# Securely Remove Files

If you really want to make sure you have wiped a file from your hard drive, you are going to want to use `srm` instead of `rm`. The man page for `srm` gives the following description:

> srm removes each specified file by overwriting, renaming, and truncating it before unlinking. This prevents other people from undeleting or recovering any information about the file from the command line.

h/t Dillon Hafer
