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Original. I thought it's very irrational to abuse test statement rather than use of case statement for string comparisation in shellscript, in viewpoint of portability and performance.

I recently asked a question pause youtube-dl when network is disconnected and resume when it is connected again (which currently has an open bounty). Yesterday it had 3 upvotes. Today, I checked and ...

As we say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the past 12 months. As most of you here are aware, sites on the Stack Exchange network ...

I have a question about my Unix & Linux Stack Exchange post: Native Packet Dropping on ChromeOS I've been having a look at the ChromeOS tag and it seems to be doing poorly. Questions are rarely ...

The answer here https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/472384/170373 contains this code block: grep -vE '0.*1|1.*[02]|2.*[13]|3.*[24]|4.*[35]|5.*[46]|6.*[57]|7.*[68]|8.*[79]|9.*8' In that particular answer,...

A new tag qr-code has recently been created. I voted "reject" in the "suggested edit" review as I felt it was not a good idea to have a tag describing a specific machine-readable ...

I just close-voted this question with reason "Needs details or clarity". Afterwards, I saw, that this question fits very well, and I would like to change my vote to "Duplicate of ...&...

In the following scenario: posts are harassed by prominent members' comments, and are downvoted, closed and deleted by a group of prominent members after their abuses are exposed flags are ignored ...

When writing a question, tags can be completed just by starting to write a word. However when searching for questions with specific tags, input like "[bla" does not complete. I wonder how ...

One of the canned messages to reject a suggested edit is no improvement whatsoever: This edit does not make the post even a little bit easier to read, easier to find, more accurate or more accessible....

There has been recent effort by a new community member to tag (in particular old) questions related to software installation with the software-installation tag. Since this also includes questions ...

How can I "mention" or "tag" a specific user in a comment? The goal is to respond/reply to a comment from a specific user and to draw that user's attention. I seem to remember ...

On a few occasion, I've seen code blocks such as: #! /bin/zsh - echo foo/* echo this is not part of a C comment. Being highlighted as C code even though the Q&A had a zsh tag and the shebang ...

I would like to know if a particular user (from another, non stackexchange site, for e.g twitter) has an account here. Searching with user:<username> gave a (400 000+ items) list of results. ...

I noted a problem. I made a heavy testing and I discovered a fundamental discrepancy between theory and practical realization. I spent an extra time to write a short report, and I tried to posted it ...

Is there some kind of paid service on StackExchange Websites where one can ask a question which will cost him some money, but he will receive an answer no matter how general or basic the question is? ...

Here I (and someone else) have approved an edit into the most upvoted answer, which was suggested by comment at 2017, but later I saw that this edit (--progress) exists already in this answer from ...

Few days ago I answered a question. It had been downvoted. So, I just deleted it. However, today I am feeling curious (so I undeleted it). Can anyone please check and let me know what is wrong with ...

Currently, there are only 2 choices (Meta and SO), following this flag menu: -> A community-specific reason -> This question belongs on another site in the SE These choices are among the most ...

I've asked a question, good or bad, but very concise and objective. This is one of the answers I got. Where the user is attacking me instead of answering a question. Not only in the question but also ...

Why is What is the scope of a public key added by apt-key? closed? Please clarify the stated reason. (see my comments to the reply below for more information)

Suppose that there are disagreements about editing an answer. People with direct editing privilege, the post owner and the moderators, have different opinions about editing this post. So someone could ...

At 2am this morning (local time), I posted this answer to a question (not mine) that had also been bugging me for years. I had just figured out how to resolve it, and wanted to share it with the OP (@...

I came across multiple questions, where the original poster found a solution and edited the question to add that solution to the question instead of posting the solution as an answer. For example: 1, ...

This user has been temporarily suspended by a moderator and cannot chat for 59 days. Why am I suspended for 60 days on StackExchange chat? Which site/room's moderator did it? I, on the receiving end,...

