bash – Slurping the Dribble

using variables on the command line

I find I’m always repeating certain command lines with subtle changes. If the changes can be predicted, why not use a variable instead? Here’s how:

sudo please

I stumbled across this alias quite a few months ago, but it was under a different name then. I wanted to find it today and Google searches brought up a whole heap of malicious finds on it, aimed at targeting the unsuspecting newbie to linux. Obviously there are some very dangerous linux commands and so […]