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920 Answers

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659
Zip all files in directory?
Nov 28 '12 at 16:49
188
Why are tar archive formats switching to xz compression to replace bzip2 and what about gzip?
Jan 6 '14 at 18:57
153
Can grep return true/false or are there alternative methods
Sep 18 '12 at 17:36
88
Using while loop to ssh to multiple servers
Jan 4 '14 at 7:52
76
Why does find -mtime +1 only return files older than 2 days?
Sep 25 '13 at 16:08
74
How to disable X server autostart in Debian Jessie?
Feb 19 '16 at 18:14
70
How does `man git init` get the right man page?
Feb 23 '16 at 17:15
66
Flattening a nested directory
Oct 24 '12 at 19:30
66
Busy Device on Umount
Jan 4 '14 at 21:36
63
Why is setting a variable before a command legal in bash?
Apr 28 '14 at 16:04
62
How can I communicate with a Unix domain socket via the shell on Debian Squeeze?
Dec 13 '11 at 23:11
56
Find out which modules are associated with a usb device?
Jan 2 '13 at 13:20
56
How to make user passwords shown as a clear text in Linux?
Jul 19 '14 at 20:16
53
How to randomly sample a subset of a file
Jan 9 '14 at 18:57
52
How to create SHA512 password hashes on command line
Oct 17 '12 at 18:47
51
Is there a faster alternative to cp for copying large files (~20 GB)?
Jun 17 '13 at 20:34
49
Loading of shared libraries and RAM usage
Feb 21 '14 at 20:01
48
RAIDing with LVM vs MDRAID - pros and cons?
Feb 2 '15 at 17:32
46
Terminal autocomplete: cycle through suggestions
Nov 11 '11 at 21:19
43
Bypass GPG signature checks only for a single repository
Apr 24 '15 at 19:30
43
Why unix mv program doesn't need -R (recursive) option for directories but cp does need it?
Aug 22 '12 at 12:50
42
Determining if a file is a hard link or symbolic link?
Nov 12 '14 at 17:59
42
How to know if I'm booting using UEFI?
Aug 4 '14 at 17:22
41
How does apt-get really work?
Jul 11 '17 at 15:35
41
Fast way to copy a large file on a LAN
Sep 17 '12 at 18:14
41
Copy image from clipboard to file
Jul 17 '14 at 16:11
40
How to allow non-superusers to mount any filesystem?
Oct 18 '13 at 16:01
40
How to make a btrfs snapshot writable?
Aug 12 '14 at 18:12
40
Why use `chmod 644` instead of `chmod u=rw,go=r,…`?
Dec 12 '11 at 17:02
38
How to make bidirectional pipe between two programs?
Nov 2 '12 at 15:08
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