[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]

true for second. first should be gksu nautilus

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

i'll fix it immediately...

Cheers!

[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

[Kinetic Being]

And incase you can't read the manpages,

the command "cp" won't do anything by itself, you need to tell it what to copy and to where...

example:

cp /home/user/file.filetype /home/user/folder/file.filetype

Whould copy the file that is in /home/user/ (your home directory, and user is your username) and named file.filetype to inside of a folder named "folder" and it would have the same name as the source file.

[go_beep_yourself]

You could of found the answer to your questions by using the man command and reading the Descriptions.

For example:

man nautilus

DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the nautilus command. This manual
page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the
original program does not have a manual page.

Nautilus is the file manager for the GNOME desktop.

man cp

NAME
cp - copy files and directories

DESCRIPTION
Copy SOURCE to DEST, or multiple SOURCE(s) to DIRECTORY.