Securely delete a file (VBScript)

This code can be found in Chapter 8 of Windows XP Cookbook

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

' This code runs the sdelete command
' ------ SCRIPT CONFIGURATION ------
strCommand = "sdelete -p 5 c:\logs\tue.log"
' ------ END CONFIGURATION ---------
set objWshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
intRC = objWshShell.Run(strCommand, 0, TRUE)
if intRC <> 0 then
 WScript.Echo "Error returned from running the command: " & intRC
else
 WScript.Echo "Command executed successfully"
end if

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