Scrub
A command-line utility that overwrites files and disk devices to make data recovery more difficult.
By The Scrub contributors
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About Scrub
Scrub overwrites files or disk devices with patterns to make retrieving stored data more difficult. It can also fill a directory with files and then overwrite them, and includes several standard overwrite methods.
The project is available under the GPL-2.0-or-later license.
Strengths
- Can overwrite individual files or entire disk devices
- Includes multiple overwrite methods
- Can fill a filesystem with files before overwriting them
Limitations
- Overwriting makes recovery more difficult, but the project does not claim to guarantee unrecoverability
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source under the GPL-2.0-or-later license.
- License
- GPL-2.0-or-later
- Developer
- The Scrub contributors
- Platforms
- Command line
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- Command-line users who need to overwrite files or storage devices
- Categories
- Encryption tools, CLI tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Selected from the Homebrew formula
- Sources