If you see a SHA checksum listed with a file, you may wonder how to use it. For instance, the popular VideoLAN Client media player was recently updated to version 2.1, and if you download the disk ...

To check the folder structure, you can use the "diff" command in OS X Terminal. This command is used to compare two sources line by line, and can be used to compare directory trees of copied files ...

$ file -I text.txt text.txt: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit. With “text/plain” being the file type and “unknown-8bit” being the character set file encoding. You can also issue the file command on ...