How to use find on Linux to find and display a list of files.

The Linux find command is very useful for finding certain files. I will show how to search a folder and return a listing of files. This example below shows how to list all webm and gif files in the directory and all subdirectories. 4.4 Fri Feb 21 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ find -regex ‘.*\.\(gif\|webm\)’ -print ./1397195397532.gif … Read more

Using the Linux stat command to get information about a file.

The Linux stat command allows information to be shown about a file on your file-system. jason@darknet:~/Documents$ stat /bin/ls File: ‘/bin/ls’ Size: 118280 Blocks: 232 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 801h/2049d Inode: 10616940 Links: 1 Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2016-02-01 08:55:40.145487505 +1100 Modify: 2015-03-15 02:47:04.000000000 +1100 Change: 2016-01-19 … Read more

Voyager probe leaving us and thoughts on the end of the world and Perl.

The Voyager probe is finally approaching the edge of the heliosphere; the massive sphere that encloses the entire solar system; very soon the lonely probe will finally be entering deep space and it will be truly alone. This probe is travelling at just about 38,000 miles per hour and it is destined to encounter another … Read more