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How can I run a command which will survive terminal close?

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What does "rc" in .bashrc stand for?

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Where did the "wheel" group get its name?

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Kill an unresponsive ssh session without closing the terminal

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Grabbing the first [x] characters for a string from a pipe

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Nslookup: command not found error on RHEL/CentOS 7

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Is there any option with 'ls' command that I see only the directories?

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Execute a command once per line of piped input?

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How to find which processes are taking all the memory?

answered Dec 19, 2010 at 6:54

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Recovering accidentally deleted files

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grep and tail -f?

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pwd without symlinks

answered Feb 2, 2011 at 18:44

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How to parse JSON with shell scripting in Linux?

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How do I get sar to show for the previous day?

answered Jan 5, 2011 at 7:00

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Delete extraneous files from dest dir via rsync?

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Get the free space available in current directory in Bash

answered Jan 18, 2011 at 3:30

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

answered Oct 30, 2010 at 20:06

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How do I print pi (3.14159)?

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How do I remove spaces from shell variables?

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List explicitly installed packages

answered Oct 30, 2010 at 4:22

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How to find all binary executables recursively within a directory?

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How to specify a custom autocomplete for specific commands?

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How do I watch my webcams feed on Linux?

answered Oct 20, 2010 at 15:33

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How do I recursively check permissions in reverse?

answered Jan 15, 2011 at 18:34

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Is screen useful?

answered Nov 16, 2010 at 18:23

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Using jq to extract values from column-oriented JSON and format in CSV

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How to test swap partition

answered Aug 29, 2010 at 19:17

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How to grep standard error stream (stderr)?

answered Oct 26, 2010 at 4:25

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making ssh hosts global to all the users on the computer

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174 Answers

How can I run a command which will survive terminal close?

What does "rc" in .bashrc stand for?

Where did the "wheel" group get its name?

Kill an unresponsive ssh session without closing the terminal

Grabbing the first [x] characters for a string from a pipe

Nslookup: command not found error on RHEL/CentOS 7

Is there any option with 'ls' command that I see only the directories?

Execute a command once per line of piped input?

How to find which processes are taking all the memory?

Recovering accidentally deleted files

grep and tail -f?

pwd without symlinks

How to parse JSON with shell scripting in Linux?

How do I get sar to show for the previous day?

Delete extraneous files from dest dir via rsync?

Get the free space available in current directory in Bash

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

How do I print pi (3.14159)?

How do I remove spaces from shell variables?

List explicitly installed packages

Markdown Viewer

How to find all binary executables recursively within a directory?

How to specify a custom autocomplete for specific commands?

How do I watch my webcams feed on Linux?

How do I recursively check permissions in reverse?

Is screen useful?

Using jq to extract values from column-oriented JSON and format in CSV

How to test swap partition

How to grep standard error stream (stderr)?

making ssh hosts global to all the users on the computer