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Bookmark or Share- command line - How to copy files via terminal? - Ask UbuntuI have read about copying files with terminal but these examples will help me a lot. So here is what I want to do: Examples: I have a file in /home/levan/kdenlive untitelds.mpg and I want to copy this file to /media/sda3/SkyDrive and do not want to delete any thing in SkyDrive directory.
- How to run Terminal as root? - Ask UbuntuStill in the non-root terminal, press Ctrl+Z to suspend the root terminal. While the root terminal is suspended, you can't use it; its interface will not respond to your actions. Quit the controlling non-root terminal with exit. The graphical root terminal job will be both unsuspended and disowned by the non-root terminal, automatically. In short:
- How do I rename a directory via the command line? - Ask UbuntuTo just rename a file or directory type this in Terminal: mv old_name new_name with space between the old and new names. To move a file or directory type this in Terminal. mv file_name ~/Desktop it will move the file to the desktop.
- How to find the Process ID (PID) of a running terminal program?Open another terminal and run ps ax | grep foo where foo is the name of the unresponsive program. This should return a line of output that looks something like this: $ ps ax | grep firefox 2222 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/lib/firefox-3.6.9/firefox 2231 ?
- How to rename a file in Terminal? - Ask UbuntuA simple way to rename files and folders is with the mv command (shortened from “move”). Its primary purpose is moving files and folders, but it can also rename them since the act of renaming a file is interpreted by the filesystem as moving it from one name to another.
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