The shred command is a good option for removing files from a Linux system in a way that makes them virtually impossible to recover. The most obvious way to remove a file on a Linux system is to simply ...

The zip command lets you compress files to preserve them or back them up, and you can require a password to extract the contents of a zip file. Zipping files allows ...

Many hands make light work.

Reading files is no big deal with bash: you just redirect the input to the script or pipe the output of another command into the script, or you could do it inside the script if the file names are ...