core utilities

FreeBSD: Permanently Delete / Remove Files With Shred

by Vivek Gite on June 23, 2010 · 2 comments

I‘m going to upgrade my FreeBSD 7.x server hard disks and going to send back the original 73GB hard disk to my vendor. I wanted to make sure that no one should able to use my personal data from old hard disk, especially files stored in /home/you/projects directory. I know how to use sDelete under MS-Windows to delete a file permanently. How do I permanently erase files under FreeBSD operating systems?

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Debian / Ubuntu Linux Find Out What Package Provides a File

by Vivek Gite on March 13, 2008 · 1 comment

Q. How do I find out what package provides a file called /bin/ls? I can use ‘rpm -qf /bin/ls’ command under Red Hat Linux to find out package name. Can you tell me equivalent command for the same under Debian Linux?

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