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What are the side effects of having several UNIX users share one UID?

August 8, 2022 by Magenaut

The sys-apps/shadow package on my GNU / Linux system comes with a useradd command that supports an option that I have previously overlooked: --non-unique. For the sake of convenience when shellig home from the university, I have created an alias for my original username (casual name at home) thusly:

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags alias, login, users Leave a comment

“a word that is identical to an alias being expanded is not expanded a second time”

August 8, 2022 by Magenaut

Bash manual says

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bashrc lazy substitution

August 8, 2022 by Magenaut

How does one get ~/.bashrc aliases to evaluate $() substitutions at run time, instead of at the time that ~/.bashrc is executed (when opening a terminal)?

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags alias, bash, bashrc, quoting, shell Leave a comment

Show only hidden files (dot files) in ls alias

August 7, 2022 by Magenaut

I’m using the command

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags alias, ls, wildcards Leave a comment

How can I tell what command an alias stands for?

August 6, 2022 by Magenaut

ll is a common alias in many Linux distros.
How can I tell what it aliases to?

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Can’t use alias in script, even if I define it just above!

August 6, 2022 by Magenaut

I have a very wierd case… If I run a script with /bin/bash, it can’t recognize aliases that I set even inside the script. And the most strange thing is

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags alias, bash, shell-script Leave a comment

How to create alias for ssh command?

August 6, 2022 by Magenaut

I have a command, which looks like so:

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    saved my day!! Thanks for the help…

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    Thanks its working

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    remove libwacom2 worked for me as well

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    apt remove libwacom2 helped on kali 2022.01. gr8

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