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Understanding and Preventing Fork Bombs

A fork bomb is just a bash function that gets called recursively. Once a fork bomb is active on a machine it may not be able to preform normally until a reboot is made, as the only solution to the fork bomb is to kill all its processes. Bash Functions A fork bomb is really [...]

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Howto Add time And Date To Your Bash History

This comes in very handy if your trying to track back when you had last run something. To enable it just simply add export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%h/%d - %H:%M:%S " to your .bashrc file echo 'export HISTTIMEFORMAT="%h/%d - %H:%M:%S "' >> ~/.bashrc Then reload your .bashrc source ~/.bashrc Now when you run history you should get a [...]

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Creating aliases in bash

Are you tired off typing out full commands? if so aliases can save you time. They allow you to shorten long commands down into one word. To add a alias edit ~/.bashrc nano ~/.bashrc Then come to the bottom of that file and add your aliases like this: alias rm = "rm -i" alias lightyrestart [...]

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