User imz -- Ivan Zakharyaschev - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange

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	1,754 reputation	bio	website	en.altlinux.org/User:Imz	visits	member for	2 years, 3 months
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What's the difference between $(stuff) and `stuff`?

nov 3 at 10:28 Tshepang 7,920

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What are your favorite command line features or tricks?

shell command-line

oct 7 '11 at 12:21 Stéphane Gimenez 8,062

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What if 'kill -9' does not work?

process kill

mar 28 at 14:16 user36035 1

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Which is the safest way to get root privileges: sudo, su or login?

jul 20 at 19:51 Tshepang 7,920

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Which GNU/Linux distribution for a 12-year old system?

distribution-choice

feb 1 '12 at 16:08 Alexander 896

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How to have tail -f show colored output

command-line colors alias highlighting tail

apr 26 at 6:26 Michael Mrozek♦ 23.7k

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Tips for putting ~ under source control

settings git version-control

mar 13 at 14:59 Marc Kirkwood 11

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Remember a half-typed command while I check something

bash command-line

aug 7 at 8:23 altern 197

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How to split the terminal into more than one “view”?

shell terminal screen

may 15 at 7:03 Narga 1

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Is there an easy way to replace duplicate files with hardlinks?

files duplicate deduplication

nov 4 at 0:57 islam 21

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Allow setuid on shell scripts

shell scripting setuid security

jan 17 at 1:00 Thanatos 142

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best way to search my shell's history

shell command-history

apr 1 '12 at 7:53 bignose 142

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Why hard links not allowed to directories in UNIX/Linux

filesystems directory symlink hard-link

mar 23 '12 at 23:46 Joe Inwap 11

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Easy incremental backups to an external hard drive

linux backup bsd

may 5 at 11:10 Anthon 3,278

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Why do unix-heads say “minus”?

conventions

mar 22 '12 at 17:50 teancum144 31

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Non-Root Package Managers

package-management yum root not-root-user

jun 2 '12 at 16:40 Michael Ekstrand 331

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Linux tools to treat files as sets and perform set operations on them

command-line text-processing utilities

may 13 '12 at 1:51 Tigr 11

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Mount Google Drive in Linux?

filesystems mount

jan 14 at 8:55 user1591276 11

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Is there a one-liner that allows me to create a directory and move into it at the same time?

bash shell command-line

jan 30 at 22:11 Martín Canaval 805

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Display transfer speed when performing “cp” from the command line?

command-line cp file-transfer

feb 18 at 6:34 Christoph Kuhr 11

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Why use `chmod 644` instead of `chmod u=rw,go=r,…`?

permissions chmod

mar 19 at 22:51 Gilles 140k

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Mount an iso without root access?

mount iso

dec 21 at 20:58 alexandru 103

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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 4,406

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What aspects of Plan 9 have made their way into Unix?

unix history plan9

mar 1 '11 at 1:13 Mikel 13.3k

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Who's got the other end of this unix socketpair?

linux process open-files socket lsof

dec 17 '11 at 22:35 imz -- Ivan Zakharyaschev 1,754

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Using zsh's line editor to wrap around subprocesses

zsh line-editor

oct 26 at 14:04 Community♦ 1

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Linux distribution geared towards developers

linux distribution-choice distros

mar 13 at 15:57 MacAnthony 103

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Are there any Linux distros aimed specifically at being Linux tutorials?

distribution-choice learning

apr 9 at 17:25 cjm 8,556

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the lightest way to have a GUI in Linux?

performance window-manager desktop-environment gui lightweight

apr 25 '11 at 14:37 ultrasawblade 3,922

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.bashrc overwritten but still sourced — how can it be recovered?

bash data-recovery bashrc

nov 14 '11 at 23:46 Gilles 140k

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