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Sends an email from the terminal.
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"
If you want a password length longer than 6, changing the -c6 to read -c8 will give you 8 random characters instead of 6. To end up with a line-feed, use this with echo:
# echo `< /dev/urandom tr -dc _A-Z-a-z-0-9 | head -c6`
Modern systems need higher strenght, so add some special characters:
# < /dev/urandom tr -dc '12345!@#$%qwertQWERTasdfgASDFGzxcvbZXCVB' | head -c8
Run the alias command, then issue
$ps aux | tail
and resize your terminal window (putty/console/hyperterm/xterm/etc) then issue the same command and you'll understand.
$ ${LINES:-`tput lines 2>/dev/null||echo -n 12`}
Insructs the shell that if LINES is not set or null to use the output from `tput lines` ( ncurses based terminal access ) to get the number of lines in your terminal. But furthermore, in case that doesn't work either, it will default to using the default of 80.
The default for TAIL is to output the last 10 lines, this alias changes the default to output the last x lines instead, where x is the number of lines currently displayed on your terminal - 7. The -7 is there so that the top line displayed is the command you ran that used TAIL, ie the prompt.
Depending on whether your PS1 and/or PROMPT_COMMAND output more than 1 line (mine is 3) you will want to increase from -2. So with my prompt being the following, I need -7, or - 5 if I only want to display the commandline at the top. ( http://www.askapache.com/linux/bash-power-prompt.html )
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In most shells the LINES variable is created automatically at login and updated when the terminal is resized (28 linux, 23/20 others for SIGWINCH) to contain the number of vertical lines that can fit in your terminal window. Because the alias doesn't hard-code the current LINES but relys on the $LINES variable, this is a dynamic alias that will always work on a tty device.
For example
$ path="/etc/apt/sources.list"; echo ${path//'/'/'\/'}
will print
$ \/etc\/apt\/sources.list
I like it sorted...
2> /dev/null was also needless, since our pipes already select stdin, only.
To decrypt: openssl aes-256-cbc -d -in secrets.txt.enc -out secrets.txt.new
Reference: http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2007/12/12/simple-file-encryption-with-openssl
Optional parameter -a makes output base64 encoded, can be viewed in text editor or pasted in email
