A terminal program for securely removing files with sensitive data, written in Rust.
While using the Eraser software for windows, I needed to be able to securely erase sensitive files from the terminal, and thus be able to call it in scripts. So I decided to write my own application to serve that purpose. I originally wrote the script in C#, but decided to move to Rust for the speed benefits.
Simply select your architecture from the latest release and unzip the archive.
You will have the file named srm (srm.exe on Windows) I recommend
putting the file in your path so you can do a simple command line call srm.
If you have Cargo installed on your system, however, the easiest way of installing would be to run:
bash
cargo install --git https://github.com/saizo80/Secure-Remove
This will download, build, and automatically add the executable to your path.
You can download the source code and build from scratch if you would like. You will need cargo installed on your system.
bash
git clone https://github.com/saizo80/Secure-Remove.git
cd Secure-Remove
cargo build -r
The simplest scheme of using srm is srm [Options] [Target].
The functions are very similar to what you can do with regular rm, except (for now) you cannot use wildcards inside of a path.
So srm ./* would be okay, whereas srm ./*.txt would not be okay.
Other functions you can see by running srm --help.