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 contents 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, available 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)