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Top Questions
24 votes

How can I determine, within a shell script, whether it is being called by systemd or not?

shell-script systemd asked Dec 4, 2020 at 13:37
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17 votes

Looking for a desktop NAS to be the primary storage for pictures and music

nas asked Nov 23, 2015 at 17:33
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17 votes

Weekly SEDE refresh has been contemplating Buddhism for a significant amount of time

bug status-completed data-explorer asked Sep 18, 2022 at 15:44
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15 votes

Why do Data Explorer queries sometimes load *and* run, and other times just load?

support data-explorer asked Aug 25, 2017 at 21:36
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15 votes

SEDE appears to be partially-refreshed

bug status-completed data-explorer asked Apr 26, 2020 at 16:09
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14 votes

How can I numerically sort a single line of delimited items?

sort numeric-data asked Apr 7, 2018 at 0:58
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13 votes

Weekly SEDE refresh may be stuck restoring Literature.SE

bug status-completed data-explorer asked Apr 16 at 13:33
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13 votes

How can I test my shell script's file-handling robustness?

shell-script error-handling asked Feb 25, 2017 at 2:03
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12 votes

After clicking the "edit tags" link, a pop-up appears: "An error occurred when fetching the tag editor"

bug status-completed tags edits inline-tag-editor asked Feb 15, 2022 at 12:33
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10 votes

Tag edits result in a "success" screen instead of the updated post

bug status-completed tags edits inline-tag-editor asked Dec 5, 2018 at 17:03
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Top Answers
108
Counting occurrences of word in text file
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75
Why is the wild card character * so different between the zip and rm commands?
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75
How can I replace a string in a previous command on the command-line?
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69
Unpinning the accepted answer from the top of the list of answers
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62
Return owner of process given PID
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43
Is it true that a tarball can change where files are extracted to regardless of the commands used to extract it?
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41
What is the meaning of [[:space:]] in bash?
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41
How to delete the rest of each line after a certain pattern or a string in a file?
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40
Linux shell script: Run a program only if it exists, ignore it if it does not exist
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35
Bash - Integer expression expected
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34
Non-root user getting root access after running "sudo vi /etc/hosts"
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34
echo [9876543210] displays 1 4 5 6 ... why?
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34
Running a command on many files
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33
How to fix the warning: "RPMDB altered outside of yum"?
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33
Display Spinner while waiting for some process to finish
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32
New onboarding for review queues
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29
rename files to change spaces to underscore
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27
Remove extra header lines from file, except for the first line
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27
How can I determine, within a shell script, whether it is being called by systemd or not?
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26
Simulate the running of a "make install" -- a "dry run" or simulator utility?
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25
Bash multiplication and addition
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24
Check all lines of a file are unique
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24
Inbox improvements are live
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21
How to get only the version number of PHP using shell commands?
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21
How to know if extglob is enabled in the current bash session?
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21
What's with all the renames: prename, rename, file-rename?
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21
Why is this number matched with this regex?
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21
Where is .bashrc file found in Linux?
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21
Copy last n-lines from one file to another
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20
ls -d command only returns `.` eg, and no child directories
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