command of the month

Linux Command of the Month

The Linux 'Command of the Month' is:

shred

Overwrite the specified FILE(s) repeatedly, in order to make it harder
for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data.

Possible options:

-f, --force change permissions to allow writing if necessary
-n, --iterations=N Overwrite N times instead of the default (25)
-s, --size=N shred this many bytes (suffixes like K, M, G accepted)
-u, --remove truncate and remove file after overwriting
-v, --verbose show progress
-x, --exact do not round file sizes up to the next full block;
this is the default for non-regular files
-z, --zero add a final overwrite with zeros to hide shredding

Also when I say 'Command of the Month' it should be pointed out that I said Netlimiter was 'App of the Week' and it is almost 'App of the Year' by default. So don't worry to much if you can't find any more Command of the Months - it's just me being lazy.

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