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Secure deletion and trash bin support

Posted Dec 8, 2006 14:27 UTC (Fri) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474)
Parent article: Secure deletion and trash bin support

The nicest file manager available will not be able do do anything about an "rm" command typed into a shell,[...]

Ummm, that's a feature, not a bug.

Rich.

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Secure deletion and trash bin support

Posted Dec 14, 2006 10:05 UTC (Thu) by renox (subscriber, #23785) [Link]

>>The nicest file manager available will not be able do do anything about an "rm" command typed into a shell,[...]
>Ummm, that's a feature, not a bug.

Depends, some of us believe that command-line interface and GUIs should behave *consistently*, as much as possible.