Using the find command isn’t the most intuitive means of locating files from the command line, but once you get used to it, you’ll find it incredibly powerful and useful.

If you have a command that outputs a lot of data to the terminal, you might want to send that output to a file for easier (or later) viewing or sharing. Jack Wallen shows you how.

Since Ubuntu is a Linux operating system, you can bypass the graphical user interface entirely and open your PDF files from the command line. By default, Ubuntu uses the Gnome application Evince ...

Use the basic tail command to display the last 10 lines of a file. Tail the desired number of lines by specifying the -n option. Learn how to use the +N option to display lines starting from the Nth ...

In this how-to, we’ll look at various ways of using the find command to help us find files and directories across the Linux filesystem. Sometimes we misplace a file or directory and we can spend ...

Fortunately, these Linux commands make it fairly easy to download files from a local or remote location. I'm going to show you three: wget, curl, and scp. 1. wget ...

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 ...

The cut command offers many ways to extract portions of each line from a text file. It's similar to awk in some ways, but it has its own advantages and quirks.