Mikel

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bio	website	mikelward.com
	location	Mountain View, CA
	age	32
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Computer guy from Australia now living in the US.

Part sysadmin, part developer, part web developer.

My name is pronounced like "Michael".

	13,224 reputation	bio	website	mikelward.com	visits	member for	2 years, 5 months
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Which is the safest way to get root privileges: sudo, su or login?

jul 20 at 19:51 Tshepang 7,853

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Resources for portable shell programming

shell standard reference portability

nov 17 '11 at 23:47 Gilles 139k

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How can I get distribution name and version number in a simple shell script?

shell ubuntu distros centos

apr 8 at 10:49 slist 3

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Timing out in a shell script

shell signals timeout

aug 16 '11 at 22:10 Soren 303

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What customizations have you done on your shell profile to increase productivity?

shell configuration prompt alias

may 13 '11 at 12:52 user unknown 3,485

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Why do unix-heads say “minus”?

conventions

mar 22 '12 at 17:50 teancum144 31

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Convince apt-get not to use IPv6 method

linux debian apt ipv6

apr 17 at 22:10 D. Strout 99

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why not kill -9 a process?

linux kill process-management

mar 9 '11 at 12:29 Shawn J. Goff 12.9k

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How do I reuse the last output from the command line?

shell command-line io-redirection

dec 28 at 21:25 jofel 4,303

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Looping through files with spaces in the names?

bash scripting text-processing find filenames

may 13 at 6:57 user1746460 1

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Is there a way to determine the optimal value for the bs parameter to dd?

performance dd file-copy

dec 23 '11 at 3:10 sampablokuper 140

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Finding command execution time in hindsight

bash osx command-history timestamps audit

sep 16 at 17:37 Gilles 139k

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Do journaling filesystems guarantee against corruption after a power failure?

filesystems journaling corruption

may 16 at 20:28 Amazed 1,085

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sort but keep header line in the at the top?

text-processing sort table

apr 10 at 12:51 Michael Kuhn 128

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Is it possible to save as sudo from nano after you've forgotten to run as sudo?

command-line sudo nano

may 6 '11 at 22:41 Mikel 13.2k

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Correlating /var/log/* timestamps

linux xorg logs timestamps

jan 23 '12 at 19:13 Andrew 121

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Filtering invalid utf8

command-line text-processing character-encoding unicode

may 6 '11 at 8:29 Peter.O 8,015

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How do i completely disable an account?

users account-restrictions

nov 15 at 14:13 dubiousjim 800

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What specific vulnerabilities am I creating by disabling the sudo password?

ubuntu security sudo password

nov 5 at 18:06 rahmu 4,565

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Grep: Show all the file up to the match

grep

apr 23 '11 at 0:39 Mikel 13.2k

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Why is echo “bar” -n different from echo -n “bar”?

command-line

jan 20 '11 at 18:19 Steven D 9,740

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Add arguments from previous command to zsh completion

zsh autocomplete

jan 23 '11 at 18:56 Julien Nicoulaud 225

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How can I view gzipped files in less without having to type zless?

less compression

mar 29 at 19:55 Konstantin Naryshkin 101

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228

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Do you prefer bash scripts or aliases for shortcuts?

shell-script scripting alias

jun 3 '11 at 21:33 Goladus 11

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Is there any env variable to turn --color (and the like) on for all commands?

command-line colors

jan 16 '11 at 9:54 Mikel 13.2k

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What methods are used to encrypt passwords in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow?

password hashsum

feb 26 '11 at 11:48 Gilles 139k

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How to suspend and resume proccesses like bash does

process job-control signals

apr 29 at 10:41 Stephane Chazelas 29.2k

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Nested ssh session inside screen has no color

ssh screen colors putty byobu

jan 24 '11 at 21:19 Gilles 139k

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Executing a shared library

libraries c

feb 7 '11 at 22:36 Mikel 13.2k

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How can I manage puppet.conf with Puppet?

puppet

mar 31 '12 at 4:05 freiheit 165