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Trying to SSH to local VM Ubuntu with Putty

answered Jul 23, 2014 at 0:32

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Exporting a variable with dot (.) in it

answered Oct 4, 2013 at 7:15

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Resolving symbolic links (pwd)

answered Feb 3, 2013 at 22:18

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Why can't I run GUI apps as root: "No protocol specified"?

answered Mar 9, 2014 at 9:17

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Why can't tar extract .zip files?

answered Jul 23, 2014 at 21:29

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What does $# mean in shell?

answered Mar 31, 2014 at 5:35

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du gives two different results for the same file

answered Dec 22, 2013 at 23:11

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How to copy files from the folder without the folder itself

answered Jan 25, 2015 at 15:01

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Why do people call Linux a kernel rather than an OS?

answered Oct 10, 2013 at 7:29

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Is it possible to redefine the tilde ('~', home directory)?

answered Dec 4, 2013 at 14:04

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How to recover from a chmod -R 000 /bin?

answered Jun 1, 2013 at 6:46

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What happens if you delete a device file?

answered Feb 9, 2018 at 11:30

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What does yes $(yes yes) do?

answered Nov 10, 2013 at 12:41

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SSH public key won't send to server

answered May 25, 2014 at 11:34

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Why/how does "uptime" show CPU load >1?

answered Mar 4, 2014 at 20:23

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How do I use wget to download all links from my site and save to a text file?

answered Feb 26, 2014 at 6:51

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Why does "$(( ~33 ))" produce -34?

answered May 9, 2013 at 6:40

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nslookup, dig, firefox ignoring /etc/hosts file entries

answered Jun 29, 2015 at 16:58

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Ctrl-C with two simultaneous commands in bash

answered Jan 1, 2014 at 14:15

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Does compression option -z with rsync speed up backup

answered Mar 7, 2015 at 9:19

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Bash command to source a file in a different directory?

answered Jul 18, 2015 at 12:17

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Username is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported

answered Jan 19, 2015 at 23:31

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Explain the shell command: shift $(($optind - 1))

answered Jul 6, 2015 at 10:49

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Resetting password of another Linux

answered Dec 15, 2013 at 20:34

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#!/bin/bash: No such file or directory

answered Jan 18, 2014 at 8:51

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Automatically run commands over SSH on many servers

answered May 23, 2013 at 7:00

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How can I delete input in the terminal?

answered Feb 1, 2014 at 17:52

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answered Apr 5, 2016 at 22:10

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How to find out which unicode codepoints are defined in a TTF file?

answered Dec 3, 2015 at 12:21

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How can I see dmesg output as it changes?

answered Oct 13, 2013 at 9:21

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270 Answers

Trying to SSH to local VM Ubuntu with Putty

Exporting a variable with dot (.) in it

Resolving symbolic links (pwd)

Why can't I run GUI apps as root: "No protocol specified"?

Why can't tar extract .zip files?

What does $# mean in shell?

du gives two different results for the same file

How to copy files from the folder without the folder itself

Why do people call Linux a kernel rather than an OS?

Is it possible to redefine the tilde ('~', home directory)?

How to recover from a chmod -R 000 /bin?

What happens if you delete a device file?

What does yes $(yes yes) do?

SSH public key won't send to server

Why/how does "uptime" show CPU load >1?

How do I use wget to download all links from my site and save to a text file?

Why does "$(( ~33 ))" produce -34?

nslookup, dig, firefox ignoring /etc/hosts file entries

Ctrl-C with two simultaneous commands in bash

Does compression option -z with rsync speed up backup

Bash command to source a file in a different directory?

Username is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported

Explain the shell command: shift $(($optind - 1))

Resetting password of another Linux

#!/bin/bash: No such file or directory

Automatically run commands over SSH on many servers

How can I delete input in the terminal?

more less ...skipping... when searching

How to find out which unicode codepoints are defined in a TTF file?

How can I see dmesg output as it changes?