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28 votes
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Is the "page-to-disk" feature Linus talks about in his autobiography essentially the concept of swapping we use today?

11 votes
2 answers
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bash: How to use multiple string manipulations (parameter expansion) in one step?

8 votes
2 answers
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changing IFS temporarily before a for loop [duplicate]

8 votes
3 answers
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Difference between 'sed -e' and delimiting multiple commands with semicolon

6 votes
1 answer
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In what ways is the COW filesystem an improvement over the Journaling Filesystem?

2 votes
1 answer
563 views

How to make vim recognize the script type and turn on autoindent and syntax highlighting, without needing to save and reopen file?

2 votes
0 answers
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What other ways are there to access the shell on Linux other than the plaintext-login shell prompt, teminal emulators on GUI and virtual consoles?

2 votes
0 answers
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Please explain in simple terms what the bitwise negation (~) operator does in bash [duplicate]

1 vote
5 answers
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How to extract only the screen resolution information from xrandr output?

1 vote
1 answer
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xev doesn't identify some keys, and some have incorrect mappings?

1 vote
0 answers
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Redirection: what does this redirection chain do--logic and purpose? [duplicate]

0 votes
1 answer
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git: should I initialize a git repository on the root of a project or one in each important section of the project?

0 votes
2 answers
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Is the sigspec for 0 EXIT or SIGEXIT or exit?

0 votes
2 answers
76 views

Where can I find info about specific file(s) on the system?

0 votes
1 answer
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journalctl: what does "New USB device found" mean?

-1 votes
1 answer
572 views

GNU grep & find -regex: Why is . needed in the regex and why can't i use POSIX character classes?

-2 votes
1 answer
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Timezone: Why would someone want to set their system timezone as different from the real one?