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How to get the pid of the last executed command in shell script?

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How to remove duplicate lines inside a text file?

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How can I grep in PDF files?

answered Dec 23, 2011 at 18:40

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Tool to monitor folder for new files and run command whenever new file is detected

answered Nov 19, 2011 at 16:35

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Can I "export" functions in bash?

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Clone ownership and permissions from another file?

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Script to change current directory (cd, pwd)

answered Dec 19, 2011 at 8:13

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Does sort support sorting a file in-place, like `sed --in-place`?

answered Jan 22, 2012 at 10:10

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How to make tree output only directories?

answered Oct 1, 2011 at 11:51

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How to add newlines into variables in bash script

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Clear unused space with zeros (ext3,ext4)

answered Jul 29, 2012 at 11:45

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How can I make environment variables "exported" in a shell script stick around?

answered Jan 27, 2012 at 20:12

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Converting multiple image files from JPEG to PDF format

answered Jan 24, 2012 at 10:44

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The difference between deb versus deb-src in sources.list

answered Sep 11, 2011 at 13:45

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How to strip multiple spaces to one using sed?

answered Aug 19, 2011 at 15:06

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How do I enable locate and queue the database to be built?

answered Dec 6, 2011 at 16:37

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How to maintain (top) row visible while scrolling?

answered Aug 10, 2011 at 11:26

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Set volume from terminal

answered Feb 20, 2012 at 17:59

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list the timestamp of the files in "find" command

answered Aug 22, 2011 at 2:47

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Execute remote commands, completely detaching from the ssh connection

answered Jan 31, 2012 at 22:04

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Quickly find which file(s) belongs to a specific inode number

answered Mar 29, 2012 at 14:00

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How to get root inside of vi?

answered Jan 4, 2012 at 8:10

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How to replace one char with another in all filenames of the current directories?

answered Aug 20, 2011 at 5:49

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What does a "< <(...)" redirection mean?

answered Oct 14, 2011 at 21:24

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Can less retain colored output?

answered Aug 24, 2011 at 12:17

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reformatting output with aligned columns

answered Sep 12, 2011 at 10:37

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How to display line number while doing grep on a file

answered Aug 26, 2011 at 12:14

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What scopes can shell variables have?

answered Dec 24, 2011 at 7:49

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how to resize horizontally a screen region

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Two commands, one pipeline

answered Oct 30, 2011 at 17:15

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210 Answers

How to get the pid of the last executed command in shell script?

How to remove duplicate lines inside a text file?

How can I grep in PDF files?

Tool to monitor folder for new files and run command whenever new file is detected

Can I "export" functions in bash?

Clone ownership and permissions from another file?

Script to change current directory (cd, pwd)

Does sort support sorting a file in-place, like `sed --in-place`?

How to make tree output only directories?

How to add newlines into variables in bash script

Clear unused space with zeros (ext3,ext4)

How can I make environment variables "exported" in a shell script stick around?

Converting multiple image files from JPEG to PDF format

The difference between deb versus deb-src in sources.list

How to strip multiple spaces to one using sed?

How do I enable locate and queue the database to be built?

How to maintain (top) row visible while scrolling?

Set volume from terminal

list the timestamp of the files in "find" command

Execute remote commands, completely detaching from the ssh connection

Quickly find which file(s) belongs to a specific inode number

How to get root inside of vi?

How to replace one char with another in all filenames of the current directories?

What does a "< <(...)" redirection mean?

Can less retain colored output?

reformatting output with aligned columns

How to display line number while doing grep on a file

What scopes can shell variables have?

how to resize horizontally a screen region

Two commands, one pipeline