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Mikel

Mountain View, CA

mikelward.com

Age: 32

Computer guy from Australia now living in the US.

Part sysadmin, part developer, part web developer.

My name is pronounced like "Michael".

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108
How do I rename a repository on GitHub?
stackoverflow.com

68
Any reason NOT to run Linux in a VM all the time?
unix.stackexchange.com

42
What does the little squiggly ~ do in Linux?
superuser.com

38
Run a command that is shadowed by an alias
unix.stackexchange.com

35
How can I get distribution name and version number in a simple shell script?
unix.stackexchange.com

32
Looping through files with spaces in the names?
unix.stackexchange.com

24
MIN and MAX in C
stackoverflow.com

24
Why do unix-heads say “minus”?
unix.stackexchange.com

24
Why have both /mnt and /media?
askubuntu.com

23
What does -D_XOPEN_SOURCE do/mean?
stackoverflow.com

21
Can you recommend a password generator?
askubuntu.com

20
Add thousands separators to a number
stackoverflow.com

20
How do you run a dry run of rm to see what files will be deleted?
unix.stackexchange.com

20
Output from ls has newlines but displays on a single line. Why?
unix.stackexchange.com

20
Which are the standard commands available in every Linux system?
unix.stackexchange.com

19
What does *~ mean?
unix.stackexchange.com

18
Why do we use su - and not just su?
unix.stackexchange.com

18
What is the Linux equivalent of DOS “dir /s /b filename”?
unix.stackexchange.com

17
Git: how to deal with different shebang
stackoverflow.com

17
Finding command execution time in hindsight
unix.stackexchange.com

17
How can I log all process launches in Linux
superuser.com

16
How to check size of a file?
stackoverflow.com

15
What is the best way to split string by delimiter funcionally?
stackoverflow.com

15
How do I copy file named starting with a dot?
superuser.com

14
How to overwrite target files with mv?
unix.stackexchange.com

13
How do I check if a string is unicode or ascii?
stackoverflow.com

13
Why should I fix E_NOTICE errors?
stackoverflow.com

13
What methods are used to encrypt passwords in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow?
unix.stackexchange.com

13
Is it possible to find the path of a running program?
unix.stackexchange.com

13
Grep: Show all the file up to the match
unix.stackexchange.com

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