Obligatory --no-preserve-root
this post was submitted on 27 Mar 2024
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Modern distros today. SMH. Back in my day everyone had root at the office.
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Fun fact there was a guy a little over a decade ago who got drunk and traded 7m barrels of oil futures. Not dollars, barrels. He made the price of oil jump up for a short while.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2010/jun/29/drunk-oil-trader-banned-fsa
Funnier Fact: they had to stack all those barrels behind the corporation's building until they could sell them all.
::I made this up::
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This is why you use virtual machines, anyone can be root!
Or just to have a modular, secure and private system.
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in 2024 this should rewrite history in all your githib repos to destroy wverything next fetch
change it to != cowards!
I did this once on my laptop with no backups. I was lucky. I also used the correct version with --no-preserve-root.
There is a $[]?
Huh, it's the same as $(( )) - arithmetic expansion.
I think it's deprecated and not in the bash manual, but it still seems to work.
It is? Weird. I know about deprecated backticks, but this... I guess it's so deprecated that very few people know about this. Now a bit more.
As an old Perl jockey, you can pry my backticks out of my cold, dead hands.
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Given that their hand is over the mouse and not the keyboard/enter key, I assume they're gonna click close on the terminal :p
Well they did have the type the command, and to do that they would first have to navigate to the terminal (assuming the machine isn't running just a plain tty) first.
Right click for paste, they have \n in the clipboard
Afaik \n may not run a command. I have pasted multiline commands but they only seem to run after hitting enter
Depends on the terminal I think. Pretty sure KDE's Konsole warns you that commands may be run when pasting something with newlines, but still allows it.
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root shell? Already playing it fast and loose, I see.
The only legitimate commands for a non-root shell are sudo -i, exit, and echo "yee haw"
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