Comments on: Get to know Linux: Removing files

By: jack

jack — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:47:40 +0000

looks like that just made it into the 1.0.0 release a couple of months ago. believe it or not all of my debian installs have 0.9.0 on them which does not have this feature.

thanks for pointing this out!

By: G David Lewis

G David Lewis — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:33:54 +0000

One of the best things about Linux is the ability to quickly and easily throw frequently and commonly used commands along with any options into a quick script. For instance, with the shred command above, one could use this simple little script…

#!/bin/bash

shred -v -n 10 -z $@ -u

exit

…where the $@ would represent any file(s) passed to the script on the commandline. Throw this into a text file, name it something like “obliterate’, make it executable and place it somewhere in your path or even on your desktop. Then instead of typing all that, you can simply type “obliterate filename(s)”, or drag and drop the file(s) onto the icon for the script and poof – they will be gone!

Such is the power of Linux, it’s a beautiful thing!

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:57:15 +0000

Hi,

if I understand you correctly, you are saying that Thunar does not have a Trash, right?

But this is not the case for Xubuntu. Here the Thrash works like under Windows.

Tom