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Old 07-17-2006
jack1981 jack1981 is offline
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Originally Posted by Hitori
why not just

find $TRASH/$1 -type f -exec shred -u '{}' \;

Also, I am kind of new to Unix could you explain this command a little better, someone else recommended it and I dont really understand the -exec and '{}' \

Thanks again

Jack