These are called "wildcards," and they can make your life in the Linux terminal much easier. Wildcard characters, also known ...

In this how-to we will look at the find command and a range of additional arguments which will give us a variety of approaches to finding files and directories.

The Finder's abilities to copy files is usually adequate, but sometimes when managing large data transfers it can introduce some burdensome quirks.

Tar is a common file format for archives in Linux- and Unix-based operating systems. These types of files are typically used to back up files and directories or to transfer files and programs over ...

If you would like to verify two copies of files or two mirrored directories, there are some Terminal commands that will let you do just that.

How to Execute a File in a MacBook Terminal. The operating system your MacBook runs, OS X, is built on top of UNIX, and Terminal provides you with access to the underlying UNIX system commands ...