Is Vim immune to copy-paste attack?
You should never paste from web to your terminal. Instead, you should paste to your text editor, check the command and then paste to the terminal.
Unix & Linux
Take text “screenshot” of current terminal contents
I would like to, every 30 seconds or so, copy all text of a certain terminal or terminal emulator to a file, and display it in conky. I’m not talking about simple redirection (command > file), which doesn’t work for ncurses programs or games such as NetHack.
Disable bash’s cache of executables in the path
Note that this is not a duplicate. I am asking about disabling the cache, not clearing it. If you have a cache to clear, then it is obviously not disabled.
Bash scripts ran from from gnome/nautilus don’t have environment variables
In my ~/.bashrc and ~/.profile I have some variables set to some filepaths:
How to automatically record all your terminal sessions with script utility
What I want to achieve is be able to record my terminal sessions to file automatically whenever I use Yakuake/Konsole.
History of UNIX not including current directory in $PATH
In the UNIX world, it’s well understood that you need to prefix binaries in the current directory with ./ in order to run them: . is not in $PATH by default. This is to avoid evil binaries overriding system utils like ls and getting code exec.
Using find -perm to find setuid files
I want to find list of all suid binaries. I use the command
How to unzip a multipart (spanned) ZIP on Linux?
I need to upload a 400mb file to my web server, but I’m limited to 200mb uploads. My host suggested I use a spanned archive, which I’ve never done on Linux.
Bash: issuing trap twice
If I issue the trap builtin twice [for the same signal], what happens? Is the second command added to the first, or does it replace the first?
Linux utility to bench mark clock speed of CPU
I have a Linux PC with a 3.4 GHz CPU. I must check this processor to see if it actually runs at that speed. Is there a benchmark available? I ran sysbench but it only provides time of completion, and I must find the maximum (actual) clock rate.