GITWIPE(1)

💅 NAME 💅

gitwipe — an utility for wiping files ✨

okay so bestie, manual name is General Commands Manual, and this lil cutie lives right there. let's GO 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

that's it. that's the whole vibe. you hand it some files and it goes to work 💅

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# 🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

This manual page documents *briefly* the `gitwipe` command. (yes bestie, briefly. we're keeping it cute.)

`gitwipe` is an utility for wiping files. what it does is: it overwrites the file contents with a random sequence of numbers, and then it calls `sync'(). that's the whole ritual 🔥

> <yellow>⚠️ heads up, this part MATTERS:</yellow> `gitwipe` does **not** remove the wiped file. nope, not even a little. why? because (under `Linux` at least) the `sync'()` system call might return **before** it has actually written the new file contents to disk. 😭

and like, removing the file anyway might be **dangerous**, no cap. because some file systems can detect that the blocks in the removed wiped file are no longer used, and then they just... never write them back to disk, in order to improve performance. 💀 so your "wiped" file could still be vibing on disk somewhere. so not the move.

it is up to **you** to remove the file(s) at a later moment. main character responsibility, bestie 👑

`gitwipe` is part of the <purple>GNU Interactive Tools</purple>. 🎀

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# 🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

- **`gitfm(1)`**

`gitwipe` and `gitfm` are documented fully by GNU Interactive Tools, available via the Info system. iykyk 📖

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# 💀 BUGS 💀

found a bug? not the vibe, but okay, please send bug reports to:

gnuit-dev@gnu.org

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# 👑 AUTHORS 👑

- Tudor Hulubei `<tudor@cs.unh.edu>`
- Andrei Pitis `<pink@pub.ro>`
- Ian Beckwith `<ianb@erislabs.net>` (Current maintainer)

icons, all of them 🫶

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<pink>and that's a wrap, bestie!!</pink> this little page came from the <purple>General Commands Manual</purple>, dated <cyan>Sep 30, 2007</cyan> — yeah she's an elder but she still ate 💅✨ 🦋