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In Bash, when to alias, when to script, and when to write a function?
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How can I cd to a directory just by typing the directory's name?
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Multiline shell script comments - how does this work?
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Quick way to include a directory path when calling mv?
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What does .??* mean in a shell command?
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Why is it that these two 'cat' commands result differently?
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Four tasks in parallel… how do I do that?
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What does it mean to have a $“dollarsign-prefixed string” in a script?
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How can I create an alias for a command that includes a space?
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When to use a semi-colon between environment variables and a command
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How to make the terminal display user@machine in bold letters?
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Where to start creating CLI applications?
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14
Does OS X have its own line format?
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How stable are Unix shell “stdin/stdout APIs”?
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What's wrong with this csh file?
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How to remove the (1) from filenames using the find command
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Why does `exec 2>&1` fail in this bourne shell script?
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Command line input while a running script displays strange symbols
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Why does --text=“$@” only pass the first word?
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running script with “. ” and with “source ”
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Are free shell accounts safe?
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How to Execute multiple command using nohup
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Error with if [ -n $diffCurr ]: Too many arguments
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How can same fd in different processes point to the same file?
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Spell check comments in vim
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10
I would like to grep all files except some file types?
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Is it possible to customise the prompt to show the if there are any background jobs?
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How to properly run “top” command through SSH?
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Strange behaviour of uninitialized arrays and unset arrays
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Show lines matching a pattern and the 4 lines before each
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