The most obvious is undoubtedly the find command, and find has become easier to use than it was years ago. It used to require a starting location for your search, but these days, you can also use find ...

In the realm of Linux, where the command line is often the compass by which we navigate, the efficient management of disk space is crucial. Whether you’re sailing through personal projects or steering ...

You may find yourself in a situation where you remember the content of a file but not its name. Linux offers various commands to help you find files based on specific text strings within them. By ...

We’ve all got to that point on a given system where we start to run out of storage space. Do we buy more storage, perhaps one of the best SSDs, or do we search and find the largest files quickly? In ...

The fd program is an alternative to find, which can search the file system using various patterns. It has many options to support a wide range of use cases, making it easy to find any type of file, ...

Copies of files sometimes represent a big waste of disk space and can cause confusion if you want to make updates. Here are six commands to help you identify these files. In a recent post, we looked ...