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Is there an easy way to replace duplicate files with hardlinks?

answered Oct 18, 2011 at 4:24

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Is it a good idea to replace files in etc with symlinks?

answered May 4, 2023 at 0:15

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How can UserA programmatically replace a text string within a file they own that's located in /etc?

answered Jun 21, 2024 at 22:26

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Deleting a file before it has finished downloading

answered May 20 at 14:55

12 votes

When trying to change username, terminal tells me user is currently used by process

answered Feb 25, 2022 at 17:44

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Moving millions of files to a different directory with specfic name patterns

answered Jul 6, 2019 at 13:49

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How do I find the location of the source of a man page?

answered Mar 29, 2022 at 15:23

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Why is the output of Device Status Report sent to the standard input instead of output?

answered Jul 17 at 1:07

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How to find out who/what caused a reboot/shutdown?

answered Dec 18, 2019 at 17:28

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Is it possible to protect a bash script against a hostile environment?

answered Aug 16 at 1:29

7 votes

How to delete lines with sed if they contain a phrase?

answered Jun 6 at 18:28

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Grep pattern that has double quotes and variable substitution surrounded by single quotes

answered May 31, 2021 at 18:07

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Is there any benefit to grouping similar programs into a single path directory?

answered Jun 14, 2021 at 19:33

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Why can't I directly ls /dev/sda1

answered Oct 10, 2023 at 16:54

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Why does editing '/etc/shells' file using 'sudo open' shows an error saying I don't own the file?

answered Aug 13, 2024 at 23:57

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append iterator value to variable in for loop

answered Sep 16 at 12:47

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Why does script or watch output look weird in saved text files

answered Aug 7 at 1:33

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extract string between second and third occurrence of a slash

answered Aug 10, 2021 at 20:11

5 votes

Why do certain programs not play well when piped into `more`

answered Oct 29, 2016 at 13:03

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Warning "not on PATH" when I tried to install python extensions. I'm new to Linux -- what does this mean?

answered Oct 4, 2020 at 13:15

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Magic Mouse 2 on Ubuntu 20.04

answered Sep 23, 2020 at 2:13

4 votes

Mount a device "invisibly" in Linux

answered Oct 23, 2020 at 12:32

4 votes

Bash - How to reorganize files based on the dates in their names?

answered Jan 19, 2021 at 0:44

4 votes

Splitting file based on last digit of first column in UNIX

answered Mar 31, 2016 at 15:47

4 votes

how to keep only lines with specific word

answered Jul 6, 2019 at 0:18

4 votes

ping: ./ipsweep.sh.105: Name or service not known

answered Aug 24, 2021 at 19:59

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Why crontab doesn't execute a scheduled bash script?

answered Oct 19, 2021 at 21:53

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How to create a file with a name that starts with the symbol '-'

answered Oct 22, 2021 at 17:12

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wc command with no FILE argument (reading from standard input)

answered Nov 14, 2021 at 5:28

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Remove regex from filenames, while piping them

answered Jan 3, 2022 at 19:38

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516 Answers

Is there an easy way to replace duplicate files with hardlinks?

Is it a good idea to replace files in etc with symlinks?

How can UserA programmatically replace a text string within a file they own that's located in /etc?

Deleting a file before it has finished downloading

When trying to change username, terminal tells me user is currently used by process

Moving millions of files to a different directory with specfic name patterns

How do I find the location of the source of a man page?

Why is the output of Device Status Report sent to the standard input instead of output?

How to find out who/what caused a reboot/shutdown?

Is it possible to protect a bash script against a hostile environment?

How to delete lines with sed if they contain a phrase?

Grep pattern that has double quotes and variable substitution surrounded by single quotes

Is there any benefit to grouping similar programs into a single path directory?

Why can't I directly ls /dev/sda1

Why does editing '/etc/shells' file using 'sudo open' shows an error saying I don't own the file?

append iterator value to variable in for loop

Why does script or watch output look weird in saved text files

extract string between second and third occurrence of a slash

Why do certain programs not play well when piped into `more`

Warning "not on PATH" when I tried to install python extensions. I'm new to Linux -- what does this mean?

Magic Mouse 2 on Ubuntu 20.04

Mount a device "invisibly" in Linux

Bash - How to reorganize files based on the dates in their names?

Splitting file based on last digit of first column in UNIX

how to keep only lines with specific word

ping: ./ipsweep.sh.105: Name or service not known

Why crontab doesn't execute a scheduled bash script?

How to create a file with a name that starts with the symbol '-'

wc command with no FILE argument (reading from standard input)

Remove regex from filenames, while piping them