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The post Linux Lite – An Ubuntu-Based Distribution for Linux Newbies first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Linux Lite is a free, easy-to-use, and open-source Linux distribution based on the Ubuntu LTS series of releases. By design, it is a lightweight and user-friendly distribution that was developed with Linux beginners in The post Linux Lite – An Ubuntu-Based Distribution for Linux Newbies first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post How to Install MariaDB in RHEL and Debian Systems first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .MariaDB is a binary drop-in replacement for MySQL, developed by the original authors of MySQL Project and fully compatible with MySQL having more features and better performance enhancement. Why should I Use MariaDB? As The post How to Install MariaDB in RHEL and Debian Systems first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post Linux Mint Vs Ubuntu: Which OS Is Better for Beginners? first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Ubuntu is arguably the most widely used Linux-based desktop operating system (OS) out there. It is a free, open-source, and easy-to-use Debian Linux derivative first launched in October 2004, by a team of Debian The post Linux Mint Vs Ubuntu: Which OS Is Better for Beginners? first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post Monitorix – A Linux System and Network Monitoring Tool first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Monitorix is an open-source, free, and most powerful lightweight tool designed to monitor system and network resources in Linux. It regularly collects system and network data and displays the information in graphs using its The post Monitorix – A Linux System and Network Monitoring Tool first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post How to Open, Extract and Create RAR Files in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .RAR is the most popular tool for creating and extracting compressed archive (.rar) files. When we download an archive file from the web, we required a rar tool to extract them. RAR is available The post How to Open, Extract and Create RAR Files in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post How to Install Fedora 36 XFCE Desktop Edition first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Many Fedora users are unaware of the fact that you do get an option to choose other Desktop Environments apart from the default GNOME which we are used to downloading directly from their download The post How to Install Fedora 36 XFCE Desktop Edition first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post The Beginner’s Guide to IPTables (Linux Firewall) Commands first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .If you are using Computers for while, you must be familiar with the word “Firewall”. We know that things do seem complex from the surface but through this tutorial, we are going to explain The post The Beginner’s Guide to IPTables (Linux Firewall) Commands first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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Linux has always been known for its flexibility and installing packages from ISO is one of them. There are many use cases when a user wants to use ISO/DVD for downloading packages... View the full article
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The post How to Install AlmaLinux 9 Step by Step first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .AlmaLinux is a free and open-source community-driven operating system developed as a perfect alternative to CentOS 8 which RedHat discontinued in favor of CentOS Stream. It is 1:1 binary compatible with RHEL and is The post How to Install AlmaLinux 9 Step by Step first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post How to Install EPEL Repository in RHEL 9 Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Installing the EPEL repository is one of the most recommended steps after you install RHEL 9. To make things easy for you, we are not just going to show you installation steps but rather The post How to Install EPEL Repository in RHEL 9 Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post How to Encrypt Full Disk While Installing Ubuntu 22.04 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Linux distributions have done a great job to get additional protection by bringing full disk encryption and being the market leader. Ubuntu also is bundled with numerous features and disk encryption is one of The post How to Encrypt Full Disk While Installing Ubuntu 22.04 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post How to Create Sudo User in openSUSE Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .The sudo command allows a user to administer a Linux system with the security privileges of another user, by default, the superuser or root. In this guide, we will walk you through the process The post How to Create Sudo User in openSUSE Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post How to Install GLPI [IT Asset Management] Tool on RHEL Systems first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .GLPI is a French acronym for ‘Gestionnaire Libre de Parc Informatique‘ or simply ‘Free IT Equipment Manager‘ It’s an open-source IT asset Management, service Desk System, and issue tracking system written in PHP. GLPI The post How to Install GLPI [IT Asset Management] Tool on RHEL Systems first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post How to Run a Linux Command Without Saving It in History first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .By default, every command that you execute on your terminal is stored by the shell (command interpreter) in a certain file called a history file or shell command history. In Bash (the most popular The post How to Run a Linux Command Without Saving It in History first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post How to Use Port Knocking To Secure SSH Service in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . Port Knocking is a nifty technique of controlling access to a port by only allowing legitimate users access to the service running on a server. It works in such a way that when the The post How to Use Port Knocking To Secure SSH Service in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post How to Enable PM2 to Auto Start Node.js App at System Boot first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . PM2 is a powerful, widely-used, and feature-rich, production-ready process manager for Node.js. Restarting PM2 with the processes it manages every time your server boots/reboots is critical. One of PM2’s key features is support for The post How to Enable PM2 to Auto Start Node.js App at System Boot first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post 11 Best Media Server Software for Linux in 2021 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . A media server is simply a specialized file server or computer system for storing media (digital videos/movies, audio/music, and images) that can be accessed over a network. In order to set up a media The post 11 Best Media Server Software for Linux in 2021 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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GoAccess is an interactive and real-time web server log analyzer program that quickly analyze and view web server logs. It comes as an open-source and runs as a command line in Unix/Linux operating systems. The post GoAccess (A Real-Time Apache and Nginx) Web Server Log Analyzer first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides. View the full article
