Copy 2 Files To Multiple Computers

I'm running Xubuntu and it was a challenge just getting Copy.com on there. (I installed the desktop app on both of my computers.) Now that I have it though, I don't really know how to use it.

I know this is kind of more a Copy.com question, but I don't know anything about Copy.com (besides having it--lol) and besides, I like you LQ guys.

So yeah, I installed the desktop app for Copy.com on both of my computers. I know that if I put something in the Copy folder that will be available to both computers.

But how Copy does the backing up I don't know.

When I change a file or folder do I have to plop that into the Copy folder every time or does Copy somehow update the file or folder in the Copy folder automatically? (It doesn't seem to.)

Okay, when I, say, take the Documents folder from one computer and plop it into the Copy folder that's that. Then I take the Documents folder from the other computer and plop that into the Copy folder, then all the files from both folders will be in the Copy folder (and the Copy cloud), right?

Now I just removed a couple of files from a folder and copied and pasted the folder into the Copy folder. But then when I looked at the Copy folder the files I'd deleted were still there. What's the process? How does it work?

I mean, how does this work as a way of backing things up AND organizing things? To me it seems like a decent way of throwing stuff into the Copy folder (and cloud), but how is that different than Google Drive? I mean, that's not really a backup, is it? It's like a flash drive in the cloud.

And when I combined the same folders (with the same titles anyway, but they each had different files within them) from the two computers I'd expected each folder on each computer to have all the same files that were cumulatively on both. Instead, they're the same. And the cumulative is only on the Copy folder.

I like the notion of just throwing the folders and files into the Copy folder. It's much quicker than Google Drive. But the backing up feature eludes me and the syncing feature makes me fearful that I'll lose data or that the files will become hopelessly less organized.

Thanks.

Hi guys,

I have multiple .csv files with multiple columns/headings, set up essentially like this (obviously more info in the real thing)


Gene Location Ref Var Coverage Function
DMD chrX.... A G 198 exonic
SCN4A chr17.... T C 111 splicing

and so on...

How could I concatenate selected columns into an output file with strings seperated with a comma? eg DMD,A,G,exonic (similar to what you can do in excel). I would like to be able to do this for multiple files in a directory. It would be preferable if all the outputs could be compiled into one file as I'll use this for something else later.
The current protocol in our team is to concatenate each file individually with an excel macro and copy into a file, and it takes a very long time.

Thanks very much!!

Hi all,

As you can probably tell I am new to Linux and new to the forum, I am using Kali and Mint both as live Linux environments on USB drives, all is good and I am finding my way around, the reason for the post is that I need to copy 15 CF cards that have multiple partitions, Windows isn't really an option as it can only see one partition on a removable drive, so here goes with Linux.

The CF cards contain Windows Embedded XP in one partition and a separate partition for user data which isn't protected, not that the contents matter, only the fact that it is bootable with multiple partitions, the object is to upgrade the old 2gb cards to 4gb cards to add an additional program on the embedded drive, but they are both full.

as long as I can copy both partitions over the partition size doesn't matter as I can resize that if necessary, but I need both partitions to copy over to the new drive.

I have read that dd command is the way to go but cant find much on multiple partitions which display in Linux as two drives, so how do I go about this, any pointers

Ideally I would like to automate the process as this is something that we could end up doing on a regular basis, I have seen a USB drive that was plugged into a PC and through a basic GUI allowed you to copy a HDD but I don't know If that would do both partitions, something for the future?

I am currently running a system simulation on multiple files.
I have a computer algorithm written in perl to run "system" simulations for all the files I need

What I am trying to do is put multiple files into one file, only problem is that its not doing exactly what I need it do

Example:

I am "cat txt0.txt txt1.txt txt2.txt txt3.txt > allfiles.txt"

I need it to read as

txt0.txt
txt1.txt
txt2.txt
txt3.txt

Instead its taking all the files and taking the information within each txt file and putting them all together. Info that looks like this


fdfasdfqwdefdfefdkfkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkfsdfasdxfewqfe..........

all clustered together

you get the picture ?

I am really confused how to get this to work, there are over 100 files that need to go into a single file.
That way when I run it through the perl algorithm I created, I can do it in one shot.

Hi all,
I've knowledge about timestamp and i'm trying to use it in a particular scenario. I've multiple folders inside which are different files. Now I'm trying to copy one file (say xyz) which is present in all the folders but has variation in it's content and time of creation into a let's say foldernew.
I'm trying to do this by copying the file xyz from each folders with the new name xyz_(it's orginal timestamp) into folder new.
Can this be done with a single command or do what should I write in a script to execute this?

Note: I want to add the timestamp of xyz when it is created not of the time of copy.

Hi Everyone, I have multiple csv files(>100). They are rain-gauge stations files for precipitation measurement. In these files, the numbers of stations are not equal(i.e. there are missing stations). I want only the stations that are present in all the files. The files have unique station id in column #3. I want to ask if this is possible in Linux?

It may be something along: for h in *.cvs; do sed '?????' $h > rippe_$h && mv rippe_$h $h.xls ; done

Hello every one,

I need to copy many files in to many folders in once, for example I have files result_1 result_2 result_3 and want to copy them to directories 1 2 3 respectively, how can I do that, I have tried cp, echo and find syntax but did not work out.
Any idea?

Hi, all, I am new to the forum and quite new to Linux, I am running Mint and Kali from a USB drive, all is going well with with the software and I am starting to find my way around it.

So, now to my question, I have 15 machines which all run from a CF card and the card has multiple partitions and is a Windows Embedded XP, not that the operating system makes any difference, I need to upgrade all the CF cards from 2gb to 4gb, so unfortunately Windows isn't an option to use to copy the drives as it doesn't recognise multiple partitions on a removable drive, so I cant just remove the drive, clone it and fit the new one.

What I need is a method of cloning the drive completely with both partitions, I have read about dd but cant seem to see anything about doing this with multiple partitions, as Linux sees it as two drives when I plug it in, how can I use dd or anything else to clone the drive which is bootable and has two partitions?

At some point I would like to automate the process as I could have many of these machines/drives to upgrade, is there a way to write a program that will automatically back up the drives from a USB drive and then reinstall it, I have seen this done before but I am not sure if this method did the whole drive, just the main drive or all partitions?

i have a few score of files (>50) in fasta format. these work fine in linux os
but i have to send these to a collegue who uses windows. and these files don't open properly in notepad or wordpad. executing save as to windows format does the trick

but i don't want to manually convert all of them

is ther a way i can accomplish conversion of multiple files and saving them in a format of my choosing using say terminal

Hello all,

I was wondering if there was a way to automatically copy files from an SD card to a DVD burner. I would prefer a differential copy as well.

Any ideas?