I don't know any arguments for whether "wipe" is as good as, better, or
worse than "shred". However, "wipe" will prompt for confirmation by default
according to what I have read. However, the man page for wipe seems awfully
wishy washy about how reliable the program might be for single file
removal. And the man page for shred also indicates it is not reliable for
journaling filesystems. My thought is to just keep shred as a CLI option.