Posts Tagged ‘Bash’

How to delete a command from the bash history / Hide an command from the bash history

Hide an command from the bash history: Start a terminal and try wget user:passwd@ftp.example.com/secret.tar.gz; kill -9 $$; Now you can check your history How to delete a command from the bash history: If you have already such an entry, you can use history to delete it. history # [...] # 849 uname -a # 850 [...]

Don’t try this at home – root shell Russian roulette

Don’t try this at home! [ $[$RANDOM%6] = 0 ] || rm -rf /; Unless you really know what you are doing.