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How to install wordlist.txt for gobuster in ubuntu
I found this code sudo apt install wordlist and gave me a various types of wordlist like wamerican etc and these files are not the wordlist .txt file when I used the command gobuster -u (url) -w ...
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How to install wordlist.txt on ubuntu for gobuster
I am using ubuntu download from Microsoft Store and I have gobuster but I don't have any idea on how to install wordlist.txt for gobuster someone please help me out
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Help finding files with the same filename (except what's inside parenthesis) and deleting the smaller size ones
I need to know how to find one or more files with the same filename (except what's inside parenthesis) and delete the one(s) with the smaller size, in a folder. I don't care if it's a GUI app or ...
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Please explain the copy backup types
The following options are available for the --backup option:
none, off never make backups (even if --backup is given)
numbered, t make numbered backups
existing, nil numbered if ...
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Moving 3 pics randomly to another directory
I am using Linux and I'm in a folder it has 10 .jpg images I want to move 3 pictures only without selection by name or size for example my folder is /sdcard /DCIM/camera/ I want 3 pictures from it to /...
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What command can I use to move files from a directory to another, starting from smaller size to bigger size?
I am looking for a a Linux command that can move files from one directory to another directory in ascending order of file sizes, e.g. first files of size 1 Mb, then 1.2 Mb and then 1.3 Mb, etc.
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Bash: Removing Multiple Files
Beginner here...
I have a fruit folder, named "apples," that has extra files I want to remove.
Remove all files that begin with "red_dk" and "red_lt"
Remove all files ...
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How to delete matched filenames from a list
I want to scan for filenames in a source directory and all its sub-directoris then print the output to a file like:
ls -hR >> del.txt
(I, however, don't know how to not list folders)
I don't ...
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How to select/copy/move an HTML file together with its corresponding folder?
On Windows this is working by default, because the files are associated.
Situation is: saving a webpage usually creates two files/folders:
An abc.html file with the webpage's main HTML file
A folder ...
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Why do `ls` and `du` commands show a different size for the same file? [duplicate]
I am currently using Ubuntu 20.04.
When I check a file's size using the du command, I get the following output:
ubuntu@ip-172-31-49-39:/myxfs$ du -h newquota
4.0K newquota
With the ls -la command, ...
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How to copy from full path to full path under new name with overwrite?
I want to copy a file from one directory to another under a different name, using the full path of both directories. The different name already exists in the destination directory so I want to ...
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Can te root user access all directories and folders?
Aŕe there files that the root user can't access, because earlier i was using the "du" comand and some files could not be accessed due to permissions
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How to generate multiple files in sequence with data in sequence?
I have to create 50 files in sequence labelled r01.inp to r50.inp and in each file I need this text in sequence as well.
#!/bin/bash
abc2 r01.inp > r01.log
I used echo and touch to create the 50 ...
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Is it possible to create a series of text files with names based on a pattern and fill them with X characters from /dev/urandom?
Is there a script/tool that will allow me to create N files following a pattern like '[user-defined-string]-N', with N being incrementally increasing numbers ideally starting with a 0 until reaching ...
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How do you figure out what rm -rf deleted
I've accidentally executed rm -rf ~ because I failed to autocomplete a directory and it stayed with my home directory.
I was quick enough to kill the command in time, so no real damage (I think) was ...
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Renaming files with a year prefix from the beginning of the filename to the end
Extreme novice here attempting to figure out how to rename a bunch of files in a directory. I have hundreds of media files that all follow the same syntax for the file name:
year - title of movie.avi
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How can I copy all files which starts with a letter and ends with another to a specific folder?
I’m using Ubuntu-Linux terminal. I want to move from one directory to another the files that begin with the letter “T” and end with “-AN”. Besides, only “.txt” files. I want to do it in the same ...
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rename multiple subfolders (not files) to parent directory name
I've searched for a solution for this, but everything I found relates to renaming files in a subfolder. I want to rename only the subfolders in multiple directories to the names of the parent folders ...
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mv renaming files deleted it [closed]
if i had a playlist filled with music, i would want it to shuffle and play because i wouldn't want to hear the same song order over and over again as it gets old real fast.. same thing here but with ...
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I want to delete all files in a particular directory which are smaller than a specific size
I want to delete the files in a particular directory which are smaller than than a specific size.
For example, I have five files on a server:
File1.20221001 size:-1430KB
File1.20221002 size:-1320KB
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How to check file size and then echo?
Currently I'm trying to check file size from reading a directory
read directory
dirsize=$(du -sh $directory)
if [[ "$dirsize" -ge 2MB ]]; then
echo 'High'
elif [[ "$dirsize" -...
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only highlighted items in a loop
I can write a little loop in Ubuntu 20.04 terminal that will act against several files, such as this command line:
for x in z1*.png; do ext="${x:2}"; extnew="${ext%.png}.jpg"; ...
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How to Replace Files?
In current directory I have a file called file.txt with the contents:
new
and under the current directory there is a folder named inner with a file called file.txt with the contents:
old
How can I ...
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Renaming mounted folder gives "Permission denied"
I have 5 different drives in my PC which are located at /home/mnt/FOLDERS and are by default labelled alphanumerically.
Now I want to rename them and I tried using mv, rename, sudo commands, which ...
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How to remove dot from multiple folders
I have several folders that i want to hide. In my case just by appending a dot at the start of the folder name serves the purpose.
