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Check your shell history for passwords
Leaving passwords in your shell history is a security issue. I wrote a tool to help check: checkhistory. Feel free to send me pull requests / patches with additional regexes to match.
Tabbed terminals on windows
I can’t believe it’s taken me this long as an early adopter of gnome-multi-term (RIP) on Gnome but I’ve finally looked into tabbed terminals on windows. For putty, there is tty+ and putty manager. Putty Manager seems better, but tty+ also works with kitty. For cmd.exe shells as well as cygwin bash shells, there is …
SmartOS.org
SmartOS incorporates the four most revolutionary OS technologies of the past decade — Zones, ZFS, DTrace and KVM — into a single operating system, providing an arbitrarily observable, highly multi-tenant environment built on a reliable, enterprise-grade storage stack. With the introduction of KVM in SmartOS, you no longer have to give up the power of …
Speed up find & exec
From “man find” & stackexchange -exec command {} + This variant of the -exec action runs the specified command on the selected files, but the command line is built by appending each selected file name at the end; the total number of invocations of the command will be much less than the number of matched …
bash – Any shortcut for “cd ..” ? – Super User
Activate the autocd option (Bash 4+ only). It will let you type .. for cd .. and will actually let you use any directory as a command name and will cd to it: shopt -s autocd via bash – Any shortcut for “cd ..” ? – Super User.