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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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Understanding the Linux kernel source

oct 5 at 6:34 ire_and_curses 3,892

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In Bash, when to alias, when to script, and when to write a function?

bash shell-script alias function

sep 8 at 0:52 Robbie 103

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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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Difference between nohup, disown and &

bash zsh job-control nohup ksh

mar 21 '11 at 0:10 Gilles 139k

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Why is FreeBSD deprecating GCC in favor of Clang/LLVM?

freebsd compiling gcc c llvm

jan 17 at 12:17 Eric 31

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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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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 grep a specific line _and_ the first line of a file?

bash command-line

jan 31 at 11:33 Thor 4,701

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Why would someone choose FreeBSD over Linux?

linux freebsd distribution-choice

jan 2 at 11:34 NlightNFotis 839

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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 linux handles multiple path separators (/home////username///file)

directory filenames slash

jan 24 '12 at 1:04 Gilles 139k

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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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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 can I find broken symlinks

command-line find symlink

apr 30 at 6:37 Alex 101

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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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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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How can I detect when a monitor is plugged in or unplugged?

monitors dual-monitor udev acpi

jan 7 at 0:23 F. Hauri 760

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Why is the root directory on a web server put by default in “/var/www”?

directory-structure

sep 10 at 7:44 mindcorrosive 151

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Why put things other than /home to a separate partition?

linux partition

dec 17 '11 at 6:14 MaxMackie 3,327

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How to use `which` on an aliased command?

shell zsh alias which

jul 14 '11 at 23:20 Gilles 139k

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What is the difference between Halt and Shutdown commands?

command-line shutdown

jan 27 at 17:20 Stephane Rolland 619

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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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Non-Root Package Managers

package-management yum root not-root-user

jun 2 '12 at 16:40 Michael Ekstrand 331

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Save entire process for continuation after reboot

process reboot

aug 2 at 8:08 James Womack 218

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what is this new filesystem /run?

linux filesystems directory-structure

apr 12 '12 at 18:26 Community♦ 1

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Is Mac OS X UNIX?

osx

aug 21 at 19:24 Renan 8,206

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Is there a reason why 'owner' permissions exist? Aren't group permissions enough?

linux permissions

nov 13 at 18:52 Yuval 203

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what does the @ mean in ls -l?

osx ls

feb 5 '12 at 4:22 Kevin 10.6k

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

directory checksum md5sum

may 11 at 0:34 NickC 101

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