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What is the command to see what files in linux is currently being written or read?

Just like top command which tells what process is running in the system and what is it doing like which process is running and taking CPU. I want to know in the running system what currently the ...
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`column` colors broken with linux-utils 2.30

I am using the column command to parse the output of a git for-each-ref. With linux-utils 2.29 everything works, but with 2.30 colors are not rendered in my terminal: git for-each-ref --sort=-...
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Adding a line to an XML file after specific Tags

How would you guys go about adding a line to a bunch of XML files after certain tags? Solution can be based in usage of unix tools or name a text editor or utility that could allow me to do this ...
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NFS won't export /etc or /var (!?)

This is on Fedora Server 35, BUT, I'm pretty sure that's irrelevant: I have a whole environment that works great with nfs and various machines export to each other - been doing this for decades - and ...
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How to centered output data across "|" in everything column in terminal?

I want to align output in terminal by the following command: xlscat -C 1,2,9,12 file.xls I get output like this: string 1 | 1000 | 1 | text ... string 100 | 61 | 109 | number ... string 1000 | ...
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Find strings that do not appear in a repository

Problem: I have a moderately large repository (1000s of files, hundreds of thousands of lines). I have a text file with ~5000 lines. I need to find the lines in the text file that do NOT appear ...
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