debian man page for gitwipe

GITWIPE(1)						      General Commands Manual							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 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 writ-
       ing 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)