Bug#155175: shred: -: invalid file type

[Goswin Brederlow <goswin.brederlow@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> writes:

> reassign 151175 dpkg
> done
> 
> On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 01:20:44AM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> >       -      shred standard output
> >
> >But:
> >mrvn@dual:~% shred -
> >shred: -: invalid file type
> 
> If you redirect output to a file it will work. Shredding a tty doesn't
> make much sense, after all.

A "refusing to shred a terminal" or similar might be more
descriptive. :) Or a note in the manual.

> >PS: The manpage says to look at the info page but that shows the
> >manpage.
> 
> I'm reassigning this one to dpkg, as it's a continuing install-info bug.

Wasn't sure where that came from. But the install-ifo bug is probably
already reported?

MfG
        Goswin

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