How To See The Files In Opt Directory

Hi guys,
.
For no apparent actions from me, hidden folders and files show
in my /user/home directory, they are as follows:-

folders:
.adobe .cache .config .cups .filezilla .gimp-2.8 .gnupg .gphoto .gstreamer-0.10 .icedtea .java .local .macromedia .mozilla .pki .thumbnails

Files:
.bash_history .bashrc .esd_auth .ICEauthority

In my / directory
File: ./readahead

Seeking help to verify the above folder and files are not from a harmful source or application?

If they do not post any thread to the system, how can I conceal
these folders and files, so that they don't show up any more in
my home and / directory ?

Many thanks.

I'm trying to figure out if find could do this. I have a folder with 1000 files. I want to delete 150 files on that folder regardless of timestamp and filename. Is there a tool, command or option on find that could do this, please let me know.

Combining mtime or ctime to find is not advisable since it will not count the files or even if there are matches, I would still need to sum up the files until I reach 150 files.

Any suggestions?

Hey, I'm aware that /etc/ stores config files and in my home directory I also have dot files as well as a .config folder.

And I'm told not to edit /etc/ but create a copy in my home directory to preserve original files. Is it as simple as creating the full path the same as /etc/ and editing it in home folder?

Ideally this is how I hope it works, because I don't want to edit /etc/ and end up with a bunch of custom, non default files.

Hello, I have an embedded linux device. I can connect to the device and I can upload or download files. No problem with this. But, at first connection, I want to connect to "/" directory instead of "/root". In the device file system, there are files ssh_config and sshd_config under /etc/ssh directory. I think I have to do something with these files but I don't know what.

I don't exactly know what mean "/root" and "/" directories. I think that the real root directory is "/" directory which is empty but when I connect with filezilla, the "/root" directory is the default so I had to go back to / directory everytime.

Hello Everyone! I'm somewhat new to linux, and getting my feet wet by building my first linux server.

So what i have is an application that moves/sorts files. Another program that catalogs them.

The problem is that each app uses it's own user. So my question is if there is any way that files owned by prog1user can be read by prog2user?

I have tried doing a chmod -R 755 Directory and that has allowed the second program to see the files, but I'm guessing this has certain security risks (although I'm not so worried about the files in this directory).

Anyways I was wondering if there was a proper way to do this? OS is debian wheezy.

Cheers!

Hello Folks.

I'm searching for a easy way to rename multiple files from CLI but didn't find any easy way for me so I'm reaching out to you guys for help.

This is what I want to do (from CLII or script). I want to move files with a sequence number on the name of the files (msg0000, msg0001, msg0002 and so on) to let's say msg0066, msg0067 and so on. Each of this file name has two other files (msg0000.wav, msg0000.WAV and msg0000.txt).

The idea is to move them from one directory to another and following a sequence in the file names, is there a way I can do this pain free?

Any help on this matter will be greatly appreciates and I'm talking about over 100 files I need to move following the sequence of the receiving directory.

Thanks!

Hello.
How can I Generate the files name in a directory into a TXT file? I mean is create a list if files.

Tnx.

am trying to use tar in combination with find, the goal is to all files in /export that have been modified in the last 24 hours (back up purposes), then tar them so I can untar on the backup server, updating just the modified files.

Perhaps there is a better way, however, I have tried using cpio but the problem come in when I copy to the NAS drive (NTFS) I lose all my owner/group and permissions. I have found that if I tar the files, then copy them to the NAS, when I untar on the server, it will retain the owner/group and permissions.

So… here is what I have tried:

First, I use the find command to see what files should be in the tar archive.
Code:

/export $ find . -depth -mtime 0 -print
./file4
./file3
.

Ok, that looks right, now I will try to pipe that in to tar
Code:

/export $ find . -depth -mtime 0 -print0 | tar -czvf backup.tar.gz --null -T - 
./file4
./file3
./
./share/
./share/pdf/
./share/pdf/penny-2014-09-03-11:41.30.pdf
./share/pdf/penny-2014-09-03-14:25.17.pdf
./share/pdf/penny-2014-09-03-11:24.36.pdf
./share/pdf/penny-2014-09-03-14:37.12.pdf
tar: ./share/pdf/.directory: Cannot open: Permission denied
./share/pdf/penny-2014-09-02-14:52.06.pdf
./share/pdf/penny-2014-09-03-12:18.43.pdf
tar: ./share/PDF: Cannot open: Permission denied
./share/file3
tar: ./share/.directory: Cannot open: Permission denied
./dir1/
./dir1/file1
./file4
./file2
./file3
tar: ./.directory: Cannot open: Permission denied
./list
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

It seems that it is trying to tar all the files in that directory. When I view the files in backup.tar.gz all of the files from /export are in there not just the modified ones

SUSE 11. I have issued the command "gzip -r -c directory > archive.gz" over a complete directory tree. I've got no errors or warnings. I can decompress the gz file also without errors, but what I get is a single file which is the concat of all of the original files, including binaries, without posibility of splitting them into the original ones.

I suppose I've lost my files, no?.

Secondary question: why does gzip let me issue that destructive command?

Help!! In 12.04.5 Ubuntu, the /boot directory was full and had a lot of duplicate files from different dates, some I thought were unnecessary headers of updates. However, one series of files was called vmlinuz-3.2.0-29-generic. I moved all the files to /obsolete_files. I rebooted after having trouble upgrading packages (I think this is a second problem with this machine). I now get the following prompt.
grub rescue>

Is there a way to access the directory system so that I can move those files back? I really only need to retrieve one or two files off the system.

Code:

grub rescue>ls
(hd0) (hd0,msdos5) (hd0,msdos1) (fd0)

It doesn't under boot, or insmod. I can set prefixes. Am I doomed?