wipe

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Command-line tool for securely erasing files from magnetic media with multiple overwrites, open source under GPL, supports Linux, BSD, Solaris, and more, no graphical interface, precompiled for many distributions, for secure data removal.

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  • Free • Open Source

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Country of Origin

  • FR flagFrance
  • European Union flagEU

Platforms

  • Linux
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  • POX removed wipe as alternative to DiskGenius
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  • Danilo_Venom updated wipe
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  • abtco added wipe as alternative to Offigneum
    about 2 months ago
  • fris added wipe as alternative to Shred
    4 months ago
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  • Developed by

    FR flagAntoine Berke Durak

  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.

  • Alternatives

    26 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about wipe, and it has gotten 2 likes

wipe was added to AlternativeTo by kafene on Oct 9, 2012 and this page was last updated May 21, 2025.

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What is wipe?

wipe is a little command for securely erasing files from magnetic media. It compiles under various unix platforms, including Linux 2. * , (Open, Net, Free)BSD, aix 4.1, SunOS 5.5.1, Solaris 2.6. wipe is released under the GPL. Pre-compiled packages are available on most Linux distributions. Under Debian, the package name is wipe .

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