gitwipe - An utility for wiping files

TudorHulubei<tudor@cs.unh.edu>AndreiPitis<pink@pub.ro>IanBeckwith<ianb@erislabs.net>(Currentmaintainer)

                                                  Sep 30, 2007                                        GITWIPE(1)

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       gnuit-dev@gnu.org

       This manual page documents briefly the gitwipe command.

       gitwipe  is  an  utility  for  wiping  files.   It overwrites the file contents with a random sequence of
       numbers and then calls `sync'().

       Note that gitwipe does not remove the wiped file since (under `Linux' at least) the `sync'() system  call
       might return before actually writing the new file contents to disk.  Removing the file might be dangerous
       because  some  file  systems  can detect that the blocks in the removed wiped file are no longer used and
       never write them back to disk in order to improve performance.  It is up to you to remove the file(s)  at
       a later moment.

       gitwipe is part of the GNU Interactive Tools.

       gitwipe - An utility for wiping files

gitfm(1)

       gitwipe and gitfm are documented fully by GNUInteractiveTools, available via the Info system.

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