I know you are able to see the byte size of a file when you do a long listing with ll or ls -l. But I want to know how much storage is in a directory including the files within that directory and the subdirectories within there, etc. I don’t want the number of files, but instead the amount of storage those files take up.
I would like to password protect or encrypt a directory and all the files within it (for the whole directory tree below it). I do not want to bother the whole home directory, I want a specific directory with some files and folders in it. I would like to be able to encrypt the directory or decrypt it using a password. Command line would be nicest to use. I don’t want to have to create a new file as an encrypted version and then, delete the previous ones which are the non-encrypted version.
I’m trying to locate where some files are stored and I can easily browse to them via ssh by going to “cd ~/foldername”, however, I have no idea what directory “~/” actually is.
So I need to compress a directory with max compression.
I am new to Linux so pardon me for the possible confusion you may encounter in this question.
Suppose I have a directory structure like this:
I have a directory that I am trying to clean out that contains both files and subdirectories. What I am trying to do is simple: move all the files into another directory, but leave all the sub-directories as they are.
Usually, quotas are enforced per user, as related to the proprietary of the file.
I need to copy a very large directory (talking in terabytes here) and want to monitor the progress.
I’m writing a library for manipulation Unix path strings. That being the case, I need to understand a few obscure corners of the syntax that most people wouldn’t worry about.