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Re: SSH Secret Menu

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post #108

Find the HIDDEN SECRETS that THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW! $ man ssh

`pgrep`/`pkill` HATE this trick! Learn how this renegade developer (relatively) easily exits their hanging SSH sessions without restarting their laptop.

Not as much as they hate Enter ~ .

See "escape characters" under man ssh.

Re: SSH Secret Menu

#123
post #82

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Many Linux man pages have the thoroughness of a fortune cookie, so I can understand the skepticism. Jackpot if they're just a pointer to an 'info' page.

I was never able to properly parse large man pages, I'm so happy that llms can now prepare half a usable command without spending an hour reading a time without a single usage example.

`tldr` is also great. It's essentially a collection of example invocations of *nix commands.

Re: SSH Secret Menu

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post #82

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I was never able to properly parse large man pages, I'm so happy that llms can now prepare half a usable command without spending an hour reading a time without a single usage example.

`tldr` is also great. It's essentially a collection of example invocations of *nix commands.

TIL that what I have wanted in manpages for years exists. Thank you!

Re: SSH Secret Menu

#126
post #108

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`pgrep`/`pkill` HATE this trick! Learn how this renegade developer (relatively) easily exits their hanging SSH sessions without restarting their laptop.

Not as much as they hate Enter ~ . See "escape characters" under man ssh.

Shh, you're giving away the trick for free! Please think of my clickthrough rates and ad revenue.

Re: SSH Secret Menu

#128
post #35

Those aren’t “secret”, they’re obviously borrowed from rsh — oh that’s right, I’m old.

I'm pretty sure the ~ command style came from cu(1) which had it in at least 4.1BSD. I don't think rsh (which came in 4.2BSD) ever had such commands.

Re: SSH Secret Menu

#129
post #120

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> otherwise you can get a lot of random noise on the air interface, draining both your battery and data plan I highly doubt you get "random" data over ipv6. There are more ipv6 addresses than there are atoms on the planet.

Yes, but they're not randomly distributed across the entire number space. For example, receiving traffic from a given address is a pretty good indicator that there's somebody there possibly worth port scanning. And where there has once been somebody, there or in the same neighborhood (subnet) might be somebody else, now or in the future.

Then it isn't random noise. It is determined by your own actions.
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