shred
The shred utility overwrites the specified files several times in order to make recovery more difficult, even with very expensive hardware.
shred uses three passes, writing pseudo-random data to the device with each pass. The number of such overwrites can be reduced or increased.
The following command starts shred with default settings and progress display:
The shred utility overwrites the specified files several times in order to make recovery more difficult, even with very expensive hardware.
shred uses three passes, writing pseudo-random data to the device with each pass. The number of such overwrites can be reduced or increased.
The following command starts shred with default settings and progress display: