files are stored in a certain section on the disk [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I determine what file occupies a given sector?
My hard drive recently spit out bad sectors. I used ddrescue to clone it onto a another drive. Unfortunately there ...
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Mac OS X not reporting directory sizes correctly?
I'm running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2.
In Finder, I've noticed that if I duplicate some .app files (in the Applications folder), Finder will show that the duplicate .app file is not the same size as the ...
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Join multiple consecutive SQLite database dump files into 1 common database? Purpose: Search through ENTIRE Chrome Browsing History
Google Chrome 's default web browsing history search engine only lets you access the records of the recent 100 days.
Nevertheless in your application data, Chrome keeps your entire browsing history in ...
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2answers
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windows 7 - lock a file for writing by only one program?
Is it possible in win7 to lock a file for writing by only one program? anyone can have read or copy accesss, but I need write/move/delete to be done only by one program.
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No Programs, or Windows Explorer shows .FBX files
Nothing, nothing at all shows up when i try to find my .FBX file. And yes. I am sure it is the right place.
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shell scripting: iterating through directories and moving/renaming files
(FYI, I have very little shell scripting knowledge)
I have a ton of files and directories that look something like
-root
-dir1/a.txt
-dir2/a.txt
-dir3/b.txt
-dir4/b.txt
-dir5/c.txt
I would ...
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CMD does and doesn't see this file?
I'm having a lot of problems with a particular file, LockupSystem.MDB . It doesn't help that there are lots of files with similar names.
I tried to dir to find the file but I couldn't find it. After ...
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Compressing a file in place - does “gzip -c file | dd of=file” really work?
In the question How can I compress a file on Linux in-place, without using additional disk space?, one answer proposes to simply use
gzip -c file | dd of=file
I tried it (on Debian Linux), and it ...
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Count all files without using find
How can I count all files without using find and only grep? I tried using ls recursively but how can I pipe that to grep and count files?
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Copying files across computers in different networks using scp Mac Lion
I forgot how to do this and I found this other StackOverflow post about it but now I'm getting this error:
ssh: connect to host xx.xx.xx.xx port 22: Permission denied lost
connection
I am ...
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2answers
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How to pipe awk output (with periodic, continuous input) to output file?
I am trying to write a command that pipes the continuous output of a free command (run every second) to an awk command that parses a specific value (available free memory) and outputs this to a file ...
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change the default program for a file extension [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Associate a File Type with a Specific Program
I downloaded a program and it configures itself as default program for .mdf files and I see a ugly icon for mdf files in my ...
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Recover file corrupted due to power cut off
A file I was working on was corrupted (filename.css) due to power cutoff. The file size is same but when I open it with dreamweaver it show blank.
If I open it with notepad++ it shows like this:
NUL ...
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Same file, different file size
I made a backup from my FTP server, with lftp and Transmit (Mac app). Everything is fine, but there is a different in file size for 1-2 files, but they are identical.
First file:
...
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Somehow I have made my downloads of a certain file type auto-open in MPC. How can I change this? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Associate a File Type with a Specific Program
I use MuseScore, a music notation program. Somehow Media Player Classic is the program automatically selected to open my ...
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List differences between remote folder (sftp) and local one
I wish to find a windows program (preferably with GUI) that will compare recursively a remote folder (SFTP) and a local one.
I would like it to list all the files and folders that are different, ...
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2answers
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Is there a way in Gnome's file browser widget to 1) search for internal strings and 2) repeatedly search?
In Gnome's file browser widget, it's possible to search for files by simply beginning to type.
Problems:
1) This only searches the beginning of filenames. For instance, in the screenshot below, I ...
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4answers
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How to transfer large file between me and my friend? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Free way to share large files over the Internet?
Transfering large files over internet
Are there some utilities, which allow to transfer files from peer to peer at ...
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How to recover a stomped file? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to recover a removed file under linux
When I was trying to unpickle an object, I accidentally opened a file in write mode
with ...
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How can I increase the number of open filehandles in Linux?
I'm trying to increase the number open file handles on a server of mine and the usual places don't seem to be taking effect:
root@dev:~# sysctl -p |grep file
fs.file-max = 200000
root@dev:~# grep ...
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Encrypt a file without common tools [closed]
I am guessing this probably has a really long answer, so feel free to give a little explanation, with a link to a helpful article, tutorial or w.e
How can I encrypt a file without using one of those ...
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1answer
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Monitoring operations on HDD on Linux
I want to monitor operations on HDD in Linux. I tried iotop, but I want to know which file is being modified. Is there any tool to do that?
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What is the shortest most readable way to print the n'th line of a file?
Its about Unix and Linux.
Yes, there are many solutions to that, e.g. see http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/011. Some of them are fast as hell (not reading the whole file) and some are slow but ...
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1answer
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copy same file into multiple directories - permission denied error
Please help me in solving the below issue:
I want copy a file say info.txt into multiples directories and their sub-directories .
I used this command:
go to parent directory.
find . -type d -exec ...
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Write-access denied to my Shared Documents when modification from the network is forbidden
I have a strange and annoying problem on my computer running XP Media Center 2005 SP2, with Simple File Sharing option enabled.
I was trying to prevent accidental alteration of files located in my ...
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Bash: Is there a way to see which files in a directory are of a certain file extension?
I am trying to (recursively) check one of my directories to see which files are XML files. Any pointers would be appreciated.
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Can I automatically delete or move files by date last opened properties?
I need to detect and move/delete files in directory by checking Date Last Opened properties. I will use the Belvedere Automated File Manager for this purpose.
But I have a little problem. When i ...
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2answers
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Which program can open a .DJVU file?
I received a folder with a bunch of PDF files and one DJVU file. The PDF's open in PDF Complete but the DJVU does not. How do I open this type of file?
Windows 7 64-bit.
IE 8.
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How do I find out any more information about file handles held open by the System process?
I have an app that writes data to a local disk file regularly. It always opens, writes, then closes the file. Recently I had an issue where it stopped writing data, and this was due to it being ...
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Share files on a Linux server to the Gnutella network?
I want to be able to store sample photos (Jpeg) on a server and share them with the Gnutella network. It's sort of an unobtrusive advertising scheme I have. There doesn't seem to be a lot of google ...
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How can I see the size of each file in a particular directory in the terminal?
When using the terminal, is there a command that allows you to see the size of each individual file in a particular directory?
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Virtual Printer to POST web form
I am trying to find the best way to accomplish this and hope that there are some open source solutions that exist. I currently have a form that will accept a user's API key and file. When given the ...
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Script to count number of times a file has been accessed
Under Linux, is it possible to write a script that can count the number of times a file has been accessed in the local file system, and by whom?
How would I monitor such a thing and create a log if ...
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How to avoid XCopy run into the error: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process?
I am xcopying data from my local directory to a shared windows drive. Once in a while i get an issue where in the middle of copying i see the following error:
The process cannot access the file ...
