oriond@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 年前What is the most destroying command you can type in the Linux terminal?message-squaremessage-square142fedilinkarrow-up1164arrow-down19
arrow-up1155arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the most destroying command you can type in the Linux terminal?oriond@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 1 年前message-square142fedilink
minus-squaresndrtj@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 年前Something 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-squareFIST_FILLET@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 年前linux rookie here, what’s the command to reverse an alias then? do you just “alias ls ls” to overwrite it?
minus-squaresndrtj@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 年前Backlash. \ls would get you regular ls. Note that ls already is aliased on some popular distros with some common flags.
minus-squareChobbes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 年前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.
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