How to create a one click apple script to run sudo rm -rf in terminal

Hey Everyone
I have sensitive information on my computer, quite paranoid and would love to have a one click script to run sudo rm -rf in terminal.
I'm quite new to scripts and all that, can someone please explain how to do this as a noob?
would love if I didn't need to enter the password to authorise the wipe.
also is there anything more effective as sudo rm -rf?
and can sudo rm -rf be undone? like can some traces be brought back from the drive if your like a super pro at hard drive data recovery?

Welcome to Apple Support Communities
That's not the way to delete everything from the hard drive, because your files can still be recoverable after running that command with special apps.
Instead, if you want to make sure that your data cannot be recovered, start up in OS X Recovery (hold Command and R keys while your Mac is starting up), open Disk Utility and erase your OS X partition by choosing one of the security options you can use to erase your files. See > http://pondini.org/OSX/DU2.html
A better option would be to put that sensitive data onto an encrypted external drive

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