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111 votes

What is a socket?

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In which situations are PS2, PS3, PS4 used as the prompt?

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What is the meaning of read -r?

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How can I break out of a while loop, from within a nested case statement?

38 votes

Can I prevent "service foo status" from paging its output through "less"?

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how to extract just the IP address from a DNS query

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Why do [[ -z ]] and [[ -v ]] have different syntax?

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How do I display the nth result of an ls command?

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Can someone explain in detail what "set -m" does?

26 votes
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find(1): how is the star wildcard implemented for it to fail on some filenames?

20 votes
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Why doesn't bash interpret the asterisk character when used with xargs command?

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Create a gzip file of a predetermined size

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Send the password through stdin in `ssh-copy-id`

16 votes
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Bash - If Syntax confusion

16 votes
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get a percentage of a file

14 votes
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How to combine text message with system message?

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Finding number of lines using find command

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Get the number of spaces characters in a string?

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How to tell if console login is genuine?

13 votes
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kill bash loop executed from command line

13 votes
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Remove newlines in file names

13 votes

Determine if ls output is file or directory

12 votes

Replace underscores with spaces for all files in directory

11 votes
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Function to simplify grep with an often used log

11 votes

delete all .swp file using rm command

11 votes

Is it ok to mkfs without partition number?

11 votes

Adding file to tbz files

10 votes

How to read the man page for a bash builtin?

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Generate two sequences of numbers separated by "|"

10 votes

Does the inode change when renaming or moving a file?

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