For questions concerning the generic use of computer files.
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How do I actually open a program from a batch file? All it does is open a command prompt with that file name [duplicate]
I'm currently trying to learn Batch file scripting so maybe I'm just not seeing what I'm doing wrong but I am just making a very simple batch file that opens up a text file.
Here is the code I am ...
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Inform the User when a specific file updates or changes (SOLVED)
The other day I tried to make a batch file that will tell the user the Contest of a file when
a specific text file updates/changes here's my code so far it doesn't work for some reason :S
@echo ...
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How to delete a file in linux that does not have any/garbage file persmissions?
How do I delete a file that does not have any file permissions ? I am not able to delete file forcefully or as superuser.
Please refer the screenshot:
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Newlines while saving variable to file - bash
I have mulitiple ip adresses in a variable.
ActiveIPs= 192.168.0.1 192.168.0.2 192.168.0.3
I want to save them to a file like this
192.168.0.1
192.168.0.2
192.168.0.3
how do i do this?
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How can i automatically (silently) copy files off removable devices?
I'm looking for a way to automatically have my computer copy all files (or specific files based on extension) from removable devices plugged in (USB sticks/HDDs/phones etc) to a designated folder on ...
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One hard drive local to one computer but connected to server
I would like to have one dedicated hard drive for my files (but not OS installation) at my home computer, and I would like to make those files available anywhere via a file server. I want fast file ...
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What exactly is an XPS File & Does It Play Any Role in Computing Today? [closed]
Whenever I print a document whether it be Word, Powerpoint or Excel etc, I always see an option called Microsoft XPS Document Writer.
What exactly is an XPS file, is there any reason to actually use ...
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Why does the “Recent Items” folder get so large when it only contains shortcuts
In Windows 7, the Recent Items folder is located in C:\users\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent Items.
The folder is called "Recent Items" when you use file explorer and is called "Recent" ...
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OS X File number
I just noticed in File Viewer (random all-files reader) on OS X, that all files have a Misc. attribute called "File Number". It contains values like 17022656, 17022354 and 435457.
I tried to look ...
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How to reverse text file in Windows
Please help me, how reverse/sort row in text file with batch in Windows?
Example:
I have text in this format
15/04/2013-07:10:30 lalala
15/04/2013-07:10:30 Text text
15/04/2013-07:10:30 1 lala ...
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How can I reverse a text file in Windows? [closed]
Please help me, how reverse/sort row in text file with batch in Windows?
Example:
I have text in this format
15/04/2013-07:10:30 lalala
15/04/2013-07:10:30 Text text
15/04/2013-07:10:30 ...
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How can I revert file association to default [duplicate]
I have tried to open ex4 file by double clicking but could not open it and the dialog box pop up says to find appropriate program from the web. Meanwhile I tried to open the file with 'notepad' by ...
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JPEGs of the same resolution have different sizes
I have a collection of photos taken from my digital camera. All of them were taken with the same settings (same resolution etc...). However all these pictures have different file sizes. Why is this? ...
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How to create a batch file that will run cmd and a exe with parameters
How to create a batch file that do following:
For example program name is hi.exe will do the following:
Run hi.exe in cmd with arguments hi.exe -f%l%.
Instead of %1% I want user to input the ...
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Copy and chmod/chown at the same time
I have a log file owned by root that I want to copy into a directory owned by another user for him to analyse it (it must be uncompressed first).
Currently I'd have to
# cp log.xz ...
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aoss is preventing file logging - logging argument commands
I am using an application which requires aoss. The results are required to be appended to a file. When I write these commands, the file is always empty:
aoss multimon -a DTMF | tee test.txt
aoss ...
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determine when unsaved Notepad file was created
I have an open notepad file on my machine which I don't recall making. Is there a way I can determine what time and day the file was created (registry key or whatnot)? I haven't saved it yet because ...
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RSync move files to a different directory if they were deleted on the server
So right now I use rsync to synchronize files with a server. Sometimes the files on the server are deleted (I know about the --delete option and I do not use it) and those files are left in my local ...
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How to download large amounts of files via ubuntu
I am trying to download around 15,000 individual user files from an FTP backup space. I know the files exist because if I put a certain username that was not downloaded with the regular wget it can be ...
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Cant download 15,000 files via ssh linux [duplicate]
I have used wget, ncftp ftp etc, They all list around 5000 files at some sort of limit. I tryed using wget to get an exclusive file that didnt show up in the regular wget download and it worked. I ...
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Recover corrupted file after power outage
I am working on a PHP project for a customer. While I have edited the code, I had a power outage in the whole home. When my computer back I tried to open the main php file , but I get weird null ...
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Changing directories in Bash shell with large file names
I have to navigate through a series of directories containing software installers. I've written a small bash function that gets me to the main folder that contains all of the builds, but the file ...
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Copy 10 million small files between remote servers (over web), linux systems, no SSH on source
Here is the situation:
Need to copy aprox 10 million of small files (1k - 50k each) from a single directory, between 2 remote servers over the web. Tried with FTP and SCP but failed since all files ...
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Recover modified file
I'm using sublime text 2 to sync between local and remote site version. Something went wrong, and a source file became empty (0bytes). Is there
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removing special characters from entire directory structure
I would like to know whether it is possible to REMOVE special characters recursively in powershell from all files in an entire directory structure?
for example if I have a file called:
my ...
