I know I definitely identify with being a visual learner, and I am happy to help where I can with creating content for the security/sysadmin (system administrator) field. So, I am proud to announce that we have started a series about Bash Tricks and Tips on our YouTube channel, which will talk about interesting nuances of how bash works and some of the strange/cool things that can be done with it. This series teaches basics and also includes advanced content, so you can learn how to easily navigate through a terminal.
I bring my practical experience of using Linux daily to try and help anyone who has to interact with a bash terminal. Whether you are a defender trying to secure your machine and you want to know the potential of how an attacker could take advantage of your system, or you are on the offensive side and want to know how powerful bash can be and how you can use it to attack a system.
So far we have covered how to set up the environment (we use Docker behind the scenes to help with consistency), rice your terminal (make it look nice) and I give you my terminal configuration, how to find useful help, being more informed about your environment with only bash, malicious aliases and how to defend against that, and keyboard shortcuts in bash!
Check out the YouTube series here:
All the code is on our GitHub here: ProfessionallyEvil/bash_tricks
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