Re: Suggestion for rm(1)

[Bob Proulx]

Keisial wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
>> Note that if you use rm to remove a file, it might be possible to
>> recover the contents of that file, given sufficient expertise and/or
>> time.  If you want more assurance that the contents are truly
>> unrecoverable, consider using shred.
>>
>> That is, we want to point out that shred is better than rm at killing
>> data, while at the same time reducing the newbie impression that
>> recovery is easy, since it usually is not.
>
> What about s/the contents/some contents/ ?
> The impression of easy recovery is gone since the newbie wants the full
> file. Since retrieving just part of a file is bad enough for sensitive  
> contents,
> the user goes for shred in that case.
>
> Depending on filesystem, here "some" can go from 0 to 100% so it's
> technically correct, too.

I rather like this direction of description.

Bob