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How to copy a file from a remote server to a local machine?

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Split string by delimiter and get N-th element

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What's the difference between semicolon and double ampersand &&

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Save all the terminal output to a file

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What's the quickest way to find duplicated files?

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Location of the crontab file

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Remove last character from string captured with awk

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How to use "cat" command on "find" command's output?

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What does sed -i '1d' do?

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Write Python stdout to file immediately

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Command to simulate keyboard input

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Replace character X with character Y in a string with bash

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Grep word boundaries

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Why do I get an error message when trying to trap a SIGINT signal?

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Run Application without Holding up terminal

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Alternative way to kill a zombie process

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ps only prints up to 4096 characters of any process's command line

answered Feb 8, 2017 at 3:42

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Finding last item in a line using grep

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What does ${1:0:2} mean in this context?

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How do `/etc/hosts` and DNS work together to resolve hostnames to IP addresses?

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Can grep | crontab destroy all jobs?

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How to get hard disk information on linux terminal?

answered Apr 3, 2016 at 8:49

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Why did mv delete a file with mv id_rsa *.old?

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Bash - Sequence of numbers in the same line

answered Jul 26, 2015 at 19:04

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How can I delete the 5th word of every line in a file?

answered Jul 14, 2015 at 15:53

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Can I prevent a folder of a certain name being created?

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Why doesn't find/rm -iname '*phpmyadmin' delete phpMyAdmin-Version-XYZ.zip?

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Finding out the default shell of a user within a shell script

answered Mar 18, 2017 at 15:35

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grep returns "Binary file (standard input) matches" when trying to find a string pattern in file

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cat redirection

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How to copy a file from a remote server to a local machine?

Split string by delimiter and get N-th element

What's the difference between semicolon and double ampersand &&

Save all the terminal output to a file

What's the quickest way to find duplicated files?

Location of the crontab file

Remove last character from string captured with awk

How to use "cat" command on "find" command's output?

What does sed -i '1d' do?

Write Python stdout to file immediately

Command to simulate keyboard input

Replace character X with character Y in a string with bash

Grep word boundaries

Why do I get an error message when trying to trap a SIGINT signal?

Run Application without Holding up terminal

Alternative way to kill a zombie process

ps only prints up to 4096 characters of any process's command line

Finding last item in a line using grep

What does ${1:0:2} mean in this context?

How do `/etc/hosts` and DNS work together to resolve hostnames to IP addresses?

Can grep | crontab destroy all jobs?

How to get hard disk information on linux terminal?

Why did mv delete a file with mv id_rsa *.old?

Bash - Sequence of numbers in the same line

How can I delete the 5th word of every line in a file?

Can I prevent a folder of a certain name being created?

Why doesn't find/rm -iname '*phpmyadmin' delete phpMyAdmin-Version-XYZ.zip?

Finding out the default shell of a user within a shell script

grep returns "Binary file (standard input) matches" when trying to find a string pattern in file

cat redirection