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How can I set XP to show details when I try to save or load a file?
This answers for folders but does not work for "file save, file open" windows.
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Lost file in Linux with the move command
I have lost a file while attempting to move it. I accidentally put three periods after the file name when I meant to put two. The command I ran was 'mv file.txt ...'. Ive used the find command to look ...
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How to print file from batch?
If I use NOTEPAD /P c:\myfile.txt, it can't print the file because the batch file starts with @echo off.
Does someone know how to print the file?
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What does a green colored file name mean? [duplicate]
I downloaded a .zip file the other day and extracted it using 7zip from my desktop to my laptop over my home network, when it finished, its filename and the filename of its contents was green.
What ...
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view video bitrate of a flv file in linux,how?
Is there any command to check the video bitrate of a flv file in debian/ubuntu ? I have some flv files and I want to find out their video bitrate.
I check 'file' command It only says 'Macromedia ...
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One Way Syncing between two folders using a third folder
I want to create a one way sync between Folder A and Folder B so far so good and RoboCopy does the job. But Some of the files in Folder B will be moved to Folder C (not controlled by this system) So ...
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What are the correct options to use to verify video files using ffmpeg.exe in Windows 7?
I have thousands of video files to check/verify if they have an error or a warning. A firm just digitized them over old tapes (VHS, Umatic ...) All these videos are in mp4 format and i want to check ...
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In windows looking for a filtered directory
Imagine a large number of files, organized in folders (thousands of folders)...there are multiple types of files in each folder (PDF, ZIP, DOCX, etc.). I'm looking for a tool that can show the ...
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Display different icons for different properties of a file (in the Windows Explorer)
Is it possible to set an icon for files with a specified extension ( .abc ) but not from an icon file? What I mean is if I can have a program (.jar or .bat) to decide the icon of these files. In the ...
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Setting custom icons based on files' contents
I'd like to have a custom icon for the files with extension .extension the same way images do. In the windows explorer I see a preview of images as their icon. Instead of having a general icon for ...
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Where the data related to firefox urlbar.autoFill is stored?
Attention! This question is not about auto filling the forms
and/or passwords!
In firefox (just like chrome) when I type in s in the address bar, it automatically fill the rest to ...
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changing the ownership of a file in linux
I have a file "test" on an Ubuntu system owned by the root. The ls -l option is shown below.
$ ls -l test
-r--r----- 1 root abacus 373 Nov 12 19:19 test
I know that only the owner of a file can ...
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What is the best way to merge two sets of files, but for duplicates to select the older file in Windows?
I have stumbled into a dumb usage case. I want to merge two folders in a particular way (I guess these are called folders now, I still think of them as directories, but whatever). The folders have ...
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Fastest way to keep two files in sync?
I care only about the same file stored in two different machines. I would like to keep changes in sync and as fast as possible. Would rsync as a daemon be up to it? Or is there something else I can ...
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Rename a file based on the owner - linux/Unix
I have several files in a folder that all follow a naming convention of:
rs1.txt
rs2.txt
rs3.txt
Some of these files were produced by myself, and some were produced by my colleague.
I was ...
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How Can I convert .SGM File
there is a *.sgm file. It is my data set I want to convert it to any other type of data set, which make me able to have access to it with program like WEKA. Weka mainly support *.arff file.
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How to open an .exe file with -dev mode? (not the shortcut )
I want to start Company of Heroes game with the -dev mode but not through the shortcut but using the original exe. Is there any way to bind the exe with this code so that it opens all the time using ...
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UNIX command to sort the file by the following words, from major sort key to minor sort key: word 3, word 1, word 4
Need help with the UNIX command below to sort the file by the following words, from major sort key to minor sort key: word 3, word 1, word 4. (words are separated by white spaces)
sort -t -k3 -k1 ...
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How to I setup a folder to pass files on without holding them?
Is it possible to create a folder where Whenever a file is placed in it, the file is automatically copied to another specified location and then the original file is deleted?
What I'm trying to do ...
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Is there a way to keep track of unopened/unchecked files?
I'm looking for a way to keep track of unopened/unchecked received/downloaded files via various means, browsers, torrents, DC++, hosting sites, etc.
Let's say that I'm a bit overwhelemed, and ...
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How to delete “Program Files” folder in Windows 7
OK ... here is the deal ... I replaced my current drive C with a brand new drive and installed Windows 7 on the new drive. I took the old Drive C: and added it to a different SATA port and made it ...
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Windows Directory Structure
I couldn't find a Windows stack exchange so I am asking this here.
I know how a *nix directory structure is set up and how directories are pretty much just lists of files. I can open them with a text ...
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Can I change the properties of all files to show info similar to the folder templates properties?
I use Windows Explorer every day to manage large groups of files. I modified the folder templates in Windows 7 to display the properties that are important to me. (Ex: Name, size, length, date ...
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Trying to read a text file content and set variables values from that
I have a batch file that creates a text file with its output like the following:
RESULT=0&SECURETOKEN=SmH3kciXiVkiwD0i70CwKYgAR&SECURETOKENID=2013031414280240&RESPMSG=Approved
The ...
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how do I on OSX copy a folder from an external drive to my hard drive and only add the new files?
say I have on the external drive:
A/file1.txt
B/file2.txt
B/file3.txt
and on my hard drive I have:
A/file1.txt
B/file2.txt
I would like to drag and drop the whole folder over to the hard drive ...
