“Everything is a file” is what made me start understanding linux few years ago and from there it got easier to use with each new concept.

Still this was really revolutionary to me when I first heard it. Made a bunch of things just click.

  • Janet@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    15·
    3 days ago

    it’s all fun and games until you want to use your mouse and keyboard inputs on another machine and also view the other machines screen contents. then all of a sudden stuff stops being a file. quaint.

    if only there was a way to share resources over a network…

      • mumblerfish@lemmy.world
        26·
        3 days ago

        What do you mean? This

        remoteuser@server$ nc -l -p 4444 > /dev/input/event0


localuser@laptop$ cat /dev/input/event0 | nc server 4444

        doesn’t work?

      • Janet@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        4·
        3 days ago

        eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew scoots faaaar away from you actually when writing the prior comment, i was thinking about the ease that is doing what i described on plan9, there everything is in fact a file, which you can simply mount via the 9p protocol

        what mumblerfish suggests looks interesting and i would have to read some the man page of “nc”, i suppose…

    • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
      7·
      3 days ago

      I’ve figured out how to control computers remotely and I’ll share the script:

      Client:

      #!/bin/bash
PASSWORD="your_password_here"
sshpass -p "$PASSWORD" scp /dev/stdin user@server:/path/to/cmd.txt <<< "$1"

      Server:

      #!/bin/bash
while true; do
    while IFS= read -r line; do
        eval "$line"
    done < "cmd.txt"
    > "cmd.txt"
done

      Just chmod 777 both files and run as root, ez.

            • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
              2·
              2 days ago

              In case you were genuinely curious: the above humorous example bypasses very many very good safety precautions and conveniences.
              When you boil everything down, one element stands out: the s in scp stands for ssh, so you are in fact still using ssh, just with several hoops bolted on.

              • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
                2·
                1 day ago

                the above humorous example bypasses very many very good safety precautions and conveniences.

                I was taught in school that security and convenience are diametrically opposed, so if you can find any way of making this less secure/more convenient I’d be happy to deploy it to the entire credit union.