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Resume recursive scp transfer (with rsync?)
I was transferring several thousand files each ~1MB via scp and my connection was broken after the first 2k files or so. I wanted to know if there was a way to resume the recursive transfer w/o ...
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How to Recursively Remove .svn Directories?
How do I recursively delete all .svn directories, starting with the directory I am in?
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Removing some types of files recursively
I'm having some trouble with this command under bash in Ubuntu:
rm $(find . -name "*.exe")
My aim is to remove, recursively, all files ending in ".exe". But some files have white spaces and this ...
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When running `rm -rf`, is it possible to exclude certain subdirectories?
I routinely use bind mounts to aid in making space available in multiple locations without having to have multiple logical volumes / physical partitions / LUNs, etc.
For example, I may have a 200G LV ...
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Create directories
Is there an easy way to create all subdirectories of a path in linux ?
Something like
mkdir /a/b/c/d/e/f
executed in / should create directories a,b,c,d,e,f
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How to do recursive calculations in Excel?
I have a large spreadsheet document and I want to have a master worksheet that calculates fields from all of the worksheets. I know that I can just select a cell from a worksheet by explicitly naming ...
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Recursively touching directories' last modified datetime as the same datetime of the last modified file inside
Previously I have ran dos2unix on every *.php file on my server recursively with this command:
find . -name '*.php' -type f -exec dos2unix --keepdate {} +
All files processed by dos2unix had its ...
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A program to tell me what filetypes are in this directory
I need a program which will recursively scan a directory and tell me all of the distinct filetypes that are inside the folder
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How to rename files and subdirectories in bash command line?
In Rails sometimes I need to rename several directories and files, e.g.:
app/models/person.rb
app/views/persons/_person.haml
app/controllers/persons_controller.rb
----
app/models/user.rb
...
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Recursive Batch File
I have a file that looks this:
head1,head2,head3,head4,head5,head6
a11,a12,keyA,a14,a15,a16
a21,a22,keyB,a24,a25
a31,a32,keyC,a34
a41,a42,keyB,a44,a44
a51,a52,keyA,a54,a55,a56
...
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Find for Windows gives “Access Denied” when trying recurse into lower directories? (Windows Vista)
for instance the command:
find "" *
yields:
Access denied - STUFF
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Does Send mail can turn on external recursion in BIND DNS Server?
I've a Ubuntu 10.04 package from Godaddy, It includes BIND and Sendmail pre-installed.
Normally recursion enabled for Internal DNS queries and recursion is disabled for External DNS queries. (Please ...
