NAME¶
gitwipe - An utility for wiping files
SYNOPSIS¶
gitwipe file ...
DESCRIPTION¶
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.
SEE ALSO¶
gitfm(1)
gitwipe and
gitfm are documented fully by
GNU Interactive
Tools, available via the Info system.
BUGS¶
Please send bug reports to:
gnuit-dev@gnu.org
AUTHORS¶
Tudor Hulubei <tudor@cs.unh.edu>
Andrei Pitis <pink@pub.ro>
Ian Beckwith <ianb@erislabs.net> (Current maintainer)