User Mark Plotnick

365 votes

Accepted

Unzipping a .gz file without removing the gzipped file

answered Sep 18, 2014 at 21:54

93 votes

Accepted

Can overwritten files be recovered?

answered Aug 15, 2014 at 15:27

87 votes

Accepted

How to rename multiple files in single command or script in Unix?

answered Nov 26, 2013 at 16:41

85 votes

Accepted

-bash: /dev/null: Permission denied

answered Jul 25, 2014 at 21:31

83 votes

Accepted

Why do we need to fork to create new processes?

answered Jun 11, 2014 at 21:59

65 votes

Accepted

Tools for Debugging Routing Tables on a Linux Machine?

answered Mar 23, 2015 at 19:16

49 votes

Accepted

What is the point of mv -f when default behavior already overwrites files?

answered Oct 16, 2015 at 15:33

43 votes

How to debug a bash script?

answered Sep 15, 2014 at 21:12

41 votes

Accepted

Ctrl-C handling in SSH session

answered Oct 13, 2014 at 18:17

36 votes

Accepted

Ctrl+D for ending terminal line input

answered Jan 6, 2015 at 0:43

36 votes

Accepted

Do I need to worry about "tail: unrecognized file system type 0xbeefdead"?

answered Mar 24, 2014 at 18:32

30 votes

How do I source another process's environment variables?

answered Apr 16, 2014 at 21:58

30 votes

Accepted

Why does -a in "#!/bin/sh -a" affect sed and "set -a" doesn't?

answered Aug 13, 2018 at 19:18

27 votes

'seek' argument in command dd

answered Jan 11, 2014 at 12:35

26 votes

How do I redirect only stderr?

answered Nov 4, 2013 at 4:22

26 votes

Accepted

What does /usr/bin/install do besides copying?

answered Jul 9, 2014 at 17:10

26 votes

Accepted

How are terminal length and width forwarded over SSH and telnet?

answered Jun 5, 2015 at 16:04

26 votes

What's the philosophy behind delaying writing data to disk?

answered Aug 20, 2015 at 14:48

25 votes

Accepted

Correct capitalization of "cron"

answered Aug 31, 2015 at 1:39

25 votes

Accepted

nohup: ignoring input and redirecting stderr to stdout

answered Dec 19, 2013 at 10:23

24 votes

Accepted

I Can't login as root with su command, but I can with SSH

answered Feb 26, 2014 at 9:06

24 votes

Accepted

How to make gdb not ask me "y or n"?

answered Aug 21, 2014 at 17:24

23 votes

Accepted

backgrounded job keeps stopping

answered Jul 7, 2016 at 19:16

21 votes

How to tell if output of a command or shell script is stdout or stderr

answered Feb 24, 2015 at 0:11

21 votes

Accepted

A better paste command

answered Nov 5, 2013 at 15:02

20 votes

Accepted

system lock up when storage go offline when using nfs mount options bg,hard,nointr

answered Jul 29, 2014 at 22:08

20 votes

Accepted

Is it safe to type another command into STDIN while the previous command is writing to STDOUT?

answered Jan 13, 2015 at 22:06

19 votes

tar exits on "Cannot stat: No such file of directory", why?

answered Aug 10, 2014 at 8:33

17 votes

Accepted

mv a file to /dev/null breaks dev/null

answered Mar 4, 2014 at 13:03

17 votes

Why would a backgrounded job with `| less` be stopped, while the other one without it is running?

answered Oct 8, 2017 at 18:55

Stack Exchange Network

235 Answers

Unzipping a .gz file without removing the gzipped file

Can overwritten files be recovered?

How to rename multiple files in single command or script in Unix?

-bash: /dev/null: Permission denied

Why do we need to fork to create new processes?

Tools for Debugging Routing Tables on a Linux Machine?

What is the point of mv -f when default behavior already overwrites files?

How to debug a bash script?

Ctrl-C handling in SSH session

Ctrl+D for ending terminal line input

Do I need to worry about "tail: unrecognized file system type 0xbeefdead"?

How do I source another process's environment variables?

Why does -a in "#!/bin/sh -a" affect sed and "set -a" doesn't?

'seek' argument in command dd

How do I redirect only stderr?

What does /usr/bin/install do besides copying?

How are terminal length and width forwarded over SSH and telnet?

What's the philosophy behind delaying writing data to disk?

Correct capitalization of "cron"

nohup: ignoring input and redirecting stderr to stdout

I Can't login as root with su command, but I can with SSH

How to make gdb not ask me "y or n"?

backgrounded job keeps stopping

How to tell if output of a command or shell script is stdout or stderr

A better paste command

system lock up when storage go offline when using nfs mount options bg,hard,nointr

Is it safe to type another command into STDIN while the previous command is writing to STDOUT?

tar exits on "Cannot stat: No such file of directory", why?

mv a file to /dev/null breaks dev/null

Why would a backgrounded job with `| less` be stopped, while the other one without it is running?