Re: Shred and symbolic links. People use it like a safer "rm" and get...

[Antonio]

I finally found the "wipe" program (http://abaababa.ouvaton.org/wipe/ , 
available in the Ubuntu/Kubuntu packages) that does what a normal user needs. 
By default: "wipe" will never follow symlinks and it has parameters like:
       -r recurse into subdirectories
            Will allow the removal of the entire directory tree. Symbolic 
links are not followed.
directories will be renamed 10 times (shred doesn't rename them). What a fast 
way to finish with a sensitive folder without shredding information outside 
(due to symlinks).
        
We can use "wipe" but it is not a GNU/coreutils program :-( , Shred can be 
adapted to those issues for the normal users as wipe has done ("wipe *" 
without the burdening of checking first if there are symlinks, "wipe -r 
<directory>" also shredding directory names).

Thanks for all.