File

Linux Kernel modes for file I/O: buffered and direct. (See also: kswapd and Jens Axboe)

• Basic operating commands: cp, mv, rm, touch
• truncate, fallocate, ln
• join
• Information: stat, wc
• Manipulate file content: tr, awk, sed
• Editors: vim, emacs
• cat, col, tail, more, less
• grep, ack, ag
• diff

Related terms

• File operations: cp, mv, rm, ln
• directory
• ulimit: ulimit -n 8192
• line
• file (command)
• dd
• Hidden files
• Ansible: file, lineinfile, blockinfile
• file (Terraform)
• Terraform provisioner file
• inode
• find . -type f
• file (Puppet)
• ASCII
• Logs
• too many open files

See also

• file, /usr/share/keyrings/, file --help
• cat (man), cat -A, tac, more, less, tail, mtail, echo, stdin, tr, column, paste, truncate, logrotate, xzcat pv, progress, sort, ncat, virt-cat, awk, join, col, fold, tee, sponge, nfs-cat, journalctl, ccat, icat, EOF, lolcat, bat
• file, File system, directory, touch, mkdir, ls, ln truncate, fallocate, split, stat, inode, File descriptor, superblock, block size (blockdev), fuser, lsof, scrub, chattr, ulimit (nofiles), cp, mv, file (command), mkfifo, chmod
• File systems: ext4, XFS, ZFS, btrfs, wipefs, findfs, HDFS, Alluxio, overlay, aufs, virt-filesystems, Windows: (FAT, NTFS, ReFS), GPFS, squashfs, Ecryptfs, Encfs, FUSE, VMFS, Comparison of distributed file systems, Userspace filesystem, Resize filesystem size, GlusterFS