Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]

["Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>]

Hi,

tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> Still there's the discrepancy between doc and behaviour.

Depends at which documentation you look. Obviously stemming from
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=155175#36
i read in
  https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/shred-invocation.html

 "A file of ‘-’ denotes standard output. The intended use of this is to
  shred a removed temporary file. For example: [shell wizzardry]"

It works as long as stdout is connected to a data file, or block device,
or directory, or symbolic link, or to a character device that is not a
terminal.
(Maybe it refuses later on some of these types, but not at the location
with the message "invalid file type". I wonder if i can connect stdout
to a symbolic link instead of its target.)

The bug would thus have to be filed against the man page
  https://sources.debian.org/src/coreutils/9.4-3/man/shred.1/
which says only

  "If FILE is \-, shred standard output."

The info empire of coreutils says what above web manual says.
  https://sources.debian.org/src/coreutils/9.4-3/doc/coreutils.texi/#L10705


Have a nice day :)

Thomas