I have written a script to secure delete all files in a quarantine folder and my Trash folder. All the commands run trough Terminal via the script.
The problem I am having is when I am changing the directory to the hidden Trash folder. When I do
all it does is take it to the /Users/WatsonN folder instead. The problem with this is that the next command is
, so it starts with /Users/WatsonN/Desktop and works its way down. Luckily i caught it before it destroyed anything important.
here is the entire script:
another issue is this
Quote:
./srm: line 28: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
./srm: line 42: syntax error: unexpected end of file
Line 42 is the line after everything that is after
Thank you so much in advanced
Hello.
I use this command :
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