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Jul 152011
 

Delete files permanently with shred command

Answer:

Sometimes we might need to delete files and don't want it can be recovered.

To do so, use the shred command.

# shred -v -n 10 -u -z test.txt

The above command will overwrite the file 10 times before deleting it.

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