Some basic Linux questions

[MvL]

• I have a few basic Linux questions. I thought lets ask it at the unRAID forums cause unRAID has a awesome helping community.
   
  
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    How to list certain files (like in dos "list James*")?
     
    How to find and move a couple of files automated?
     
    How to rsync 2 directories?
    

 

I'll do some googling myself but first my nephew's birthday...

[MvL]

To copy a directory to another directory i did:

 

rsync -rvau --append * /mnt/disk2/Movies

 

-r --> recursive

-v --> verbose

-a --> archive

-u --append --> append data onto shorter files

 

Is there a better way?

[RobJ]

For general console help, there is the FAQ, unRAID Console Questions section.  It's old and incomplete, but does have a few tips.

 

The Console commands wiki page has a number of commands, not sure if the one you want is there.  I used to use list constantly in my DOS days!  Nothing like it so far that I can find, but with the less command, you can do a fair amount of viewing.  I currently use Total Commander from Windows, with its built-in lister and viewer.

 

For rsync options, there's a Methods and Tools section (of the Upgrade guide) that has suggested rsync commands.

[MvL]

Thanks for the links! Interesting read.

 

If you do for example this in your movie directory:

 

ls | grep james*

 

You see al movies with the word "james" in it. Find out this afternoon.

 

[trurl]

Thanks for the links! Interesting read.

 

If you do for example this in your movie directory:

 

ls | grep james*

 

You see al movies with the word "james" in it. Find out this afternoon.

Google the linux find command.

[SlrG]

A simple

ls James*

will work too. But be aware, that linux is case sensitive! So the above command won't list files starting with a lowercase james.

[MvL]

A simple

ls James*

will work too. But be aware, that linux is case sensitive! So the above command won't list files starting with a lowercase james.

 

That work too? I'll try. 

[sparklyballs]

A simple

ls James*

will work too. But be aware, that linux is case sensitive! So the above command won't list files starting with a lowercase james.

 

find . -iname "james*" 

 

is case insensitive.

[MvL]

So "-name" is case sensitive and ""-iname" not? Interesting...

[MvL]

Did some testing with the "find" command. I must say a very powerful command!

 

find /mnt/cache/directory\ tocopyfrom/ -name '*group.mkv' -exec mv -v {} /mnt/disk2/directory\ \tocopyto/ \;