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65 votes
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chmod + silent mode + how force exit code 0 in spite of error

62 votes
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How to remove lines shorter than XY?

54 votes

How to insert text after a certain string in a file?

43 votes
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How is it that missing 0s are automatically added in IP addresses? (`ping 10.5` equivalent to `ping 10.0.0.5`)

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How can a bash script detect if it is running in the background?

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Sort data in descending order of first column, for equal values, use second column in ascending order

34 votes

How to self-terminate a bash script after timeout?

31 votes

How can I extract/parse a complete URL from a semi random string?

30 votes

Why is "echo" so much faster than "touch"?

29 votes
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How do I redirect command completion output?

26 votes

redirecting to /dev/null

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How to output comma-separated strings using bash brace expansion

17 votes
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What is the difference between the use of ; and executing a script

16 votes
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BEGIN and END with the awk command

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extract only the substring after double quotes - grep

15 votes

Check if $REPLY is in a range of numbers

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How to remove a specific character in a string but only if there are no numbers in that line in Linux

12 votes
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how do i redirect output from tailf & grep to a file

12 votes
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awk + print awk output in one line

11 votes
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Using sed to add a URL to the start of every line

11 votes

How is bc different from dc?

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Select default binary to use

10 votes

Can grep be used for searching files with some string in their names?

10 votes

Possible to find out the sizes of data types (int, float, double, ...) on a system, without writing a C program?

10 votes

dircolors: modify color settings globaly

9 votes
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What exactly does the --names-only option of apt-cache do?

9 votes
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How to use restricted characters in egrep?

9 votes

Convert the permissions in `ls -l` output to octal

9 votes

Bash split a list of files

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What is the symbol *.* called?