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Q&A How to count the lines of a file?

How to get the number of lines in a file? I.e. for a file like this: Line one Line 2 Final line I would like to do something like this: $ count-lines /path/to/the/file/above 3

2 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by Iizuki‭  ·  last activity 13d ago by Michael‭

Question shell file
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Q&A Can I make a compressed RAM drive and externally prepare a (pre-)compressed file to copy onto it?

I don't know what these things are called exactly in the Linux world. But there is the concept of a drive in RAM, to write files onto and read them like it was any disk drive. There is also the c...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by CanisSomnolentus‭  ·  edited 3mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

Question file RAMdisk ramfs
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Q&A How do I find files?

How can I search for files on my system? Ideally, I would like to search by various criteria, like date, name, extension, etc.

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by matthewsnyder‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by matthewsnyder‭

Question shell file
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Q&A Why does the file command fail to recognize non-text files as such?

POSIX defines Text file as A file that contains characters organized into zero or more lines. The lines do not contain NUL characters and none can exceed {LINE_MAX} bytes in length, inclu...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by LawrenceC‭

Question posix file