Let's say you have the folder ZDNET, which contains a bunch of files you want to create into a single, compressed archive. If you just issued the command zip ZDNET.zip ZDNET, you would wind up ...

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Create a new ZIP archive which contains only the test files ending .h and .c . After creating the archive, if you check its contents it will only contain the files test2.h and test3.c and won’t ...

We use ‘mkdir’ (make directory) command to create new directories. If you simply run the mkdir command followed by the name of the new directory, the folder will be created in the current ...

For example: zip files.zip file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt This command compresses the three .txt files into a single .zip file named files.zip . Deleting a file from a zip archive: To remove a file ...

Jack Wallen offers up a Linux desktop tip that can help make just about any Linux workflow considerably easier.

What you will need You don’t need much to get Samba up and running: A Windows workgroup. A Linux machine. A bit of time. I’ll demonstrate this on Ubuntu Desktop 23.04, but the process works ...