Adding a Secure Delete Option to Nautilus File Manager in Linux

Posted by nemilar on Jul 7, 2010 7:21 PM EDT
TechThrob; By Jonathan DePrizio
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This tutorial will show you how to add a secure-delete option to the contextual menu in Ubuntu and Fedora Linux. We all know that when you simply delete a file, it’s possible to recover it later. Sometimes this is useful, if you accidentally delete something important; but usually this is a problem, and you really want that file gone forever. Additionally, this tutorial can be adapted to add any command to the Nautilus context menu.

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