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Linux has long been a home for some quirky and some outright funny commands and command-line programs. From a command which brings you your fortune on the terminal, to an ASCII based Star Wars movie,
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The echo command in Linux is used to display a string or a set of strings onto the terminal. The string(s) is passed as an argument to the command. The echo command also comes with
Linux is getting popular in programming for developers because of being a free and open-source operating system. In Linux, most of the programming software and compiler comes preinstalled. There are many popular compilers available for
To join two or more text files on the Linux command-line, you can use the cat command. The cat (short for “concatenate”) command is one of the most commonly used commands in Linux as well
I am new to the Postgres database management system. How can I access or log into a Postgres database from the command line? This short guide explains how to access or connect to a Postgres