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How can I replace a string in a file(s)?

What are the shell's control and redirection operators?

How can I get the current working directory?

Bash - how to run a command after the previous finished?

Shell scripting: -z and -n options with if

Use scp to transfer a file from local directory X to remote directory Y

If you ^Z from a process, it gets "stopped". How do you switch back in?

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

How to exit a shell script if one part of it fails?

scp and compress at the same time, no intermediate save

How do I remove the first 300 million lines from a 700 GB txt file on a system with 1 TB disk space?

Difference between "cd -" and "cd ~-"

top command on multi core processor

Is there a file that will always not exist?

How to shutdown Linux at specific datetime from terminal?

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

sed capture groups not working

"tree" command output with "pure" (7-bit) ASCII output

What causes this green background in ls output?

Recursively delete all files with a given extension

Text editor for printing C++ code

Grep from the end of a file to the beginning

How do I start all shell sessions in a directory other than $HOME?

how to pass environment variable to sudo su

Join multiple sed commands in one script for processing CSV file

Can root/superuser read my read-protected files?

Why avoid using "&&" in bash script?

How can I get my sed command to make permanent changes to a file?

How to merge two files based on the matching of two columns?

Bash: slice of positional parameters