Every now and then I come across a file that just doesn’t display properly in a file listing. In fact, it can be a little tricky to determine the name of a file that contains odd characters. You might ...

I'm a complete UNIX newbie, so please forgive the question. Is there a UNIX shell command that will rename all the files in a directory to something like "file1.txt", "file2.txt", etc? I don't need to ...

There's more to copying and renaming files on Linux than cp and mv. Try some commands and strategies that might surprise you and save you some time. Linux users have for many decades been using simple ...