Peter.O

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Using Linux (Ubuntu) since September 2010


198 Answers

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16
Add a user to the system *only if it doesn't exist*
11
Change tab size of “cat” command
11
A shell script for joining two files
10
Using bash “double paren” arithmetic expansion, math fails with leading zero
9
How to display lines 2-4 after each grep result?
9
Pipes vs process substitution
8
What Windows-related files are valueless to *nix users?
8
How can I get awk to print both matches and non-matches?
8
Addition with 'sed'
8
How can I redirect matching lines to a file, and non-matching lines to a different file?
8
Removing redirection operator does not change output. Why?
8
How do I find the window dimensions and position accurately?
7
“unexpected end of file” in bash script
7
Dereference concatenated variable name
7
Grep huge number of patterns from huge file
7
How to compare to floating point number in a shell script
6
Find files with same name but different content?
6
Displaying week's number in certain format using ncal or cal
6
How to prepend a license header recursively for all .h and .cpp files in a directory
6
combine text files column-wise
6
Extracting tokens from a line of text
5
How to count rows ordered by the first field in bash
5
substituting third occurrence of a pattern using sed
5
Command like `column -t` that instead keeps separators in output
5
Text to movie from commandline
5
Colored FIND output?
5
Why do newlines mess up my while condition?
5
Is there a keyboard shortcut to make a window occupy half the screen?
5
Running several commands in a screen-split
5
date, get current 15 minute interval
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