So often when I wipe devices I use shredOS an devices and when it’s done it dumps a PDF report on the USB I’m using. If i have a bare drive I just put it in an enclosure and run nwipe on mu Ubuntu box. However, when I run that on there I can’t find the PDF report after the wipe is done. Does anyone know where that is output to? Or am I missing an option before i initiate the wipe to get that PDF generated after.
I have never used it but the default output option for most things is to drop the output file to the directory that the command was run in. If you don’t have write access then that could be the issue i would do a “nwipe --help” to get a list of options and explicitly tell it where to put the output file.
Hello there 
When you use nwipe on your ubuntu computer; it usually does not output a PDF report like shredOS. Rather; nwipe prints a text based output to the terminal. You can use the wiping procedure to redirect the output to a text file in order to make a PDF report.
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