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      86 months ago

      Something I did to someone who needed to know the effects of not locking ones screen when away: alias ls to echo 'Error: file not found'. Took them a good hour to figure out what was wrong with their machine 😅

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        16 months ago

        linux rookie here, what’s the command to reverse an alias then? do you just “alias ls ls” to overwrite it?

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          36 months ago

          Backlash. \ls would get you regular ls. Note that ls already is aliased on some popular distros with some common flags.

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          36 months ago

          You can use unalias, or you can use a backslash in front of an aliased command or surround it in double quotes to ignore the alias temporarily.

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        16 months ago

        My guess is that it takes the output of the “exit” command and writes it to .bashrc. I believe this would make it impossible to open the terminal, but it could just close the terminal and do nothing instead.