Securely delete a file (Perl)

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# From the book "Windows XP Cookbook"
# ISBN: 0596007256

# This code runs the sdelete command
# ------ SCRIPT CONFIGURATION ------

use Win32::OLE;

$strCommand = 'sdelete -p 5 c:\\logs\\tue.log';
# ------ END CONFIGURATION ---------
$objWshShell = Win32::OLE->new('WScript.Shell');
$intRC = $objWshShell->Run($strCommand, 0, 1);
if ($intRC != 0) {
    print 'Error returned from running the command: ' . $intRC, "\n";
}
else {
    print "Command executed successfully\n";
}

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