@[email protected] to [email protected] • 2 years agoWhat is the most destroying command you can type in the Linux terminal?message-square138fedilinkarrow-up1164arrow-down19
arrow-up1155arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the most destroying command you can type in the Linux terminal?@[email protected] to [email protected] • 2 years agomessage-square138fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink10•2 years agoSomething I did to someone who needed to know the effects of not locking ones screen when away: alias ls to echo 'Error: file not found'. Took them a good hour to figure out what was wrong with their machine 😅
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•2 years agolinux rookie here, what’s the command to reverse an alias then? do you just “alias ls ls” to overwrite it?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•2 years agoBacklash. \ls would get you regular ls. Note that ls already is aliased on some popular distros with some common flags.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•2 years agoYou can use unalias, or you can use a backslash in front of an aliased command or surround it in double quotes to ignore the alias temporarily.
Something I did to someone who needed to know the effects of not locking ones screen when away: alias
lstoecho 'Error: file not found'. Took them a good hour to figure out what was wrong with their machine 😅linux rookie here, what’s the command to reverse an alias then? do you just “alias ls ls” to overwrite it?
Backlash. \ls would get you regular ls. Note that ls already is aliased on some popular distros with some common flags.
You can use unalias, or you can use a backslash in front of an aliased command or surround it in double quotes to ignore the alias temporarily.
There’s unalias
Alias ‘ls’ to ‘sl’ for fun times