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 ...

That's exactly what I'm going to help you with today. Together, we're going to zip and unzip a file on Linux. I'll show you first how to do it from the command line and then using the GNOME File ...

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.

For that, you create the group, add users, and then change the file or directory ownership to the new group. Creating a new group is even easier than creating a user. Let's create a group named ...

$ split -b100M bigfile Specifying Linux file sizes. File sizes can be specified in kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes … up to yottabytes! Just use the appropriate letter from K, M, G, T, P, E, Z and Y.

SEE: Linux file and directory management commands (TechRepublic Premium) The idea behind creating a symbolic link is that you’re creating a link from the source to the destination.

In the world of Unix-based operating systems like Linux, file packaging and compression utilities play a pivotal role. One such utility is the zip command, an effective tool for compressing files to ...

You can specify the file size in bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, or gigabytes using the -b option. For example, to split a file named tuxlap.txt into files of size 2 megabytes each, you can use the ...