Peter.O

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Using Linux (Ubuntu) since September 2010

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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?

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8,015 Reputation

+10	Is there a “Open terminal here” from File Browser?
+10	There must be a better way to replace single newlines only?
+5	Why does 'for anytext; do' loop four times?
+5	What exactly is POSIX?

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87 Questions

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32	What exactly is POSIX?
26	What is the difference between a builtin command and one that is not?
20	Why does echo >file use more real time than echo \| sed >file?
17	Why is `while IFS= read` used so often, instead of `IFS=; while read..`?
11	Is there a way to get the min, max, median, and average of a list of numbers in a single command?

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201 Tags

136 bash × 78	59 command-line × 21
128 text-processing × 74	41 grep × 14
79 shell × 42	34 shell-script × 14
62 awk × 30	29 regular-expression × 17
60 sed × 24	24 linux × 10

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