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Organized data encoded in a pre-defined format and stored on a filesystem.

In the computational sense, one-dimensional array of bytes stored in a filesystem, typically encoded a pre-defined format, often indicated by a file-extension or "magic number". More "durable" than in-memory storage.

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Group Policy Files - Active Directory

I am having a whole lot of trouble getting some files distributed across the network. My settings are: Action: Replace Source: \\[fqdn]\Repo\sqljdbcl.jar Destination: %ProgramFiles%\Java\jre1.8.0_25\lib\ext\sqljdbc.jar Attributes: Read…
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How to show the hexvalues of a line of a large file in Unix?

I am importing data from a large text file into a database and am getting an error on line X of the file. If I look at the line with the less viewer I do not see anything strange, because, most probably, the line has non printable characters. Then I…
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What is the most efficient way to keep data synchronized between two locations?

For example, I would like to keep a lot of music files synchronized on two different hard drives. What is the most efficient way to do this? The more automated the method, the better!
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Weird 0 byte files in root

In the root of several of our old CentOS machines (CentOS release 5.8 (Final)) In the root of the ext3 file system I see the following: I've removed some of these, but they seem to continue coming back. Here are the timestamps -rw-rw---- 1 root …
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Check if all files in a directory exists elsewhere

I'm about to remove an old backup directory, but before doing so I'd like to make sure that all these files exist in a newer directory. Is there a tool for this? Or am I best off doing this "manually" using find, md5sum, sorting, comparing,…
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Duplicate File Finder

What are some good tools to Find duplicate files? Duplicate files are really bad when recording backup CDs/DVDs, then I want to pass a reliable duplicate file finder before the backup process. I'm using Windows7, but any windows-compatible tool will…
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File System with Real-Time Data Deduplication

Is there a file system that stores files under a hash so there are no duplicates? It can be under any operating system. I know Git does that, but I'm looking for something that can run in real-time.
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how to delete a insane number of files from an unix system?

On a system with linux there are 2 folders with aprox 12gb used(out of 500gb) and all inodes are used by some s
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Is it possible to GET or PUT two specific files at a time using SFTP without wildcard?

From a directory of dozens of files, is it possible to GET or PUT two files at once using SFTP? I do not want to use a wildcard because I don't necessarily know the names of all the files and don't want to affect other files. I'm hoping there's…
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Ramifications of rebooting a file server when files are open

This may prove to be a stupid question, but I've scoured in internet and found nothing to that gives me a concrete answer. I'm curious as to potential consequences of a file server being rebooted or crashing when users have files open. Now common…
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Windows Server 2008 + IIS7: .ogg files can not be played

I have the strange trouble. There are .mp3 and .ogg files in the folder of web application in my server (IIS7.5, Windows Server 2008 R2). Web application has flash player. It can play .mp3 only, but it don't play .ogg-files. Same web application in…
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Simple easy to use CLI file index search on unix?

I need a simple unix utility that would allow me to search within files quickly and with basic parameters (this folder, not this kind of files...). Currently I use a hand crafted find function with grep and many parameters. It's fast enought on…
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Move all files to their own folder

Is there any way on a linux box to move every file in a directory into their own sub directory (i.e. make a directory named after it and move it in)?
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Delete files created 5 mins or earlier in a folder

On CentOS, how can I delete files which are created 5 mins ago or earlier in a folder? Thanks!
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Unable to remove file using 'rm'

In one of our severs (IBM AIX), we have a file in path /data/1002/ which we were not able to remove or delete using the 'rm' command. The error message we got is "rm: S1208001.002: A file or directory in the path name does not exist." With the "-f"…
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