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Output ls -l size field with digits grouped by thousands?
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Shell: How to read the bytes of a binary file and print as hexadecimal?
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How to grep standard error stream (stderr)?
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Format of /etc/hosts on Linux (different from Windows?)
Awarded Apr 9, 2021 at 14:31
What does "3>&1 1>&2 2>&3" do in a script?
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Is there a ".bashrc" equivalent file read by all shells?
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What does *~ mean?
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What is the difference between ~/.profile and ~/.bash_profile?
Awarded Sep 21, 2019 at 21:50
What's the purpose of the first argument to select system call?
Awarded Jun 26, 2019 at 10:00
How can I find a rogue alias declaration?
Awarded Mar 5, 2019 at 2:55
What's a UTS namespace?
Awarded Nov 16, 2018 at 7:40
How to change previous/next word shortcut in bash?
Awarded Oct 12, 2018 at 16:40
What's the difference between /sbin/nologin and /bin/false
Awarded Jul 19, 2018 at 21:49
Add thousands separator in a number
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^x^y unix trick for all instances in last command?
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What is the Linux equivalent of DOS "dir /s /b filename"?
Awarded Nov 20, 2017 at 16:58
What methods are used to encrypt passwords in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow?
Awarded Oct 20, 2017 at 15:07
cp -L vs. cp -H
Awarded Oct 8, 2017 at 23:43
Order of redirections
Awarded Feb 20, 2017 at 23:30
How to echo `single quote` when using single quote to wrap special characters in shell?
Awarded Jan 31, 2017 at 19:26
Why isn't Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop free?
Awarded Jan 17, 2017 at 6:37
Why do we use su - and not just su?
Awarded Sep 9, 2016 at 21:20
make a log file
Awarded Jun 1, 2016 at 2:51
What's the difference between various $TERM variables?
Awarded Apr 18, 2016 at 23:00
How to check if Bash can print colors
Awarded Dec 23, 2015 at 17:11
Show all the file up to the match
Awarded Nov 30, 2015 at 18:03
What is the difference between $* and $@?
Awarded Nov 25, 2015 at 2:17
Does parameter order matter with tar?
Awarded Oct 28, 2015 at 20:00
sort but keep header line at the top
Awarded Sep 18, 2015 at 14:49
Which are the standard commands available in every Linux based distribution?
Awarded Aug 23, 2015 at 13:36
Unix file naming convention
Awarded Jul 25, 2015 at 14:46
List packages on an apt based system by installation date
Awarded Jul 16, 2015 at 17:36
Output from ls has newlines but displays on a single line. Why?
Awarded May 8, 2015 at 3:16
How to define 'tab' delimiter with 'cut' in Bash?
Awarded Jun 2, 2014 at 18:04
How to move and overwrite subdirectories (and files) to parent directory?
Awarded Mar 24, 2014 at 6:41
How do you do a dry run of rm to see what files will be deleted?
Awarded Oct 5, 2013 at 13:40
Why do Unix-heads say "minus"?
Awarded Jul 31, 2013 at 7:31
How can I get distribution name and version number in a simple shell script?
Awarded Feb 11, 2013 at 16:53
Looping through files with spaces in the names?
Awarded Nov 27, 2012 at 0:15
Run a command that is shadowed by an alias
Awarded May 25, 2012 at 16:04
Any reason NOT to run Linux in a VM all the time?
Awarded May 12, 2012 at 22:52

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