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Found some very special "make it look hacky" bash in criminal minds.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That should only shred the top level files in the root directory though. Since shred doesn't do it recursively and doesn't know what to do with subdirectories.

Do any distros store system critical files at the root directory? It's all subdirectories on mine. I guess if you were storing important data files in the root directory they would get shredded but that's really bad practice anyway and I doubt it's super common.