I have 1000 videos which contain both mp4 and mkv format. I want to copy all mkv files to another directory using linux commands. How could I do that?
cd firstdir
cp *.mkv /path/to/seconddir/
In the sourceFile parameter, use *.mkv.
This tells the linux terminal to copy every file.
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I'm trying to make a copy of one directory files into another directory.
I have Desktop/projectOne and Desktop/projectTwo and I'm trying to copy projectOne files into projectTwo. I need to use terminal for this as I need to copy hidden files also and I'm not familiar with linux commands...
So my question is...
What commands do I have to use to copy all files (hidden files included) from Desktop/projectOne to Desktop/projectTwo?
What commands do I have to use to copy only hidden files from Desktop/projectOne to Desktop/projectTwo?
Thanks in advance.
cp -r
Example: cp -r /oldfolder /home/newfolder
Noticed: if newfolder is already exist it will create new folder in it
/home/newfolder/oldfolder
I'm trying to download multiple files trough SFTP on a linux server using
sftp -o IdentityFile=key <user>#<server><<END
get -r folder
exit
END
which will download all contents on a folder. It appears that find and grep are invalid commands, so are for loops.
I need to download files having a name containing a string e.g.
test_0.txt
test_1.txt
but no file.txt
Do you really need the -r switch? Are there really any subdirectories in the folder? You do not mention that.
If there are no subdirectories, you can use a simple get with a file mask:
cd folder
get *test*
Are you required to use sftp? A tool like rsync that operates over ssh has flexible include/exclude options. For example:
rsync -a <user>#<server>:folder/ folder/ \
--include='test_*.txt' --exclude='*.txt'
This requires rsync to be installed on the remote system, but that's very common these days. If rsync isn't available, you could do something similar using tar:
ssh <user>#<server> tar -cf- folder/ | tar -xvf- --wildcards '*/test_*.txt'
This tars up all the files remotely, but then only extracts files matching your target pattern on the receiving side.
I've tried multiple ways of creating a zip or a tar.gz on the mac using GUI or command lines, and I have tried decompressing on the Linux side and gotten various errors, from things like "File.XML" and "File.xml" both appearing in a directory, to all sorts of others about something being truncated, etc.
Without listing all my experiments on the command line on the Mac and Linux (using tcsh), what should 2 bullet proof commands be to:
1) make a zip file of a directory (with no __MACOSX folders)
2) unzip / untar (whatever) the Mac zip on Linux with no errors (and no __MACOSX folders)
IT staff on the Linux side said they "usually use .gz and use gzip and gunzip commands".
Thanks!
After much research and experimentation, I found this works every time:
1) Create a zipped tar file with this command on the Mac in Terminal:
tar -cvzf your_archive_name.tar.gz your_folder_name/
2) When you FTP the file from one server to another, make sure you do so with binary mode turned on
3) Unzip and untar in two steps in your shell on the Linux box (in this case, tcsh):
gunzip your_archive_name.tar.gz
tar -xvf your_archive_name.tar
On my Mac and in ssh bash I use the following simple commands:
Create Zip File (-czf)
tar -czf NAME.tgz FOLDER
Extract Zip File (-xzf)
tar -xzf NAME.tgz
Best, Mike
First off, the File.XML and File.xml cannot both appear in an HFS+ file system. It is possible, but very unusual, for someone to format a case-sensitive HFSX file system that would permit that. Can you really create two such files and see them listed separately?
You can use the -X option with zip to prevent resource forks and extended attributes from being saved. You can also throw in a -x .DS_Store to get rid of those files as well.
For tar, precede it with COPYFILE_DISABLE=true or setenv COPYFILE_DISABLE true, depending on your shell. You can also throw in an --exclude=.DS_Store.
Your "IT Staff" gave you a pretty useless answer, since gzip can only compress one file. gzip has to be used in combination with tar to archive a directory.
Hi I work with fedora 17 and I want to create zip file
There are four files in my directory /tmp/manager/
sos.prj
sos.shp
sos.shx
sbb.shh
I want to create zip file from sos.prj,sos.shp,sos.shx files
I want to use grep. In other words, I want to create zip file from grep's result
Can anybody help me?
zip myArchiveName *.{prj,shp,shx}
This will zip all files with your extensions listed into a zip file named myArchiveName.zip
People normally use tar and some archiver, examples:
tar czf manager.tar.gz /tmp/manager/
tar cjf manager.tar.bz2 /tmp/manager/
tar cJf manager.tar.xz /tmp/manager/
.xz format often yields the highest compression ratio and this is the compression format used for .rpm in Fedora.
Perhaps the OP was thinking of using grep to find all the sos.* files but as #Impossibear says it's easier to just use a wildcard. If you want to focus on sos files, you could use zip myArchive sos.*
I am using terminal on linux. I am in my current folder now. I want to take a file in this folder that I am currently in and copy it in the exact same folder and I also want to rename it.
What command should I use?
Copy command works well.
cp /currentfolder/filename /currentfolder/newfilename
If you wanna copy a file like .cpp file it is really easy to use:
cp filename.cpp destination