Stack Exchange

jlliagre

Unix, Linux and middleware advanced customer support engineer & software developer. Wrote my first "hello world" C program on Unix version 7 in 1984. The views expressed on this web site are my own.

profile for jlliagre on Stack Exchange, a network of free, community-driven Q&A sites

top accounts reputation activity bookmarks subscriptions
Top Questions
No questions with score of 5 or more
Top Answers
434
What is the difference between /opt and /usr/local?
unix.stackexchange.com

357
How to pipe stdout while keeping it on screen ? (and not to a output file)
stackoverflow.com

342
Why does Linux use LF as the newline character?
unix.stackexchange.com

160
What is the difference between SIGSTOP and SIGTSTP?
stackoverflow.com

125
Difference between terms: “option”, “argument”, and “parameter”?
stackoverflow.com

123
What does the .d stand for in directory names?
unix.stackexchange.com

121
Why would you `cat /dev/null > /var/log/messages`?
superuser.com

120
Does tail read the whole file?
unix.stackexchange.com

119
How can I produce high CPU load on a Linux server?
superuser.com

116
#!/bin/bash - no such file or directory
unix.stackexchange.com

110
Why is cd not a program?
unix.stackexchange.com

92
How can I make my own “shell commands” (e.g. mkdir/cd combo)?
superuser.com

90
Why can't I remove the '.' directory?
unix.stackexchange.com

88
How do I append the UNIX command date to an echo statement
stackoverflow.com

87
Why does “ps aux | grep x” give better results than “pgrep x”?
askubuntu.com

84
How to delete directories based on `find` output?
unix.stackexchange.com

71
Vi vs vim, or, is there any reason why I would ever want to use vi?
unix.stackexchange.com

68
Why are POSIX mandatory utilities not built into the shell?
unix.stackexchange.com

67
What does an “exec” command do?
askubuntu.com

66
How to remove a character at the end of each line in unix
stackoverflow.com

65
Linux: Difference between /dev/console , /dev/tty and /dev/tty0
unix.stackexchange.com

61
What does “esac” mean at the end of a bash case statement? Is it required?
unix.stackexchange.com

60
How does /usr/bin/env know which program to use?
unix.stackexchange.com

59
Extract version number from file in shell script
stackoverflow.com

54
How do I replace AND (&&) in a for loop?
unix.stackexchange.com

54
How do I run the same linux command in more than one tab/shell simultaneously?
unix.stackexchange.com

47
What's the philosophy behind delaying writing data to disk?
unix.stackexchange.com

44
All newlines are removed when saving cat output into a variable
stackoverflow.com

42
“It is what it is” in French
french.stackexchange.com

41
How exactly does “/bin/[” work?
unix.stackexchange.com

1 2 3 4 5 … 10