Linux, Windows, Security, Programming, Network Tutorials
Files and folders are an important part of the operating system and daily computer usage. File Explorer is a generic term used to describe an application or tool which is used to manage files and folders in an operating system. But generally, the term File Explorer is used for the Windows operating system file explorer. … Read more
Downloads Folder is used to store downloaded files automatically. Different browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Opera uses, and stores files downloaded by using them. What Is Downloads Folder? “Downloads Folder” is provided by the most of the operating systems like Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10, Server, Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora, … Read more
glob is a general term used to define techniques to match specified pattern according to rules related Unix shell. Linux and Unix systems and shells also supports glob and also provide function glob() in system libraries. In this tutorial we will look glob() function usage in PHP programming language. Exact String Search We will start with a simple … Read more
While working with Linux we may need to get the size of the specific directory. In GUI there are file managers like Dolphin, Gnome, Nautilus etc. But what if we need to get the size in command line. In this tutorial we will look how to get single or multiple directories sizes and sort them. … Read more
One of the important job for System Administrators is finding and deleting large and unneeded files from Linux operating system. In this tutorial we will look how to find, sort and delete large and trash files from Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, Mint, Fedora, CentOS and RHEL etc. Large Files Directories In Linux distributions there … Read more
Linux bash have different file and directory related functions to create, delete, change and check existence. In this tutorial we will look how to check a file or directory if it exists. Check File Existence We will use bash test mechanism. Bash test mechanism have two formats where we can use followings. test -f FILENAME … Read more
Linux provides different tools to copy directories entirely. The most popular and well-known tool is cp. In this tutorial, we will look at how to copy Linux directories entirely or specific content. Copy Only Directory In this first example, we will copy the only directory. We can just provide the source directory and destination directory … Read more
Linux file system consist of directories. A system administrator generally work with directories and related operations. In this tutorial we will look how to delete empty or nonempty linux directories. Delete or Remove Empty Directory We can remove or delete empty directories with rmdir command. In this example we will remove the empty directory named stuff . … Read more
Windows ren command is used to rename files and folder. ren command provides command line renaming in MS DOS or cmd.exe. Rename File The most simple usage of ren command is renaming one file. In this example we will provide the source or original file name and destination or new file name. Original file name is myfile and new … Read more
Linux touch command is used to create files and change files date time related attributes like access time etc. Creating empty files is most popular use case by the way. In this tutorial we will look how to use different features of touch command. Create Empty File The most popular usage of touch command is creating empty files. … Read more