shred

Options

--force, -f

shred-force-help

--iterations=<NUMBER>, -n <NUMBER>

shred-iterations-help

--size=<N>, -s <N>

shred-size-help

-u

shred-deallocate-help

--remove=<HOW>

shred-remove-help

--verbose, -v

shred-verbose-help

--exact, -x

shred-exact-help

--zero, -z

shred-zero-help

--random-source

shred-random-source-help

Examples

Overwrite a file:

shred {{path/to/file}}

Overwrite a file and show progress on the screen:

shred {{[-v|--verbose]}} {{path/to/file}}

Overwrite a file, leaving zeros instead of random data:

shred {{[-z|--zero]}} {{path/to/file}}

Overwrite a file a specific number of times:

shred {{[-n|--iterations]}} {{25}} {{path/to/file}}

Overwrite a file and remove it:

shred {{[-u|--remove]}} {{path/to/file}}

Overwrite a file 100 times, add a final overwrite with zeros, remove the file after overwriting it and show verbose progress on the screen:

shred {{[-vzun|--verbose --zero --remove --iterations]}} 100 {{path/to/file}}

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project under the CC BY 4.0 License.

Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.