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Using shred

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 08, 2007 04:40 AM

If you don't want to go the vim-plugin route, you can also add "shred $PASSWD_LIST_UNENCRYPTED;" right above the "rm $PASSWD_LIST_UNENCRYPTED;" to destroy the file's contents before deleting it.

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