User Arcticooling

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Arcticooling

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183 Questions

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47 votes

3 answers

66k views

What is the difference between cron.d (as in /etc/cron.d/) and crontab?

asked Jan 15, 2018 at 19:27

31 votes

3 answers

20k views

What is a capital X in posix / chmod?

asked Jan 13, 2018 at 18:49

26 votes

2 answers

29k views

Exporting a variable from inside a function equals to global export of that variable?

asked Feb 13, 2018 at 13:29

19 votes

2 answers

66k views

What is command substitution in a shell? [duplicate]

asked Apr 25, 2018 at 23:44

16 votes

1 answer

47k views

How to curl and unzip to a certain directory? [duplicate]

asked Jan 30, 2018 at 11:04

15 votes

3 answers

16k views

Main difference between tr (translate) to sed and awk

asked Mar 3, 2018 at 21:18

15 votes

2 answers

11k views

How does a FIFO (named pipe) differs from a regular pipe (unnamed pipe)? [duplicate]

asked Apr 10, 2018 at 21:05

14 votes

2 answers

8k views

How to export a large list of variables in Bash? [duplicate]

asked Feb 10, 2018 at 20:56

12 votes

6 answers

2k views

Too many shebang (script declaration) lines --- any way to reduce their amount?

asked Feb 3, 2018 at 12:49

12 votes

6 answers

2k views

at some time from now do something (and maybe also show result in console)

asked Dec 4, 2017 at 20:00

11 votes

2 answers

9k views

A while loop and an here-document - what happens when?

asked Feb 7, 2018 at 15:05

11 votes

2 answers

27k views

A filename has an asterisk for some reason - it won't be changed and content not executed

asked Jul 14, 2018 at 17:21

10 votes

2 answers

36k views

How to cat and sed together? [duplicate]

asked Feb 5, 2018 at 11:17

10 votes

3 answers

15k views

Change a directory name in a Github repository remotely, directly from local Linux Git?

asked Feb 14, 2018 at 13:23

8 votes

4 answers

37k views

Shortest way to download from GitHub

asked Feb 4, 2018 at 13:00

8 votes

2 answers

2k views

Debian 9.3 - untar fails saying the file doesn't exist

asked Jan 8, 2018 at 11:51

8 votes

2 answers

8k views

Nginx location ~ /\.ht

asked Dec 28, 2017 at 1:28

7 votes

6 answers

8k views

How to export all Bash functions in a file in one line?

asked Mar 5, 2018 at 5:16

5 votes

1 answer

458 views

set -x: tab completion results in messy output when working in debug mode

asked Feb 27, 2018 at 17:54

5 votes

1 answer

266 views

What are the main execution stages in Linux (how does a program basically gets executed in Linux)?

asked Nov 11, 2017 at 22:51

5 votes

2 answers

1k views

Gnome shell VS Unity

asked Nov 13, 2017 at 13:27

4 votes

2 answers

360 views

Uniting urls for a download utility (like wget) in one line

asked Jan 13, 2018 at 19:51

4 votes

2 answers

12k views

Unzip and rename a particular directory in zip --- in one operation

asked Feb 4, 2018 at 21:57

4 votes

6 answers

3k views

How to append multiple lines to a file, if these lines doesn't exist in that file?

asked Jan 13, 2018 at 10:45

4 votes

1 answer

2k views

Running bash -v or bash --v by mistake to know bash version compared to bash -v varname

asked Apr 14, 2018 at 14:54

3 votes

3 answers

10k views

Any work-around to pipe zip files? [duplicate]

asked Apr 10, 2018 at 19:33

3 votes

1 answer

637 views

Redirection to a globbed file name fails

asked Jan 27, 2018 at 18:54

3 votes

2 answers

1k views

cat-redirect a file, but with variable expansions

asked Feb 5, 2018 at 0:30

3 votes

3 answers

9k views

Redirect content under a new line (without further syntax or arguments)

asked Feb 7, 2018 at 9:31

3 votes

4 answers

4k views

Ignore spacing between echo strings

asked Feb 7, 2018 at 12:26

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