Did you know that Linux makes it easy to create and use hidden files, which means you can easily tuck important documents away from plain sight? Here's how to manage those files.

There’s a lot more to working with files on Linux than creating, listing and updating them. After all, files can be Linux commands (i.e., binaries), scripts, images, simple text files, pointers ...

This will create the new zip file in the current working directory. To unzip a compressed file, right-click it and select Extract Here ( Figure 3 ). Figure 3: Unzipping a file the GUI way in Linux.

You can create an ISO file from a CD, DVD, or BluRay disc using Windows but you’ll need to use a third-party app as this ...

Every time you create a new file from the contents of your clipboard, the numerical character will change, such as Clipboard-1.txt, Clipboard-2.txt and Clipboard-3.txt.

Create directory We use ‘mkdir’ (make directory) command to create new directories. If you simply run the mkdir command followed by the name of the new directory, the folder will be created in ...

To begin, let's create a test file in a test directory and take a look at its default permissions. To see the permissions we will use ls with the -l argument added. 1.