Timeline for Let's compile a list of canonical Q&As
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| Sep 19, 2018 at 9:27 | answer | added | sebasth | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 20, 2018 at 10:40 | answer | added | Kiwy | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 18, 2018 at 12:15 | comment | added | cas | I just used this unix.stackexchange.com/questions/9954/… because of Gilles' explanation, but I know i've seen better (more comprehensive) ones, possibly also by Gilles or maybe Stéphane | |
| Jan 18, 2018 at 12:09 | comment | added | terdon Mod | @cas do you have a suggestion? I know I've seen one but I can't find it now. | |
| Jan 18, 2018 at 11:35 | comment | added | cas | this needs a good canonical answer for why you can't change a variable in a subshell (e.g. pipe into a while loop). I have to search for one every time it gets duped. | |
| Jan 9, 2018 at 13:05 | vote | accept | terdonMod | ||
| Jan 5, 2018 at 21:02 | answer | added | jesse_b | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jul 27, 2017 at 21:38 | comment | added | Jeff Schaller Mod | Single-quoting vs Double-quoting: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/7574/… | |
| Apr 27, 2017 at 14:00 | answer | added | Jeff SchallerMod | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 25, 2017 at 7:57 | answer | added | KusalanandaMod | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 25, 2017 at 7:55 | answer | added | KusalanandaMod | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 25, 2017 at 7:14 | comment | added | tripleee | The bash tag on Stack Overflow has a tag wiki with a collection of common questions. Not all of them are "canonical" in the strict sense, but the list there works well to find a quick dupe for many common problems. | |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:37 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://unix.stackexchange.com/ with https://unix.stackexchange.com/ | |
| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:04 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://superuser.com/ with https://superuser.com/ | |
| Mar 17, 2017 at 10:13 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://meta.askubuntu.com/ with https://meta.askubuntu.com/ | |
| Feb 24, 2015 at 7:33 | answer | added | Anthon | timeline score: 4 | |
| Oct 8, 2014 at 15:40 | answer | added | slmMod | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 8, 2014 at 15:35 | answer | added | slmMod | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 6, 2014 at 20:11 | history | edited | terdonMod | edited tags | |
| Sep 10, 2014 at 13:59 | answer | added | terdonMod | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 10, 2014 at 13:42 | answer | added | Ramesh | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 9, 2014 at 19:48 | answer | added | Ramesh | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 4, 2014 at 13:35 | comment | added | Gilles 'SO- stop being evil' | The best place to list canonical QAs is not as a mess on meta, but in the tag wiki for the relevant tag(s). | |
| Jul 16, 2014 at 16:33 | answer | added | Faheem Mitha | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 16, 2014 at 16:30 | comment | added | Faheem Mitha | ##How do I solve an APT dependency issue? unix.stackexchange.com/q/121180/4671 | |
| Mar 3, 2014 at 21:50 | answer | added | Anthon | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 3, 2014 at 21:48 | answer | added | Anthon | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 25, 2014 at 12:52 | answer | added | terdonMod | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 22, 2014 at 13:50 | answer | added | terdonMod | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 18, 2014 at 13:29 | answer | added | terdonMod | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 12, 2014 at 11:00 | answer | added | Kiwy | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 10, 2014 at 15:16 | comment | added | terdon Mod | @XTian this particular question happens to be already answered quite well in the post I link to below. We tend to avoid creating duplicated info (that is actually the whole point of this thread). It's a shame because the Q&A you posted is indeed very good (and appreciated) but since the info already exists it seems pointless to duplicate. Perhaps you could post your answer to the other post, adding anything not already mentioned there? | |
| Feb 10, 2014 at 0:38 | comment | added | X Tian | Judging from your and other comments directly on the post, maybe it's not a good idea to duplicate the question again. So ' ... compile a list ..' means just that, a list of canonical questions. Stackoverflow doesn't have lists like this (afaik), so only way to achieve this is to write a new question, which is where I came in. The answers, if we could write such a question, would simply be references to popular q+a's that are already in existence and maybe it would be these links that are voted up/down. | |
| Feb 9, 2014 at 20:43 | comment | added | terdon Mod | Actually, @XTian there is already a pretty good Q&A on that here (the one mentioned in my answer below). Most of the solutions you mention in your answer are already there and it is a nice, old and established post. I think it would be better to add any of your answers that are missing from it to that question instead of starting a whole new one. | |
| Feb 9, 2014 at 20:33 | comment | added | terdon Mod | Cool @XTian, thanks! Don't worry about the CW, I just did that cause I didn't think it was fair to advertise my answer here and then get loads of rep from it if it becomes the canonical. Making posts CW in this context means that you're inviting people to edit them and that you politely decline the rep. If another user posts an answer, let them. | |
| Feb 9, 2014 at 20:21 | comment | added | X Tian | Well I've had a go with this question, wanted to choose a problem that had solutions that could be based on multiple technologies. It was funny, someone posted a perl solution whilst I was adding answers. But noticed their solution is not part of the community wiki ! Any way to ensure this ? It does allow popular answers to percolate up and comments per solution. | |
| Feb 9, 2014 at 19:26 | answer | added | X Tian | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 9, 2014 at 17:02 | comment | added | terdon Mod | @XTian my idea was to have one, all encompassing answer to close duplicates with. It's a community wiki answer so I get no rep from it and upvotes just indicate that it works. Since to the best of my knowledge, all the solutions mentioned in the replace strings Q work, I'm not sure if it would be better to have multiple answers. It might, I'm just not sure. Why don't you try making a similar canonical Q&A on another subject and post multiple As? I think that's what Faheem is doing here. | |
| Feb 9, 2014 at 16:59 | comment | added | X Tian | I like the idea, and just seen the first one, Thought I'd give some feedback. Having all the answers combined into one answer makes it difficult to provide comments, vote, and contribute new sub-answers to a particular sub question. Maybe separate answers would work better ? One of the interesting (and valuable) aspects of this site is the way it allows different users to provide answers and the voting system. Since this is not actually a wiki, I'm now running out of chars in this comment, will not be able to edit in 5 mins etc. | |
| Feb 6, 2014 at 11:16 | comment | added | Kiwy | yes That's a very good idea | |
| Feb 4, 2014 at 19:43 | answer | added | terdonMod | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 3, 2014 at 8:34 | answer | added | Stéphane Chazelas | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 3, 2014 at 8:32 | answer | added | Stéphane Chazelas | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 2, 2014 at 17:39 | history | edited | terdonMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 225 characters in body |
| Feb 2, 2014 at 13:44 | answer | added | terdonMod | timeline score: 11 | |
| Feb 1, 2014 at 22:32 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackUnix/status/429744090801266688 | ||
| Feb 1, 2014 at 21:26 | answer | added | Faheem Mitha | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 1, 2014 at 19:24 | answer | added | terdonMod | timeline score: 4 | |
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| Feb 1, 2014 at 17:15 | answer | added | terdonMod | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 1, 2014 at 17:14 | answer | added | terdonMod | timeline score: 8 | |
| Feb 1, 2014 at 17:12 | answer | added | terdonMod | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 1, 2014 at 16:17 | answer | added | terdonMod | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 1, 2014 at 16:15 | answer | added | Faheem Mitha | timeline score: 6 | |
| Feb 1, 2014 at 16:00 | answer | added | Faheem Mitha | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 1, 2014 at 15:51 | answer | added | terdonMod | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 1, 2014 at 15:35 | history | asked | terdonMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |