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What would be a more simplified description of file descriptors compared to Wikipedia’s? Why are they required? Say, take shell processes as an ...

When I have a diff, how can I colorize it so that it looks good? I want it for the command line, so ...

I keep getting ^M character in my vimrc and it breaks my configuration. 15 s 15 Unix uses 0xA for a newline character. ...

What is the command to make less display line numbers in the left column? 6 s 6

As it currently stands, this question is not a good fit for our Q&A format. We expect answers to be supported by facts, ...

I’m looking for the string foo= in text files in a directory tree. It’s on a common Linux machine, I have bash shell: ...

Recently I was asked this during a job interview. I was honest and said I knew how a symbolic link behaves and how ...

Is there a command or an existing script that will let me view all of a *NIX system’s scheduled cron jobs at once? ...

I set a passphrase when creating a new SSH key on my laptop. But, as I realise now, this is quite painful when ...

$ time foo real 0m0.003s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.004s $ What do real, user and sys mean in the output of time? Which ...