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Fedora Core series all containt a shred program

Code:
Usage: shred [OPTIONS] FILE [...]

Overwrite the specified FILE(s) repeatedly, in order to make it harder

for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data.

to use this function issue the following command:

Code:
shred filename

by default the shredder will overwrite the file 10 times. To make the shredder shred more

than 10 times issue the following:

Code:
shred -n 100 filename

This will shred the file 100 times if you want to watch it shredding you can issue the -v argument

shown below:

Code:
shred -v -n 100 filename

Note when shredding make sure you dont need the document because once its been

shredded you cant recover it.

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