andreafrancia / trash-cli

Command line interface to the freedesktop.org trashcan.
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Add a command paramater to shred trashed files (replace with 0's) #213

Open peepo5 opened 2 years ago

peepo5 commented 2 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I am frustrated when I sell balloons and the government does not like my balloons so they try to infiltrate my computer to get my secret balloon designs and I think I am safe because I emptied my trash with trash-cli, but with file recovery software, the data is recovered and they have my balloon designs.

Describe the solution you'd like Add a parameter like trash-empty -s (for shred). Basically it would replace the binary values with zeroes to make sure there is no way to recover files.

Describe alternatives you've considered Doing it manually.