Deleting files on your Linux machine that have strange names. And how to use wildcards on the shell.

I ran a Perl script on my system that created a bunch of files on my computer named as shown below. I could have typed rm -f A* but that could have deleted other files that have a capital “A” as the first letter of the filename. That is where wildcards come into play. I … Read more

A nice utility to show the progress of utilities like cp and mv.

The utility I have found, named progress, will show the amount of data transferred when using commands such as cp or mv. Download this utility by running this command. git clone https://github.com/Xfennec/progress.gitgit clone https://github.com/Xfennec/progress.git Then build the utility. 14:39:50 0 ~ jason$ cd progress/   14:39:53 0 ~/progress jason$ make cc -g -Wall -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -c … Read more