Strangely enough there is no way to directly extract the contents of an .rpm package using the rpm (RPM Package Manager) tool. This feature can come in handy for example if you need to access a single file in a package but you don’t want to install it on your system. Fortunately there is a [...]

One of the best features of the Linux command line is the ability to efficiently direct input and output to and from files and other programs. Every program begins with 3 open file streams. stdin (file descriptor 0) – input from the user, usually keyboard stdout (file descriptor 1) – standard output that is displayed [...]