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+====== Getting a wipe action in the menu ======
+Adding wipe to your Nautilus context menu is useful in making it so that you can securely delete any number of files and/or folders at one time simply by selecting them, right clicking, and clicking wipe. Before you can add wipe to the context menu you must have nautilus-actions and wipe installed. To install them on a Debian based system, at the terminal, simply type:
+    sudo apt-get install wipe
+    sudo apt-get install nautilus-actions
+When you install nautilus-actions a GUI based tool will be installed to allow you configure context menu additions. Access it by, at the terminal, typing:
+nautilus-actions-config
+Adding the wipe command to the context menu is now very straight forward. The following instructions were written for nautilus-actions 1.4.1:
+. Click the +Add button.
+. For the label enter: Wipe.
+. For the tooltip enter: Use the wipe utility to securely delete the file(s)/folder(s).
+. For the path enter: wipe
+. For the parameters enter: -rf %M
+. Go to the Conditions tab and select the radio button labeled "Both" for when the command should appear and check "Appears if select has multiple files or folders"
+. I left everything else at their defaults. If you don't want to do any further customization just hit OK and close the configuration tool.
+. You can select an icon, I prefer the gtk-dialog-warning icon.
+The parameters to wipe, -rf %M, causes files and folders to be deleted without prompting. Due to the -r command, if there are files or subfolders in a selected folder they will also be wiped. If you would like for files to be wiped even when write permission is not set change the parameters to: -rcf %M.
+The final step is to reset nautilus. At the terminal type:
+    nautilus -q
+    nautilus
+You will now have a command for wipe in your Nautilus context menu that allows you to securely delete any number of files and/or folders in two clicks.
+====== Using a script with output ======
+The above wipe action doesn't tell you anything on how progress is going and wiping a lot of file on a usb stick take a while.
+Therefor this little tweak to show what is going on and as an added bonus it also ask you before trashing your important files :-D.
+Start out by making a file called "wiper.sh":
+<file>
+#!/bin/sh
+file=$1
+$(zenity --title="Wipe $file" --question --text="Are you sure?")
+if [ $? -eq 0 ]
+then
+	gnome-terminal -e "wipe -qQ10 -rfi $file"
+	exit 0
+ else
+	exit 0
+ fi
+fi
+</file>
+Make it executable:
+<code>
+chmod +x wiper.sh
+</code>
+Change the settings for the wipe action in nautilus-action-config:
+{{:howtos:screenshot-edit_action_wipe_.png|}}
+And bounce Nautilus:
+<code>
+nautilus -q
+</code>
+----
+Source: http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/01/securely-wipeerase-files-in-ubuntu.html