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What is the exact difference between a 'terminal', a 'shell', a 'tty' and a 'console'?

answered Dec 20, 2015 at 1:44

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What is meant by mounting a device in Linux?

answered Feb 22, 2017 at 0:43

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What is a Superblock, Inode, Dentry and a File?

answered Dec 19, 2015 at 17:32

22 votes

How to unfreeze after accidentally pressing Ctrl-S in a terminal?

answered Oct 22, 2021 at 13:47

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What is the difference between the Bash operators [[ vs [ vs ( vs ((?

answered Jan 13, 2018 at 0:51

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What is difference between pbrun and sudo command?

answered Mar 3, 2015 at 5:29

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What is the difference between ps and top command?

answered Jun 30, 2016 at 2:44

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su vs sudo -s vs sudo -i vs sudo bash

answered Sep 17, 2016 at 9:33

11 votes

What are the differences between most, more and less?

answered Nov 16, 2017 at 0:17

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What are character special and block special files in a unix system?

answered Feb 22, 2017 at 0:16

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Determine the size of a block device

answered Apr 20, 2017 at 3:25

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What's the meaning of a dot before a command in shell?

answered Apr 7, 2019 at 1:15

4 votes

Expansion of the word UNIX?

answered Nov 12, 2017 at 6:28

2 votes

What is the difference between a job and a process?

answered Mar 24, 2018 at 15:27

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What is the correct way to refer to LINUX/UNIX generically?

answered Sep 19, 2017 at 13:08

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What's the difference of the Userland vs the Kernel?

answered Aug 19, 2015 at 10:00

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Adding two numbers using expr

answered May 25, 2016 at 6:45

1 vote

Is Linux a Unix?

answered Aug 22, 2017 at 1:33

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directory structure vs file system

answered Feb 22, 2017 at 2:23

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What's the difference between fdisk -l and df -h?

answered Sep 6, 2016 at 2:16

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Shell Script for logging into a ssh server

answered Sep 15, 2017 at 0:47

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The different ways of passing the arguments to console applications

answered Nov 12, 2017 at 2:50

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Use of touch and vi?

answered Sep 3, 2016 at 0:51

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uname -n vs hostname

answered Jan 20, 2016 at 7:35

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What is the exact difference between a 'terminal', a 'shell', a 'tty' and a 'console'?

What is meant by mounting a device in Linux?

What is a Superblock, Inode, Dentry and a File?

How to unfreeze after accidentally pressing Ctrl-S in a terminal?

What is the difference between the Bash operators [[ vs [ vs ( vs ((?

What is difference between pbrun and sudo command?

What is the difference between ps and top command?

su vs sudo -s vs sudo -i vs sudo bash

What are the differences between most, more and less?

What are character special and block special files in a unix system?

Determine the size of a block device

What's the meaning of a dot before a command in shell?

Expansion of the word UNIX?

What is the difference between a job and a process?

What is the correct way to refer to LINUX/UNIX generically?

What's the difference of the Userland vs the Kernel?

Adding two numbers using expr

Is Linux a Unix?

directory structure vs file system

What's the difference between fdisk -l and df -h?

Shell Script for logging into a ssh server

The different ways of passing the arguments to console applications

Use of touch and vi?

uname -n vs hostname