Tag Archives: Bash

From the time a servers goes to live environment its prone to too many attacks from the hands of crackers (hackers) also as a system administrator you need to secure your Linux server to protect and save your data, intellectual property, and time here server hardening comes into effect. Securing a server is much different than securing a desktop computer …

Fancy bash and ls color is helpful feature in linux. Once we install Debian lenny, the bash prompt and ls result will show in normal ( black and white ). so i planed to make some changes in the profile file. This will helpful for Linux server administrators. To change in to a colorful prompt do following, Open /etc/profile It …

We all know that, BASH stores the commands we entered in the terminal to .bash_history, we can see those commands using history command. Commands in the history can be executed by ! followed by the number,  !5 (5th command in the history will get executed). But what if we only need to print the command, instead of executing, we can …