Help With Script for WIPE

[Deathmoon]

I've read that shred doesn't work for ext3 partitions and that wipe is the next best. Therefore, I wanted to create a script (to place in my right-click nautilus options) - much like the shred option for Nautilus Scripts (btw shred doesn't work).

Anyway...I wrote the following and I cannot seem to get it to work...any ideas? This is only my 2nd script to write therefore please provide feedback; I want to learn.

Thanks in advance.


#!/bin/bash
clear

#if filename is NULL then exit script
if [ -z "$1" ]
then
exit 1
fi

gdialog --title "$1" --yesno "Are you sure you want to WIPE
$1"

#cancel = 1
#ok = 0

#need to know path of file
if [ $? = 0 ]
then
echo "wipe now"
wipe -f -P 227 -S r "$1"
echo "file wiped"
fi

#EXIT #1
1

[Deathmoon]

I have not changed all that much in the code below. However, if I right click on the file in the location of the script (e.g. I have destroy.sh in /test/ and I also have binder.doc in /test/) and I right click on binder.doc and send to destroy in my scripts context menu; this script works. However, if I have binder.doc in any other folder it does not get wiped, nor does my output file get generated. I've done a search on my filesystem for *.dtest and nothing comes up therefore from a debug standpoint I have no clue where to go now.


#!/bin/sh
clear

# set the 'file' variable first
file="$1"

# dirname
dirname=`dirname "$file"`

{ # BEGIN CODE BLOCK
echo "$file"
echo "$dirname"

gdialog --title "$file" --yesno "Are you sure you want to WIPE $file"

# RETURN VALUES
# Cancel = 1
# Ok = 0

if [ $? = 0 ]
then
wipe -f -P 227 -S r "$file"
echo "File wiped!"
fi
echo
} > "$1.dtest"

[Deathmoon]

RESOLVED:


#!/bin/sh
clear

# set the 'file' variable first
file="$1"

gdialog --title "$file" --yesno "Are you sure you want to WIPE $file"

# RETURN VALUES
# Cancel = 1
# Ok = 0

if [ $? = 0 ]
then
wipe -f -P 227 -S r $NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS
fi