In case of single folder i can just use the command
mv folder .folder
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Rename files and move to parent directory and delete empty subdirectories
ls */*/*
The output of the above command is shown below:
HP14_107_Ch/10785/outs:
metric_summ.csv
HP15_746_Ad/10746/outs:
metric_summ.csv
HP16_317_TD/10787/outs:
metric_summ.csv
I want to rename ...
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delete 50 random rows in a txt files that have their second column labeled as 0
I want to use the terminal commands for deleting 50 random rows from a txt file that is tab separated and has these sample rows where the second column is 0. The value in the second column is either 0 ...
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How to create a new file / an empty file using command or shortcut or without command?
How to create a new file / an empty file using command or shortcut or without command?
Like To create new Folder,
shortcut: Ctrl + Shift + N
Right click and create New Folder
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How would I create a list of sub-folders in a given folder without the full path?
The following in a bash script:
find /Volumes/SpeedyG -type d >> file.txt
...works well to list the folders in that path in a text file,
/Volumes/SpeedyG/folder1
/Volumes/SpeedyG/folder2
/...
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how to recursively remove files from one folder if its file name doesn't appear in another folder
I have two folders where one contains txt files and the other .jpg files with the exact name. However, txt files are much more than jpg files.
folder_1/00.txt
folder_1/01.txt
folder_1/02.txt
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Copy new created file to annother folder
I have folder A where a new pdf file is created automatically at irregular time occurrence from an external process. This is my archive folder. It should remain untouched. I need to make a copy of ...
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Finding largest file in a directory but only files not directories
With this code I can find largest files in /usr directory which includes directories as well
du -a /usr | sort -n | tail -n 2
But I want only files not directories what can I do?
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How to create a file with the following structure?
Consider the following rows:
E i -1 -1.0000000000000000e+00 -1.0000000000000000e+00 -1.0000000000000000e+00 0 0 1 0 0 0 0
U GEV MM
V -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0
P 1 535 0.0000000000000000e+00 0....
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Moving files to other drive as previous OS stopped working [duplicate]
I need some help with moving all the contents of my C: drive to a folder on another drive in the computer and I am trying to use Ubuntu now as my attempts with Zorin failed. Can I somehow just create ...
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display the filenames with 4 or more characters using ls
How to display the filenames with 4 or more characters using the ls command
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How to list all ASCII files present in a directory?
I want to list all ASCII files that are without extensions(.txt) in my present working directory(home).
I started with the ls command in the terminal but i don't know what i should put in the options ...
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cat : Do not read stdin if no input file is given on the command line
I have a script that concatenates files with cat. It contains roughly the following line that hangs the script in reading the standard input if the directory contains no files:
cat /path/to/dir/* > ...
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Sort files according to the name containing numeric values
I have files in my system like this -
-rw-r--r-- 1 abc abcadm 14852497 Jul 23 01:11 ABCD_72_3_20210722_163502.csv
-rw-r--r-- 1 abc abcadm 14853145 Jul 23 01:11 ABCD_72_1_20210722_163502.csv
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why is output different of counting files?
I just want to count all the files in a directory. I used two method what I found:
tree /home/bkp
Whit this method the output is 2177879 file.
find /home/bkp -type f | wc -l
And with that one is ...
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Recovering a moved file in ubuntu
I meant to copy a file from one directory to another. Instead, I moved it using the mv command. I made a lot of changes to this file and now realize that I have lost the original file.
Is there a way ...
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How to write all file name in a text file and output to a different folder (directory)?
I have a folder with about 5000 files. I want the file name into a text file. I tried
ls >> Out_file.txt
but I want the output file to be saved in a different directory/folder.
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Hide files and folders from specific apps only
I want to make a folder invisible to just one specific application. Is there any way to do that?
I want the folder to be visible to everything else on the system, just not the one specific application....
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How to differentiate between a file without an extension and a folder without using `cd`?
What is the difference between a file without an extension and a folder? What I mean exactly is that when I create a file in the terminal, for example:
touch somefile
then delete that file and create ...
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How to copy multiple files to a new folder in a new path in one command?
[These are the files I want to copy over][1]
Example command I have tried but does not work:
cp permanent_waiver_* /existingpath/newfolder1/newfolder2
This would give me error like no such file or ...
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How to copy files into a new file
How to copy files from one file to another file that has contents I want to keep? In other words, I want the contents of file1 to go in file2 but the info in file1 to be added to the existing stuff in ...
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how to copy a file to another file in separate directories?
So I have created to vm's with the ubuntu 16.04 version. I'm trying to copy my public key into the authorized_keys file, how I have done this is with the command cp id_rsa.pub home/vagrant/.ssh/ I ...
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Nautilus opening from terminal but not upon clicking
I am currently using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Whenever I am clicking on the 'Files' icon in the Unity launcher or from the ubuntu dock, a buffering icon appears but Files-Manager (Nautilus) never gets ...
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Transfer files from multiple directories into a single one
I have some folders, for example /Desktop/tat, /Desktop/sac and /Desktop/ras, each of which has many files of different formats.
I want to transfer all the data from these folders to a new one, named /...
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What is include.txt and exclude.txt in my Downloads folder?
My Downloads folder has two files that I'm not sure what they are there for: "include.txt" and "exclude.txt."
"include.txt' only shows "sources/boot.wim."
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The Linux command line for beginner | Creating folders and files
I'm trying to go through the tutorial for creating folders and files, however when I followed the instructions I'm getting a different result. When I type ls it shows a bunch of stuff instead of dir 1 ...
