Dear sirs:
(Excuse my English, thank you).
The other day I destroyed an important file using shred, so I finally wrote to
this list hoping someone changes something to prevent people from having the
same damage.
Let's define some use cases:
- Joe has a folder "questionable employees about the bookkeeping
incident",
and there some symbolic links pointing to "/data/John.txt", "/data/Mary.txt"
and "/data/Jack.txt". Joe wants to shred the John link, not only delete it,
since a symbolic link has information of its own (that is, that it points to
John.txt and so John was a "questionable employee"). But not only Shred does
not shred this information inside the symlink... also when he tries "shred
John" he shreds "/data/John.txt", losing it.
- Peter has been told that to delete safely he can use shred instead
of rm.
He has a temporary copy of a folder, now he executes "shred *", like he does
with "rm *" just to discover one day that in the files there was a symbolic
link and he has shredded the original document.
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