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SubjectRe: Wanted: Secure-delete utility for Linux
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Riley Williams wrote:
|>
|> >> Hmmm -- something like /dev/~zero would work, if you can stand non-
|> >> alphanumeric characters in your filenames.
|>
|> > (t)csh people won't like this (bash also uses ~ for $HOME, ~zero for
|> > user zero's HOME...).
|>
|> IMHO, bash only uses a LEADING ~ as $HOME so /dev/~zero would work
|> fine. In fact, I've just tried "touch /tmp/~test" under both bash and
|> tcsh, and in both cases, it works fine...

But _if_ your cwd is /dev you will be surprised...

Steffen

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