How do I “cat and follow” a file?
A file is being sequentially downloaded by wget.
files
What is the difference between a hard link and a file?
A hard link is defined as a pointer to an inode. A soft link, also known as a symbolic link, is defined as an independent file pointing to another link without the restrictions of hard links.
Fastest way to concatenate files
I’ve got 10k+ files totaling over 20GB that I need to concatenate into one file.
Back up and restore file permissions
Is there a way to back up and restore file ownership and permissions (the things that can be changed with chown and chmod)?
Getting relative links between two paths
Say I have two paths: <source_path> and <target_path>. I would like my shell (zsh) to automatically find out if there is a way to represent <target_path> from <source_path> as a relative path.
Finding sparse files?
Is there a straightforward way to find all the sparse files on my system, or in a particular directory tree?
Zip Archive With Limited Number of Files
What command can I use to create zips with a file number limit? I have a folder (no subfolders) of, say, 5000 files, so I would want a command that could divide that number and create 10 individual zip archives, each consisting of no more than 500 files.
How to create a file even root user can’t delete it
How to create a file even root user can’t delete it ?
Automatically detect when a file has reached a size limit
I would like to send an email when a file reach a certain size limit.
Why isn’t there any shell command to create files?
Attention please: I am not asking how to make a file from the command line! I have been using touch for making files for years without paying attention that its main purpose is something else. If one wants to create a file from command line there are so many possibilities: touch foo.bar > foo.bar cat … Read more