Questions tagged [user-interface]
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Should Unix sub-command names be case sensitive?
Commands like git, hg, and apt-get all have sub-commands (is there a better name?), and they are all case-sensitive:
hg log # not hg Log
git status # not git Status
sudo apt-get install nano # not sudo apt-get…

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text mode and emulated text mode: how do they work?
I'd like to know the difference(s) between the text mode that one gets, for example, by opening "terminal" in GNOME, and the text mode that one interacts with in a server linux distribution which doesn't have a GUI.
I know that the program named…

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User input control
I am writing script, basically it's a calculator for very specific industrial procedure. I want to block alphanumeric input and allow only numerical input. How I do that????
I have used variable for user input but I want to restrict user to…