3 articles has "linux" tag

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  Linux command: gzip

  April 03, 2022

  gzip command is used to reduce the size of given files. This command is so common that you will most likely find it already installed on your Linux distro.

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  Linux command: locate

  March 27, 2022

  If you are feeling lazy and need to search for some file or directory in your whole system, then locate might be your best friend. It can find things super fast from thousands of items with the help of a database created earlier and usually updated automatically once a day.

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  What are wildcards and globbing?

  March 20, 2022

  The two features of Linux shells — wildcards and globbing — can sometimes save us a lot of time by letting us communicate to the computer to match filenames in an efficient way to do something with them like displaying, copying, moving, removing etc.

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