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Penetration Testing with the Bash shell
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The Bourne Again SHell (bash) is arguably one of the most important pieces of software in existence. Without bash shell's many utilities and the problem-solving potential it gives its users by integrating and interfacing system utilities in a programmable way (called bash scripting), many of the very important security- related problems of the modern world would be very tedious to solve. Utilities such as grep, wget, vi, and awk enable their users to do very powerful string processing, data mining, and information management. System administrators, developers, security engineers, and penetration testers all across the world for many years have sworn by its sheer problem-solving potential and effectiveness in enabling them to tackle their day-to-day technical challenges. Why are discussing the bash shell? Why is it so popular among system administrators, penetration testers, and developers? Well, there may be other reasons, but fundamentally the bash shell is the most standardized and is usually, with regard to most popular operating systems, implemented from a single code base—one source for the official source code. This means one can guarantee a certain base set of execution behaviors for a bash script or collection of commands regardless of the operating system hosting the bash implementation. Operating systems popularly have unique implementations of the Korn Shell (ksh) and other terminal emulator software.
Keith Makan - Personal Name
978-1-84969-510-7
NONE
Penetration Testing with the Bash shell
Information Technology
English
2014
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