Here’s your beginner-friendly blog post for creating folders by date using the terminal:

✅ /blog/make-folders-by-date.md#

---slug: make-folders-by-datetitle: How to Create Folders by Date from the Terminalauthor: Frádely Dilonétags: [organize, terminal, beginner]---
Want to stay organized? Here’s how to automatically create folders with today’s date and move your files into them.
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### 🗂 Step 1: Create a folder with today’s date
```bashmkdir $(date +%Y-%m-%d)

This creates a folder like:

2025-04-18

📁 Step 2: Move files into that folder#

Example: move all .jpg files from your current folder:

mv *.jpg $(date +%Y-%m-%d)/

You can replace *.jpg with any file type — like *.pdf or *.txt.

✅ Great for:

• Grouping downloads by day
• Organizing screenshots
• Keeping backups clean

Here’s the blog post for viewing hidden files — simple and clear for beginners:

✅ /blog/open-hidden-files.md#

---slug: open-hidden-filestitle: How to View Hidden Files on Your Systemauthor: Frádely Dilonétags: [terminal, beginner, hidden-files]---
Hidden files start with a dot (`.`), like `.bashrc` or `.gitignore`. These are often config or system files.
Here’s how to see them.
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### 🖥 Terminal (Linux/macOS)
```bashls -a

The -a means “all files” — including hidden ones.

🧭 File Explorer (GUI)#

💻 macOS#

• Press: Command + Shift + .
• Press again to hide them

🐧 Linux (Ubuntu, etc.)#

• Press: Ctrl + H
• Works in most file browsers

✅ Why view hidden files?

• Edit config files
• Check what apps are storing
• Remove leftover or hidden junk

organizing PDF files using the terminal — super clear for beginners:

✅ /blog/organize-pdf-terminal.md#

---slug: organize-pdf-terminaltitle: How to Organize All PDF Files Using the Terminalauthor: Frádely Dilonétags: [pdf, terminal, organize, beginner]---
If you have PDF files scattered all over your system and want to organize them in one place, here’s how to do it from the terminal.
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### 🧭 Step 1: Open your terminal and go to your home folder
```bashcd ~

📁 Step 2: Create a folder for all PDFs#

mkdir all-my-pdfs

🔍 Step 3: Find and move all PDFs into it#

find . -type f -name "*.pdf" -exec mv {} all-my-pdfs/ \;

This will search from your current location and move every .pdf file into the all-my-pdfs folder.

✅ Done!#

Now all your PDFs are together. You can:

• Open the folder
• Zip it:

zip -r my-pdfs.zip all-my-pdfs

• Back it up or share it

Simple and clean!

Here’s the full Markdown content for your blog post: Extract Text from Image (for beginners).

✅ /blog/extract-text-from-image.md#

---slug: extract-text-from-imagetitle: How to Extract Text from an Image Using the Terminalauthor: Frádely Dilonétags: [ocr, terminal, image, beginner]---
Sometimes you have a screenshot or photo of text and want to copy the words. Here's how to do it using a tool called **Tesseract OCR**.
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### 📥 Step 1: Install Tesseract
#### 🐧 On Ubuntu / Debian:
```bashsudo apt install tesseract-ocr

🍎 On macOS (with Homebrew):#

brew install tesseract

🖼 Step 2: Place your image#

Make sure your image file is in the same folder. Example:

myphoto.jpg

📤 Step 3: Extract the text#

Run this command:

tesseract myphoto.jpg output

This creates a file called:

output.txt

Inside, you'll find all the text it could detect from your image.

✅ That’s it!
Use this to extract quotes, copy from scanned documents, or save handwritten notes digitally.

✅ /blog/empty-trash-terminal.md#

---slug: empty-trash-terminaltitle: Empty Your Trash Using the Terminalauthor: Frádely Dilonétags: [beginner, cleanup, terminal]---
Need to quickly clear out your Trash without opening the UI? Here's how to do it from the terminal.
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### 🗑 On macOS
```bashrm -rf ~/.Trash/*

🗑 On Linux (Ubuntu, etc.)#

rm -rf ~/.local/share/Trash/*

⚠️ Be careful#

These commands delete everything inside your Trash immediately. No "Are you sure?" message. Use with intention.

✅ Good for freeing up space or automating cleanup scripts.

Let me know if you want a matching “clear Downloads folder” post.