— Linux & CLI Reference

CLI behavior, verified. Kernel version noted.

Every article here includes full terminal output, version callouts for 6.1 and 5.15, and the flag interactions nobody else bothered to run.

Full-width terminal window screenshot showing a chained inotifywait and awk command pipeline with complete stdout output below, monospace white text on near-black terminal background, pixel-perfect with no blur or grain, blood-red prompt glyph visible at the command line
Full-width terminal window screenshot showing a chained inotifywait and awk command pipeline with complete stdout output below, monospace white text on near-black terminal background, pixel-perfect with no blur or grain, blood-red prompt glyph visible at the command line
Terminal screenshot of perf stat output with annotated callout lines pointing to specific counter rows, white monospace text on a near-black background, full-width frame with no margin, crisp pixel-perfect rendering, no motion blur
Terminal screenshot of perf stat output with annotated callout lines pointing to specific counter rows, white monospace text on a near-black background, full-width frame with no margin, crisp pixel-perfect rendering, no motion blur
/ Documented & Tested

Articles with actual output

Kernel 6.1 · 5.15

inotifywait: what changes between kernel versions

The --monitor flag behaves differently when chained with --format on 5.15 versus 6.1. Both outputs are included; the divergence point is annotated.

Kernel 6.1

perf stat: chaining -e with --cpu

The interaction between -e cycles and --cpu is undocumented in the man page. Tested on bare metal with pinned affinity; the trap and fix are both shown.

▸ Version Matrix
Example: journalctl --since

Real output, both kernels

$ journalctl --since '2024-01-01 00:00:00' --until '2024-01-01 01:00:00' -u sshd --output=json-pretty

Where 5.15 and 6.1 diverge, the article calls it out explicitly. No paraphrasing — the raw command-response pairs are in every entry.

On 5.15: --output=json-pretty silently falls back to short when --since and --until are both active. On 6.1 the flag is respected. The man page says nothing about this.

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