Counting the number of words in file:
cat file.txt | wc -w |
Searching the output for “uzza” word:
cat big-file.txt | grep uzza |
Gzipping files:
gzip some_file.txt |
Decompressing Gzipped files:
gzip -d some_file.txt.gz |
Creating archive of directory:
tar -cvf archive-name.tar some-dir |
c – creating new archive
v – verbose
f – we want to specify the name of the output file
Creating compressed archive of directory:
tar -czvf archive-name.tgz some-dir |
z – compress with gzip
Expending the archive:
tar -xzvf archive-name.tgz |
x – tells to expend rather than compress
Creating entire directory structure:
mkdir -p dir1/dir2/dir3 |