Sudo Copy

[whare1]

Just a quick one guys/gals

command for sudo to copy multiple files to a root privileged directory (usr/share/games/)

Thanx
Will

[BlahBlah_X]

are you using the KDE or Gnome edition?

Gnome: in a terminal run sudo nautilius

KDE: in a terminal run sudo konqueror or sudo dolphin

Both of these will open a new window with the file manager and root capabilities.

[whare1]

Im running Cassandra so it will be Gnome

so I tried what you suggested and got this

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sudo: nautilius: command not found

Hmmm just one more thing that I managed to screw up

Thanx

Will

[scorp123]

command for sudo to copy multiple files to a root privileged directory (usr/share/games/)

If you are running GNOME then nautilus is probably there. You can open the file manager as normal user, right? Running any GUI programs as "root" is a bad idea anyway. So instead I'd like to introduce you to some shell commands. First of all, they're sort of "universal" and secondly: GUI or no GUI, they work.

So you want to copy stuff into /usr/share/games/ ... Let's suppose you downloaded some *.mp3 files (e.g. background music for a game?) and now need to move them there ...

The command sequence would be:

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cd /path/to/where/the/files/where/downloaded
sudo cp *.mp3 /wherever/you/want/

If you need to copy complete sub-directories, you could do e.g. this:

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cd /where/the/sub-folders/are
sudo cp -R ./* /where/this/stuff/need2go/


Explanation: dot-slash " ./ " means "right here" in UNIX-shell speak. So when you type something like "cp -R ./* ....." then this means in proper English: "copy everything (= *) Recursively from right underneath here (= ./ ) to this target location."

[whare1]

Thanx scorp that was great

[NiksaVel]

and in case you were wondering why nautilus didn't work it's because it is called nautilus, not nautilius

but listen to scorp he know what he's talking about

[whare1]

but listen to scorp he know what he's talking about

I agree he seems to

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