How to comment out lines in configuration files on Linux

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Karim Buzdar
Nov 19, 2019

This tutorial focuses on commenting lines in a configuration file on Linux, the examples used here are from Debian 10. However they will work on any other linux distribution too.

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Karim Buzdar

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