On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 01:24:17AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> And, in general, any time you want the file *gone* more than you want
> it *unlinked*. If you don't have write access to the directory, for
> example, -T will at least truncate the file.
>
> I thought about a companion flag to zero the file contents, for a
> similar effect except that the file will no longer be accessible even
> reading the raw block device. Not a very strong security measure:
[..]
fileutils seems to include something called shred(1):
NAME
shred - delete a file securely, first overwriting it to
hide its contents
[..]
-u, --remove
truncate and remove file after overwriting
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