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Background info : All the existing answers to soneone's post about printing out high-bit bytes were along the lines of : "It's a locale setting problem, and you must go to LC_ALL=C/POSIX to get ...

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 ...

As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange ...

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 ...

Could the domain be moved from https://unix.stackexchange.com to linux.stackexchange.com? Linux as a term is way better known in the public compared to "Unix" by now. It fits the contents of ...

Both ElementaryOS(https://elementaryos.stackexchange.com/) and Ubuntu(https://askubuntu.com/) have their own stackexchange sites. This made me wonder why questions under the tags ubuntu and elementary-...

This is more of a query. I do know that one can use for e.g. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions?sort=votes to see the highest voted questions ever, but I'm more interested to know what kind of ...

Lists are nice Because they help bringing order and readability into a post. They may also be titles Which helps with quickly skimming answers, too. However, The intendation is also needed for ...

Trivial thing. Why there's the option to vote your own post if it's not allowed? There's some rationale behind it? From a UX point of view it seems to me that the function should be just disabled, ...

I have a question I would like to ask that applies to mostly all Linux distributions (and maybe even BSD), but the answer will probably vary depending on what Linux distribution it is due to varying ...

As discussed here, aliasing wsl would make sense. Should and could someone with enough reputation make that alias?

What is the guidance for flagging answers? When should I flag? When should I not flag? What is the right flag in different situations?

The title sums up my question. I am having an issue that I cannot FOR THE LIFE OF ME figure out, I have even gone through system logs to try and figure out the issue and have googled everything that ...

Today, I found an edit suggestion in my review queue where the question that was to be edited had already been deleted. It looks like a moot point to keep such items in the review queue. Is this a bug,...

I'm hardly active on UL SE at all so I was very surprised to see a "serial voting reversed" message removing 10 reputation from my score yesterday. I am even more baffled because it appears ...

According to a post on the Unix Heritage Society mailing list, prominent FOSS developer and Unix enthusiast, Jörg Schilling passed away on Sunday, 10th October 2021. He was an active member of this ...

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 ...

I like to investigate when I find a question that is interesting to me, mainly navigating the man pages, since part of my journey in this site is learning. I can reach, after such investigation ...

This is different from questions for software suggestions. Those are questions for scripting in the answer, almost like a commission to have someone write a shell script or use some other scripting ...

In this question the user who asked has it's account deleted or removed or another possibility. The result is that the post won't have an accepted answer since there's no user to accept it. In these ...

Why is this user allowed (and encouraged) to make comments like this: wtf, you're copying answers again? An unsubstantiated claim. In my opinion: That is an unsubstantiated claim just because he is ...

In answering many of the frequently asked questions on Unix& and on AskUbuntu, I use canned answers. I have written answers that, while generic, will usually solve the problem. Is this contrary to ...

We're excited to announce that AWS will be sponsoring Unix & Linux beginning September 27 through March 31. We wanted to give you a heads up and walk you through what it will look like. How and ...

Lots of people provide next to zero information about the issues they are having which makes helping them impossible and also wastes everyone's time because such questions need to be clarified. ...

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 ...

I've just been made aware of Unpinning the accepted answer from the top of the list of answers where it says: Currently we are planning to move forward with one of two scenarios, based on your ...

my question was based on experience but is closed under another reason: Closed. This question is opinion-based. It is not currently accepting answers.

I've just asked a question, and someone made two comments which in fact answered my question; since the answer was in the comments, I wrote an answer and made it community wiki. Now the commenter has ...

I wonder if there is room for a new tag that could be applied to question relating to TOML (Tom's Obvious Minimal Language), a structured document format similar to YAML and JSON, mainly used for ...

Which rules (if any) make this answer: https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/665367/232326 Invalid, or, at least, wrong ? Just shocked to get 3 downvotes so quickly for a perfectly correct (IMO) answer. If ...

So, let me get this straight. Posting links is not against SE rules. However suddenly and it's the first time I hear this: "posting a link to a Google search could most certainly be considered ...

Should keys represented with <kbd> tags be always uppercase? In this edit to "Delete from cursor to end of line in vi" d$ was changed into D$. I thought the answer was incorrect since ...

The GNOME project adopted a new versioning scheme last year because with GTK 4 they found it inappropriate to continue having the major number tied to GTK version. The next version following GNOME 3....

Since a couple of days I noted that reputation changes points message is not showing or disappearing swiftly (I'm not sure yet wich is it). I can only see that the number is higher or lower, without ...

Simple question in the title. I'm not (yet) advocating to any side. Maybe after reading some well formuled thoughts.

Mangling code or tab separated data: This is tab delimited data Rendering of code blocks break tabs. This is bad for example for code that require tabs (Example). for posts where users paste ...

September update: Community Ads are now live network-wide. All ads with a score of 6 or higher, or with a score of 4 or higher and no downvotes will be displayed (except for any that have a note from ...

I'm opening this post in reference to this question: Access ext4 disk that lost superblock and its backups The only person who answered seem to be a a highly regarded member of this community, not ...

I've been wondering why so many people recently are putting their question in the title, and only supporting information in the body text. (It used to be that the question itself belonged in the body, ...

After logging on this morning, I noticed that my fonts (using Brave) had all switched back to whatever SE was using before. Is it just me or was the Ubuntu font removed?

Is it just me or has reviewing become harder with the changed interface? It now takes two clicks where I'm sure it used to take only one. Not a lot of difference perhaps, but enough to put me off. I'...

I am thinking about asking Linux questions that run with Windows subsystem for Linux (WSL). Can I ask questions that can apply to WSL and the "raw" distro?

I have tried to add the bashrc and bash-profile tags to How to fix infinite bash loop (bashrc + bash_profile) when ssh-ing into an ec2 server? but after clicking "save tag edits" the tags ...

Over on Ask Ubuntu, we had a discussion somewhat recently due to the frequent mistagging of zoom (for the functionality of zooming in/out) vs zoom-meeting (our tag for the Zoom video conferencing app)...

During investigating question "why in screen session things display incorrectly": symbols display wrong in `screen` - ascii or utf I've found answer what is the reason (i.e. export ...

I earlier using Kali Linux. I asked lot of questions with kali-linux tag. I had read the answer. Linux isn't hard but, kali is. I noticed that I could use Kali more smoothly. When I was trying to ...

What are the classes of cookies after clicking Customize Settings used for? Sometimes it doesn't proceed after clicking Customize Settings. How may I close the small window for cookies, without making ...

Any suggestions for how to log out of this site once logged in, would be much appreciated. Thanks for any answers.

I read the meta question Are answers using alternative tools not welcome?, but I'm not sure if my question has nuances that the other doesn't. I have no issues if you consider this is a duplicate. I ...

Several users are associating the exec tag (244 questions) with Find's -exec option. Find && Exec tagged questions amounts to almost the half of that value (105 questions). The tag's ...