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Proposed Q&A site for all the hardcore shell hackers, Python, Bash, ksh, sh, zsh, Perl, PHP, Ruby, AWK, sed, grep, Wget, cURL, and what not!
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Why not just use StackOverflow? – Wikis Jul 15 '10 at 17:37
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Would this not almost all be covered by the UNIX/Linux stack exchange site currently in beta? I don't see the value of excluding general UNIX/linux discussion – Cian Aug 10 '10 at 21:59
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There are around 7 thousand questions on Stackoverflow tagged with bash. – Furqan Aug 23 '11 at 10:05
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Would Windows PowerShell be included in Shell Hackers?

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Subsumed by Stack Overflow and Unix/Linux

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Shell Hackers is a subset of ServerFault?

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This proposal is now in the Commitment phase — example questions are locked!

40 Example Questions (5 closed)

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How do I send messages to other users via command line?
added by Wayne Werner Jun 24 '10 at 14:53
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wall (+FAQ) (...) – cbroughton Nov 15 '11 at 0:57
up vote 18 down vote
How can I display constantly changing output on the same line(s) in the terminal/console?
added by Wayne Werner Jun 28 '10 at 1:42
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up vote 17 down vote
How can I pipe a file and find all repeated lines in that file.?
added by Steve2k Jul 15 '10 at 4:21
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up vote 16 down vote
I want to write STDOUT & STDERR to a logfile, but also write STDERR to screen.
added by Stefan Lasiewski Jun 30 '10 at 19:33
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Borrowed from stackoverflow.com/questions/2871233/… – Stefan Lasiewski Jun 30 '10 at 19:33
This question makes it look like Shell-Hacking should be a tag on SO, rather than showing it belongs as a separate site. A better example would be a question which has not been answered on SO, for a long time, or which was answered with the wrong answer on SO – blueberryfields Jan 31 '11 at 3:29
up vote 12 down vote
What is the best scripting language for manipulating CSV data?
added by Mark Davidson Jul 16 '10 at 12:36
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up vote 12 down vote
How can I send a tweet from the command line?
added by Barthelemy Oct 6 '10 at 15:26
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up vote 11 down vote
How can I upload all the images in my disk to Picasa via the command line?
added by hemanth.hm, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Nov 11 '10 at 21:39
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How do I recursively search down a tree directory for files of a regular expression name and grep in those files?
added by Steve2k, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Nov 11 '10 at 21:28
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Is there any "online" shell available where we can write shell-script, execute it and see the output ?
added by Paresh Mayani Oct 6 '10 at 15:23
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Are there more Bash key combinations like Ctrl + X + V?
added by jyzuz, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Jan 31 '11 at 17:01
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up vote 6 down vote
How do I send mail via Gmail programatically using Python?
added by hemanth.hm, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Nov 11 '10 at 22:18
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up vote 6 down vote
(How) can I [view filetype|browse web] without using X?
added by Wayne Werner Jun 28 '10 at 1:37
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up vote 4 down vote
How do I hyperlink to a URL and extract all the links from the site?
added by hemanth.hm, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Jul 10 '10 at 1:33
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How can I convert Perl one-liners into complete scripts?
added by Stefan Lasiewski Jun 30 '10 at 19:32
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Borrowed from stackoverflow.com/questions/2822525/… – Stefan Lasiewski Jun 30 '10 at 19:33
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Where can I find a tutorial on the use of xargs in Bash?
added by Steve2k, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Nov 11 '10 at 21:26
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How can I query what version(s) of .NET are currently installed from a batch script?
added by Lee Jun 24 '10 at 9:13
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I want to change to runlevel 3 in Ubuntu, but it uses upstart. How do I boot into multi-user-networking mode without X11 in Ubuntu?
added by rascher Jun 26 '10 at 18:57
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How can I calculate difference between now and a timestamp ("2007-10-30 10:45"), in Linux, preferably without invoking Python, Perl, etc.?
added by Olli, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Nov 5 '11 at 10:17
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up vote 2 down vote
What are the methods to Submit a form with POST using cURL?
added by hemanth.hm, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Nov 11 '10 at 21:46
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Can I mix languages in a single script file?
added by Musaab Sep 23 '11 at 6:09
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up vote 1 down vote
How to generate unique random alphanumeric strings in Ruby? [closed]
added by hemanth.hm, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Nov 11 '10 at 21:31
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closed as off topic by George Edison, rascher, Barthelemy, Ryan Berger, Edgar Nov 23 '10 at 7:16

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.
It was closed as part of an automated migration of off-topic to close votes on September 29, 2011.

