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Linux distributions typically come with a PDF viewer like Evince (called Document Viewer in Gnome desktop Environment). However, Evince doesn’t have editing features like adding lines, highlighting text, etc. PDF editors can be categorized in two types: PDF editors can edit the content inside a PDF (such as change text, highlight, annotate, add/remove images etc).

Audacity is the most widely used open source audio editing software. It is a cross-platform, feature rich program which is available free of cost to everyone. Note that, despite being a FOSS software, Audacity has now started to collect basic user telemetry. In this article, I will show you how can you turn off the

The Linux terminal is a really powerful tool where you can do anything. In this article, I’m going to teach you how can you read the online free Wikipedia on your Terminal itself without going through the hassle of opening a web browser. Installation There are 2 methods via which you can install the wiki

Hey guys, In this article, We will discuss how to get the filename from the full path in Linux. The full path means the address at which the file is located. This includes all the directories and subdirectories. For example, We have a file named file1.txt. Its complete address will be /home/sid/Desktop/test/file1.txt. You can also

If you, like me, are a fan of the lightweight and reliable VIM text editor and want to stick to it instead of moving to the newer, fancier Integrated development environments like PyCharm or Atom, you have come to the right place. Text editors on Linux, on the other hand, are extremely lightweight but lack

Hello guys, In this article, we will see how to extract email addresses from a text file using grep and sed commands. If the text file is too big and not in a pre-defined format, it’s too time-consuming to extract every email address manually. Using commands like grep and sed, email address or anything else

If you lurk on Linux forums long enough, you will hear statements like “Systemd doesn’t follow the Unix philosophy” or “Gitlab has abandoned Unix philosophy“. But what exactly is this Unix philosophy that users keep mentioning. In this article, let’s deconstruct the long-standing notion of the Unix philosophy. History of Unix Philosophy Unix is a

If you delve into shell programming, you have come across /dev/null or 2>/dev/null numerous times. At first, this might look like intimidating abstract jargon, but there is a very important (and easy to understand) reason for which it exists. In this article, we will look at the meaning of /dev/null and how it is used

If you have been using Linux for a long time, you have probably heard of Desktop Environments like GNOME which ships by default with Ubuntu, and KDE Plasma which ships with Kubuntu. You have probably also heard people talking about how they switched from a bloated Gnome desktop environment to a Minimal i3 window manager.