When was the last time you had to create a zip file? Personally, I have to interact with those types of files all the time (either receiving or sending them to various clients, family, and friends).

Get to know the Linux hosts file and how to use it Your email has been sent If you're new to Linux, there's a very handy file you'll want to learn about right away. Jack Wallen introduces you to the ...

There are a number of tools that you use to compress files on Linux systems, but they don't all behave the same way or yield the same level of compression. In this post, we compare five of them. There ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. It’s pretty easy to run a batch file on Windows. Just create a file, change the extension to ...

Learn how to append text to files in Linux using commands like double redirection operator, tee, and sed without overwriting existing data.

You probably have documents on your desktop operating system that contain sensitive information. So what do you do to protect that data? You could hide the document in an obscure folder -- but that's ...

Use these Linux commands to quickly search and find anything from the Linux terminal, without digging through folders in a GUI file manager.