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).
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