Anthony Geoghegan

Dublin, Ireland

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Purpose of “ASCII text, with overstriking” file format

man documentation text-formatting asked Apr 6, 2016 at 10:36

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28 votes

POSIX compatible way to get user name associated with a user ID

users posix asked Sep 12, 2019 at 14:16

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20 votes

Using “reserved” codes for exit status of shell scripts

bash shell-script exit asked Nov 10, 2015 at 13:22

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20 votes

Use system command instead of Bash builtin without specifying the full path

bash shell-builtin asked Nov 12, 2015 at 11:57

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18 votes

checkbashisms-compliant way to determine the current shell

bash shell-script posix portability asked Mar 2, 2016 at 14:35

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15 votes

Disable Smarty-like formatting in titles

feature-request status-completed title code asked Jan 27, 2016 at 15:11

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14 votes

Include a link to the Code of Conduct in the FAQ for Chat

feature-request chat code-of-conduct asked Mar 19, 2019 at 15:36

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9 votes

Why would an SMTP client send a RSET (Reset) command?

postfix smtp ssmtp asked May 29, 2015 at 16:56

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7 votes

Unexpected behaviour from Readline's bind command

bash readline asked Apr 6, 2017 at 22:32

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6 votes

Ctrl-A and Ctrl-X doing the opposite of what they should

key-bindings normal-mode asked Nov 13, 2021 at 21:30

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