Jack Wallen walks you through the process of zipping and unzipping files in Linux from both the command line and the GUI.

In the world of Unix-based operating systems like Linux, file packaging and compression utilities play a pivotal role. One such utility is the zip command, an effective tool for compressing files to ...

Image: Jack Wallen With Linux there are so many ways to synchronize and/or backup files over a network. For many, rsync and scp are the de facto standard. There is, of course, another option–one ...

Learn how to search inside files in Linux using grep, find, and ripgrep. Useful to debug configs, search logs, and explore codebases fast.

You can run a series of Linux commands to copy multiple files to a folder or copy a single file to multiple folders, but you can save time and trouble by using xargs, loops and scripts.

Since Linux only searches from the current working directory and lower for a file, you might need to navigate to an appropriate directory in which to begin a search.