All right, we are now at the end of this lesson about advanced file
management tools. Let's have a look at the command and quickly review them.
So LN allows you to create hardened symbolic links.
Find is a very flexible utility that allows you to find files based on any property.
Locate will also find files, but but it needs a database that needs to be updated with the updatedb command.
And the which utility is basically used for finding executable files.
It will do so by looking in the path variable, which has a list of all the directories that Linux is going
to check for executable files. TAR is a tape archiver. It's a utility that you use for archiving as well as compression.
And gzip is the original Linux compression utility.
It has been the standard for a long time. It's fast, it's
efficient, but bzip2 is more efficient and xz is even more efficient.
Then we have File if ever you download a file from the Internet and you have no clue what
it is, use File to analyze the file contents. It will tell you exactly what to find in there.
The mount command can be used to connect a device to a specific directory,
which is useful for working with optical disk devices or with USB thumb drives.
And there is a DF command which is disk free. It will show you available disk space.
FindMNT is giving you an overview of mounts and LSBLK is
showing the block devices currently in use on your system.