Certain situations require you to quickly confirm which files between two directories are different, and while your particular requirements may suggest writing a script for this task, I want to make sure you’re familiar with the basics first – majority of directory comparisons can be done using diff command (yes, that’s right – the same one used for comparing files).
Showing your processes in a hierarchical list is very useful for confirming the relationship between every process …
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Another quick answer to the question I see a lot in search queries on this blog: listing directories in a directory.
Very quick tip for you today, I just see that many of visitors of this block are curious how they can find a directory …
The questions about default block sizes used in your Unix system are always popular. Today I’d like to show you a …
Many software products, especially the commercial ones, are distributed as 32-bit packages. This means that they …
To some this may seem like a trivial task, but I see great interest from Unix/Linux beginners arriving to this blog: how …
When you’re trying to clean up your filesystems and reclaim some space, one of the first things you’ll want …
I can see some of you have arrived to my Unix file types post looking for an example of using symlinks in Unix.
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