The Linux file system starts with a single root directory, which is straightforward to navigate and manage. You can use basic terminal commands to perform basic file operations, such as locating ...

If you have trouble finding files in your Linux distribution, there's a built-in command line tool that makes your job much easier.

find / -path /proc -prune -false -o -name 'dev.conf' What that command does is search the entire filesystem for a file named dev.conf, but leaves out the /proc directory in the process.

If you need to search for files in OS X, one option it is to use the OS X Terminal application and some of its services.

Most people are probably pretty familiar with creating, sending or receiving Zip files. Zip takes a collection of files and stores them in a Zip archive file, compressing the data in the process.