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76 Questions

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570 votes

3 answers

484k views

What is a bind mount?

asked Apr 25, 2015 at 17:28

372 votes

6 answers

398k views

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

asked May 24, 2014 at 3:25

270 votes

6 answers

194k views

What do the flags in /proc/cpuinfo mean?

asked Jul 19, 2012 at 22:52

168 votes

6 answers

174k views

How do I read from /proc/$pid/mem under Linux?

asked Jan 22, 2011 at 23:21

137 votes

4 answers

15k views

Why are there so many different ways to measure disk usage?

asked Mar 19, 2014 at 3:28

135 votes

17 answers

120k views

Easy way to determine the virtualization technology of a Linux machine?

asked Sep 6, 2013 at 20:56

120 votes

5 answers

56k views

What process created this X11 window?

asked Jan 6, 2011 at 21:07

117 votes

2 answers

33k views

How do keyboard input and text output work?

asked Feb 24, 2014 at 2:56

111 votes

1 answer

19k views

Why does my regular expression work in X but not in Y?

asked Mar 16, 2014 at 4:31

95 votes

3 answers

20k views

How do I recover from the Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL?

asked Apr 8, 2014 at 10:42

84 votes

2 answers

22k views

When is dd suitable for copying data? (or, when are read() and write() partial)

asked Jul 23, 2011 at 23:20

78 votes

3 answers

125k views

How do I run 32-bit programs on a 64-bit Debian/Ubuntu?

asked May 10, 2011 at 18:00

75 votes

6 answers

6k views

Resources for portable shell programming

asked Mar 23, 2011 at 21:56

69 votes

9 answers

117k views

How to reconnect a logically disconnected USB device?

asked Feb 14, 2011 at 21:36

63 votes

1 answer

6k views

Crash during startup on a recent corporate computer

asked Apr 8, 2018 at 23:17

61 votes

7 answers

17k views

Timing out in a shell script

asked Apr 5, 2011 at 22:43

61 votes

5 answers

45k views

How do I tell I'm running in a chroot?

asked Jun 3, 2011 at 16:55

59 votes

6 answers

68k views

Filtering invalid utf8

asked Jan 27, 2011 at 0:13

37 votes

2 answers

2k views

Completing avfs fake directories in zsh

asked Jul 25, 2012 at 1:16

31 votes

2 answers

13k views

Does (should) LC_COLLATE affect character ranges?

asked Jul 2, 2011 at 11:33

28 votes

7 answers

15k views

Sunrise and other astronomical data from the command line

asked Oct 9, 2010 at 13:55

28 votes

4 answers

7k views

Manipulating X key and pointer grabs on the command line

asked Oct 24, 2011 at 0:42

24 votes

2 answers

21k views

Delete an array in awk

asked Aug 2, 2014 at 0:40

22 votes

1 answer

821 views

Completion for the first argument of cd OLD NEW

asked May 11, 2016 at 0:12

22 votes

1 answer

2k views

Using zsh's line editor to wrap around subprocesses

asked Jan 6, 2011 at 21:32

21 votes

2 answers

25k views

Samba mount with password prompt as non-root user

asked Jul 27, 2012 at 15:48

20 votes

1 answer

7k views

Reuse D-Bus sessions across login sessions

asked Jul 30, 2012 at 18:35

17 votes

1 answer

15k views

D-Bus authentication and authorization

asked Apr 4, 2015 at 0:51

16 votes

5 answers

6k views

Gallery of installed fonts

asked Mar 21, 2014 at 0:24

15 votes

1 answer

8k views

Union mount on Linux

asked May 10, 2016 at 23:59

1