It is a little know fact that, as she got older, Mary Poppins acquired diabetes. Needless to say, her habit of having a spoon full of sugar to help the medicine go down is not a recommended practice for diabetics. She eventually succumbed to the disease and the coroner listed her cause of death as super-caloratic-induced-ketoacidosis. 😁
There are many things that can be done to customize and extend the behavior of your command shell, and modern Linux distros provide a large number of these activated by default: from handy aliases and colorized output settings to command line completion and new command installation.
But what if you don’t want all those extra settings/extensions? What if you want to exert a finer control of such things yourself? Here is a method of granting such control to you and your users on a per-user, opt-in basis.
Q: What is a quantum dot?
A: A quantum dot — short for a quantum Dorothy — is someone who, because of quantum superposition, is simultaneously both in and not in Kansas anymore. 😁
I always cringe when I see a user
— or worse, a system default —
that has a shell alias of rm = 'rm -i'.
Why? Because I consider this a very dangerous thing to do.
First post! 😁
