Questions tagged [terminal]

Given that control characters are usually not rendered, but they are given a special meaning in most terminals, what reasons are there for terminal apps to continue to support copy-pasting of control characters? One can mask a harmful code as…

There might be a misconception from my side on wether I should worry about this or not. But if I should, what measures should I take to secure my terminal logs / command history? One of things largely mentioned is to not type passwords as part of…

I need to cat an untrusted file on a remote server. I'm doing this by logging in with SSH. There are known risks related to cat-ing untrusted files. See here. The cat -v option can be used to encode non-printing characters: -v, --show-nonprinting …