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-nwipe is a program that will securely erase disks. It can operate as both a command line
+nwipe is a program that will securely erase the entire contents of disks. It can operate as both a command line
 tool without a GUI or with a ncurses GUI as shown in the example below. It can wipe a single drive or multiple
 disks simultaneously. Nwipe can be found in many Linux distro repositories and the latest version of nwipe is always available as a Bootable USB flash image from [here](https://github.com/PartialVolume/shredos.2020.02/blob/master/README.md#obtaining-and-writing-shredos-to-a-usb-flash-drive-the-easy-way-), which can be written to a USB flash drive in seconds, allowing you to boot straight into the latest nwipe.