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/bin/rm -P
Authored by: extra88 on Oct 29, '03 06:44:02PM

OS X 10.2 (and probably earlier) already had /bin/rm -P which may not be "DoD compliant" but is probably sufficient and faster.

From man rm:

-P Overwrite regular files before deleting them. Files are
overwritten three times, first with the byte pattern 0xff,
then 0x00, and then 0xff again, before they are deleted.



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/bin/rm -P
Authored by: FlashBIOS on Oct 29, '03 10:17:59PM

That doesn't do resource forks, and there is some debate on if it ever worked like it should.



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