This question overlaps with SO. – rlb.usa Jun 24 '10 at 16:12
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I keep forgetting when I have to prepend directory names with slashes. Can someone clarify this for me?
added by George Edison Jun 26 '10 at 3:22
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I don't know if it's great, but I'd definitely call it a good on-topic question – Wayne Werner Jun 28 '10 at 1:41
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How can I write a here doc to a file in a Bash script?
added by Stefan Lasiewski, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Jul 10 '10 at 1:32
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up vote 1 down vote
I have CSV file. How can I print each line, except first column? How can I do that and print only last 15 lines?
added by Olli Feb 21 '11 at 17:55
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How do I get Python to run a basic shell command such as "sudo apt-get update"?
added by Musaab Sep 23 '11 at 6:09
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How do I intercept mailto links (when clicked on in a browser) and get them to run a shell script instead (including itself as an argument)?
added by Lee Jun 24 '10 at 9:15
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What FTP options/commands do I use to do a recursive transfer from the command-line?
added by rascher Jun 26 '10 at 18:55
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My PHP webpage doesn't work. PHP is a scripting language, right? [closed]
added by Stefan Lasiewski Jun 30 '10 at 19:32
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closed as off topic by rascher, Wayne Werner, user8863, Barthelemy, Ryan Berger Oct 20 '10 at 16:27

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.
It was closed as part of an automated migration of off-topic to close votes on September 29, 2011.

Should we distinguish between a CLI scripting language and something like PHP, which is mostly a web-scripting language, but is sometimes used on the CLI as well (Cacti.net calls a command-line poller using Cron, for example). – Stefan Lasiewski Jun 30 '10 at 22:03
Yes preferably CLI, it might be web side but that must be via shell! – hemanth.hm Jul 1 '10 at 3:51
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How do I create a virus shell script? [closed]
added by Paresh Mayani, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Nov 11 '10 at 21:25
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closed as off topic by jyzuz, Ryan Berger, crypto, Edgar, tekknolagi Jan 13 '11 at 5:49

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.
It was closed as part of an automated migration of off-topic to close votes on September 29, 2011.

Too vague a question.. may be on-topic(borderline) but vague so out – Anand Jeyahar Aug 18 '11 at 5:42
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How can I join together the elements in a list, separated by spaces? Python.
added by tekknolagi, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Jan 31 '11 at 17:01
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Why is this Bash/Python script not working as expected?
added by Sairam, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Nov 5 '11 at 10:15
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How to make a colorized autocomplete with syntax and history hints with Byobu?
added by Ben Crox, edited by WikiSpeedia hang-around Nov 5 '11 at 10:16
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Is there a command or script that is packaged into Linux/Mac to achieve the following ? For Example: "Reversing a file line by line and word by word"
added by Sairam Aug 18 '11 at 5:13
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How can I run a script that searches my entire computer and removes every instance of "something"?
added by Musaab Sep 23 '11 at 6:10
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Can I remote activate a script on a someone else's computer?
added by Musaab Sep 23 '11 at 6:10
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How can I gain root access with a script?
added by Musaab Sep 23 '11 at 6:11
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I'm trying to use XScreensaver instead of gnome-screensaver. How can I accomplish this? [closed]
added by rascher Jun 26 '10 at 18:56
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closed as off topic by Wayne Werner, Stefan Lasiewski, Ryan Berger, Edgar, Mark Szymanski Feb 19 '11 at 16:19

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.
It was closed as part of an automated migration of off-topic to close votes on September 29, 2011.

I think this would be off-topic as the site is designated as shell hackers. I think the good counterpart would be something along the lines of "how do I enable XScreensaver from the command line?" – Wayne Werner Jun 28 '10 at 1:40
belongs on superuser/serverfault – Anand Jeyahar Aug 18 '11 at 5:44
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How to capture someone's terminal logged in with same user?
added by jyzuz Oct 15 '10 at 13:45
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Can you help me fix my Windows AUTOEXEC.BAT file? [closed]
added by Stefan Lasiewski Jun 30 '10 at 19:35
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closed as off topic by wez, Barthelemy, Ryan Berger, Edgar, Mark Szymanski Feb 19 '11 at 16:17

This question does not relate to the topic of the proposal.
It was closed as part of an automated migration of off-topic to close votes on September 29, 2011.

Good one. It sort of looks like command line (eh, it's a .bat file), but it's windows-oriented, focused on a config script, and ok, it's vague. Maybe it shouldn't be that vague to make a better off-topic example? – Barthelemy Oct 6 '10 at 11:04
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Is there a command line to Foo the Bar?
added by Wayne Werner Jun 24 '10 at 14:53
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Umm...... What? – Mark Szymanski Feb 19 '11 at 16:21

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