“help” posts are usually self posts, though you may also submit a link to a thread in a different subreddit (e. You can choose one of these four flairs for your post: Links from the sidebar count as having been submitted already, so posting them without new context is also considered a repost. because you’d like to discuss another part of it, or because something has changed since the last time it was submitted, or because the link was updated since then). This is meant with regards to content, not just “the same link was submitted earlier” – it’s okay to resubmit an old link in some new context (e.
However, the post should not be specific to another shell. This rule is interpreted generously general shell scripting content is mostly accepted.