What is the exact difference between a ‘terminal’, a ‘shell’, a ‘tty’ and a ‘console‘
Terminal: A physical device that was connected to a computer to give access to a shell. you would have a large mainframe...
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Difference between nohup, disown and &
<command> : Runs the process within the Terminal’s current bash instance, in the background (i.e. the process is...
What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix
Purpose of the lost+found folder: This directory is for recovering files which are not properly closed due to many reason...
How to unfreeze after accidentally pressing Ctrl-S in a terminal
CTRL+S essentially does XOFF, which means the terminal will accept key strokes but won’t show the output of...
Can I zip an entire folder using gzip
Generally we can Zip/compress the entire folder / Whole Linux or UNIX Directory Compressing a whole linux/UNIX directory is...
