On Oct 10, 2007, at 00:23, David Epstein wrote:
Does MacPorts have a version of rm that does secure removal of
files (that is, scribbling over the disk so that info cannot be
recovered)? I want this for files about my bank dealings---I'm not
referring to files that come from MacPorts downloads.
Actually, it looks like you may not need to install any additional
software at all. Check out "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.
The -P option assumes that the underlying file system is a
fixed-block
file system. In addition, only regular files are overwritten,
other
types of files are not.
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