That's exactly what I'm going to help you with today. Together, we're going to zip and unzip a file on Linux. I'll show you first how to do it from the command line and then using the GNOME File Manager GUI. Onc
If we need to generate random content with meaningful words, then we can use a dictionary.A dictionary in English generally comes installed in Linux distros. The dictionary file is/usr/share/dict/words. So, we can use this dictionary to generate a file with randomly chosen words from this ...
In this tutorial, we will learn five different ways to create a new file on Ubuntu from both command line and GUI. Creating a new file with nano nanois a very minimalistic and user-friendly text editor that allows us to create new files and edit existent ones. To install this tool on ...
Now that you have some directories, create some files. There are multiple ways to create files. To create files using shell redirection, refer toHow to manipulate files with shell redirection and pipelines in Linux. You can also create empty files with thetouchcommand. Here are its options and...
He was first introduced to Red Hat in 2012 by way of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based combat system inside the USS Georgia Missile Control Center. Now that he has surfaced, he lives with his wife and son near Raleigh, where he worked as a data storage engineer before finding his way ...
touch myfile.json The “touch” command on Linux is widely used to create empty text files. But if your goal is to write the JSON file content, then it’s better to use a full editor. The two most popular are: Nano: It’s now the default text editor installed on most distributions...
Using /etc/fstab File to Create a Ramdisk in Linux Let’s start the creation of a ramdisk in Linux. Using tmpfs to Create a Ramdisk in Linux In Linux, the “tmpfs” file system is often used for creating a RAM disk. The “tmpfs” file system in Linux is a special file system that...
available on all operating system platforms such as Linux, Windows, and Mac OS, and generally supported out of the box. The downside of the zip format is that it does not offer the best level of compression. Tar.gz and tar.bz2 are far superior in that respect. Let’s move on to ...
First, how to create patch file? Patch file is a readable file that created by diff with -c (context output format). It doesn’t matter and if you wanna know more, man diff. To patch the entire folder of source codes(as usually people do)I do as bellow: ...
Finally, you can specify a set of default permissions with the umask shell command, which applies a predefined set of permissions to any new file you create. In general, use umask 022 if you want everyone to be able to see all of the files and directories that you create, and use umask...