vi notes

For me, vi has to be the best text editor out there for Linux. Sure, there are countless other editors like pico, emacs and the like but none with the power that vi offers, in my opinion of course. Admittedly, vi isn’t very user friendly and it has a steep learning curve. It comes pre-installed […]

Shred that file

Ever wanted to be 10000% sure that a file you deleted in Linux was actually deleted? It is said that a file isn’t really deleted from a hard drive in any OS unless you overwrite the exact location it once held in the file system. In Linux, not even the unforgiving rm -rf will permanently […]