how to overwrite the content of a file

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Thursday, November 11, 2010 a las 02:16:33PM -0600, Adam Vande More escribió:

> > What is the best method to overwrite the blocks of a given file with
> > bytes of 0x00, i.e. not to O_TRUNC away the blocks to the freelist of the
> > file system, but overwrite the old blocks?
> >
	...
> 
> Well there is "rm -P" although I'm not sure that accomplished exactly what
> you are looking for.

Yes, thanks. This is exactly what I need.

	matthias
> 
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> Adam Vande More

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