Questions tagged [tags]
Tags are keywords or labels that categorize and group your question with other, similar questions.
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"smart" tags being not helpful as they are now
Preparing to ask a question about smartmontools, I tired to filter existing questions using the correct tag(s).
However searching for tags matching "smart" I realized that none of the tags ...
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Policy on creation of distribution tags for derivatives
Triggered by the recent (attempted) introduction of two tags for ArchLinux derivatives (EndeavourOS and BlackArch), I wonder whether there is an established policy and/or thresholds for creating tags ...
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#unix-path tag?
We didn't have a #unix-path tag until I just made one. (I hope I haven't made trouble by doing so.) The #PATH tag (all-caps) is specifically about the environment variable, but not what we refer to on ...
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Harmonizing use of locking-related tags
I was about to start writing a tag wiki for the lock tag in the sense of a mechanism to prevent concurrent access to resources or to synchronize threads when I realized that the tag usage has now ...
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Filters for finding useful answers
Background
I was looking at a recently asked question, where the asker was clearly out of their depth with an issue. The gist was essentially "I've got this problem, help please, because I've no ...
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Proper tag for discussing tun interfaces
I've noticed that many questions about tun network interfaces are tagged with the [tunneling] tag. This doesn't seem appropriate since, as I understand things, such an interface doesn't provide ...
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Tag Synonym: "Container" and "Containers"
I do not have enough points on either tag to suggest a synonym properly, but anyone here who does should:
container
containers
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What to do when finding a case of ambiguity between two tags?
Although it seems similar, it is a different case from this one.
My question goes on the other hand; and is that reviewing several questions about rxvt-unicode, I have found that there are times that ...
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Mail alert for specific tags
I want to monitor a specific tag and would like to be informed when question with that tag arises.
I know I can create an RSS/Atom feed based on a tag.
But I need it as email. Is it possible?
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Do we need tags for zombie or defunct processes?
The zombie-process has zero watchers and 36 questions in 11 years. Yesterday a new tag defunct was created for defunct processes (no watchers). I don't see what value these tags add if nobody's ...
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Add new tag "vdo"?
I do not have enough reputation to create a new tag on this site, therefore I propose to add the tag here. Hope this is the right (or at least not very wrong) approach.
The Virtual Data Optimizer (...
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remove "learning" tag
We have the "learning" tag which only has 5 questions at the time of writing. However, as I checked none of these questions are suitable to https://unix.stackexchange.com when knowing that ...
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Can [resolvconf] be made a synonym of the [resolv.conf] tag?
I think they should be made synonyms. They refer to the exact same thing even. Here's the tag wiki for resolv.conf:
The resolv.conf file contains information that is read by the resolver (a set of C ...
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should there be a getopt tag?
I just answered a question about getopt and then edited it to remove some irrelevant tags. I also wanted to add a getopt tag but it wouldn't let me because it's too similar to getopts.
getopt is not ...
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Re-tagging text-processing questions
This question is a follow-up to How to use the text-processing tag effectively?
Recently, a question on text processing was tagged as linuxshell-scriptawksedgrep. The question itself didn't mention ...
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