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What is the exact difference between a 'terminal', a 'shell', a 'tty' and a 'console'?

2d ago firo 31

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What are your favorite command line features or tricks?

shell command-line

oct 7 '11 at 12:21 Stéphane Gimenez 8,052

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Preserve bash history in multiple terminal windows

bash command-history

jul 17 at 23:11 bahamat 9,675

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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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Tips for putting ~ under source control

settings git version-control

mar 13 at 14:59 Marc Kirkwood 11

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Colorizing your terminal and shell environment?

shell bash colors prompt

apr 26 at 3:27 Aquarius Power 33

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How can I close a terminal without killing the command running in it?

command-line terminal process background

dec 5 at 11:31 gertvdijk 2,790

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What is the difference between `grep`, `egrep`, and `fgrep`?

grep regular-expression

aug 4 '11 at 0:00 Gilles 139k

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$VAR vs ${VAR} and to quote or not to quote

shell shell-script environment-variables posix quoting

jan 4 at 22:11 Gilles 139k

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What are the fundamental differences between the mainstream *NIX shells?

shell

oct 8 '11 at 19:36 Ari T 11

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Why can't gcc find libevent when building tmux from source?

compiling make configure autoconf

nov 26 at 13:06 northcamel 1

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Is there any option with 'ls' command that I see only the directories?

ls utilities

oct 24 at 10:17 sdf 1

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What Unix commands can be used as a semaphore/lock?

scripting bash semaphore

may 4 at 20:10 Anthon 3,030

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Rsync filter: copying one pattern only

backup rsync wildcards

apr 11 '11 at 12:21 Gilles 139k

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Different ways to execute a shell script

shell-script executable

feb 7 at 12:42 theCodeAndLinuxGuru___not 1

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How to grep standard error stream (stderr)?

grep io-redirection ffmpeg

jul 18 at 6:44 user1107450 1

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How can I use two bash commands in -exec of find command?

bash find

aug 24 at 15:59 rozcietrzewiacz 13.4k

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Can't pipe into diff?

command-line pipe diff

sep 23 '10 at 19:18 Michael Mrozek♦ 23.7k

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In Linux “top” command what are us, sy, ni, id, wa, hi, si and st (for CPU usage)?

linux cpu top

aug 17 '11 at 19:03 Mat 16k

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Linux - command to list files (except ls)

shell ls

jan 25 at 17:51 0xC0000022L 918

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Understanding IFS

shell

may 29 '12 at 20:27 user815423426 2,877

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Delete extraneous files from dest dir via rsync?

rsync

feb 21 at 10:53 freesbee98 1

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Share aliases and PATH setting between zsh and bash

shell bash zsh path alias

jan 26 '11 at 9:52 Bryan Hunt 99

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There must be a better way to replace single newlines only?

text-processing sed awk regular-expression

mar 22 at 13:27 Community♦ 1

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Difference between Login Shell and Non-Login Shell?

sep 1 at 2:07 Gilles 139k

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Do the parent directory's permissions matter when accessing a subdirectory?

permissions directory

aug 4 '11 at 23:56 Gilles 139k

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How to find what other machines are connected to the local network

networking

mar 3 '11 at 4:03 Tshepang 8,048

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Why does `htop` show more process than `ps`

process top ps

mar 31 '11 at 20:06 Gilles 139k

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What is a good example of a bash script to study in order to learn good coding conventions?

bash

oct 14 '11 at 8:58 l0b0 5,623

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How could I remember how to use redirection?

shell

jan 27 '12 at 19:18 Kevin 10.6k

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