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GITWIPE(1)							    GITWIPE(1)

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 con‐
       tents 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, avail‐
       able 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)

				 Sep 30, 2007			    GITWIPE(1)
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