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Examples: 1. To compress any file $ gzip file 2. To decompress a file $ gzip -d file.gz$ gzip –decompress file.gz$ gzip […]

Examples: 1. To unzip any compressed file $ gunzip file.gz 2. To get the License information $ gunzip -L$ gunzip –license 3. […]

       /etc/group              Group account information.       /etc/gshadow         Secure group […]

       /etc/group           Group account information.       /etc/gshadow         secure group account […]

The fsck command is run on the file systems to check them and to prevent data corruption during the checking process. Which […]

This command is generally used for processing the file data, in terms of length, character, bytes, line size etc. It is mostly used along with other commands to process the files and to understand their nature to take further actions accordingly.

It is awesome utility provided in Linux/UNIX environment to find any files residing under the OS. We can search for any files, with almost all the attributes a file has attached to it. It comes from “findutils-x.x.x” package, we have covered almost all the find options. This command is generaly found under the path “/bin/”.

It stands for “change shell” and is used to change the login shell for any user. The default shell is the command interpreter that is used when a user logs into the system. It comes from “util-linux-ng” package.

This command is used to change the file owner and or group of a file or directory. The ownership of a file or directory defines which user and group have control over file, like permission to read, write or execute. It comes from “coreutils” package.