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I tried something like mv . .. but it doesn't work.
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I've got a problem with apt-get update and apt-get install ... commands .
every time update or installing fails and errors are :
Get:1 http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg [198B]
Ign http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable/main Translation-en_US
Get:2 http://dl…
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sh@ubuntu:/home/ccpp/helloworld$ make
gcc-4.6 -O2 -DMODULE -D_KERNEL_ -W -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -isystem /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include -c -o hello-1.o hello-1.c
hello-1.c:4:0: warning: "MODULE" redefined [enabled by default]
<command-line>:0:0: note: this is…
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I am having trouble accessing the several critical header files that show to be a part of the build process.
The "Ubuntu Software Center" shows "Build Essentials" as installed:
Next I did the following two commands, which did not improve the problem:
~$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
[sudo]…
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I'm trying to update my Debian machine to 2.6.32-46 (which is the new stable). However, after doing apt-get update my apt-cache search linux-image shows me:
linux-headers-2.6.32-5-486 - Header files for Linux 2.6.32-5-486
linux-headers-2.6.32-5-686-bigmem - Header files for Linux 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem
linux-headers-2…
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I'm helping out with a project for an embedded device that only has USB and no serial. This device is running Linux.
These days, when we need to connect to a serial port on a device we typically use a USB to serial adapter (on something like a phone system or a load balancing device, etc). I would…
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Given the following situation...
<path>/mydir1/mydir2
...where mydir2 should have overwritten mydir1, but was instead placed inside, and both directories actually have the same filename. How is that fixed?
Attempting to do mv <path>/mydir/mydir/* <path>/mydir/ or mv <path>/mydir…
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I may be going bonkers here, but I'm trying to move a directory to a new location, overwriting the contents (on Linux, using bash).
Everytime I try it, it responds with "mv: cannot move `./src' to a subdirectory of itself"
eg. I have:
/src
/new/dir/src
/$ mv src/ new/dir/
If I delete the destination…
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Hi,
im using linux with gedit which has the wonderful habit of creating a temp file with a tilde at the end for every file I edit.
im trying to move all of these files at once to a different folder using the following:
find . -iname “*.php~” -exec mv {} /mydir \;
However, its now giving me syntax…
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Hi,
I am using the following script to search and replace the deprecated functions in a file with the newer ones.
5 for strFile in `ls deprecated_functions_search_and_replace.txt `
6 do
7 sed "s/ereg_replace[^\(]*(\([^,]*\),/preg_replace\1('#'.\2.'#',/g" $strFile > temp_file
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I tried something on my vm ubuntu and managed to mess it up... luckily I made a snapshot not too long a go.
I renamed a file to ,,, and tried to mv ,,, *. The entire dir's content of the dir disappeared.
Can someone please explain to me what happened?
Thank you.
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