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NAME
       fwipe - securely overwrite and delete files on command line

SYNOPSIS
       fwipe [ files ]

DESCRIPTION
       For each regular file listed on the command line, fwipe attempts to
       overwrite the file five times times with 0's and 1's. If suffessful,
       fwipe attempts to delete the file.

       For each file, fwipe prints a response to stdout consisting of the
       filename, followed by a 0-byte, a status byte, a human-readable message
       and a newline. The status byte is 'Z' for temporary failure, 'D' for
       permanent failure, and 'K' for success.

       fwipe is simply a shell script, directing the output of echo0 to
       fwipe0.

OPTIONS
       None.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (c) 2000, Len Budney. All rights reserved. fwipe is made
       available under the terms of the BSD license.

SEE ALSO
       echo0(1), fwipe0(1)

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