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

answered Mar 5, 2014 at 10:58

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How to remove lines shorter than XY?

answered Apr 5, 2014 at 7:38

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

answered Mar 24, 2014 at 15:00

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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`)

answered Mar 18, 2014 at 6:30

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

answered Mar 6, 2014 at 17:15

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

answered Mar 31, 2014 at 11:43

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How to self-terminate a bash script after timeout?

answered May 18, 2014 at 13:47

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

answered Mar 4, 2014 at 6:45

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

answered Apr 9, 2014 at 4:24

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How do I redirect command completion output?

answered May 2, 2014 at 2:44

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redirecting to /dev/null

answered Mar 14, 2014 at 4:28

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How to output comma-separated strings using bash brace expansion

answered Mar 26, 2014 at 20:41

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

answered Apr 2, 2014 at 9:46

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BEGIN and END with the awk command

answered Mar 16, 2014 at 4:45

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extract only the substring after double quotes - grep

answered Feb 11, 2014 at 18:41

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Check if $REPLY is in a range of numbers

answered Mar 9, 2014 at 16:12

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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

answered Mar 6, 2014 at 18:13

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

answered Feb 13, 2014 at 13:19

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awk + print awk output in one line

answered Feb 17, 2014 at 20:30

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

answered Feb 24, 2014 at 7:31

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How is bc different from dc?

answered Apr 13, 2014 at 9:51

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Select default binary to use

answered May 5, 2014 at 4:19

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

answered May 15, 2014 at 12:46

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

answered Feb 14, 2014 at 16:44

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dircolors: modify color settings globaly

answered Oct 9, 2013 at 17:30

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

answered Mar 10, 2014 at 4:05

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How to use restricted characters in egrep?

answered Mar 10, 2014 at 12:35

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

answered Apr 23, 2014 at 0:06

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Bash split a list of files

answered Apr 1, 2014 at 2:52

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What is the symbol . called?

answered Apr 5, 2014 at 18:12

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

How to remove lines shorter than XY?

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

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

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

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

How to self-terminate a bash script after timeout?

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

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

How do I redirect command completion output?

redirecting to /dev/null

How to output comma-separated strings using bash brace expansion

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

BEGIN and END with the awk command

extract only the substring after double quotes - grep

Check if $REPLY is in a range of numbers

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

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

awk + print awk output in one line

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

How is bc different from dc?

Select default binary to use

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

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

dircolors: modify color settings globaly

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

How to use restricted characters in egrep?

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

Bash split a list of files

What is the symbol . called?