In the installation instructions for KnockPY it says:
nano knockpy/config.json <- set your virustotal API_KEY
I need to understand what exact is '<-' doing in this command.
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6Are you sure that isn’t a comment? Where did you get that command line? – Scott - Слава Україні Apr 28 '19 at 06:38
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1Possible duplicate of What are the shell's control and redirection operators? – Scott - Слава Україні Apr 28 '19 at 06:39
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3It seems rather wrong to point to a purported duplicate answer that is not the answer here, and to reject a question where a questioner is quite rightly ensuring that xe knows what the magic installation instructions that xe is supposed to copy and paste actually do. – JdeBP Apr 28 '19 at 07:34
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@Scott, obviously it is not duplicate – Romeo Ninov Apr 28 '19 at 07:38
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This text was written by Gianni Amato. It is a comment saying what you should do when you open this file in an editor (i.e. you should configure API_KEY in the file). It should have been written:
nano knockpy/config.json # set your virustotal API_KEYYou might care to submit a bug report to the author so that other people are not confused by this in the future.
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