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Is it possible to use the Linux CLI to move and rename duplicates at the same time?
I'd like to know if it's possible to move/copy files using the command line and automatically rename conflicting files? I scoured the forums and found different suggestions but none of them worked. So ...
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How to fill a flash drive with 1s instead of zeros
I recently ran the F3Tools on a large USB thumb drive that I purchased. It has a 240 GB FAT32 filesystem (not exFAT or NTFS, actual FAT32) on it, and it's supposed to be 256 GB, so I got slightly ...
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Linux - Copy only new and larger files
I have two directories with thousands of files which contain more or less the same files.
How can I copy all files from dirA to dirB which are not in dirB or if the file exists in dirB only overwrite ...
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I accidently overwrote a linux shell program and would like to fix it
I accidentally overwrote one of the programs in the /bin directory, and would like to fix it. I am using Ubuntu 11.10, and would like some way to re-install just this file, without having to re-...
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FTP upload & overwrite does NOT overwite, but creates [file.ext].# instead
This question is a duplicate of one in StackOverflow, and I was recommended to ask this question here instead. My apologies if the multi-post is undesirable.
I have a very strange issue with FTP that ...
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Linux group permissions getting overwritten by owner
I am not a user of Linux, but I am encountering some permissions problems with it that I hope someone can shed some light on.
Bit of background: A colleague of mine has a Linux box (running Debian I ...
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