Sarvottam Kumar

Are you an open-source enthusiast? If yes, then you must already be aware of LibreOffice, which is a widely used free office suite application in Linux and is also considered a good alternative to Microsoft Office Suite. Interestingly, LibreOffice 24.8 is the latest version of the popular free office software, which has a new versioning system that shows the year and month: ‘24’ stands for 2024, and ‘8’ stands for August.

On Linux, you can do a single task in several ways. Likewise, if you want to count the number of lines in single or multiple files, you can use different commands. In this article, I’ll share five different ways including that you can use to print a total number of lines in a large file. [ You might also like: How to Copy Large Number of Files in Linux ] 1.

After months of active development, Rocky Linux has finally got its first stable version 8.4 release, ready for a production system. If you don’t know, last year, Red Hat decided to drop maintenance of CentOS Linux 8 after 2021 to solely focus on CentOS Stream. Obviously, the decision made various people unhappy including CentOS project founder Greg Kurtzer. Hence, within a few days, Greg announced a new alternative OS called Rocky Linux, which is still under intensive development.