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29 votes

Why does my shell script choke on whitespace or other special characters?

answered May 24, 2014 at 8:05

24 votes

Get metadata from a video in the terminal

answered Nov 14, 2016 at 6:45

23 votes

How to get Month in all upper case

answered Jul 12, 2017 at 2:23

23 votes

How to insert text before the first line of a file?

answered Apr 17, 2016 at 2:08

22 votes

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Insert text at specific line number

answered Apr 17, 2016 at 4:47

20 votes

How can I replace a string in a file(s)?

answered Apr 17, 2016 at 1:47

20 votes

Add thousands separator in a number

answered Jan 21, 2018 at 16:10

12 votes

How do I get rid of Cygwin's /cygdrive prefix in all paths?

answered Jul 1, 2013 at 3:44

11 votes

Is there any way to execute commands from history?

answered Apr 10, 2016 at 19:20

11 votes

Security implications of forgetting to quote a variable in bash/POSIX shells

answered May 4, 2016 at 0:14

10 votes

How to output a date/time as "20 minutes ago" or "9 days ago", etc

answered Jun 23, 2018 at 1:45

9 votes

How do you check if a file exists within awk? [-d 'filename'] failing

answered Feb 17, 2016 at 1:54

9 votes

awk: forcing a return status?

answered May 21, 2015 at 4:37

8 votes

How do I get the size of a directory on the command line?

answered Mar 10, 2017 at 5:50

7 votes

Documentation on LESS_TERMCAP_* variables?

answered Apr 7, 2017 at 12:06

7 votes

Decoding URL encoding (percent encoding)

answered Oct 5, 2014 at 6:31

7 votes

Delimiter is being changed with fields

answered Aug 9, 2015 at 19:16

7 votes

Can't use !$ in script?

answered Feb 6, 2016 at 3:16

7 votes

Is there a difference between hardlinking with cp -l or ln?

answered Apr 19, 2016 at 0:54

6 votes

How do I delete the first n lines of an ascii file using shell commands?

answered Apr 17, 2016 at 1:14

6 votes

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Detect optional function argument (scalar)

answered Apr 15, 2017 at 19:10

6 votes

Can I determine type of an awk variable?

answered May 7, 2017 at 4:18

6 votes

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Determining if the first string starts with second string

answered Aug 31, 2018 at 3:07

6 votes

Is there a unix-like system that doesn't come with Perl?

answered Feb 17, 2020 at 17:37

6 votes

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Assign to a variable in a bash script

answered Mar 5, 2020 at 21:25

5 votes

Querying csv files like sql

answered Jun 20, 2020 at 1:14

5 votes

Get current timezone as `Region/City`

answered Jul 29, 2018 at 0:40

5 votes

Openssl command s_client always says 400 Bad Request

answered Jan 23, 2018 at 23:55

5 votes

How do I zip/unzip on the unix command line?

answered Nov 28, 2016 at 5:13

5 votes

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Shell script to grab one or many Wistia videos

answered Jun 28, 2016 at 0:42

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190 Answers

Why does my shell script choke on whitespace or other special characters?

Get metadata from a video in the terminal

How to get Month in all upper case

How to insert text before the first line of a file?

Insert text at specific line number

How can I replace a string in a file(s)?

Add thousands separator in a number

How do I get rid of Cygwin's /cygdrive prefix in all paths?

Is there any way to execute commands from history?

Security implications of forgetting to quote a variable in bash/POSIX shells

How to output a date/time as "20 minutes ago" or "9 days ago", etc

How do you check if a file exists within awk? [-d 'filename'] failing

awk: forcing a return status?

How do I get the size of a directory on the command line?

Documentation on LESS_TERMCAP_* variables?

Decoding URL encoding (percent encoding)

Delimiter is being changed with fields

Can't use !$ in script?

Is there a difference between hardlinking with cp -l or ln?

How do I delete the first n lines of an ascii file using shell commands?

Detect optional function argument (scalar)

Can I determine type of an awk variable?

Determining if the first string starts with second string

Is there a unix-like system that doesn't come with Perl?

Assign to a variable in a bash script

Querying csv files like sql

Get current timezone as `Region/City`

Openssl command s_client always says 400 Bad Request

How do I zip/unzip on the unix command line?

Shell script to grab one or many Wistia videos