Using cp to copy the same ~20 GB file from one folder on the local disk to another folder on the same local disk takes less time -- about 9 minutes in real time (~51 seconds in system time, …

will log the message with the facility user.notice. With many Linux systems this will be enough to have a file /var/log/user.log opened and appended to, with others you may need to define a …

Nov 18, 2014 · I found the GNU docs helpful: "In copy-pass mode, [requested by the -p option, cpio] reads the list of files to copy from the standard input; the directory into which it will copy …

Unix & Linux help chat. Unix & Linux Meta ... So this should copy the files and subfolders, and output the ...

Dec 25, 2013 · Unix/Linux recursive copy of files and folders over a secure shell using the code following: scp -r <host@machine_name:from_remote_directory_path> …

The T means it is sticky (only the owner of a file can delete it). With both the x permission and the sticky bit, you would see a lowercase t; the uppercase T says “no access permission but sticky …

I often find myself copy-pasting long path in order to create a copy of a file cp /path/to/file/file1 ...

If you want to copy the file to a different directory, and append the timestamp to the original file name, you can do it this way — ${source##*/} expands to the value of source without the part …

Jul 24, 2014 · I need to copy and over-write a large amount of files, I've used the following command: # cp -Rf * ../ But then whenever a file with the same name exists on the destination …

Jun 18, 2018 · Copying files from the currently running system to another disk is problematic. You should better use a live system. But with cp you cannot copy devices from /dev, you can only …