How can we get the number of lines or number of words in a file? The most easiest way to count the number of lines, words, and characters in text file is to use the Linux command “wc” in terminal. The command “wc” basically means “word count” and with different optional parameters one can use […]
How to Make Vim More Colorful? Hint: Use Color Scheme
Are you not satisfied with the colors you have on Vim? Vim has loads of options to make your Vim editing colorful and cheerful experience. The basic command in Vim to switch on colors or switch off colors is “syntax”. Just to try and see how the syntax command changes the colors on your Vim […]
How to Find Largest Files in a Directory with ls command
One of the advantages in having bigger hard drives is that we hardly worry about the available space. However, there comes a time, you want to clean up unwanted files and want to free up space really quick. One way to do that is to find the largest files and remove them if they are […]
How to Create a Soft link to a Directory in Linux/Mac OS X?
If you are using a really long path to reach a directory (my/really/long/path/to/the/directory) frequently, it will get painful to type the long path every time to get there. Well, the command “ln -s” offers you a solution by letting you create a soft link. The ln command in Linux creates links between files/directory. The argument […]
How to Move Around using Vim on Terminal?
Vim is one of the most powerful editors available for the terminal. One may think moving around the page is little painful, as the page up and down keys do not work in Vim in the default setting. Vim offer multiple ways to move around the Vim page. With just two keystrokes you can move […]