Build Your IT Skills, Grow Your Wealth with Maher Sakka

To compress a directory in Linux you can use the zip command:

zip -r output_file.zip folder

You can compress multiple directories too by adding the folders' names :

zip -r output_file.zip folder1 folder2 folder3

To decompress the zipped file, use the command unzip:

To compress a directory in Linux, you can use the tar command:

tar -zcvf file.tar.gz folder

To exclude a specific folder or files, use the –exclude= option with the folder name:

tar -zcvf file.tar.gz –exclude='temp' –exclude='node_modules' folder

To decompress a file, use the -x option:

To get information about the total and available space on the Linux file system, you can use the df command.

df

The df command displays information about all mounted filesystems, including total size, space used, percentage usage, and mount point:

To search for a specific text on a Linux system, the grep command can be used according to the following syntax:

grep -iRl "text_to_search" ./

The basic parameters are:

• i: ignore text case (uppercase or lowercase)
• R: search recursively in subfolders files
• l: show file names instead of parts of the file contents

The folder path to be searched is specified last.

The "Please provide a valid cache path" problem usually appears in Laravel when transferring a project to a new hosting or downloadin a project on the computer.

Among the difficulties faced by application developers and IT articles writers in the Arabic language is to find technical terms and or synonyms.

In this context, the Arabeyes team Arabeyes created and followed up the Technical and IT dictionary to collect and translate terms.

The team group presents this dictionary as below:

Al Hamdoul'ELLEH,

I reopened my blog in this blessed month, and we ask God to help us with what benefits people.

In this blog, I will publish special projects, as well as write and translate some articles of interest to computer science, technology, and entrepreneurship, so that everyone benefits.

If you have a project proposal, advice or comment, do not hesitate to contact me.