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How To Mount and View ISO File as Root and Regular User in Linux

by Ramesh Natarajan on June 22, 2009

How To Mount ISO File in Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, RedHat, AIXISO stands for International Organization for Standardization, which has defined the format for a disk image. In simple terms iso file is a disk image.
 
ISO files are typically used to distribute the operating system. Most of the linux operating system that you download will be on ISO format.
 
If you have downloaded an Linux ISO file you typically burn it onto a CD or DVD as ISO image. Once you’ve burned the ISO image in a CD or DVD, you can boot the system to install the Linux OS.
 
But sometimes, you may just want to mount the ISO file and view the content without burning it to CD or DVD. In this article let us review how to Mount & View iso file as root and regular user in Linux Operating system.
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Open & View 10 Different File Types with Linux Less Command – The Ultimate Power of Less

by SathiyaMoorthy on April 13, 2009

Less is More - The Ultimate Power of Linux Less Command
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Earlier we discussed 15 practical examples of find command and grep command. Now, it is time to turn our attention to something less.
 
In this article, let us review how Linux less command can be used to open and view the following 10 different file types:

  1. PDF File – *.pdf
  2. Word Document- *.doc
  3. Image Files – *.gif, *.jpg, *.jpeg, *.png
  4. TAR Files – *.tar
  5. TAR Files with gzip – *.tar.gz
  6. Zip Files – *.zip
  7. Gzip and Gzip2 Files – *.gz and *.bz2
  8. ISO Files
  9. Debian Files – *.deb
  10. RPM Files – *.rpm

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