In this tutorial, you will learn how to use Bash scripts and if statements to check whether or not a file or directory exists. Check if a File Exists Use the -f operator to check if a file exists. This will only check ordinary files, and not directories. #!/bin/bash FILE=”demo/test.txt” if [ -f $FILE ];then […]
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When installing Rocky Linux in a VMware virtual machine, you will definitely want to install VMware Tools as well. The VMware Tools software will give you better graphics support in the guest operating system, as well as the ability to drag and drop files between the host and guest system, and configure shared folders. In
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The locale on a Linux system is a set of environment variables. Your terminal and various applications will query these variables to figure out what country, language, and character encoding settings your system is configured to use. The locale on your system should reflect your current country and language for best results. In this tutorial,
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While there are alternatives to Notepad++ on Linux, such as gedit, Sublime Text, GNU Emacs, and others, it isn’t easy to replace the many benefits Notepad++ has. Notepad++ possesses valuable features such as syntax highlighting, macro recording, full support for many programming languages including HTML, text autocompletion, and much more. In this tutorial, you will
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Manjaro has become popular among developers and programmers because of its speed, simplicity, and access to libraries and IDEs. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Visual Studio Code on Manjaro Linux via command line and GUI. Installing Visual Studio Code on Manjaro via Terminal To install Visual Studio Code, use the following
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An expired password in Linux will force the user to change their password the next time they log in. In this tutorial, you will learn how to force a user’s password to expire, set an expiration date on for a user’s password, and check the expiration date. Make User’s Password Expire Example 1. The passwd
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VirtualBox Guest Additions will help you get the most out of your Ubuntu virtual machine. It gives you automatic resolution scaling, a shared clipboard between the host and VM, and drag and drop ability. The step by step instructions below will explain how to install VirtualBox Guest Additions on Ubuntu Linux. Step 1. First, we’ll
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Steam is a popular video game service that gives you access to tons of new and old gaming titles on your computer. It can be installed on a variety of systems, including Linux. In this guide, we’ll go over the instructions to install Steam on Manjaro Linux via command line and GUI. Install Steam via
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7-Zip is free software for compressing/decompressing files. Although you can already compress files by using the tar and zip commands, 7-Zip can outperform other compression technologies in terms of compression ratio, as shown in our benchmark tests for the best compression tool in Linux. 7-Zip can also encrypt your compressed archives with AES-256. In this
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If you’re logged into a remote system via SSH and need to disconnect, there are a few different ways to close the SSH session. You can choose from commands, a keyboard shortcut, or escape characters in the case of a hung connection. In this tutorial, you will learn all the ways possible to disconnect from
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