By using top or htop you can find out what processes are using your resources and in what ammount. Another way to do this is by launching the following command: ps -eo pcpu,pid,user,args | sort -r -k1 | more This will ou[...]
You can easily find out how many files are in the current directory by typing the following in your Terminal session: ls -l | wc -l [...]
In Linux, you can clear the cache of the memory by using sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches [...]
If you’re in a Terminal session and would like to only list the directories of the current folder you’re in, do a ls -d */ [...]
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