What you will need You don’t need much to get Samba up and running: A Windows workgroup. A Linux machine. A bit of time. I’ll demonstrate this on Ubuntu Desktop 23.04, but the process works ...

Knowing how to zipping a folder (directory) in Linux serves various practical purposes, making it a valuable skill for users seeking efficient file management and transfer methods. As with other ...

Let's say you have the folder ZDNET, which contains a bunch of files you want to create into a single, compressed archive. If you just issued the command zip ZDNET.zip ZDNET, you would wind up ...

Fortunately, Linux makes working with hidden files very easy, whether in a GUI file manager or the command line. Also: The first 5 Linux commands every new user should learn Let me show you how.

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 ...

Managing directories on Linux is easy, but the process gets more complex when you need to create, empty or remove large, complex directory structures.

Jack Wallen offers up a Linux desktop tip that can help make just about any Linux workflow considerably easier.

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 the current ...