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peterph
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How do I set an environment variable on the command line and have it appear in commands?

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How to clean log file?

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How do I remove all sub-directories from within a directory?

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How to kill a runaway cat?

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Sed --- replace a character in a matched line in place?

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How can I see dmesg output as it changes?

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Output of 'watch' command as a list

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tail -f, but with line numbers

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Tail log file on multiple machines over ssh

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How to burn iso image to DVD using dd command

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Kill a process that keeps restarting

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Reload of tmux config not unbinding keys (bind-key is cumulative)

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Understanding linux desktop

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How to upgrade shared library without crash?

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Append to PATH-like variable without creating leading colon if unset

25 votes

Grep command to find files containing text string and move them

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Can another program on X capture my root password while I type it in a virtual terminal?

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Run Linux process at very very low priority?

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Difference between Cross GCC and Linux GCC toolchain

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How to terminate tmux session and processes it spawned

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How is it possible to sort ps command's CPU field?

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tmux: Remapping keys to pane on the left/right/top/down

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sed: match two lines

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How to capture ordered STDOUT/STDERR and add timestamp/prefixes?

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Do all linux distros have same boot files and all the main files?

14 votes

What's the difference between Ctrl-Z and kill -STOP?

13 votes

Jack vs Pulseaudio -- how is it faster?

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How to escape a single quote?

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Create a bootable image from the contents of a .tar file

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mirroring a pane between two windows

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