Did you know that Linux makes it easy to create and use hidden files, which means you can easily tuck important documents away from plain sight? Here's how to manage those files.

In this how-to we will look at the find command and a range of additional arguments which will give us a variety of approaches to finding files and directories.

In this how-to, we will look at how to work with tar archives via the terminal, including two of the most popular compression methods to squeeze every last byte of space.

This will create the new zip file in the current working directory. To unzip a compressed file, right-click it and select Extract Here ( Figure 3 ). Figure 3: Unzipping a file the GUI way in Linux.

Every time you create a new file from the contents of your clipboard, the numerical character will change, such as Clipboard-1.txt, Clipboard-2.txt and Clipboard-3.txt.