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10.3: Secure empty trash from the Terminal
Authored by: vancenase on Oct 29, '03 11:37:17PM

how can you securely delete an entire folder?



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10.3: Secure empty trash from the Terminal
Authored by: Tom Robinson on Oct 30, '03 03:16:24AM

If you check the man page for srm you'll see a '-R' option for a recursive delete (i.e. delete a directory and its contents).



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