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I worked with a system engineer once and he prefixed all Linux commands with the full path, in every script, like this: /usr/bin/cp...

Well, there can be a reason, like this: cat -v word file.txt | grep whatever The CAT command may have optional features that GREP...

That's a classic indeed This is also something I see: cd /some/directory ; unzip /source/file.zip -d . or also cd /source ; unzip...

Ow yes, I know I currently run Total Commander, one of the many clones But ... nothing still beats the deep blue Norton Commander in...

I'm partly German, so that may explain :) It must ze done correct !

That reminds me of the " park " command Back in the 90s I got my first computer, and I remember that I needed to " park " the disk...

I guess we're all differnent :) My fisrt goal is to make it work, and then I make it pretty, but that is a goal on itself as well...

What is also funny is to use TOUCH with a date as parameter And also ported to Windows touch.exe in case you want to cause some mayhem :)

Pull the plug ? Oh no, wait, nobody uses iron anymore. Stop your virtual Server, that'll stop your Linux

Just redirect the output and error output to see what it is doing */5 * * * * /home/dave/swap/bgimages/background.sh >>...

I never used that ... I just init 6 or init 0 Is it a Unix thing ?

The & indeed is for background processing, and it typically is set at the end of the command. Often used with nohup, like this: nohup...

Insert this somewhere at the start of the program: set -x That's euhm, an understatement :) So you basically say that different...

I don't get that I'm not English native speaker, so I have a good excuse.

The "code" I refer to is more related to command line usage, not entire source code of the Linux Kernel Things like this: For clarity...