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Count Files in Folder (including Subfolders)

To count the number of files in a folder (including its subfolders, pipe the output of a find command to the wc (word count) command. The -type f switch on find tells it to only find files. The output of this is one file per line. The -l switch on wc tells it to count […]

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TAR Guide

To Compress: note: tar stores path relative to foldername above, best to run command from parent folder. Consider sudo to ensure permissions to all files intended for compression. To Compress Excluding Folder: –exclude=’path/to/folder’ excludes folder, must follow tar command before source/dest or other options, exclude multiple folders by repeating –exclude option with new folder value […]

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What Version of Linux am I running?

To find out which version of Linux you are running