Spring Clean

Hi All. If you're running windows you can get a wonderful little program call Crap Cleaner; well, it use to be called that. I have it on my other lap top and it helps no end in keeping the dross down and private things private. Now: Is there anything similar for Linpus? And what about a shredder? I have 2 I use on windows anything in that line for Linpus?

Merry Christmas all.
Obe.

 

There is a shredder for Linux but I am not sure if it will work with Linpus as the one I used was for KDE.

 

There is the shred command. I *think* it's installed by default. Do a: which shred
to see if it's there. If not, you can do:

Code:

sudo yum install coreutils

to install shred.

man shred


Cheers.

 

Hi guys. Sorry for late reply been Acerless for a while. Oky. Still a thicko on linux so I opened a terminal and typed in 'which shred' and got......
[user@localhost ~]$ which shred
/usr/bin/shred
[user@localhost ~]$


So what happens now?
Cheers.
Obe.

 

afaik: it means shred is located in the sub-directory bin of the usr directory.. you can find the user directory in the root directory (c:\)

in Windoze explorer it would look like this:
c:\
...-\usr
.......+\bin

Hope this helps you

 

I tried to test shred in terminal. I created a garbage file called test.txt, with my name in it, on my desktop and the opened a terminal window changed directories to my desktop and did a dir of the desktop and then typed shred test.txt. The results was that the file remained on my desktop but the text inside was garbage totally unreadable. Is that what it is supposed to do? I had an icon in KDE that looked like a torn piece of paper and when I dragged a file to it the file got deleted and was supposedly shredded but I never knew for sure. I guess this is some what better because then you just delete the file and even if it is recovered it would not be readable. Just wish it could be made as easy to use as the one in KDE called shred.

 

See the man page, linked to in the first post I made in this thread.

Cheers.