It’s little surprise that most hackers have a favorite text editor, since we tend to spend quite a bit of time staring at the thing. From writing code to reading config files, the hacker’s world is ...

Get a hex editor that allows you to view a file in binary? That would be the most obvious solution. There are scores of freeware and shareware hex editors out there.

Have you ever wanted to read a file one line at a time in a shell script and found the task to be a lot more trouble than you ever imagined? If you use a “for line ...