Removing files and directories using the Linux command line is very efficient and can be used directly, or when accessing a system remotely.

Remove duplicate lines with uniq. If you don’t need to preserve the order of the lines in the file, using the sort and uniq commands will do what you need in a very straightforward way. The sort ...

Understanding how to delete a file in Linux is an important part of a keeping your computer's file system well-organized. Without regular maintenance, hard drives can quickly become disorganized ...

From the command line, type "backup.bat" and the batch file will run your specified commands: first, copying all files from that directory, then renaming them to remove the extensions ...

At the first available line, type "@reboot xxxx", where "xxxx" is the command you wish to run. Save the file and exit. Put a script containing the command in your /etc directory.

In another entry of his Linux 101 series, Jack Wallen shows you how to delete files and folders from Linux using the Command Line Interface (CLI).

Here are some of the basic commands that we use to manage directories (also known as folders) in Linux distributions. Move among folders If you are using a file manager, you can switch between ...

Comparing files diff: compare files line by line cmp: compare files byte by byte comm: compare sorted files line by line. Linux provides several commands for comparing text files.If you run a ...

This command will show the kind of a file passed as argument. In the example below, we see john_file with a “.exe” extension, the file command outputs the real file kind, in this case a simple text ...