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How to test what shell I am using in a terminal?

shell

may 16 at 0:33 jlliagre 7,580

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How do I get the MD5 sum of a directory's contents as one sum?

may 11 at 0:34 NickC 101

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Clone ownership and permissions from another file?

shell permissions files chown

may 10 at 23:40 Gilles 139k

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Efficiently delete large directory containing thousands of files

linux command-line files rm

may 10 at 6:51 gamma 101

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423

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How to determine where an environment variable came from

bash shell environment-variables

may 9 at 20:57 Anthon 3,015

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608

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Reuse D-Bus sessions across login sessions

session dbus

may 7 at 8:09 Gilles 139k

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Batch renaming files

shell bash rename

may 5 at 20:43 Anthon 3,015

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Can a terminal emulator be as fast as TTY 1-6?

terminal tty

may 4 at 19:07 Evan Teitelman 1,544

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130

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Add file to deep inside a zip file

zip

may 4 at 17:11 Community♦ 1

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Why is printf better than echo?

text-processing echo printf

may 3 at 21:43 Azd325 103

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702

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What's the most appropriate directory where to place files shared between users?

directory-structure fhs

may 3 at 1:33 Evan Teitelman 1,544

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How to set default file permissions for all folders/files in a directory?

permissions directory

apr 30 at 20:38 Vincent Scheib 283

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How to count the number of a specific character in each line?

text-processing

apr 30 at 10:08 Anthon 3,015

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How can I find broken symlinks

command-line find symlink

apr 30 at 6:37 Alex 101

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4

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How to find out which (not installed) package a file belongs to?

debian package-management

apr 26 at 17:46 Tshepang 8,043

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303

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How to create a multiboot flash drive in Linux?

linux dual-boot iso

apr 24 at 23:09 Community♦ 1

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Delete range of lines above pattern with sed (or awk)

bash sed awk

apr 19 at 16:05 larz 21

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979

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set baud speed for tty

tty devices serial-port iphone

apr 14 at 13:22 maxxvw 11

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321

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How to find files with 100% NUL characters in their contents?

command-line grep find

apr 10 at 14:44 l0b0 5,623

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124

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vim customized with emacs commands (insert mode only)

vim emacs keyboard-shortcuts vi key-mapping

apr 9 at 23:04 Jim Stewart 103

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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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How to list files that were changed in a certain range of time?

files recursive timestamps

apr 5 at 11:54 TrueY 123

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4

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250

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Iterate over n files?

shell imagemagick

mar 14 at 22:10 Ole Tange 1,448

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4

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642

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Is there a JavaScript shell?

shell shell-script javascript

mar 13 at 18:57 arielf 151

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how do you sort du output by size?

command-line text-processing disk-usage sort units

mar 11 at 11:00 Bernhard 2,567

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How to properly and easy configure `xdg-open` without any enviroment?

files arch-linux configuration mime-types freedesktop

mar 8 at 2:13 aleb 101

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Why is there a big delay after entering a wrong password?

security password authentication pam

mar 6 at 15:03 Ricardo Altamirano 356

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3

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262

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Construct a command by putting a string into a tty

console tty echo stdin

mar 3 at 22:04 Totor 750

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3

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321

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Why do we need the reboot function in different binaries?

linux history shutdown

mar 3 at 14:50 Stephane Rolland 629

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How to prevent shutdown when an SSH user is logged in?

ubuntu ssh shutdown pam mandriva

feb 28 at 18:13 kmort 203

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