[SOLVED] Is this command safe???

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! ):P

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...

:guitar:

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

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

pennacook said: true for second. first should be gksu nautilus

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

i'll fix it immediately...

Cheers! :guitar:

Sub101 said: Yeh. As above should be nautilus not nautikus. Otherwise all fine.

ok...cool! just checking!!!

Thanks! :guitar:

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.

gTinker said: 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! :D

Cheers! :p

-jammanuser

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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.

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.