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The post LFCA: How to Improve Linux Network Security – Part 19 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . In an ever-connected world, network security is increasingly becoming one of the areas where organizations invest a great deal of time and resources. This is because a company’s network is the backbone of any The post LFCA: How to Improve Linux Network Security – Part 19 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post 10 Top Most Popular Linux Distributions of 2021 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . We are almost half of the year 2021, we thought it right to share with Linux enthusiasts out there the most popular distributions of the year so far. In this post, we will review The post 10 Top Most Popular Linux Distributions of 2021 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post Kali Linux 2021.1 Released – Download DVD ISO Images first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . Kali Linux (formerly known as BackTrack Linux) announced the release of Kali Linux Version 2021.1 on February 24th, 2021. Kali Linux is a Debian-based distribution specially focused on penetration testing and digital forensics use. The post Kali Linux 2021.1 Released – Download DVD ISO Images first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post 5 Lightweight Linux Desktop Environments For Older Computers first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . Many of us own old computers, and old computers need low resources-constrained GUI’s to be used on them. In this article, we are going to talk about lightweight linux desktop environments to install on The post 5 Lightweight Linux Desktop Environments For Older Computers first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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When creating a MySQL user with a relatively weak password, you might encounter the error ‘MySQL ERROR 1819 (HY000): Your password does not satisfy the current policy requirements’. Technically, this is not an error, The post How to Fix "MySQL ERROR 1819 (HY000):" in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides. View the full article
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The post Kali Linux 2021.1 – Fresh Installation Guide first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . Kali Linux is arguably one of the best out-of-the-box Linux distributions available for security testing. While many of the tools in Kali can be installed in most Linux distributions, the Offensive Security team developing The post Kali Linux 2021.1 – Fresh Installation Guide first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post How to Install Latest LibreOffice in Linux Desktop first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . LibreOffice is an open-source and much powerful personal productivity office suite for Linux, Windows & Mac, that provides feature-rich functions for word documents, data processing, spreadsheets, presentation, drawing, Calc, Math, and much more. LibreOffice The post How to Install Latest LibreOffice in Linux Desktop first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post How to Install and Setup Apache Spark on Ubuntu/Debian first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . Apache Spark is an open-source distributed computational framework that is created to provide faster computational results. It is an in-memory computational engine, meaning the data will be processed in memory. Spark supports various APIs The post How to Install and Setup Apache Spark on Ubuntu/Debian first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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VnStat is a console-based network traffic monitoring tool design for Linux and BSD. It will keep a log of the network traffic for selected network interfaces. To generate the logs, vnStat uses the information The post How to Install vnStat and vnStati to Monitor Network Traffic in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides. View the full article
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Pgadmin4 is an opensource web-based management tool for managing PostgreSQL databases. It’s a Python-based web-application developed using the flask framework at the backend and HTML5, CSS3, and Bootstrap on the frontend. Pgadmin4 is a The post How to Install PostgreSQL and pgAdmin in RHEL 8 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides. View the full article
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The post 8 Command Line Tools for Browsing Websites and Downloading Files in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . In the last article, we have covered few useful tools like ‘rTorrent‘, ‘wget‘, ‘cURL‘, ‘w3m‘, and ‘Elinks‘. We got lots of responses to cover few other tools of the same genre, if you’ve missed The post 8 Command Line Tools for Browsing Websites and Downloading Files in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post LFCA: Learn Cloud Availability, Performance, and Scalability – Part 14 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . In the previous topic of our LFCA series, we gave an introduction to Cloud computing, the different types and Clouds, and cloud services and walked you through some of the benefits associated with Cloud The post LFCA: Learn Cloud Availability, Performance, and Scalability – Part 14 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post Digitally Sign Documents in Linux Using ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . One of the most reliable ways to protect your documents and their content from any alterations is using a digital signature. It is a mathematical technique used to validate the authenticity and integrity of The post Digitally Sign Documents in Linux Using ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post How to Install Joomla on Ubuntu 20.04/18.04 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . When it comes to creating websites, one of the easiest ways to have your site up and running is using a CMS (content management system) that usually comes with bundled PHP code and all The post How to Install Joomla on Ubuntu 20.04/18.04 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post LFCA: Learn Basic Network Troubleshooting Tips – Part 12 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . When systems encounter issues, as they sometimes will, you need to know your way around the problem and restore them back to a normal and functioning state. In this section, we focus on fundamental The post LFCA: Learn Basic Network Troubleshooting Tips – Part 12 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post How To Install Jenkins on Ubuntu 20.04/18.04 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . Jenkins