working with files

In this post we learn how to recognise, create, remove, copy and move files using commands like file, touch, rm, cp, mv and rename. all files are case sensitive Files on Linux (or any Unix) are case sensitive. This means that FILE1 is different from file1, and /etc/hosts is different from /etc/Hosts (the latter one … Read more

LINUX DISTRIBUTIONS

This post gives a short overview of current Linux distributions. A Linux distribution is a collection of (usually open source) software on top of a Linux kernel. A distribution (or short, distro) can bundle server software, system management tools, documentation and many desktop applications in a central secure software repository. A distro aims to provide … Read more