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word count wc

Count Number of Lines in a File

December 15, 2016 mike Sysadmin

Back to basics with this one, the linux wc command (word count) can be used to count lines, words and bytes in a file and

ls command

Print the Newest File in a Given Directory and Other Directory Listing Examples

December 15, 2016 mike Sysadmin

Linux directory listing command ls is another must. This command lists files oldest to newest piped to grep which excludes directories piped to awk which

sort linux

Figuring Out Linux sort By Examples

December 14, 2016 mike Sysadmin

The Linux sort – it’s incredibly fast, runs well on files larger than ram, and a must to master for any good sysadmin. Here are

How to Recursively List Out Files In a Directory in Linux

December 13, 2016 mike Sysadmin

A few examples on using the Linux find command to list out all files matching a file type. The find command is on just about

Quickly Create 100 Thousand Random Files In a Folder Linux

November 18, 2016 mike Sysadmin

This command very quickly creates 100k randomly sized binary files in the directory you run it in. Took 6 minutes 37 seconds to run on

Counting files in a Folder at the Linux Command Line

November 18, 2016 mike Sysadmin

This command combines ls (directory list) with wc (word count) command to count the number of files in a directory.  I just used it to

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