Linux has over 1,000 commands on a basic service. When you migrate to the desktop, that number grows. For example, in /usr/bin on Pop!_OS there are 1,615 commands, and in /usr/sbin, there are 609 ...

Fortunately, Linux makes working with hidden files very easy, whether in a GUI file manager or the command line. Also: The first 5 Linux commands every new user should learn Let me show you how.

If you have a command that outputs a lot of data to the terminal, you might want to send that output to a file for easier (or later) viewing or sharing. Jack Wallen shows you how.

The Linux if command can help find types, permissions, and content of files, ... The command above would create the file using the touch command if it doesn’t already exist.

In the world of Unix-based operating systems like Linux, file packaging and compression utilities play a pivotal role. One such utility is the zip command, an effective tool for compressing files to ...

The touch command can be used to create a new file or to update the timestamp on an existing file. To add an empty file to the newdir/2/docs directory, you could use a command like this: $ touch ...

Linux 101: How to create a directory from the command line Your email has been sent Hello admins, Jack Wallen here with a Linux 101-level tip. This time around we’re going to learn how to create ...

Splitting Files into Chunks. The split command also allows you to split a file into a specific number of chunks using the -n option. For instance, if you want to split an ISO file into 4 output files, ...