User Olivier Dulac

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What's the story behind Super Cow Powers?

answered Sep 25, 2013 at 15:33

26 votes

Which is more widely used: chmod 777 or chmod a+rwx

answered Sep 3, 2014 at 16:28

19 votes

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How do I construct a list with numbers like this?

answered Nov 5, 2014 at 16:16

19 votes

Is there any way to execute commands from history?

answered Apr 8, 2016 at 21:11

14 votes

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Why do I have to quote an escaped character in a regular expression for grep, but not on online regex engines?

answered Apr 30, 2020 at 5:41

11 votes

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How to run a command block in the main shell?

answered May 22, 2017 at 15:32

10 votes

How to redirect stdout from right to left

answered Oct 3, 2016 at 14:03

10 votes

How to debug a bash script?

answered May 30, 2015 at 7:53

9 votes

How can I create an infinite loop that kills a process if something is found in dmesg?

answered Apr 24, 2018 at 6:18

8 votes

`ls -lS` isn't showing true size of directory

answered May 16, 2017 at 12:25

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Temporarily controlling a shell

answered Dec 26, 2012 at 16:37

8 votes

How to kill the (last - 1) PID with bash

answered May 13, 2013 at 17:52

7 votes

tar files from another directory without copying them

answered Dec 21, 2012 at 13:45

7 votes

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How to calculate by taking first field

answered Oct 15, 2013 at 10:52

6 votes

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Shell script read separately columns from file

answered Dec 10, 2013 at 15:05

6 votes

What should I check after an unauthorized access?

answered Jan 15, 2013 at 10:16

6 votes

Is there a Linux command that does nothing, but never exits?

answered May 19, 2017 at 14:23

6 votes

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Space reserved after deleting file

answered Oct 20, 2020 at 0:55

6 votes

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Swap partition vs swap file in ubuntu

answered Sep 18, 2020 at 17:50

6 votes

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Disk full but cannot find were is the used space (Ubuntu)

answered Oct 29, 2021 at 13:58

6 votes

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bash replacing special characters in a variable

answered Oct 29, 2021 at 15:00

5 votes

Using the command line, multiply all entries within a column to a fixed number, but only if the line is not a comment

answered Aug 11 at 8:46

5 votes

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bash delete folder while running a script

answered Apr 26, 2017 at 12:56

5 votes

bash: messed up display for long lines

answered Aug 29, 2017 at 14:42

5 votes

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difference between /dir and /dir/

answered Jan 20, 2016 at 11:42

5 votes

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How to have find recurse into subdirectories when using -prune option

answered Jan 16, 2013 at 16:12

5 votes

vimdiff disable/enable color coding

answered Jan 8, 2013 at 5:01

4 votes

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How to pass a CTRL-D to a command line within a script?

answered Jan 10, 2013 at 12:32

4 votes

Remove duplicates from basenames in two files

answered Dec 11, 2013 at 19:37

4 votes

Automatically detect when I typed "vi" but meant "cd"?

answered Jan 16, 2014 at 9:51

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181 Answers

What's the story behind Super Cow Powers?

Which is more widely used: chmod 777 or chmod a+rwx

How do I construct a list with numbers like this?

Is there any way to execute commands from history?

Why do I have to quote an escaped character in a regular expression for grep, but not on online regex engines?

How to run a command block in the main shell?

How to redirect stdout from right to left

How to debug a bash script?

How can I create an infinite loop that kills a process if something is found in dmesg?

`ls -lS` isn't showing true size of directory

Temporarily controlling a shell

How to kill the (last - 1) PID with bash

tar files from another directory without copying them

How to calculate by taking first field

Shell script read separately columns from file

What should I check after an unauthorized access?

Is there a Linux command that does nothing, but never exits?

Space reserved after deleting file

Swap partition vs swap file in ubuntu

Disk full but cannot find were is the used space (Ubuntu)

bash replacing special characters in a variable

Using the command line, multiply all entries within a column to a fixed number, but only if the line is not a comment

bash delete folder while running a script

bash: messed up display for long lines

difference between /dir and /dir/

How to have find recurse into subdirectories when using -prune option

vimdiff disable/enable color coding

How to pass a CTRL-D to a command line within a script?

Remove duplicates from basenames in two files

Automatically detect when I typed "vi" but meant "cd"?