In this how-to we will look at the find command and a range of additional arguments which will give us a variety of approaches to finding files and directories.

File counting in a directory is a common task that many users might need to perform. It could be for administrative purposes, understanding disk usage, or organizing files in a systematic manner.

The root directory is the parent of all directories on the system. Root is similar to Windows C:\ directory. Also: I've used Linux for 30 years.

A few clever Linux commands can make it a lot easier to create, view and remove complex directory structures.

Jack Wallen continues his Linux 101 series, with an introduction on how to copy files and directories from the command line.

It's fairly simple to find large files on your system using commands such as find, but if you're looking for directories over a certain size find won't help you. The Perl script presented here can ...