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Old 07-17-2006
jack1981 jack1981 is offline
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Help using shred instead of rm

Hi,

I have this script which runs pretty well bar a couple of problems, I am trying to emulate the rm command and this means I can't use rm directory, I inted to alias my script to rm and then use mv to move files to a trash folder rather than delete forever.

The problem: when I use mv to move a directory into my deleted folder where this directory all ready exists I get an error, I plan to shred all the files and then I want to use rmdir to remove all the empty directories in the tree.

My script is here

Code:


#!/bin/bash
# Ai program to emulate the "rm" command in UNIX.
# Created by Michael Kelly
# Last revison 12/07/2006


# INITIALIZE VARIABLES
NO_ARGS=0
FLAG_R=""
FLAG_F_I=""
FLAG_V=""
TRASH=$HOME/deleted

# FUNCTIONS

function errors() {
if [ "$#" -eq  "$NO_ARGS" ] ; then
      echo "rm: too few arguments"
      echo "Try \`rm --help' for more information."
      exit 0
elif [[  ! -f "$1"  && ! -d "$1"   ]] ; then
      echo "rm: cannot remove $ARG : no such file or directory"
      exit 0
elif [[ -d $ARG  &&  "$FLAG_R" = ""  ]] ; then
      echo "rm: \`$ARG' is a directory"
      exit 0
else
     checkExisting $1
fi
}

function verbose () {
if [ "$FLAG_V" = "v" ] ; then
echo "removing \`$1'"
fi
}

function interactive () {
echo -n "rm: remove $1 ?"
     read A
     if [[ "$A" = [Yy] ]] ; then
     remove $1
     else
     exit 0
fi
}

function writePro () {
if ! [ -w  "$1" ] ; then
echo -n "rm: remove write-protected file \`$*'?"
     read A
     if [[ "$A" = [Yy] ]] ; then
     delete $1
     fi
else
     delete $1
fi

}
function checkExisting ()
{
if [ -d "$TRASH/$1" ] || [ -f "$TRASH/$1" ]; then


     shred -fp $TRASH/$1 2>/dev/null
     rmdir $TRASH/$1 2>dev/null
     writePro $1

else
     writePro $1

fi
}

function force () {

mv -f $1 $TRASH 2>/dev/null
verbose $1
}


function remove () {
mv  $1 $TRASH 2>/dev/null
verbose $1
}

function delete() {
if [ "$FLAG_F_I" = "-i" ] &&  [ -w  "$@" ] ; then
   interactive $1
elif [ "$FLAG_F_I" = "-f"  ] ; then
   force $1
elif [ "$FLAG_R" = "-R"  ] ; then
   recursive $1
else
   remove $1
fi

}

# Getops

while getopts :rRfvi o
do    case $o in
           r|R) FLAG_R=-R
             ;;
             f) FLAG_F_I=-f
             ;;
             v) FLAG_V=-v
             ;;
             i) FLAG_F_I=-i
             ;;
             *) echo "rm: invalid option -$1"
                echo "try \`rm --help' for more information"
                exit 0
      esac
done
shift `expr $OPTIND - 1`

if ! [ -d "$HOME/deleted" ] ; then
     mkdir $HOME/delete

else
   for ARG in $*
   do
   errors $ARG
   done
fi
if [ $# -eq $NO_ARGS ] ; then
errors
fi
I have highlighted the problem function in bold, I want to shred files recrusively and then use rmdir the same way for the empty directories.

Someone recommended this command:

Code:
find -type f -exec shred -u '{}' \;
which shreds recursivley but how do I specify which point to start shreding from? when I used this before it wiped out every file in my home directory onwards.

Once I have that sorted I want to use a similar command but replacing rmdir with shred, can anyone advise me away to it?

Regards

Jack
 

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