Thanks Lee, I’ll consider that option.

Too bad, though.  
I still have a use for the use of srm on my HDD’s.

-russ preston


> On Nov 30, 2017, at 3:29 PM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Nov 30, 2017, at 12:32 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> 
>> Currently using MacOS X ver 10.13.1 on my desktop computer.  
>> Does Terminal still have the srm function for use on hard disk drives?
> 
> I think SRM was removed because it really isn’t needed on SSDs; trim does it 
> for you. On spinning drives, use rm -P instead. I encrypt all my drives so I 
> don’t have to worry about either one.
> 
> L^2
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