File counting in a directory is a common task that many users might need to perform. It could be for administrative purposes, understanding disk usage, or organizing files in a systematic manner.

In the realm of Linux command-line tools, few commands are as versatile and widely used as cat. This article dives deep into the capabilities of the Linux cat command, merging insights from multiple ...

The Unix / Linux filesystem hierarchy can seem quite daunting to those new to the OS. It was the same for us when we got started. But this mysterious filesystem isn’t that mysterious after all; we ...

Directories on Linux systems provide an easy and very convenient way to organize your files. In fact, depending on how you like to work, you can set up as many layers of directories within directories ...

Why bother with complicated regular expressions when you can point and click your way to finding the files and folders you need?

The Linux comm command makes it easy to compare a couple text files and determine if they both contain the same lines -- whether the file contents are sorted or not. The comm command on Linux systems ...

We’ve all got to that point on a given system where we start to run out of storage space. Do we buy more storage, perhaps one of the best SSDs, or do we search and find the largest files quickly? In ...

If you use C or C++, you have probably learned how to open a file and read data from it. Usually, we read a character or a line at a time. At least, it seems that way. The reality is there are usually ...

Linux 101: How to copy files and directories from the command line Your email has been sent Are you new to Linux? If so, you’ve probably found the command line can be a bit intimidating. Don’t ...