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Vim buffer name autocompletion not working after first directory

I have a problem with Vim Autocompletion behavior for buffer names. Target Soft/OS I'm using gVim without plugins on Windows 10 What I would like to do Assuming we have a file tree like : a b > ...
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command line list files in subfolders but not current folder

I have a batch file that gives me a directory listing of all files in current and subfolders. I would like to change this to list all files that are in subfolders but NOT the current folder. Currently ...
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Drag and Drop Items into Subfolders from Desktop Without Opening an Explorer Window?

My inquiry (in my opinion) seems pretty silly but, it's just based on making my "desktop cleaning" a little more convenient. I like using folders to keep my files neat and organized but, I don't ever ...
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Which is the directory in the Raspbian Jessie OS where the Iceweasel (Firefox port) files are kept in?

Which is the directory in the Raspbian Jessie OS where the Iceweasel (Firefox port) files are kept in? I am trying to install Java 8u101 into my Raspberry Pi's Iceweasel but I'm always unsuccessful...
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Getting listing of files in split-volume 7zip archive

I'm using the following command to create a multi-part (each 1G) 7zip archive under Windows 10 (basically a full backup of my documents area): 7z a -r -v1g -bb -y \path\to\zips\xyzzy.7z . This ...
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Ubuntu home folder larger than sum of user folders

I'm running Ubuntu 14.04. I don't understand this: >> cd /home >> sudo du -shc * | sort -hr 13G total 13G myuser >> ls -a . .. myuser >> cd myuser >> sudo du -shc * |...
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How to index ftp server on linux (preferably using gui)?

Basically I'm using FileZilla right now but wouldn't mind to use any other gui. What I want is to index all directories and files in an ftp server so I can review them later (without the need of any ...
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Get first two strings of each filename in a directory as a txt file

I need to clean up strings like this (where I read in a group of image names), where I only want the first two strings (currently I'm using, in Windows 7 cmd line - dir /a/b/p > textfile.txt): Acaena ...
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Create folders based on cell values in Excel + create hyperlink

I have the following cell values (Column FOLDERNAME) for which I'd like to automatically create a folder in my current spreadsheet active directory. How to do that, this is my first question? Inside ...
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List Files in a Subdirectory and get Relative Paths only with Windows Command Line

I want to use the Windows command line to list files with path. For example: ~\folder1 \1.jpg \2.jpg ~\folder2 \01.jpg \02.jpg I want the output to be similar to the relative paths rather ...
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FTP connection to directory failed

I am curently testing one dedicated server in which I can join it by this ip address http://IPADDRESS/~niremco/ and there I can see the index.html. I have also a cpanel which gives me the settings ...
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How to make a custom collection or grouping folders in windows?

I use windows 8.1. I have 10 folders in my root folder of a drive, namely folder1, folder2, folder3, folder4, folder5, folder6, folder7, folder8, folder9 and folder10. I want to group these folders ...
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Windows 7 (64-bit): "C:\Program Files" versus "C:\Program Files (x86)" [duplicate]

I am running Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit). I have read that the difference between "C:\Program Files" versus "C:\Program Files (x86)" is that one is for 32-bit executables whereas the other is for ...
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Find list of directories of unreadable NTFS partition

I have a failing hard disk with two NTFS partitions: C: contains Windows (107 GB) D: which stores my data (393 GB partition) I am using an Ubuntu live session as booting into Windows causes a BSOD; ...
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ls: cannot access file: No such file or directory

Context: I added a drive to my machine, and for whatever reason, I am unable to access a directory(?) on it. ls -l ls: cannot access Downloads: No such file or directory total 56 d????????? ? ? ?...
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Unable to view contents of directory on Linux server via FTP, or using "dir" via shell, able to find files within directory nonetheless

I have a directory on my Linux (CentOS) server which serves as a repository for uploaded files from a webpage. I noticed I was not able to open the file using Filezilla via FTP (was formerly able to),...
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Directory structure with Windows commands

I would like to get a directory structure in Windows like the output of dir /S, but only line beginning like this: Directory of...
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Look word inside file in directory

I am new at Bash. I have a directory tags with a lot of .txt files with similar names like this [coral/home/tags]$ ls: file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt file4.txt Each .txt file contains information ...
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How to list ftp directory through html

So i finally got a brazilian free hosting provider to host my files but when i type the my URL in the browser it says "PAGE NOT FOUND". Id need to edit/create a "index.html". But thats not what i want,...
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Download images from a site

I want to download images from a site say, xyz.com which has the following directory structure: ./a/b/c/d/pikachu.jpg There are thousands of images inside d directory and they are directly ...
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Is there a Window's Command Line Option to Show the Sizes of Directories

When I do a dir command it, gives this information: 02/11/2015 01:39 PM <DIR> bar 11/11/2014 07:22 AM <DIR> buz 02/12/2015 01:35 PM 140,660,736 foo.sdf 01/...
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Directory Listing includes Date Modified, File Size into text file/excel file

I want to list an entire drive's (Z:) directories, subdirectories, and files in a single text file with all the dates and the file sizes. I can then open the file inside Excel. I am currently using ...
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Show subfolders only with Total Commander?

