Making Text Files Colorful – With a Hex Editor

Hello, friends. In this tutorial I will be sharing a neat hack that you can use to add colors and other styles to a plain text file. This means that when you view the file with cat, the text will be color-coded. We accomplish this using ANSI escape sequences, a text editor, and a hex …

Unix vs. Windows: How to Check and Convert Between the Two File Formats

Different operating systems use different formats for line breaks, and this can cause confusion and difficulty for a lot of newbies. In this article I will explain the difference between the Unix file format used by Linux and MacOS and the DOS format used by Windows, and I will also show you how to check …