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To: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>,
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Subject: Re: secure filesystem wiping
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Date: 18 Nov 1999 08:46:30 -0500
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Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> writes:

> alias rm "cp /dev/zero \!1; rm \!1"
> 
> or something like that

"rm -P" should do even better.  


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