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more »Command Line: Process Control Process and job control
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more »Lynis Shell Skript Checks Unix Security
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more »Command Line: Diffutils The Diffutils tool collection
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more »Command Line: make Handling of complex tasks with make
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more »Command Line: FTP and NcFTP FTP and NcFTP
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