In the realm of Linux systems, the tail command plays a vital role in monitoring and analyzing files. Its simplicity and versatility make it a powerful tool for various tasks. In this article, we will ...

I'm going to show you three: wget, curl, and scp. 1. wget The wget command is my go-to for downloading remote files to a local machine when a GUI isn't available.

Selecting by field To illustrate how the cut command works, we’ll first run commands using a sample “cities” file that contains details of the largest cities in the US in a tab-separated ...

Open source: Must-read coverage Are you new to Linux? If so, you’ve probably found the command line can be a bit intimidating. Don’t worry–it is for everyone at the beginning.

The Linux comm command makes it easy to compare a couple text files and determine if they both contain the same lines -- whether the file contents are sorted or not. Credit: Stokkete / Shutterstock ...

A screenshot showing how the same helloworld.txt file can be opened from Android's Downloads directory using a text viewer (top) as well as in the Linux VM using the cat command (bottom).