Month: November 2018

In one of our previous articles, we explained how to find out top directories and files consuming the most disk space on file system in Linux. If you notice that... Read more

Exa is a lightweight, fast and modern replacement for the popular ls command on Unix-like operating systems. It is written in Rust programming language and comes with several additional features... Read more

One of the most important and interesting topics under Linux administration is I/O redirection. This feature of the command line enables you to redirect the input and/or output of commands... Read more

Tar (Tape Archive) is a popular file archiving format in Linux. It can be used together with gzip (tar.gz) or bzip2 (tar.bz2) for compression. It is the most widely used... Read more

Zstandard (also known as zstd) is a free open source, fast real-time data compression program with better compression ratios, developed by Facebook. It is a lossless compression algorithm written in... Read more

This article is a part of our Linux Tricks and Tips series, in this article we will cover some basic usage of cat command (most frequently used command in Linux)... Read more

There are several ways of knowing the version of Linux you are running on your machine as well as your distribution name and kernel version plus some extra information that... Read more

Sometimes you may find it useful to display the access rights of files or directories in octal form instead of rwx or perhaps you want to display both. Instead of... Read more