Safe Shell Usage
This list is ongoing.
1. Tips
1.1. How to Evaluate Commands From the Internet
- Never copy-paste these unless you know what they do.
- This means you know what the command does and what the included flags do
- Ideally you would have run this command before
- If you’re familiar enough with a command to know it won’t nuke your system, but you don’t remember the details of what it does:
- Skim the intro paragraph of the man page to refresh your memory
- You’re looking for any default behavior that does something weird