If you are aware of a few known risky commands, you may avoid falling into the traps of trolls trying to trick you into running commands and messing up your system.
As you gain experience and know the meaning and usages of the commands and tools, less will be the chances of destroying your system with silly and tricky commands.
It is good to see at least for the rm command there are some failsafes.
Sometimes, while working on the Linux command line, you might want to execute a command repeatedly so as to track any change in output. Luckily, there is a command-line utility that lets you do this. With the Linux watch command, you can track the changes in the output from time…
To generate the commands, it uses OpenAI's GPT-3 or Free Genie, a free to use backend provided by the Shell Genie developer. Once Shell Genie shows a command, it will ask if you want to run it. Make sure you understand the command before doing that! You could use something…
When I need to search through a terabyte or more of files for something I've realised that using the command line interface is way quicker and uses less resources. This short article gets you quickly up to speed on using the Find command from the CLI - it's really not…
