A simple way to rename files and folders is with the mv command (shortened from “move”). Its primary purpose is moving files and folders, but it can also rename them since the act of …

Aug 21, 2018 · When I make some changes to the shell/bash behavior, such as setting up an alias, is there a quick command to reinitialize the terminal window instead of closing and …

Oct 5, 2020 · I need a command to list all users as well as commands to add, delete and modify users from terminal - any commands that could help in administrating user accounts easily by …

Is there a simple command to display the total aggregate size (disk usage) of all files in a directory (folder)? I have tried these, and they don't do what I want: ls -l, which only displays the s...

Oct 16, 2015 · I have got the directory /home/user/oldname and I want to rename it to /home/user/newname. How can I do this in a terminal?

Jun 28, 2018 · I came across a command just now given below - $ echo 'eval "$(jenv init -)"' >> ~/.bash_profile From what i can guess, it is probably used for committing the changes in …

Dec 11, 2011 · 1365 I am trying to copy the contents of a folder to another folder in a different directory using terminal. Would somebody be able to provide me an example of the command …

May 6, 2011 · With modern apt I would recommend doing sudo apt install ./package.deb instead. This allows automatically installing all the dependencies and it does all the extra sanity checks …

You can do that form the terminal with the following command: touch ./.bash_aliases In the .bash_aliases file paste the alias command mentioned above. Now save the file and exit. Edit …

Apr 9, 2018 · I installed ClamAV via Terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) with: sudo apt-get install clamav but how can I scan for viruses?