+1 Here,

If shred can support shredding directory tree recursively, it would be awesome.

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On Friday, September 24th, 2021 at 9:06 PM, jedenfalco via GNU coreutils 
General Discussion <coreutils@gnu.org> wrote:

> I have a laptop and want to securely wipe the hard drive. It would be good to 
> be able to wipe out an directory tree (e.g. /home) but it seems that dd can 
> only wipe an entire drive.
>
> This means that I have to remove the hard drive and connect it externally to 
> another PC to wipe it.

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