Gzip command by default delete the original file and replace it with a new compressed file with .gz extension. In this article, I am going to show you how to gzip file and keep the original ones intact. Previously, we [...]
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4 Ways to Check Which Shell You are Using on Linux
Out of the box, Linux provides a wide variety of shells. There is bash (Bourne Again shell) shell which ships by default in many Linux distributions. We also have sh (Bourne Shell), tcsh (TC shell), csh (C shell), Zsh (Z [...]
13 Cool Things to Do with Linux
Linux is an open-source operating system that allows you to run almost every major web development language available. You don't need to pay for any software installation and you can find everything on the web. It can be installed on [...]
Linux wget Command Explained with Examples
The Linux wget command-line tool is a nifty utility used to download files over the internet. It's usually used when you want to download tarball & zipped files, deb & rpm packages from a website. With wget command, you can [...]
How to Add a Samba User in Linux
Samba is a free and open-source networking service that functions in a client/server networking model. It allows for file sharing across both Windows and Linux/Unix operating systems and leverages the SMB (Server Messaging Block) and the CIFS (Common Internet File [...]
How to Enable Colors for ls Command Output
In this article, I am going to write about setting up colors for ls command output in your bash shell. In Linux, ls is one of the basic and most repeatedly used commands in our daily administration tasks to list [...]
How to Diff Command Colorize Output on Linux
Diff is a command-line utility that helps users to visually compare differences between 2 files line by line on a Linux/Unix system. Colordiff utility is a Perl script that is an improved version of diff. It colorizes the output so [...]
How to Append to End of a File in Linux
In this tutorial, we learn different ways to append text to the end of a file in Linux. You can achieve this using several methods in Linux, but the simplest one is to redirect the command output to the desired [...]
How to Delete Files and Directories in Linux
You may, in some cases, need to delete directories and files that you do not need to free up space on your hard drive. In this brief tutorial, you will learn how to delete files and directories in Linux. To [...]
How to Read a Filename with Spaces in Linux
It's not very common in Linux to handle filename with spaces but sometimes files copied or mounted from windows would end up with spaces. While it is not recommended to have file names with spaces, let discuss how to manage filename [...]
How to List Services in Linux
In this article, I will show you how to list all running services on Linux. We will also check how to check the status of a service on a systemd system. Let's learn different commands used to list services on Centos/RHEL 7.x. [...]
How to Count Number of Files within a Directory in Linux
Have you ever racked your brain for a way that you can count the number of files within a directory and sub directories in Linux? In this brief tutorial, we'll look at how you can do that in a simple [...]
How to Sort Files by Date Using LS command in Linux
The ls command is used to list directory contents and the results can be sorted upon several criteria such as by date, alphabetical order of filenames, modification time, access time, version and file size. In this article, I will show [...]
How to Delete Line in VIM on Linux
How to delete lines from Vim? How to delete ranges of lines? How to delete lines by a given pattern? Let's cover in this article different ways to delete lines in Vim editor. Delete a single line Delete all lines Delete [...]