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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 [...]
Continue reading...Howto Add time And Date To Your Bash History
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
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 Then reload your .bashrc Now when you run history you should get a output similar to the one below Some other bash history [...]
Continue reading...Creating aliases in bash
Saturday, May 23, 2009
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 Then come to the bottom of that file and add your aliases like this: Then Reload your .bashrc file and your aliases should [...]
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Wednesday, October 7, 2009
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