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Does a Linux console change color when it crashes?
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Stop/kill a process from the command line after a certain amount of time
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Can an .ssh/config Host have multiple HostName entries?
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systemctl list all possible (including disabled) services
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Turn on xtrace with environment variable
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bit rot detection and correction with mdadm
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ssh stuck at expecting SSH2_MSG_KEX_ECDH_REPLY
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What is the format of the default statusline?
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How can I add an application to the Favorites section of the Applications menu in CentOS 7? [duplicate]
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What are the dangers of using snap's classic confinement?
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Is there a reason why /var/log/lastlog is a huge sparse file (1.1TB)?
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Is autossh redundant with systemd?
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Is there a way to run 'screen' in read-only mode?
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How can I print well formatted code (hardcopy printout)
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Creating a tmux session without attaching to it
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A lot of "._" files inside a tar [duplicate]
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pacman - get list of packages installed by user
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The difference between \e and ^[
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Show a notification across all running X displays
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How to increase /tmp folder size manually
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Why does gmtime() give days 1-31, but months 0-11?
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How to check which specific processes (Python scripts) are running?
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What is `/dev/console` used for?
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base64 -d decodes, but says invalid input
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How to configure per-unit log storage policy with journald?
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Construct a command by putting a string into a tty
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docker: Error response from daemon: failed to create endpoint - failed to add host
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Is it possible for nohup to write the output both to the file nohup.out AND to the screen/terminal?
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How can I shrink a LUKS partition, what does `cryptsetup resize` do?
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how is whence different than which? [duplicate]
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Command line argument in awk
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Suppress filename from output of sha512sum
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Comparing two strings in Bash
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jq print key and value for all in sub-object
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tar - How to preserve timestamps down to more than a second of precision?
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