File Operations

File Transfer

curl

• Download and Save file with name extracted from the URL

  curl https://example.com/my-file.sh -O
  

• Download and Save file with specified name

  curl https://example.com/my-file.sh -O my-downloaded-file.sh
  

rsync

• Commonly used command

  rsync -avzP /PATH/TO/LOCAL/MY_FILE_FOLDER/ user@destination_machine:~/SOME_PARENT_FOLDER/
  

Explanation: (a)rchive, (v)erbose, (z)ip, (P)artial/(P)rogress. SOURCE is the first argument, DESTINATION comes second. So, to copy from a remote machine, simply swap the arguments above.

• Example

  rsync -avzP ~/Documents/assination_orders/ account_payables@[email protected]:~/Documents/orders_to_execute/
  

Archival, compression, extraction

tar

• Create

  tar zcvf target.tar.gz sourcefile
  

• Unpack

  tar zxvf sourcefile
  

• List

  tar ztvf sourcefile
  

(un)zip

• Create zip archive from files

  zip -r <target> <source_folder>
  

• Extract/expand zip archive

  unzip <source_archive>
  

Finding and Searching

grep

find