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How to use proxy server from Linux terminal

In Linux/Unix there is an environment variable called “http_proxy” which can be configured for text based internet sessions.  This variable is used by wget, curl, lynx etc. How to set http_proxy variable Type the following command to set proxy server #export http_proxy=http://10.99.2.197:8080  How to set the http_proxy variable globally #vi /etc/profile add the following lines. #export […]