FlexTk

Command Line Tools:        

The FlexTk file management toolkit provides the user with a large number of flexible file delete capabilities allowing one to delete huge amounts of files very fast and effectively. In addition, power computer users and IT professionals are provided with the ability to optimize performance of delete operations for user-specific storage configurations and performance requirements. Finally, users required to physically destroy confidential or classified information are provided with numerous multi-pass data wiping capabilities ranging from a simple single-pass wipe to a powerful, 7-Pass DOD 5220.22-M compliant (FlexTk Ultimate Only) data wiping algorithm.

In addition to the GUI application, FlexTk Ultimate provides a command line utility allowing one to use all the features of the FlexTk file management toolkit from an OS shell window. The FlexTk command line tool provides power users and system administrators with the ability to automate all the available file management operations and to integrate FlexTk features into batch files and shell scripts. The FlexTk command line tool is located in <ProductDir>/bin directory.

Command Line Syntax:

flextk -delete -dir <Dir 1> [ ... <Dir X> -file <File 1> ... <File X> ]

In addition, FlexTk allows one to execute user-defined file delete and data wiping commands using the FlexTk Execute command line tool, which supports all advanced capabilities available in the FlexTk GUI application.

Parameters:

-dir <Dir 1> [ ... <Dir X> ]

-file <File 1> [ ... <File X> ]

At least one file or directory should be specified. In order to ensure proper parsing of command line arguments, directories and file names containing space characters should be double quoted.

Options:

-wipe

Instructs to wipe data on the disk.

-confirm

Explicitly confirms delete operation.

-streams <StreamCount>

Specifies the number of delete streams.

-v

This parameter instructs FlexTk to show the product major version, minor version, revision and build date.

-help

This parameter instructs FlexTk to show the command line usage information.