[SOLVED] Is this command safe???

[Jammanuser]

Hello, i just got advice from someone on another forum, to run certain commands on my computer, using a LiveCD (i actually have ubuntu 8.10 INSTALLED on my computer, but i cant get into it right now, because of a crc error). however, since i happened to read that warning announcement about malicious commands, i wanted to check here first to make sure that it is legit!

Here is the commands:

gksu nautilus
cp

according to the guy that wrote it, the first one allows u to run the file browser as root, and the second one is a terminal command to copy files!

Is this true or not?

Looking forward to any and all replies...

[pennacook]

according to the guy that wrote it, the first one allows u to run the file browser as root, and the second one is a terminal command to copy files!

Is this true or not?

true for second. first should be gksu nautilus

[Sub101]

Yeh. As above should be nautilus not nautikus. Otherwise all fine.

[Jammanuser]

Yeh. As above should be nautilus not nautikus. Otherwise all fine.

ok...cool! just checking!!!

Thanks!

[gTinker]

Jammanuser, if you happen to be in the same situation in the future I want to mention that you can read the manual page for a command by typing man (command name) in a terminal. For example: man cp would open the manual page for the copy command. In this way you can read for yourself what a command will do before you use it.

[Jammanuser]

Jammanuser, if you happen to be in the same situation in the future I want to mention that you can read the manual page for a command by typing man (command name) in a terminal. For example: man cp would open the manual page for the copy command. In this way you can read for yourself what a command will do before you use it.

ahh...ok! Thanks!

Cheers!

-jammanuser

[Jammanuser]

true for second. first should be gksu nautilus

oh...right!!! that was simply a typo...i meant "nautilus"!

i'll fix it immediately...

Cheers!