How to install Figlet on Amazon Linux 2 AWS

Install Figlet on Amazon Linux 2

Create a stylized ASCII text banner on your command line screen by installing Figlet on Amazon Linux 2 with the help of the EPEL repository. Figlet is a command-line utility that allows you to create ASCII text banners, also known as “FIGlets.” We can install …

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How to update NodeJS and NPM to their latest versions?

How to update NodeJS and NPM to their latest versions

Node.js and NPM (Node Package Manager) both are popular and widely used tools among the developer’s community. On one side where nodejs is a JavaScript run-time environment, NPM is its package manager to install various libraries and packages for it, easily. Both tools are used …

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What are Tar and Gz? Difference between them.

tar and gz

While working in Linux you would have seen files downloaded from the internet ended up with either “.tar” or “.tar.gz”. Now, what are these extensions? Both of these imply the file is in Archived format that could contain a single file or multiple folders but …

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What is the Tar command in Linux?

Tar command in Linux

The tar in Linux is a commonly used lightweight command line tool for creating file archives and compressing them. Not only for archiving, but users can also use it for extracting, and manipulating existing archives as well. The name “tar” derived from “tape archive” because …

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