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Is it better to use $(pwd) or $PWD?

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Unhighlight last search in 'less'

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Adding unzipped files to a zipped folder

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Negate while loop condition in bash

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Add a user to the system *only if it doesn't exist*

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How can I show a terminal shell's process tree including children?

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Find files in multiple folder names

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How to identify a process which has no pid?

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Common lines between two files

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How to determine which process is creating a file?

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What process created this X11 window?

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grep and tail -f?

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How can I get the tac command on OS X?

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convert a hex string to binary and send with netcat

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Can I force dnf to install an old version of a package?

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How to see disk details like manufacturer in Linux

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What is the difference between procfs and sysfs?

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How to permanently set environmental variables

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Set the default kernel in GRUB

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How do you copy the public key to a ssh-server?

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Why does ( exit 1 ) not exit the script?

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Parallelize a Bash FOR Loop

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How to unload kernel module 'nvidia-drm'?

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Full-upgrade to Debian testing fails due to libc6-dev : Breaks: libgcc-8-dev

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Is there an easy way to update information in known_hosts when you know that a hosts key has changed?

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Execute a specific command in a given directory without cd'ing to it?

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On an Apple Keyboard under Linux, how do I make the Function keys work without the fn modifier key?

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Command-line completion from command history

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How to exit file reading mode (in `less`) in Linux terminal?

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Turn off buffering in pipe

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How can I use sed to replace a multi-line string?

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Difference between cp -r and cp -R (copy command)

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Crontab never running while in /etc/cron.d

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How to enable and use code folding in Vim?

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How to do nothing forever in an elegant way?

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Run a command that is shadowed by an alias

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How to use grep when file does not contain the string

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How to debug a bash script?

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How to generate a random string?

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How can I verify SSL certificates on the command line?

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How to download portion of video with youtube-dl command?

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tar exits on "Cannot stat: No such file of directory", why?

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What is `^M` and how do I get rid of it?

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Find the total size of certain files within a directory branch

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How to output only file names (with spaces) in ls -Al?

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gpg asks for password even with --passphrase

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How to turn off the beep only in bash tab-complete

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shell find -delete "directory not empty"

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Possible to match multiple conditions in one case statement?

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How can I remove duplicates in my .bash_history, preserving order?

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Running dd. Why resource is busy?

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How to OCR a PDF file and get the text stored within the PDF?

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How to override systemd unit file settings?

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Order of redirections

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'ps' arguments to display PID, PPID, PGID, and SID collectively

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Rebuild auto-complete index (or whatever it's called) and binaries in $PATH cache in zsh

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What is making my cursor 'randomly' disappear when using gnome-teminal?

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What does ` (backquote/backtick) mean in commands?

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