Since Ubuntu is a Linux operating system, you can bypass the graphical user interface entirely and open your PDF files from the command line. By default, Ubuntu uses the Gnome application Evince ...

If a fear of the command line has prevented you from making use of the more secure sftp, Jack Wallen wants to show you how you can easily connect to that remote server, with a simple file manager.

Stop your search for an easy way to encrypt and decrypt files in Linux -- the built-in gpg tool will do the trick.

Want to know the tricks of replacing a variable in a file using the SED command? This article will give you an overview of replacing a variable value in a file using SED. Before replacing a variable ...

The Linux comm command makes it easy to compare a couple text files and determine if they both contain the same lines -- whether the file contents are sorted or not.

In the world of Unix-based operating systems like Linux, file packaging and compression utilities play a pivotal role. One such utility is the zip command, an effective tool for compressing files to ...

Put the command in your crontab file. The crontab file in Linux is a daemon that performs user-edited tasks at specific times and events. To edit the file, open a terminal and type "sudo crontab ...

Some simple Linux commands allow you to break files into pieces and reassemble them as needed. In this post, we'll look at the split command and some of its more useful options.