Hi Joel, Hi heidi eraser dev team,
first of all, thanks a lot for this fantastic piece of software !
We are using hundreds of PC in my company. We want to use Heidi Eraser to securely remove all traces of erased data on all drives of our machines. Using such a tool from command line is simply a mandatory feature (to easily mass deploy and schedule the feature).
Like Klopper, i stumbled upon section
Using the Eraser Command Line [TBD] of the manual (excellent manual btw). After a bit of googling i ended up here where the indication of command "help" is buried.
I can understand the command-line "API" is still under construction (even if it's been like that for about 2 years
). That being, said, given the excellency of the tool, it is just too bad to bury the help command nowhere in the forum. I kindly suggest two corrections
1) in case the command line arguments do not make sense, offer the user the available commands
instead of
Code:
$ /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Eraser/Eraser.exe --help
Unknown action: --help
why not
Code:
$ /cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Eraser/Eraser.exe --help
Unknown action: --help
Use 'Eraser.exe help' to list available commands
2) add the following in the documentation
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Using the Eraser Command Line
The API is still subject to change between revisions (in other words : be careful with upgrades). However, most GUI operations (such as adding tasks mostly) can be done through the command-line interface.
To display the latest command line interface, simply call eraser help. As of v6.0.10, the API is as follows
Code:
Eraser 6.0.9.2620
(c) 2008 The Eraser Project
Eraser is Open-Source Software: see http://eraser.heidi.ie/ for details.
usage: Eraser <action> <arguments>
where action is
help Show this help message.
addtask Adds tasks to the current task list.
querymethods Lists all registered Erasure methods.
global parameters:
--quiet, -q Do not create a Console window to display progress.
parameters for help:
eraser help
no parameters to set.
parameters for addtask:
eraser addtask [--method=<methodGUID>] [--schedule=(now|manually|restart)] (--recycled | --unused=<volume> | --dir=<directory> | --file=<file>)[...]
--method, -m The Erasure method to use.
--schedule, -s The schedule the task will follow. The value must
be one of:
now The task will be queued for immediate execution.
manually The task will be created but not queued for execution.
restart The task will be queued for execution when the
computer is next restarted.
This parameter defaults to now.
--recycled, -r Erases files and folders in the recycle bin
--unused, -u Erases unused space in the volume.
optional arguments: --unused=<drive>[,clusterTips]
clusterTips If specified, the drive's files will have their
cluster tips erased.
--dir, --directory, -d Erases files and folders in the directory
optional arguments: --dir=<directory>[,e=excludeMask][,i=includeMask][,delete]
excludeMask A wildcard expression for files and folders to
exclude.
includeMask A wildcard expression for files and folders to
include.
The include mask is applied before the exclude
mask.
delete Deletes the folder at the end of the erasure if
specified.
--file, -f Erases the specified file
parameters for querymethods:
eraser querymethods
no parameters to set.
All arguments are case sensitive.
Method GUID
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
U Gutmann 1407fc4e-feff-4375-b4fb-d7efbb7e9922
U US DoD 5220.22-M (8-306./E, C & E) d1583631-702e-4dbf-a0e9-c35dba481702
U RCMP TSSIT OPS-II f335cc40-5de5-4733-90b1-6957b4a45688
U Schneier 7 pass b1bfab4a-31d3-43a5-914c-e9892c78afd8
U German VSITR 607632b2-651b-4935-883a-bdaa74febb54
U US DoD 5220.22-M (8-306./E) ecbf4998-0b4f-445c-9a06-23627659e419
U British HMG IS5 (Enhanced) 45671da4-9401-46e4-9c0d-89b94e89c8b5
U US Air Force 5020 7bf5b185-8ea5-4e12-83f1-f6c2efb3d2c2
U US Army AR380-19 0fe620ea-8055-4861-b5bb-bd8bdc3fd4ac
U Russian GOST P50739-95 92681583-f484-415f-a66c-cc210222edc5
U British HMG IS5 (Baseline) 9acdbd78-0406-4116-87e5-263e5e3b2e0d
U Pseudorandom Data bf8ba267-231a-4085-9bf9-204de65a6641
First/last 16KB Erasure 0c2e07bf-0207-49a3-ade8-46f9e1499c01
