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What is the exact difference between a 'terminal', a 'shell', a 'tty' and a 'console'?
8 answers
459 votes
1.7m views
119 bookmarks
How can I pass a command line argument into a shell script?
27 answers
324 votes
444k views
237 bookmarks
How can I get my external IP address in a shell script?
9 answers
239 votes
280k views
134 bookmarks
What causes this green background in ls output?
8 answers
206 votes
104k views
95 bookmarks
Is Linux a Unix?
9 answers
127 votes
67k views
38 bookmarks
What's the most appropriate directory where to place files shared between users?
20 answers
121 votes
307k views
36 bookmarks
How to count the number of a specific character in each line?
6 answers
113 votes
141k views
43 bookmarks
What is the difference between Halt and Shutdown commands?
8 answers
105 votes
519k views
35 bookmarks
How to find the installation path for a software under linux?
7 answers
63 votes
88k views
24 bookmarks
Indent several lines with VIM?
5 answers
56 votes
39k views
28 bookmarks
How do I tell I'm running in a chroot?
4 answers
52 votes
22k views
27 bookmarks
What's the difference between running a program as a daemon and forking it into background with '&'?
1 answer
40 votes
3k views
8 bookmarks
What happens when Ctrl + Alt + F<Num> is pressed?
2 answers
33 votes
3k views
16 bookmarks
What is Unix now?
1 answer
32 votes
11k views
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What do the device files in /dev actually do?
4 answers
30 votes
7k views
8 bookmarks
Is there a way to pipe the output of one program into two other programs?
4 answers
28 votes
39k views
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Is it possible to stop a shutdown command?
8 answers
28 votes
24k views
18 bookmarks
Disable Keyboard & Mouse input on unix (under X)
5 answers
27 votes
13k views
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How to "jail" a process without being root?
4 answers
22 votes
44k views
16 bookmarks
How do I handle switches in a shell script?
5 answers
22 votes
47k views
5 bookmarks
Where do I change my shell?
1 answer
22 votes
4k views
8 bookmarks
Switch between numbers and symbols on caps lock
2 answers
19 votes
10k views
6 bookmarks
Why does high disk I/O reduce system responsiveness/performance?
3 answers
16 votes
3k views
5 bookmarks
How can I start a cronjob 1 hour later each day?
4 answers
13 votes
16k views
6 bookmarks
How do real and effective user IDs work?
3 answers
11 votes
1k views
3 bookmarks
Why are files in my home dir being created as world-writable despite a more-restrictive umask?
4 answers
11 votes
9k views
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How can I move a process into the background and also silence its output?
3 answers
9 votes
5k views
1 bookmarks
How can I set that only root + a given user can shut down my pc?
2 answers
6 votes
2k views
2 bookmarks
Emacs' file extension recognition
3 answers
5 votes
4k views
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How to speed up my build
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