Linux: How to backup with a live cd So you’ve booted from your livecd and are in a unix styled terminal… cd /media #mount source of backup sudo mkdir src sudo mount /dev/sda1 src $mount sink of backup #sudo mkdir sink sudo mount /dev/sdb1 sink cp -Rdp src/* sink/.
How to Copy Files with specific extension from multiple directories into a single directory Linux find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 cp -t /home/my/dir/ The only problem is file name conflicts…hmmm how to solve?
This post specifies the default php includes path on a linux distribution. The one I used was gentoo. This is the path that will be globally included in all your php projects. It is: include_path = “.:/usr/share/php5:/usr/share/php” If you want to change this path, just change the above line in php.ini and restart apache or […]
man 7 glob Glob Patterns: Globbing Pathnames Long ago, in Unix V6, the was a program /etc/glob that would expand wildcard patterns.Soon it was built into shell and bash. Glob (Wildcard) Matching A string is a wildcard pattern if it contains one of the characters: ? * [ Globbing is the operation that expands a […]
Copying to External Drive not working KDE If your external drive is of the NTFS filesystem: Sometimes a native linux install does not have the drivers to write to an external drive of the NTFS filesystem. When you try to copy to an external hard drive with dolphin in KDE; it will give you a […]