Warpinator makes transferring files to and from Android and Linux incredibly easy. In fact, you’d be hard-pressed to find an easy means of transferring files between these two platforms.

For decades, Linux users have been renaming files with the mv command. It’s easy, and the command does just what you expect. Yet sometimes you need to rename a large group of files.

With Linux apps installed on your Chromebook, you might have discovered that software cannot access files within the ChromeOS directories. Let's fix that.

Convert a Windows file to a Unix file using Perl: perl -p -e 's/\r$//' < windows.txt > unix.txt This command removes the carriage return characters from the Windows file and saves it in Unix format.

How to Change Ownership of Files in a Terminal. In Unix-like operating systems, such OS X or a Linux distribution, every file has an owner account.