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Mar 31, 2014 at 15:07
Obscure Unix of the day: If your terminal is accepting commands but not showing what you're typing, try 'stty sane'.

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May 10, 2026 at 10:53
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I'm increasingly treating terminal sessions as short lived: starting a fresh terminal tab keeps scrollback short and easy to search. I'd love to have a terminal emulator that allows me to skip over output of specific verbose commands when searching.
Jan 26, 2025 at 07:06
I'm experimenting with Atuin for searching my terminal history: https://atuin.sh/ Previously I'd just used fzf to find items, which does work nicely. Occasionally I *really* want to search "commands which were run in this directory" though, which Atuin offers.
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Jun 8, 2024 at 02:48
It is remarkably hard to escape command line arguments safely on Windows, and the standard libraries of multiple languages have needed patching:
BatBadBut: You can't securely execute commands on Windows
BatBadBut: You can't securely execute commands on Windows
Introduction Hello, I’m RyotaK ( @ryotkak ), a security engineer at Flatt Security Inc. Recently, I reported multiple vulnerabilities to several programming languages that allowed an attacker to perform command injection on Windows when the specific conditions were satisfied. Today, affected vendors published advisories of these vulnerabilities , so I’m documenting the details here to provide more information about the vulnerabilities and minimize the confusion regarding the high CVSS score. TL;DR The BatBadBut is a vulnerability that allows an attacker to perform command injection on Windows applications that indirectly depend on the CreateProcess function when the specific conditions are satisfied.