eXpurg: A Small Professional File Eraser

eXpurg is a lightweight, professional-grade file erasure utility designed for security-conscious environments.
It securely overwrites and deletes files to reduce the chance of forensic recovery.

Features

• Multi-pass overwrite with cryptographically secure random data
• Detection of SSD vs HDD and filesystem type
• Cleans extended attributes and ACLs (Linux)
• Handles immutable/append-only flags (Linux)
• Cross-platform design (Linux/Windows)
• MIT licensed, fully open-source

Build

On Linux:

make

This will produce the binary expurg-auditor.

Usage

./expurg-auditor [options] <file>

Options:
  -h, --help        Show help
  -v, --verbose     Verbose output
  -q, --quiet       Quiet mode
  -p, --passes N    Number of overwrite passes (default: 20)
  -s, --strict      Strict mode (abort on SSD/COW/NTFS)

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License

MIT License © 2025 Víctor Duarte Melo victormeloasm@gmail.com