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Eugene Yarmash
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633 votes
29 answers
986k views

How can I resolve a hostname to an IP address in a Bash script?

353 votes
27 answers
496k views

How can I get my external IP address in a shell script?

187 votes
7 answers
157k views

How to run a program in a clean environment in bash?

93 votes
7 answers
347k views

How can I read line by line from a variable in bash?

30 votes
2 answers
19k views

How can I view the list of packages that were "suggested" by apt?

16 votes
4 answers
16k views

How to auto-update custom plugins in Oh My Zsh?

15 votes
1 answer
566 views

Why does ArchLinux keep some users/groups after package uninstallation?

14 votes
4 answers
14k views

Why does rsync fail to copy files from /sys in Linux?

12 votes
1 answer
2k views

How does this sed command work?

11 votes
1 answer
26k views

How can I determine the connection method used by a MySQL client?

11 votes
3 answers
8k views

Why does bash set $? (exit status) to non-zero on Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Z?

11 votes
1 answer
4k views

What happens on pressing Ctrl-T in a terminal when a program is running?

9 votes
1 answer
12k views

How to use grep/ack with files in arbitrary encoding?

8 votes
5 answers
8k views

Can I determine the number of sub-directories in a directory using `ls -l`?

6 votes
2 answers
3k views

How to stop bash replacing commands in history with asterisks ? (‘*’)

6 votes
4 answers
7k views

How to make resolvconf append nameservers to the list instead of prepending them?

5 votes
2 answers
4k views

How can I test the current carrier state for an ethernet adapter in Linux?

5 votes
1 answer
3k views

public key authentication without authorized_keys file

5 votes
2 answers
4k views

How can I see dumps of wholе HTTP packets?

4 votes
2 answers
7k views

How to enable swap accounting for memory cgroup in Archlinux?

4 votes
3 answers
5k views

Can a program output to STDERR and still return a zero exit status?

3 votes
1 answer
1k views

Can I make shell consider NBSP a whitespace character?

3 votes
2 answers
881 views

How to check which package created a group in Arch Linux?

3 votes
0 answers
2k views

Default iterface/routes metric in Linux

3 votes
2 answers
5k views

How do I check if an IP-address or a network is contained in other network in Bash?

3 votes
3 answers
179 views

Are there widespread filesystems which represent directories with structures optimized for fast lookup?

3 votes
2 answers
2k views

What's the difference between the ^S and ^Z control characters inside a terminal?

3 votes
1 answer
683 views

How can I upgrade a package recursively in Arch Linux?

3 votes
5 answers
6k views

How can I test whether connection to the given host/port is established in Bash?

3 votes
3 answers
3k views

How can I "cache" a variable in Bash?