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Do we have a go-to reference Q&A for "I want to do {grep,sed,awk} on {xml,json,yaml,csv with text}, how do I shoot myself in the foot?" questions?
This still seems to be a very common topic. Over time, and I guess that's a sign of how the tools matured, our answers and comments to all of these end up being:
It's very nice that you want to use ${...
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Duplicated question, new answer
A question is an exact duplicate of an older one.
A new answer into the new post has a suggestion based on a new feature introduced, this answer does not exist into the old post.
What should be done?
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How to suggest a similar question
How to suggest a similar question when we find a possible duplicate, or when it is answered in another thread, as show in the following dialog?
Is there a privilege associated with this action?
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so–called "duplicates" are effectively killed from view from initial link - why not make that clear?
After a post was declared a "duplicate" it is effectively killed, wasting the time of the original poster, if one uses only the initial link, which is being tacitly redirected.
He is not made aware ...
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My question wasn't specific enough, but got I got the right answer anyway. How should I proceed?
I have a question about my Unix & Linux Stack Exchange post: Interpret variables from read in string with shell script
The question how I asked it (I tried to break it down to the relevant point) ...
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Closing out questions
Why do you allow other users to close questions? Obviously, there is a need by someone to have a question answered. As time goes on, programmers just love to change things up. So, let the questions be ...
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Duplicate question
I believe I asked a dup because my problem didn't solve at first. Now that I solved my problem, you might want to put together my question as a duplicate of the first question.
Enable history for ...
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Duplicate questions, where to find them
When I view a question and immediately below the question instead of an answer is the block which states this is a 'duplicate question'. That's all well and fine but how do I find the original ...
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How to merge my own duplicate question?
How to merge my own duplicate question?
Such as:
When a package recommends A or B, which one is installed?
Why isn't lxterminal installed when installing lxde-core?
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Question marked as duplicate but is a specific subcase of the duplicate
The question Replacing one column with another column in csv files was marked as a duplicate, but the question is specifically about line-numbering. There are answers to that question that are not ...
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"This question already has a lousy answer here"
There is an aspect of duplicate questions I have long wondered about: I often see questions that are similar or identical to an existing question, but the answers to the older question are poor or ...
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Project Reduplication of Deduplication - Unix & Linux
Stack Exchange recently started a collaboration project with the University of Melbourne, in an attempt to improve the automatic detection of duplicate questions.
More information on the project and ...
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Is it bad to repeat a question if an existing one is hard to find?
Sometimes I have a question that I know I have seen on here before. I try searching for it as the first step. If I can't find it that way, I click "Ask a Question" and type in the title, because ...
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Reopen question on subshells closed as a duplicate
Why is subshell created by background control operator (&) not displayed under pstree was recently closed as a duplicate of Rule for invoking subshell in Bash?.
I can see why people would think ...
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Are questions about command substitution considered duplicates?
Command substitution in bash (and other shells) is a very versatile technique, and it comes in many forms:
Assigning command output to a variable
Using command output as a parameter for another ...
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