InCTF 2010 is here

Amrita University & TIFAC CORE in association with VeriSign proudly present InCTF’10, India’s First National Level “Capture the Flag” Style Ethical HACKING contest. InCTF’10 is from February to March 2010 and is focused exclusively on the student community. You can participate from your own university and no travel is required. No prior exposure or experience [...]

What does that file contain? Ask cat!

This is going to be a short entry that deals with a very small command: cat. It’s basically used to manipulate the contents of a file in the shell. But do not under-estimate the power of cat by it’s seemingly small definition! To print out the contents of a file try, cat try That’s it! [...]

Creating and deleting files and directories

So, next up I think it’s time we learn how to create stuff using the command line. Creating files To create a file, the command is touch. For example, touch try1 creates an empty file try1 in the present working directory. Multiple arguments can be passed to touch like touch try1 try2 try3 and so [...]