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Feb 28	comment	User-local package management system But he's not using Gentoo, he's on SuSE. So how does this help?
Feb 28	comment	Is shebang always the same as the interpreter's installation directory? +1 for `/usr/bin/env`.
Feb 4	comment	Vi vs vim, or, is there any reason why I would ever want to use vi? Regarding your programming comment, you may find eclim interesting...
Feb 1	comment	What happens when a hard drive fills up? @goldilocks - Why does performance degrade? Are you talking about fragmentation issues?
Jan 30	comment	I hang when I try to ssh into a machine with my username (or su to my user) To clarify my previous comment - if the remote authentication server is down or not responding, your machine will hang trying to complete the login step. Your ssh output seems to indicate that you made it through ssh, but not local login.
Jan 30	comment	I hang when I try to ssh into a machine with my username (or su to my user) One way to get this situation is if your user name is authenticated using an off-machine lookup, like NIS or LDAP, while your second user name is local.
Jan 29	comment	Are there any standards/documents which tell me how to produce such nice help messages? For reference, man page conventions are based on Extended Backus-Naur Form.
Jan 25	comment	What does the Enlightenment desktop (E17) environment variable “PANTS=ON” do? I advise trying this in private first. `PANTS=OFF` can have unfortunate consequences (e.g. may send unexpected signals), and may abruptly terminate connections, even between close peers.
Jan 25	comment	Does linux have something like supercache? A different kind of caching, but one you might also be interested in, is preload and prelink.
Jan 23	comment	How do I remove a file with no permissions? @Stephane Chazelas - ok. Does plain 'file attributes' work for you?
Jan 18	comment	Locking Desktop just Like Windows In many window managers, screen lock is available by mouse click from a drop-down context menu in the dock.
Jan 18	comment	Small update.. Now cannot download/update You'd be better off just configuring your router to always allocate the same IP to this machine.
Jan 17	comment	What does it mean if a directory has only x (executable) permission for certain user/group? @Pellaeon Lin - If you're interested in learning more about the permissions model, I highly recommend the reference quoted in this answer.
Jan 17	comment	What does it mean if a directory has only x (executable) permission for certain user/group? @Pellaeon Lin - Yes. Listing a directory requires read permission, which isn't present here. But there's no need to list a directory if you already know the name of the file (further evidence, if any were needed, that this is intended for programmatic access, not interactive).
Jan 17	comment	Change who is able to chmod Only the owner of a file can change its permissions. What you're asking for doesn't make a huge amount of sense, since it effectively gives all permissions to all members of the group. Why do you need this?
Jan 16	comment	Root user can't do everything? Short answer: Shell redirection doesn't happen via sudo in your example. See How do I use sudo to redirect output to a location I don't have permission to write to?
Jan 3	comment	Is there a command line tool to insert line breaks into a long string? +1, but perhaps better written as `echo $MYSTRING \| fold -w 30`, since the `-30` syntax doesn't appear in the fold manpage?
Jan 3	comment	execute shell script options Another option is to symlink the contents of the subdirs, and place the link in the top-level dir.
Dec 23	comment	Remapping gnome-terminal shortcut keys Cross-posted on superuser and ask Ubuntu.
Dec 22	comment	store and execute redirection/piped command in script Of course 'it works' with backticks. But that evaluates the expression immediately, which apparently is not what you want (although that is not at all clear from your example). The `eval` solution provided is the correct way to defer execution until a later date.