Lazy Linux: essential tricks for admins • Hacker News Board

Re: Lazy Linux: essential tricks for admins

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Post by 11ren » Sat, Jan 17, 2009, 11:15 AM UTC

grouchyOldGuy wrote: post #27

palish wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How about "listopenfiles" and "netfind"? And "list" instead of "ls", and "delete" instead of "rm", and... et cetera. "Global Regular Expression Print" is a terrible name on its own, too.

If that really bothers you, just alias those commands. alias listopenfiles=ls alias netfind=ngrep ...and so forth. I've done that to add the DOS "cls" command to clear my terminal screen. Also, I'm a Cisco admin, so I have aliased "en" to "su", and the reverse on Cisco switches and routers. Yes, Cisco also has the alias command in IOS.

yeah, if you don't like it, change it (you could even put them on a USB stick or a server somewhere so you could install them on a new machine quickly). That one could change it honestly didn't occur to me til you said it.

There's the favourite DOS->unix:

  alias cd..="cd .."

Re: Lazy Linux: essential tricks for admins

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Post by sammyo » Sat, Jan 17, 2009, 4:42 PM UTC

d0mine wrote: post #46

palish wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What terrible names. Sorry, but from a non-Unix perspective, symbols such as 'lsof' and 'ngrep' seem arbitrary and nonsensical.

They are derivatives of very well known names in Unix: ls and grep. When ls utility was created standard RAM was 10KB and power computers looked like this http://images.appleinsider.com/leopard-preview-server-1.jpg I guess if your IO interface is a real dead-tree paper then each character counts.

Any you booted the machine by togging in a program in octal directly into memory from the front panel.

Re: Lazy Linux: essential tricks for admins

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Post by meep » Sun, Jan 18, 2009, 12:42 AM UTC

mlLK wrote: post #11

Any admins care to share some pornographic passwords? p4ss1ng g4s 1n h3r 4ss w/ my sp34r d4n4 d03s d1ld0s @t d4 d1ld0 st0re d1ck r4p3d j4n3 w/ h1s d1ng d4ng

Is it just me or are downvoted posts completely unreadable? It would be nice if there were an "unhide" button or something; it's extremely annoying to have to squint to read it.

Re: Lazy Linux: essential tricks for admins

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Post by pg » Sun, Jan 18, 2009, 1:30 AM UTC

meep wrote: post #53

mlLK wrote: post #11

Any admins care to share some pornographic passwords? p4ss1ng g4s 1n h3r 4ss w/ my sp34r d4n4 d03s d1ld0s @t d4 d1ld0 st0re d1ck r4p3d j4n3 w/ h1s d1ng d4ng

Is it just me or are downvoted posts completely unreadable? It would be nice if there were an "unhide" button or something; it's extremely annoying to have to squint to read it.

That's intentional. Downvoted posts fade both to save people from reading them (presumably most are mistaken or nasty) and to damp the submitter's karma loss (the fainter they are, the harder you have to work to be offended by them).