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May 15	comment	POSIX head and tail not feature equivalent @StephaneChazelas, GNU `head -n -1` needs also one line of storage (or two depending what you are really counting). And doesn't fail here.
Feb 28	awarded	Citizen Patrol
Sep 23	awarded	Yearling
Apr 17	answered	Where are “headers” for other languages kept?
Apr 16	comment	End of lines problem in emacs when editing markdown texts via It's All Text I'm far from sure it is an emacs problem and not an "It's All Text" one. Do you reproduce with a simple text file? If yes, does customizing `require-final-newline` solve your problem?
Apr 3	comment	Why doesn't tar ask before overwriting existing files? @mattdm, git handles trees, RCS handles files. For config files, this an advantage of RCS (in most contexts, it is a source of problems).
Mar 26	comment	What is the concept of Drives in Unix Systems? I'm far from convinced that there is a relationship between fixed disks and the notion of mounting. The notion of a single hierarchical name space is quite unique to Unix and its descendant (and perhaps Multics which ISTR introduced the directory hierarchy, I don't know if it was unique). Other OSes I know (TOPS-10, TOPS-20, VMS) use structured names with a device designator, even when they have a notion of directory hierarchy. And Unix uses names in the directory hierarchy to refer to mountable devices (tapes and mountable hard disks).
Mar 22	answered	Get input from editor (vim/nano/emacs/textmate?)
Mar 8	comment	Is there a way to download pure Unix? @tonymarschall, I'd not recommend linux from scratch to someone not yet familiar with Unix.
Mar 8	comment	Is there a way to download pure Unix? @JamesLitewski. you got the things in the reverse order. Undex Unix, the GUI is mostly an application layer which run over the OS. Any variant will easily provide you with a command line interface and just that (with the potential exception of MacOS about which I know very little).
Mar 8	revised	Is there a way to download pure Unix? added 582 characters in body
Mar 8	answered	Is there a way to download pure Unix?
Mar 8	comment	Is there a way to download pure Unix? Well, that's a simplified version of the history. See levenez.com/unix for a more complete one.
Jan 9	comment	Is an SSH connection faster if I lower the RSA key size? The problem with X is that it is a protocol which doesn't support very well high latency -- and applications are even worse that needed by the protocol in such context. You may want to use an X protocol compressors (I've never done that, I remember seeing some). Or switch to something like VNC.
Jan 6	answered	How to make a variable symlink ? (or something similar)
Dec 31	comment	What languages are used to build Unix commands? Note also that some commands such as `cd` must be a shell builtin to work effectively.
Dec 26	answered	How to output only given chars?
Dec 23	awarded	Nice Answer
Dec 19	revised	How to avoid a useless use of cat when parsing a file? deleted 5 characters in body
Dec 19	comment	How to avoid a useless use of cat when parsing a file? @ddeimeke, because I didn't remember if it is POSIX or just a common extension. Now I've checked and it is in SUSv2.