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A file system structure in which to store computer files.

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I'm in the following situation > ls H9/ HG01109_chr1_hap1_contigs.list HG01952_chr1_hap2_contigs.list HG02572/ HG03486_chr1_hap1_contigs.list ...
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Is there any hope of using $(<D) here? Any hope of avoiding the mystery dots? $ cat Makefile D=$(HOME)/Downloads test: $D/DreamHost\ Web\ Panel\ _\ Mail\ _\ Message\ Filters.html : mv "$&...
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I use an application that when it starts up, it creates lots and lots of files in a specific directory. These files are apparently useless, as I frequently remove them and I have never seen any ...
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General overview With BorgBackup, I do a backup of my whole $HOME. However, some files (all located on ~/.local/share/) occur a rights error. Probably cause it’s ephemeral files belonging to root, I ...
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General overview The goal is to make Qutebrowser store downloads in a subdirectory of ~/downloads named after the ISO date of the day when the download happend. What I alredy did In my ~/.config/...
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I can't solve what I want using the tree, du, or df commands. I'm using: du version 9.6 tree version 2.2.1 What I want: For the current directory, list all directories recursively to a depth of 3, ...
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When you automatically download and install packages through the apt or dpkg command , it installed in in a very detailed instructions(i mean perfectly in usr/share and usr/lib); i wanted to know : 1 ....
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I've recently realized that I can play my old DVDs (yay!) on my old laptop with a DVD tray using VLC. This is all working fine, but I was wondering how I can get any directory named VIDEO_TS to open ...
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I am working through a tutorial - The Linux Command Line for Beginners - and I want to delete my work so far and start over. I have a directory called tmp within the root directory which has a solid ...
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It's a tutorial problem in a Linux course: The command ls -la / gives this result: total 72 drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Apr 15 23:39 . drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Apr 15 23:39 .. lrwxrwxrwx 1 ...
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I have a bash script that extracts files from a .rar file. I want to extract only *.foo and mydirectory/*.bar. I followed Unrar specific files using wildcards to get at the first group of files, but ...
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There is a server to which I have access (login and password). Logging in as this user on this server it is found that my user is not logged into sudoers. No additional information is available, I ...
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I have a Linux cluster running Debian 7. Its root directory disk space has almost reached its capacity and needs immediate space reduction. Filesystem Size ...
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I need to set a directory in which each member of the group can read/write/execute the scripts/file created by other member of the group. I set my folder like this (getfacl results): # file: dir/ # ...
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$ ls Downloads ls: reading directory 'Downloads': Invalid argument How can I ever again access my precious Downloads directory? I've got something important in there! What next, a ransom note? I've ...
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