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How to correctly add a path to PATH?

answered Dec 4, 2011 at 23:39

1502 votes

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What is the exact difference between a 'terminal', a 'shell', a 'tty' and a 'console'?

answered Nov 16, 2010 at 22:31

1075 votes

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How do I grep for multiple patterns with pattern having a pipe character?

answered Apr 26, 2012 at 1:13

954 votes

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What is a bind mount?

answered Apr 25, 2015 at 17:28

717 votes

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What if 'kill -9' does not work?

answered Jan 10, 2011 at 20:08

676 votes

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What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix?

answered Aug 5, 2011 at 21:23

645 votes

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How to forward X over SSH to run graphics applications remotely?

answered May 6, 2011 at 20:26

501 votes

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Difference between Login Shell and Non-Login Shell?

answered Sep 1, 2012 at 2:07

472 votes

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Can't resume screen, says I am already attached?

answered Nov 4, 2015 at 0:15

470 votes

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Why does my shell script choke on whitespace or other special characters?

answered May 24, 2014 at 3:25

458 votes

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What characters do I need to escape when using sed in a sh script?

answered Feb 29, 2012 at 1:06

453 votes

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What are the pros and cons of Vim and Emacs?

answered Aug 22, 2010 at 14:18

427 votes

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How do I convert an epoch timestamp to a human readable format on the cli?

answered Oct 11, 2010 at 18:11

379 votes

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Rsync filter: copying one pattern only

answered Sep 28, 2010 at 19:23

361 votes

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Why does `htop` show more process than `ps`

answered Mar 31, 2011 at 20:06

355 votes

What do the flags in /proc/cpuinfo mean?

answered Jul 19, 2012 at 22:52

355 votes

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What's the point in adding a new line to the end of a file?

answered Aug 15, 2011 at 16:10

340 votes

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How to copy-merge two directories?

answered Aug 13, 2014 at 0:41

336 votes

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How can I populate a file with random data?

answered Mar 7, 2012 at 1:20

321 votes

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Easily unpack DEB, edit postinst, and repack DEB

answered Jun 20, 2014 at 2:18

292 votes

Difference between cp -r and cp -a

answered Aug 8, 2012 at 0:59

285 votes

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How do I unset a variable at the command line?

answered Dec 4, 2013 at 0:46

281 votes

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How to have tail -f show colored output

answered Mar 1, 2011 at 20:29

279 votes

How to view the output of a running process in another bash session?

answered Dec 16, 2012 at 0:23

275 votes

Allow setuid on shell scripts

answered Oct 8, 2010 at 20:18

274 votes

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In Arch Linux how can I find out which package to install that will contain file X?

answered Jun 12, 2011 at 16:26

258 votes

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Do the parent directory's permissions matter when accessing a subdirectory?

answered May 27, 2011 at 9:57

258 votes

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Return only the portion of a line after a matching pattern

answered Nov 8, 2011 at 0:22

252 votes

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How do you move all files (including hidden) from one directory to another?

answered Jan 24, 2011 at 20:25

251 votes

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Extract only a specific file from a zipped archive to a given directory

answered May 31, 2011 at 23:43

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