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Design question: Why was '~' chosen to represent the home directory?

history home

jan 21 at 19:15 user30795 1

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

1d 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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tmux vs. GNU Screen

screen terminal-multiplexer tmux

apr 30 at 15:04 dpb 105

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How to unfreeze after accidentally pressing Ctrl-S in a terminal?

terminal keyboard readline scrolling freeze

apr 28 '11 at 19:08 RBerteig 621

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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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What does “--” (double-dash) mean?

shell command-line utilities

may 3 '11 at 21:29 mattdm♦ 7,469

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Why is there a * When There is Mention of Unix Throughout the Internet?

unix history terminology

jan 28 '12 at 4:53 Kevin 10.6k

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Any funny *nix one-liners?

humor

sep 15 '11 at 13:59 manatwork 9,633

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What does “3>&1 1>&2 2>&3” do in a script?

scripting error

jul 11 at 2:23 Mikel 13.2k

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What does the .d stand for in directory names?

directory fhs

may 10 at 7:18 jlliagre 7,580

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How to copy text from vim to an external program?

ubuntu gnome vim clipboard

mar 4 at 10:22 Tshepang 8,048

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File system for an SSD drive

filesystems ssd

may 17 '11 at 16:50 Tok 1,474

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Display stuff below the prompt at a shell prompt?

bash zsh prompt

jan 14 '11 at 0:29 Gilles 139k

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What is a “loop device” when mounting?

grep mount loop-device

sep 17 '11 at 21:18 Gilles 139k

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Why does dd from /dev/random give different file sizes?

linux dd random

feb 29 '12 at 1:58 Gilles 139k

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Linux boot loaders supporting full disk encryption?

linux encryption

jan 27 '12 at 3:11 Skaperen 193

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Which mp3 tagging tool for Linux?

command-line software-rec mp3 tagging

mar 6 at 10:20 mag 123

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Why use superflous dash (-) to pass option flags to tar?

utilities tar

may 22 '11 at 15:43 Gilles 139k

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What's the standard for indentation in shell scripts?

shell-script standard indentation

may 29 '12 at 10:50 Arturo Herrero 173

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How to completely disable swap?

swap freeze

may 8 at 11:45 Anthon 3,030

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Best way to follow a log and execute a command when some text appears in the log

text-processing shell-script logs tail

may 16 '11 at 15:12 bahamat 9,675

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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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How to pipe the list of commands displayed by of “tab complete”?

bash command-line scripting autocomplete

feb 14 '12 at 13:52 Kevin 10.6k

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How to output string completions to stdout?

bash autocomplete compgen

feb 7 '12 at 17:55 yuyichao 412

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Why are UNIX logins often formed with the first letter of the first name followed by the first seven letters of the name?

mar 20 '11 at 0:12 Rory Alsop 1,525

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getting an old logitech webcam to work in Linux

linux drivers webcam

apr 25 at 17:09 Community♦ 1

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Force telnet / ssh to use crtl-H for backspace

linux terminal terminal-emulator telnet rxvt

sep 23 at 17:35 Mike Pennington 636

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