User Pádraig Brady

69 votes

Why is cp --reflink=auto not the default behaviour?

answered Aug 28, 2014 at 15:29

60 votes

date command --iso-8601 option

answered Oct 23, 2015 at 0:08

56 votes

Why is 'ls' suddenly wrapping items with spaces in single quotes?

answered Jan 30, 2016 at 8:54

25 votes

Editing INI-like files with a script

answered Aug 25, 2014 at 14:30

17 votes

Transposing rows and columns

answered Jan 7, 2016 at 9:06

11 votes

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what are practical uses of stdbuf or nohup?

answered Mar 28, 2015 at 0:14

6 votes

Why doesn't cp have a progress bar like wget?

answered Apr 21, 2015 at 2:25

6 votes

CLICOLOR and LS_COLORS in bash

answered Mar 21, 2014 at 10:00

6 votes

Has the GNU coreutils stat tool changed?

answered Feb 26, 2014 at 2:24

5 votes

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GNU sort --compress-program compressing only first temporary

answered Apr 10, 2016 at 20:36

4 votes

calling sigprocmask from bash

answered Mar 4, 2019 at 10:19

4 votes

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Why do GNU tools use non-matching ` and ' to quote errors?

answered Nov 7, 2015 at 17:16

2 votes

Interactive command usage reference: do you generally have that on Unix?

answered Jul 29, 2014 at 20:07

2 votes

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numfmt invalid suffix input

answered May 8, 2014 at 15:48

2 votes

How do I validate a settings(ini) file for the values expected using bash?

answered Aug 25, 2014 at 15:02

2 votes

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Risks of Updating CentOS' coreutils-5.97

answered Aug 19, 2016 at 13:59

1 vote

Where can I view a changelog for the sort command

answered May 23, 2014 at 0:45

1 vote

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Memory-efficient utility to return N first sorted values

answered Jan 12, 2014 at 13:09

1 vote

ls --color: how to color executable hard links?

answered Dec 7, 2015 at 10:29

1 vote

wc -L reports a line-length of 8 for a tab-char. bug or feature?

answered Jun 9, 2015 at 13:26

1 vote

debian: unnecessary essential packages in a chroot environment

answered Sep 30, 2015 at 11:39

0 votes

In shell config scripts, how can I account for differences between coreutils on BSD compared to GNU?

answered Mar 18, 2014 at 15:03

0 votes

"--numeric-suffixes" does not allow an argument with "split"

answered Nov 22, 2019 at 14:14

0 votes

timeout, breaking pipes and wc

answered Jul 11 at 14:18

-1 votes

How are default permissions determined (on OS X)?

answered Apr 13, 2013 at 23:17

-1 votes

equivalent of `grep -a /dev/sda1` on Darwin?

answered Aug 25, 2014 at 22:57

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26 Answers

Why is cp --reflink=auto not the default behaviour?

date command --iso-8601 option

Why is 'ls' suddenly wrapping items with spaces in single quotes?

Editing INI-like files with a script

Transposing rows and columns

what are practical uses of stdbuf or nohup?

Why doesn't cp have a progress bar like wget?

CLICOLOR and LS_COLORS in bash

Has the GNU coreutils stat tool changed?

GNU sort --compress-program compressing only first temporary

calling sigprocmask from bash

Why do GNU tools use non-matching ` and ' to quote errors?

Interactive command usage reference: do you generally have that on Unix?

numfmt invalid suffix input

How do I validate a settings(ini) file for the values expected using bash?

Risks of Updating CentOS' coreutils-5.97

Where can I view a changelog for the sort command

Memory-efficient utility to return N first sorted values

ls --color: how to color executable hard links?

wc -L reports a line-length of 8 for a tab-char. bug or feature?

debian: unnecessary essential packages in a chroot environment

In shell config scripts, how can I account for differences between coreutils on BSD compared to GNU?

"--numeric-suffixes" does not allow an argument with "split"

timeout, breaking pipes and wc

How are default permissions determined (on OS X)?

equivalent of `grep -a /dev/sda1` on Darwin?