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Intermittent disk failures

Intermittent disk failures Intermittent disk failures are failures that occur off and on and involve problems that cannot be consistently reproduced. Therefore, these ty…

Significance of ignoreeof

ignoreeoff : Prventing [Ctrl-d] from logging out. Users often inadvertently press [Ctrl-d] with intent to terminate the standard input, but end up logging out of the sy…

Significance of noclobber

noclobber: Protecting files from accidental overwriting. This feature is known as noclobber. Once set, you can protect your files from being overwritten with the shell&…