Shredding a file in Linux with shred
When deleting a file by simply pressing the delete button the file can be easily recovered, you don’t always want that. That’s where shred comes in, What shred does is to wipe the file and make it unrecoverable. This can be very useful if you want to delete a file with sensitive data. Usage Basic options : -f force permissions -u remove after -v verbose -z write zeros at the end -n [number] times of shreddingIf you are not running the…