Best of Bash — August 2022

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   Hacker Noon·4y

   How to Automate Your Linux Desktop

   In this tutorial, we will write a shell script and use X11 utilities to automate our Linux desktop. The objective of the article is to automatically set up our daily work environment with a single command. When I run the script, it will open the mail client in one workspace and open Reddit and Twitter websites in the chrome browser.

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   System Weakness·4y

   TryHackMe — Brooklyn Nine Nine. Level: Easy

   Using rustscan to probe open ports 10.10.3.105 has no known vulnerability that gives us reverseshell or sth useful. I can login as ‘anonymous’ and get the file: Jake’s password seems to be too weak.

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   Community Picks·4y

   Moving from Oh-My-Zsh to Starship & Fish Shell

   Fish is designed to be ready to use immediately, without requiring extensive configuration. The shell prides itself on clear defaults and powerful built-in features. The biggest difficulty when moving to Fish is the change in how aliases work. The next major change is a simple wrapper for the function builtin, which creates a function wrapping a command. With Zsh or Bash, we’d export a variable to set it globally.

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   DEV·4y

   Thinking like containers

   Virtualization is a solution to the problem of isolating and having a completely different environment sharing the same "machine" Virtualization has a cost: it does not share the same OS kernel. For doing so, we should use a flag option in the run command: $ docker run -it ruby:2.7.

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