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linuxfordevices.com > tutorials > linux > nano-editor-vs-vim-editor

Nano vs VIM editor??? What's the difference between nano and vim editors?

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (232+ words) Every factual claim in this comparison is grounded in the vendor documentation and verified on-device: Vim is more capable, but capability only matters if you use it. For a two-line config fix, nano is faster end to end. For daily…...

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linuxfordevices.com > tutorials > linux > vim-search-and-replace

5 tricks for Vim Search and Replace

4+ day, 11+ hour ago   (1006+ words) Vim search and replace runs on a handful of commands. I re-ran every command in this guide on Vim 9.1 against a scratch file, so what you read here is what Vim actually does. You start by finding text, then replace…...

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linuxfordevices.com > tutorials > linux > dark-mode-in-vlc-player

Enable Dark Mode in VLC on Linux

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (412+ words) VLC can keep a light title bar and controls even when your Linux desktop uses a dark theme. The dependable way to change the whole player interface is to use VLC’s skins interface with a dark VLC skin. VideoLAN documents…...

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linuxfordevices.com > tutorials > linux > gnome-extensions-cli

GNOME Extensions CLI??? Manage your extensions from the Terminal

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (530+ words) If you are using any Linux distribution which uses GNOME as its desktop environment, then you should probably use extensions to make your desktop look better or just improve its functionality. We have already discussed the Graphical method through which…...

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linuxfordevices.com > tutorials > how-to-install-video-downloader-on-linux

Install Video Downloader on Linux with Flatpak

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (665+ words) Install Video Downloader from Flathub when you want a graphical way to save supported web video or audio without assembling a yt-dlp command. The current Flathub application ID is com.github.unrud.VideoDownloader, and the app uses yt-dlp for site…...

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linuxfordevices.com > tutorials > linux > gnome-extension-manager

GNOME Extension Manager: install, browse and manage extensions without a browser

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1236+ words) GNOME’s official Extensions app manages what you already have installed, but browsing and adding new extensions still means a trip to extensions.gnome.org and a browser add-on. GNOME Extension Manager fixes that by building a Browse tab straight into…...

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linuxfordevices.com > tutorials > linux > images-to-ascii-art

ASCII art on Linux: Converting images and displaying your logo

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (1180+ words) ASCII art is any image built from the 95 printable characters in the ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) standard, first published in 1963. Terminal tools lean on it because plain text works everywhere, including SSH sessions and lightweight consoles with…...

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linuxfordevices.com > tutorials > linux > md5-and-base64-commands

How to use the MD5 and Base64 commands in Linux?

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (949+ words) Two commands cover most checksum and encoding work on Linux: md5sum produces a fixed fingerprint of a file, and base64 converts data into plain ASCII text so it can travel through channels that only accept text. They look similar in a terminal…...

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linuxfordevices.com > tutorials > grep-command-interview-questions

Linux grep Command Interview Questions

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (923+ words) Hiring panels ask these questions because log triage is daily work. Every command below was verified against GNU grep 3.11, so you can rehearse the exact syntax you will type on the job. Every example below runs against a small log…...

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linuxfordevices.com > tutorials > linux > solved-gzip-stdin-not-in-gzip-format

[SOLVED] gzip: stdin: not in gzip format

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (655+ words) The error gzip: stdin: not in gzip format appears when tar hands the file to gzip for decompression and gzip finds data that is not a gzip stream. The usual cause is simple: the file was never compressed, it is…...