Secure deletion of files in a directory

[Albert]

Am Dienstag, 15. Juni 2004 19:14 schrieb Rainer Bendig, Digitally 
Impressed:

> "shred" on debian unstable works fine, i have no problems
> deleting files +100MB... since months ...
>
> that's the only way i know (if you are not using an hex-edit) to
> really delete your files.
>
> with gpg it has - in my eyes - nothing to do ...

Sorry,  I thought everything which works kgpg is a frontend of gpg.

Unfortunately, I didn't find a manpage or something else which 
describes, how to shred a file. I only found "kgpg -X %U"

Albert