How can I suggest a tag deletion? I guess this is some privilege after some rep points. But in general, is there a process for any user to suggest a new tag or the deletion of an existing tag? For now,...

I have an experience to share as a new contributor to unix.stackexchange.com where I sensed some slight undercurrents of prejudice.  It would be great to receive a response from the moderators ...

I wonder which SE community is best suited and accepting of QEMU questions. Indeed I would think that superuser could be another option. Probably it must depend about how much related to unix/linux ...

I was trying to link to a gmane article in that answer, but none of the: [message](news://news.gmane.io:119/4DC939FC.2040407@redhat.com) [message](nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.standards.posix....

I am reporting attack and harassment. This is today This was a few days ago, which has only been partially reversed. Replies to my questions have also been downvoted (by the same user(s)) together ...

I'm developing my own FOSS application. Its code will be publicly hosted in gitlab. Is it OK to recommend it in the comments, in a context where a user needs what my application provides? If so, there ...

Just wanted to give a shout, this is my question and answer here: How do I upgrade all of my installed packages in OpenWRT? I find it interesting this guy is script-copying this site, creating ...

The most actively developed fork of Compton (used by most distros) has been renamed Picom. https://github.com/yshui/picom/issues/222 Should we adjust the tags (compton) accordingly or at least add a ...

Since I don't have enough reputation, someone else coud do it: add a tag for questions regarding the remi repository. I would name the tag 'remi'. If I search for remi, I get 135 results. So IMO it ...

I see a newly created tag, mitigation created just a short while ago. It seems to me that it's got far too narrow a scope (kernel exploits). I couldn't see anywhere to flag the tag itself for (re)...

UPDATE: all awk variant tags have now been defined to be synonyms for the one tag, awk, so the below discussion is now only retained by request for historical purposes. Not really looking for an ...

https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/606142/22653 contained some unnecessarily unkind responses which I flagged as unkind. One was a blatantly rude response to a legitimate query that an acronym be ...

Where's the best place to ask questions about networking under Ubuntu using WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)? It seems like candidates are here, Super User, and Ask Ubuntu. The question relates to a ...

Part of BeOS conforms to POSIX (probably an older edition). Would any question on certain aspect of BeOS be on-topic here?

Under my account I remember I could edit my profile under "settings". But now I don't find the feature there. Has it been moved somewhere? Thanks.

If I am correct, a regular user is only allowed to list and see their questions that were deleted in the last 60 days, but not all their questions that have been deleted. By "regular", I ...

Can something like <style> @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { body, pre, a.question-hyperlink, #content { background: black; color: white; } } </style> be ...

When reviewing new answers, I came across one in Spanish. I assume that English is the only allowed language. The problem is that I can't find that written anywhere. The Help Center has some guidance ...

I think that there's a great distinction between the problem handling approach in new and old hardware. By old I mean those of the early 2000's, with 2GB of RAM or less, 32bit, etc. Shouldn't we have ...

I asked a question about Linux's unstable API yesterday. Two users Artem S. Tashkinov and Philip Couling answered that question. Artem S. Tashkinov answered with just a link. After some time that ...

I'm curious why a post advocating against the reuse of old hardware If you want to know why developers don't spend months and years of their life saving you from paying $10 for a new wifi adaptor... ...

A while ago I edited this answer to include a brief description of the link. As I understand it, answers that are just links aren't recommended as the link could break or the contents could change. I ...

In this question , I see three choices: Dangerous answers — Remove system python Answer buried in comments — This is a widely known bug Convert 2 above to an answer. 3a. Left as is it becomes a ...

This isn't a site for asking programming questions. It's well understood that pure programming questions should be moved to stackoverflow.com. There does seem to be an exception for bash, even where ...

Today was a big day for me on Unix & Linux: I got a "Yearling" badge on the main site I got a "Yearling" badge on the meta site I earned the "create gallery chat rooms&...