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Updating the Linux kernel, while leaving rest of system as is

asked Sep 15, 2017 at 18:53

28 votes

6 answers

6k views

How to temporarily save and restore the IFS variable properly?

asked Mar 19, 2021 at 11:03

23 votes

1 answer

2k views

What effect does the "-d" option have with diff?

asked Oct 1, 2018 at 9:23

19 votes

2 answers

4k views

Unix systems without /dev/stdin, /dev/stdout, and /dev/stderr? [duplicate]

asked Jan 19, 2017 at 17:30

15 votes

2 answers

2k views

Slightly confused about whether printf in the yash shell is a built-in command or not

asked Jan 23, 2019 at 16:38

13 votes

1 answer

3k views

mktemp on macOS not honouring $TMPDIR

asked Dec 1, 2019 at 15:03

11 votes

2 answers

852 views

Behaviour of "eval" under "set -e" in conditional expression

asked Jun 5, 2019 at 16:34

11 votes

3 answers

2k views

Performing -nt/-ot test in a POSIX sh

asked Jun 14, 2018 at 6:57

10 votes

1 answer

10k views

Tool for searching across branches and through history in a Git repository

asked Jan 10, 2019 at 15:50

10 votes

4 answers

2k views

Inverting an associative array

asked Mar 17, 2019 at 22:48

10 votes

1 answer

714 views

Issue viewing compressed file with "zless", but not with "zmore" or "gunzip -c"

asked Apr 16, 2023 at 12:29

9 votes

1 answer

564 views

/RE/ vs. "RE" in awk

asked Jan 17, 2023 at 14:44

9 votes

1 answer

3k views

Executing `sh -c` script through SSH (passing arguments safely and sanely)

asked Jun 15, 2018 at 15:09

9 votes

1 answer

2k views

What can be done with NF in an awk code block or function?

asked Jun 19, 2018 at 10:36

9 votes

2 answers

2k views

Circular name references in bash shell function, but not in ksh

asked Aug 10, 2016 at 14:24

7 votes

4 answers

711 views

Simulate slow disks in KVM to see effect of LVM cache in test setup

asked Jul 5 at 12:37

6 votes

1 answer

202 views

crontab schedule on Alpine Linux runs on days it's not supposed to run on

asked 18 hours ago

6 votes

0 answers

1k views

Intermingled input when using local gpg-agent from remote site

asked Nov 21, 2016 at 22:13

6 votes

1 answer

2k views

How to signal end-of-input to "read -N"?

asked Jan 24, 2017 at 0:55

6 votes

1 answer

4k views

Make Bash's vi-mode default to "normal" Vi mode (not "insert"), and place cursor at start of line, mimicking KornShell

asked Jul 8, 2016 at 7:17

6 votes

1 answer

237 views

Will we ever "find" files whose names are changed by "find"? Why not?

asked Feb 13, 2018 at 18:56

6 votes

2 answers

326 views

ssh-keygen and its -Z option on OpenBSD and on RHEL

asked Dec 23, 2019 at 0:54

5 votes

1 answer

738 views

Returning randomised items from glob match

asked Nov 8, 2019 at 15:51

5 votes

4 answers

2k views

Delay termination of script

asked Jun 16, 2018 at 8:58

5 votes

0 answers

121 views

Correct treatment of quotes in parameter expansions

asked Nov 12, 2018 at 8:36

5 votes

2 answers

4k views

Disallowing window renaming in tmux

asked Mar 17, 2017 at 10:00

4 votes

1 answer

134 views

GNU autotooling, where to install shell functions?

asked Feb 26, 2017 at 9:11

4 votes

1 answer

377 views

Starting an interactive shell as an asynchronous process (signal delivery)

asked Aug 5, 2016 at 16:53

4 votes

2 answers

3k views

Testing if a file descriptor is valid (for input)

asked Nov 28, 2018 at 23:01

4 votes

2 answers

1k views

Limiting the scope of glob qualifiers in zsh

asked Nov 14, 2019 at 7:34

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Updating the Linux kernel, while leaving rest of system as is

How to temporarily save and restore the IFS variable properly?

What effect does the "-d" option have with diff?

Unix systems without /dev/stdin, /dev/stdout, and /dev/stderr? [duplicate]

Slightly confused about whether printf in the yash shell is a built-in command or not

mktemp on macOS not honouring $TMPDIR

Behaviour of "eval" under "set -e" in conditional expression

Performing -nt/-ot test in a POSIX sh

Tool for searching across branches and through history in a Git repository

Inverting an associative array

Issue viewing compressed file with "zless", but not with "zmore" or "gunzip -c"

/RE/ vs. "RE" in awk

Executing `sh -c` script through SSH (passing arguments safely and sanely)

What can be done with NF in an awk code block or function?

Circular name references in bash shell function, but not in ksh

Simulate slow disks in KVM to see effect of LVM cache in test setup

crontab schedule on Alpine Linux runs on days it's not supposed to run on

Intermingled input when using local gpg-agent from remote site

How to signal end-of-input to "read -N"?

Make Bash's vi-mode default to "normal" Vi mode (not "insert"), and place cursor at start of line, mimicking KornShell

Will we ever "find" files whose names are changed by "find"? Why not?

ssh-keygen and its -Z option on OpenBSD and on RHEL

Returning randomised items from glob match

Delay termination of script

Correct treatment of quotes in parameter expansions

Disallowing window renaming in tmux

GNU autotooling, where to install shell functions?

Starting an interactive shell as an asynchronous process (signal delivery)

Testing if a file descriptor is valid (for input)

Limiting the scope of glob qualifiers in zsh