is a leading self-contained open-source automation server that is used to automate repetitive technical assignments involved in building, testing, and delivering or deploying software. Jenkins is Java-based and can be installed through Ubuntu The post How To Install Jenkins on Ubuntu 20.04/18.04 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post How to Install and Configure an NFS Server on Ubuntu 18.04 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . NFS (Network File Share) is a protocol that allows you to share directories and files with other Linux clients in a network. The directory to be shared is usually created on the NFS server The post How to Install and Configure an NFS Server on Ubuntu 18.04 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post LFCA: Learn Basics of Network IP Addressing – Part 9 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . In our previous chapter of the LFCA series, we defined a computer network and briefly brushed over some of the general Linux networking commands that you can use to retrieve useful network information such The post LFCA: Learn Basics of Network IP Addressing – Part 9 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post How to Enable Remi Repository to Install Latest LAMP Stack first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . If you are a system administrator, a developer, or a DevOps engineer, chances are that at some point you’ve had to set up (or work with) a LAMP (Linux / Apache / MySQL or The post How to Enable Remi Repository to Install Latest LAMP Stack first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post LFCA: How to Monitor Basic System Metrics in Linux – Part 8 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . This article is Part 8 of the LFCA series, here in this part, you will acquaint yourself with the general system administration commands to monitor basic system metricks and schedule administrative tasks in the The post LFCA: How to Monitor Basic System Metrics in Linux – Part 8 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post How to Configure FirewallD in RHEL, CentOS and Fedora first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . Net-filter as we all know it’s a firewall in Linux. Firewalld is a dynamic daemon to manage firewalls with support for network zones. In the earlier version, RHEL & CentOS 6 we have been The post How to Configure FirewallD in RHEL, CentOS and Fedora first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post How to Install Mosh Shell as SSH Alternative on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . Mosh, which stands for Mobile Shell is a command-line application which is used for connecting to the server from a client computer, over the Internet. It can be used as SSH and contains more The post How to Install Mosh Shell as SSH Alternative on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post LFCA: How to Manange Software Packages in Linux – Part 7 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . This article is Part 7 of the LFCA series, here in this part, you will acquaint yourself with the general system administration commands to manage software packages in the Linux system. As a systems The post LFCA: How to Manange Software Packages in Linux – Part 7 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post Gdu – A Pretty Fast Disk Usage Analyzer for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . In this article, we will take a look at gdu an open-source disk usage analyzer written in go. Gdu is inspired by godu, dua, ncdu, and df. The gdu tool is created for SSD The post Gdu – A Pretty Fast Disk Usage Analyzer for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post LFCA: Learn User Account Management – Part 5 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . As a Linux system administrator, you will be tasked with ensuring the smooth flow of all IT operations in your organization. Given that some IT operations are intertwined, a systems administrator usually wears many The post LFCA: Learn User Account Management – Part 5 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post LFCA: Learn to Manage Time and Date in Linux – Part 6 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . This article is Part 6 of the LFCA series, here in this part, you will acquaint yourself with the general system administration commands to manage time and date settings in the Linux system. Time The post LFCA: Learn to Manage Time and Date in Linux – Part 6 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post 10 Best Udemy Google Cloud Platform Courses in 2021 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . Google Cloud Platform is a suite of cloud computing services that share its running environment with the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products e.g YouTube, Gmail, and Google Search. It The post 10 Best Udemy Google Cloud Platform Courses in 2021 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post 10 Best Udemy Android Development Courses in 2021 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . Android Software development involves creating applications for devices that are running the Android Operating System using Kotlin, Java, and C++ languages via the Android software development kit. Of course, it is possible to work The post 10 Best Udemy Android Development Courses in 2021 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post LFCA: Understanding Linux Operating System – Part 1 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . The Linux Foundation has unveiled a new pre-professional IT certification known as the Linux Foundation Certified IT Associate (LFCA). This is a new entry-level certification that focuses on testing fundamental IT concepts such as The post LFCA: Understanding Linux Operating System – Part 1 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post How to Install Flameshot Screenshot Tool in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . Flameshot is an open-source screenshot tool available for Linux, Mac, and Windows. It is created with C++ and QT5 language. Every popular Linux distribution comes with a screenshot tool but they lack few functionalities The post How to Install Flameshot Screenshot Tool in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post How to Use Heredoc in Shell Scripting first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . Here document (Heredoc) is an input or file stream literal that is treated as a special block of code. This block of code will be passed to a command for processing. Heredoc originates in The post How to Use Heredoc in Shell Scripting first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article
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The post How to Install Terraform in Linux Distributions first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides . In this article, we will discuss what Terraform is and how to install terraform on various Linux distributions using HashiCorp repositories. What is Terraform? Terraform is a popular cloud orchestration tool in the world The post How to Install Terraform in Linux Distributions first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.View the full article