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Linux exit Command Explained for Beginners (With Examples)

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Himanshu Arora
Sep 5, 2019

If you are a Linux newbie, and your work involves doing stuff through the command line, then it goes without saying that you must be spending a lot of time on the terminal window. As you’d likely agree, there are some commands that we tend to use very frequently, like ls, cp, and rm. However, there are some others that are comparatively less used. In this tutorial, we will discuss one such, less frequently used command: Exit.

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Himanshu Arora

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