Managing and compressing files is an important administrative task. An archived of a file can be created by using the tar command. To create an archive the following syntax is used: tar -cvf archivename.tar /files-you-want-to-archive. The options selected will modify the archive produced as follows:-c – create a new archive-v – this will create a…
Upon opening a shell we will enter the command pwd – print working directory to see the current directory we are in. We are currently in our home directory. We can create an empty file on the server with that we will call “file1” with… We can check to see if it was created by…
Working with the shell, is where the user interfaces with the system to execute command syntax into instructions for the linux kernel. The kernel being the system’s core manages the system’s hardware and software resources receives the instruction from the shell to perform the desired action. Command Line Syntax – In 3 parts: Example: The…
Linux offers lots of commands making it challenging to remember them all without help or documentation. For instance while using the long listing format command you might want to ensure you see all options. You can enter: We can see that by entering ls –help, it directs us to the -a option which will return…
Text Mode vs Graphical In Linux you are able to login using a graphical user interface (gui) or text mode with the command line interface. One would login to a Console a terminal or a graphical emulator, these word are used interchangeably nowdays. The way you login to Linux is determined on the way the…
