Questions tagged [copy]
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Copy hook to write to a file
Often I read a text and need to copy some text blocks to a separate file. Usually, I use copy/paste to some file like a.txt.
Is it possible I do only copy (CTRL+C) for the same effect writing to the file a.txt?
prosti
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How to copy a file or multiple to the directory I previously was?
I do not know if I explained myself but I would like to know once having gone into a directory how to copy files from that directory to the previous one without explicitly writing the path. Thank you for answering.
Davide Luise
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Copying large numbers of files
Trying to backup the contents of a 2 TB external drive to another of equal capacity. Finder copying is extremely slow. Is there a quicker alternative?
Bachalo
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Ubuntu 15.10 gets very slow while copy files, is it safe to change dirty_ratio setting?
My Ubuntu 15.10 hangs while copying files and at some point even the cursor freezes. It's annoying.
In this bug report, a saw a work ground, which consists in modifying dirty_ratio settings, this way:
vm.dirty_background_ratio = 5 vm.dirty_ratio =…
Cosmo
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I want to copy all pdf files into another directory
Linux users! I'm having a issue:
I have all pdf files in directoryDownloads, but I want it to copy all the files in subfolder \Download\BOOKS\. How would I copy all files with for loop?
for files in ...
andrej benedičič
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DVD Shrink equivalent for Ubuntu
On Windows I used DVD Shrink to copy my home movies and such onto new discs.
Whats the best alternative for Ubuntu?
Japaholic
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Error while copying: "no such file or directory"
belkacem@belkacem:~$ sudo cp media/belkacem/01CF36CD84AC8C90/Originals/stvbios.zip /usr/share/games/mame/roms
cp: cannot stat 'media/belkacem/01CF36CD84AC8C90/Originals/stvbios.zip': No such file or directory
Why am I getting this message? What…
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Copy problem in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Whenever I am copying a file, especially video files, to any external USB drive the copy dialog halts at the end of the file and takes a long time to finish the copy.
If there are multiple files then the copy halts for 2-3 minutes after which next…
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Copying files from download folder
Trying to drag and drop a file from downloads folder to a sandisk flash drive. When I drag and drop the file it keeps jumping back to the downloads folder.
user509699
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Unable to start CopyQ - despite process working
One of my favorite plugin does not work, I have checked in console and it seems working fine:
twaszczyk@ktwtomwasnb:~$ copyq --version
CopyQ Clipboard Manager v3.10.0
Qt: 5.12.5
Compiler: GCC
Arch: x86_64-little_endian-lp64
OS: Ubuntu 20.04.1…
Tomasz Waszczyk
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How do I copy only files that overwrite others in a directory
I want to copy and overwrite only files that exist in the destination. Aka excluding 'lonely files' that exist in the source xor the destination.
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Copying selected files in multiple folders to different destination in Ubuntu
I have the folder path in LINUX (Ubuntu) as follows:
/data/nldas/raw/hourly/
in the hourly folder I have sub-folders from 1979 to 2016 and in each year folder I have julian day folders from 1 to 365/366. In each julian day folder, I need to copy…
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Recursively copying specific directories
I was wondering if it's possible to copy multiple specific directories recursively at once.
I know I can copy all sub-directories like so
cp -rp root/pass/dir/* root/other/dir/
But I'm wondering if I can recursively copy specific directories like…
Y12K
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how to copy a file to the desktop
I am just starting out but I am running into issues copying different files. Ultimately I am trying to copy file3.txt to the desktop. I started off by creating a directory and the file3.txt.
cd Desktop
mkdir Classes
mkdir Classes/NOS110
mkdir…
j doe
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There are some unwanted folders out of nowhere when copying, is this a bug?
I was trying to copy a folder named notalentgeek-wiki-pending from my Dropbox folder into Desktop.
However, the resultant folder has an unwanted folder that does not exist in the source folder.
Is this intended? How can I know for sure, that if I…
notalentgeek
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