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Fileformat and the impacts in bash scripts

July 22nd, 2010
Adrian Elsener

I had the problem calling a bash script I got theĀ error:
“syntax error: unexpected end of file”
and
“: command not foundne 2: ”

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Ubuntu console command completition

July 10th, 2010
Adrian Elsener

Since I always have to search how to enable the history search in (k)ubuntu I post it here. I don’t know why this feature is disabled by default in (k)ubuntu. Imo it’s one of the greatest features under the linux term. Just start the command you entered last time in the term and then press the key ‘PageUp’ to get the last history entry you used the letters.

For everybody who wants to enable the feature too:
Open the file ‘/etc/inputrc’ and enable the following two lines: (It’s in the section ‘# alternate mappings for “page up” and “page down” to search the history’)
“\e[5~”: history-search-backward
“\e[6~”: history-search-forward

 

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OpenSSH 5.1 and Hash Visualization

February 11th, 2009
Nicola Lardieri

As we all know the major issue with security is the user itself, because current security systems don’t consider the human factor. Most of the security measures neglect the human limitation in the real world with the result that the users are annoyed by the system. Annoyed users stop paying attention or even worse they stop considering the whole security aspect of the system they are using. OpenSSH 5.1 implements a new (experimental) feature based on an innovative visualization technology, which care about the human being.

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