UbuntuEd #23.07: Managing Compressed Files and Other Ubuntu Tips

The latest edition of UbuntuEd newsletter focuses on handling compressed files among other Ubuntu stuff.

Jul 28, 2023 — Abhishek

Ever since its creation a year ago, Learn Ubuntu has aimed to focus on the server side. Lately, some readers have suggested that they would like to see tutorials for Ubuntu desktop users.

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Let's see what you can learn this month.

🪧 Managing Compressed Files in Ubuntu

Learn how to unzip a simple zip file in Ubuntu Command Line
Do you know you can use 7-zip in Linux command line?
Extracting .gz files are now simple with gzip
Here is a quick guide on managing tar files in Ubuntu.

Confused about RAR files? You should take a look at this guide:

🗞 Ubuntu News

Ubuntu explores Different approaches for initramfs compression.
Ubuntu 23.10 to use Noto Fonts by default instead of DejaVu.
Linux Lite, an Ubuntu-based distribution has an AI Helper Utility in its upcoming version.
Canonical has taken complete control of the LXD project and will now manage everything related to it.

💡 Command Line Tips

List all files that does not contain a given string in the current directory:

grep -RiL <string> .

If you want to search only in the current directory, not the subdirectories, replace the “.” with *

grep -iL -d skip LHB *

Here, the option -d skips directory and thus avoids printing some error messages due to grep working on directory names.

🧰 Useful Tool

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Abhishek

UbuntuEd #23.07: Managing Compressed Files and Other Ubuntu Tips