Need help accessing your files without a web browser? Linux has a few solutions you can access right from the command line.

Since Ubuntu is a Linux operating system, you can bypass the graphical user interface entirely and open your PDF files from the command line.

Another way to make common edits to PDF files is to use PDFtk server (PDFtk without the server moniker is a GUI toolkit for Windows).

This is particularly useful when you want to compress multiple directories and their contents at once . Conclusion Mastering the Linux zip command is a useful skill for anyone working with Unix-based ...

Jack Wallen continues his Linux 101 series, with an introduction on how to copy files and directories from the command line.

Linux commands can provide details on files and show options for customizing file listings, but can also reach as deeply into a file system as you care to look.