Posts about 'command-line'

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  Cool Discovery: Over the Wire's Wargames

  Mar 17, 2025 • things-i-learned • command-line, linux

  I was nerd sniped this weekend by a coworker who told me about Over The Wire’s wargames, which are self-directed cybersecurity challenges. I am just about halfway through the easiest one, Bandit, which in addition to having me scan for open ports and base64 decode strings, is also teaching me...

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  Customizing the Command Line for Lazy People

  Mar 9, 2025 • things-i-learned • command-line, linux

  The shell is personal. Why not make it customized to your every whim? Actually, there are decent reasons not to go crazy customizing things – mainly, the logic goes, if you get too invested in having things a certain way that are ‘not normal’, then when you have to ssh...