Questions tagged [mkdir]
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Missing files but system said it exist!
I have a working folder with all output files generated from command.
When I tried to re-coding one of my file, after a few attempts, I realized the files in my folder left only 1/3 of them! I first ...
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Create file in subdirectories that doesn't exist (../new_folder/new_folder/new_file.ext)
For now i use this:
mkdir -p a/b/c/d/e;
touch a/b/c/d/e/file.abc;
Is there more efficient ways?
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fstab and systemd automount overlay
On an embedded device based on Yocto Linux my rootfs is RO, while I have an additional partition for RW data. Now I want to automount at boot an overlay onto /etc stored on a different partition. Here ...
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Is there a one-liner that allows me to create a directory and move into it at the same time?
I find myself repeating a lot of:
mkdir longtitleproject
cd longtitleproject
Is there a way of doing it in one line without repeating the directory name? I'm on bash here.
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Synchronizing with rsync outputs error "Invalid argument (22)" for directories with dots and other symbols in their name
I tried to synchronize /dir1 (ext4) and /dir2 (ntfs) using rsync -azP, but got these errors:
rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "dir2/X.Y." failed: Invalid argument (22)
rsync: recv_generator: ...
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Can't create included directory [duplicate]
I'd like to create a new directory that looks like /dir1/dir2/dir3/dir4 but I can't.
If I create the directories one by one from the parent and new parent directories, everything works:
lm@debian:~$ ...
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mkdir -p dir with braces created wrongly
I executed the following code in Ubuntu server 16.04 xenial:
mkdir -p /root/backups/{db, dirs}
I recall that in another system, it worked like charm creating all 3 dirs:
/root/backups/
/root/...
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Why did this mkdir not work properly? [duplicate]
Why did this mkdir not work properly?
The folder is strangely named as {a.
mkdir -p myfile/{a/a{1..10}, b/b{10..30}, c/c{1,2,3}}
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sudo mkdir /srv/www permission denied
I'm setting up a new webserver on Debian.
As my previous install had everything located in /srv/www I want to use the same setup to avoid rewriting a bunch of config files.
However executing mkdir /...
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Inside Docker: mkdir(-p): No such file or directory
I have encountered a strange problem where the mkdir -p command fails to create a directory and returns the following error message:
[root@202 ~]# pwd
/root
[root@202 ~]# mkdir -p a/b/c
mkdir: cannot ...
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how to create a directory that already exists with another name
i want to create directory called "A" inside my home directory but i don't know if such a directory already exists. i want to write a command that creates the directory if it does not exist. ...
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touch/mkdir seems to ignore default ACL
I am pretty sure it is a stupid mistake but I can't seem to figure it out by myself, so please have a look.
I set up an ACL for the current folder like so:
zigbee2mqtt@nuc:/tmp/folder$ getfacl .
# ...
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move and make directory
I know its a big classical but I didn't found the exact situation that concerns me
I need a mkdir+mv command that can be invoked like that :
mvdir /home/user/Documents/irs.pdf /mnt/work/45/223/insight/...
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mkdir error, permission denied
i was installed spotify yesterday with snap in kali linux, then i run with snap run spotify and i get error like this :
snap run spotify
WARNING: cgroup v2 is not fully supported yet, proceeding with ...
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replacing explicit user names with variables in mkdir and chown
What specific changes need to be made in the commands below in order to use a variable username and a variable user_home to create a subdirectory within the current user's home and then to change ...
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