In this guide, you’ll learn five practical commands for discovering quick information about any binary command: its purpose, location, and type.

Linux systems come with thousands of commands and programs installed by default, but when you encounter an unfamiliar command in a tutorial, script, or colleague’s workflow, knowing how to quickly identify what it does and where it lives on your system becomes essential.

Understanding these basics helps you master Linux commands faster and makes you more confident when deciding which tools to use for specific tasks, whether working from the command line or writing scripts.

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If you’ve ever debugged permissions or web server issues, chances are you’ve stumbled across files owned by the nobody user. That’s usually the moment when you realize how useful fast file searching can be on a Linux system. This is where the locate command really shines. Instead of crawling the filesystem every time you search, locate can return results almost instantly, even on large servers.

In this article, I’ll walk you through how the Linux locate command works, how to install and use it, its most important options, and how it compares to find. I’ll also include practical examples you can actually relate to real-world systems.

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A new Rust-based tool called cpx offers a modern alternative to the traditional cp command on Linux, adding parallel copying, progress bars, resume support, and configurable defaults.

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