03-22-2013
Use ^D or whatever to get rid of the terminal. So nobody can see it.
After that, no vestige will remain. stdout is not a file on disk or in memory. There is a file /dev/stdout but nothing "stays" in there. You do not need to take any more precautions, other than obviously safeguarding the actual file that holds the sensitive data.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
stdout
FD(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual FD(4)
NAME
fd, stdin, stdout, stderr -- file descriptor files
DESCRIPTION
The files /dev/fd/0 through /dev/fd/# refer to file descriptors which can be accessed through the file system. If the file descriptor is
open and the mode the file is being opened with is a subset of the mode of the existing descriptor, the call:
fd = open("/dev/fd/0", mode);
and the call:
fd = fcntl(0, F_DUPFD, 0);
are equivalent.
Opening the files /dev/stdin, /dev/stdout and /dev/stderr is equivalent to the following calls:
fd = fcntl(STDIN_FILENO, F_DUPFD, 0);
fd = fcntl(STDOUT_FILENO, F_DUPFD, 0);
fd = fcntl(STDERR_FILENO, F_DUPFD, 0);
Flags to the open(2) call other than O_RDONLY, O_WRONLY and O_RDWR are ignored.
IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
By default, /dev/fd is provided by devfs(5), which provides nodes for the first three file descriptors. Some sites may require nodes for
additional file descriptors; these can be made available by mounting fdescfs(5) on /dev/fd.
FILES
/dev/fd/#
/dev/stdin
/dev/stdout
/dev/stderr
SEE ALSO
tty(4), devfs(5), fdescfs(5)
BSD
June 9, 1993 BSD