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pixelbeat

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GNU coreutils maintainer

Knows a bit about Linux, C, Python and shell

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How to insert text at beginning of a multi-line selection in vi/Vim
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How to resolve symbolic links in a shell script
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Why does sudo change the PATH?
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How to escape os.system() calls?
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Bash variable scope
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Bash script to receive and repass quoted parameters
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Why is cp --reflink=auto not the default behaviour?
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C/C++ maximum stack size of program on mainstream OSes
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Why is 'ls' suddenly wrapping items with spaces in single quotes?
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date command --iso-8601 option
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bash: run a command for n minutes, then SIGHUP it
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How to search for non-ASCII characters with bash tools?
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Rsync friendly gzip
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Sort --parallel isn't parallelizing
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Is dd better than cat?
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How do I test if a variable is a number in Bash?
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An efficient way to transpose a file in Bash
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Editing INI-like files with a script
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How do I find the width & height of a terminal window?
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Design patterns or best practices for shell scripts
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How do you get vim to display wrapped lines without inserting newlines?
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How to truncate a file in C?
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How do I limit the running time of a BASH script
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Transposing rows and columns
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How to split a file and keep the first line in each of the pieces?
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15
Standard way to open a folder window in linux?
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Is there a portable equivalent to DebugBreak()/__debugbreak?
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BASH: How to remove all files except those named in a manifest?
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Cartesian product of two files (as sets of lines) in GNU/Linux
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running bash pipe commands in background with & ampersand
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