I have a directory that looks like this Folder01 Subfolder 1 File1 File2 File3 Subfolder 2 File1 File2 Subfolder 3 File1 ...
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How to properly setup group file permissions in MacOSX

I have a couple of users, one was created via OSX GUI, one is nobody for nginx and php-fpm. All commands below are executed as root. I created new group for my project: dscl . -create /groups/...
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Make folders' last modified date correspond to last modified date of its child folders/files

I am working with FileZilla to locate the last modified files of my website. I thought the last modified date of a parent folder will correspond to the latest last modified date of its children files ...
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What is l type of directory with `->` and how to navigate these file

I was listing directory , it display few file/directory with l on just ahead of permission columns and these have two names separated with -> with asterisk *(that means executable) . What means of ...
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linux tree command limit number of files displayed in each directory

I want to use tree (or similar) to see the directory structure of a given directory as well as whether each subdirectory has files in it. So, how could I use tree but limit the maximum number of ...
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Batch File:List all files of a type, rename files, flatten the directory

I am looking for help with a batch file(s) that will allow me to move all files of a particular type (*.PDF's for example) to a new folder. HOWEVER I would like to have features not readily apparent ...
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FTP: Unable to connect times out on directory listing

Been going round in circles for this for days now and i'm really stuck. My ftp had been working fine through filezilla, and through the ftp interface in PHP Storm Then all of a sudden the next day i ...
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Finding the newest file in a directory with a million files

I'm currently using ls -t | head -1 to get the name of the newest file. But it takes a long time because my directory has a million files. I guess a chunk of time is lost unnecessarily in ls -t when ...
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Can I know if the directory listing property is correctly setted on a FTP server?

I have to create a specific directory structure on an anonymous FTP server, these directories will contain some metadata files that will be read from a bot of a specific service...but this is not ...
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Import from List - Batch file

Ok here is the scenario. I am trying to figure out a way to copy users' docs and settings (Favorites, My Documents and Desktop) to a network location as a backup for decommissioned drives. My problem ...
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How can I show files only in Total Commander?

I don't want to use standard SEARCH (AltF7 in Total Commander. Instead, I would like the option to display all files (including those in subfolders of current directory). Is there a way to do it in ...
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Go to directory with unknown name

While unpacking a tarball, I encountered a directory which ls reports as "??????????????? ?????". Presumably, the name is not in unicode? Anyway, I can't figure a way to access the folder. I've tried ...
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Given an IP url, can I find url endpoints [closed]

I have an IP address with a webpage on it, reachable from the Internet. I do not have any other information about it. How can I find other URL endpoints associated with it? Examplehttp://999.99.99....
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Download from http server all directories,files and subdirectories and so on

I want to download from remote http server all files directories,files and so on. I found some solutions to ftp server,but doesn't work to http. Until now no luck with wget -r or -m. It download all ...
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Where / how does Apache generate the HTML code used in the default directory listing?

I am looking to modify the HTML that apache generates for its default directory listing. I already know how to create a HEADER.html file that gets included for every directory listing. I am ...
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Get size of folders on an FTP Server recursively

I have an FTP Server where a large number of files/folders are stored. I would like to see how much is stored in each of the folders (including it's subfolders). Is there a way to do this? I.e. get ...
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How to list a subset of files in several directories?

I'm starting to pick up Linux. I have one directory called class03 with five directories in it: _html html dothtml images 123 I need a one-line command that lists all files with -01, -02 and -03 in ...
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Find directories with all files inside older than X?

Is it possible on linux to find directories where all contained files and directories (and sub-directories' files etc.) are older than a given age? In other words, if a directory has one or more files ...
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Where is lighttpd.conf? Mybook world 2 whitelight webserver

I'm attempting to get my Roku streaming box with a channel called Roksbox to stream content off my MyBook World 2 whitelight. I want a directory listing of a certain folder of a share, Media. It's ...
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What is a tool for getting a complete directory/file listing with detailed information including hash(es)?

Once in a while, I take a complete snapshot of my drives with a command like the following. > for %i in (%drives_hd%) do @dir %i:\/s/a/o>>File_List.txt This gives detailed information (path,...
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what is the command for listing files/dirs recursively of specific directories

suppose in my current directory, I have 50 sub-directories. Now, I am interested only in about 20 of those sub-directories (whose names match a pattern). I would like to recursively list the contents ...
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Specific ls output

Right now I'm calling the the following command ls -R and am receiving an output like this: .: file.txt script.php ./dir: file.txt other.java Is it possible to get the output to look like this: ./...
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How to browse a website which allows directory browsing but has a default page?

There is a website which allows directory browsing; I know this for sure because I can browse directories where there is no default page. There is a directory which I want to browse, but it instead ...
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How can I export a directory structure in Windows?

In Windows Explorer, there is a tree-view to see the overview of a directory structure. I want to share the structure to other people. How can I get a browsable tree-view of the directory structure ...
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How can I view a directory as a tree in Windows 7

I would like to view my directories as trees, but not like they are shown on the left tab in Windows Explorer: there you just have the directories shown, while I also want their contents. ...
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Very slow directory reads when there is lots of files

On several Windows 7 boxes I'm having trouble with very large files. On my external hard drive I have a 2.2 GB Executable (extractor) as well as a 2.3 GB 7z file. However when ever I want to go to the ...
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List all directories and subdirectories, excluding directories without files

I would like to list all the directories and sub directories in and below the current path. Since I only wanted to display directories I came up with the following command: find -type d -exec ls -d1 {...
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Windows single character wildcard returns more than expected

I'm trying to do a directory listing of files with filenames consisting of 8 characters followed by a period and a file extension in Windows command shell. The wildcard pattern I'm using is "????????....
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