wipe utility

[colet at code-energy.com (Cole Tuininga)]

On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 09:38, John Malloy wrote:
> Has anyone out there had experience with the wipe utility?
> on the web:
> 
> http://wipe.sourceforge.net/
> 
> I am running on Solaris 7 (sparc)
> What I was wondering is:
> 
> command syntax


Essentially, just use it like any other shell command:

# wipe filename

# wipe file1 file2 filebase*

# wipe directory

> expected results

Wipe attempts to overwrite the file several times with different binary
patterns, thereby (at least supposedly) making it tough to recover the
data.

Keep in mind that it is completely useless on any journaling filesystem
(such as linux's ext3).

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