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Dennis Williamson
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Display \n characters as newlines when using tail?

30 votes

Bash Loop - How to stop the loop when I press Control-C inside a command?

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Linux/Windows/Unix/... file names: Which characters are allowed? Which are unescaped?

29 votes

Pipe stderr and stdout to different commands (not just to files)

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What's the difference between authorized_keys and authorized_keys2?

28 votes
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How to generate an ASCII representation of a Unix file hierarchy?

26 votes

How to get - number of threads per process?

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How to make bash scripts print out every command before it executes?

25 votes
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How can I check whether a volume is mounted where it is supposed to be using Python?

25 votes
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Linux `alternatives --config` without user input

25 votes

Using dot (.) as delimiter to specify group in chown

23 votes

What does 'set -e' do, and why might it be considered dangerous?

21 votes

How to see activity logs on a Linux PC?

20 votes

How can I sort du -h output by size

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How can I execute a bash function with sudo?

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How to jump to a specific heading in a man page?

19 votes
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Testing for a script that is waiting on stdin

19 votes

Ubuntu - * at the end of filename?

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Exclude only some files with the same name when copying using robocopy

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Turning a log file into a sort of circular buffer

19 votes

How to recursively move all files (including hidden) in a subfolder into a parent folder in *nix?

18 votes

I just did a chmod -x chmod

17 votes

How find user with empty password in Linux?

17 votes

How to use find command to delete files matching a pattern?

16 votes
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What is the purpose of "source" (.) as a shell command?

16 votes

read specified range of lines from a file

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Handy parsing for numbers with unit suffixes?

16 votes

useradd not encrypting passwords in /etc/shadow

16 votes

Redirect output of time command in unix into a variable in bash?

15 votes

MITM attacks - how likely are they?

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