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Operating Systems Linux Handling "command not found" exception Post 302264818 by ddreggors on Friday 5th of December 2008 01:11:11 AM
Old 12-05-2008
I have seen also admins setting aliases to the correct command:

alias cet="cat"

so when a user types

$ cet ~/somefile

it will actually preform a "cat ~/somefile"

This is quite user specific however and must be changed for each user based on which commands they are more prone to "fat finger".


userA:
alias la="ls"

userB:
alias cet="cat"

userC:
alias cs="cd"


or use the "One to rule them all" Lord of the Rings mentality and place ALL of these aliases into one place "/etc/profile".


Another good approach if you use bash or any shell that can use tab completion really, is to USE tab completion!

so typing

ca<tab>

will list the commands/files that you can use..
EXAMPLE:
$ ce<tab>
certcgi certmgr certtool certutil cervisia

$ cat<tab>
cat catchsegv


Using this method will not only solve 99% of all "fat fingered" commands it can cut down on your typing by 50% or more most of the time.

take for example the command:

# cat /usr/local/bin/dosomestuff.sh

assuming that in the /usr/local/bin folder there is only 1 or 2 files starting with d and nothing starting with do other than our file...

# cat /u<tab>lo<tab>b<tab>do<tab>

reduces the characters you have typed from 33 to 15!

Last edited by ddreggors; 12-05-2008 at 02:24 AM..
 

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If bash is started with the name rbash, or the -r option is supplied at invocation, the shell becomes restricted. A restricted shell is used to set up an environment more controlled than the standard shell. It behaves identically to bash with the exception that the follow- ing are disallowed or not performed: o changing directories with cd o setting or unsetting the values of SHELL, PATH, ENV, or BASH_ENV o specifying command names containing / o specifying a file name containing a / as an argument to the . builtin command o specifying a filename containing a slash as an argument to the -p option to the hash builtin command o importing function definitions from the shell environment at startup o parsing the value of SHELLOPTS from the shell environment at startup o redirecting output using the >, >|, <>, >&, &>, and >> redirection operators o using the exec builtin command to replace the shell with another command o adding or deleting builtin commands with the -f and -d options to the enable builtin command o using the enable builtin command to enable disabled shell builtins o specifying the -p option to the command builtin command o turning off restricted mode with set +r or set +o restricted. These restrictions are enforced after any startup files are read. When a command that is found to be a shell script is executed, rbash turns off any restrictions in the shell spawned to execute the script. SEE ALSO
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