On Feb 1, 2017, at 8:22 AM, R. D. Preston <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Just did the free upgrade to MacOS Sierra on my desktop Mac mini. > Terminal's srm… …"command not found"? > Is it just me, my memory, or is this Terminal access gone now? srm is indeed gone in Sierra. I think this is because Apple is assuming everyone has SSDs these days and it’s not really needed, nor is it a good idea to use, with SSDs because trimming overwrites the data and srm wears out the SSD with unnecessary extra writes. Is "rm -P filename" not good enough security on a spinning rust disk? L^2
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