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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2003-03-13 13:14:40 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2003-03-13 13:14:40 +0000 |
| commit | 814ec278fc2c6ea7fb33af92e4b74ea6374c542c (patch) | |
| tree | 58195b6b2b8cb310ed2aa14b3a14ab788b0074ce /doc | |
| parent | *** empty log message *** (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-814ec278fc2c6ea7fb33af92e4b74ea6374c542c.tar.gz coreutils-814ec278fc2c6ea7fb33af92e4b74ea6374c542c.zip | |
(shred invocation): Mention that --exact
is now the default for non-regular files.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index d72114a07..4a5ce4097 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -6818,10 +6818,10 @@ Display status updates as sterilization proceeds. @itemx --exact @opindex -x @opindex --exact -Normally, shred rounds the file size up to the next multiple of -the filesystem block size to fully erase the last block of the file. -This option suppresses that behavior. -Thus, by default if you shred a 10-byte file on a system with 512-byte +By default, @command{shred} rounds the size of a regular file up to the next +multiple of the filesystem block size to fully erase the last block of the file. +Use @option{--exact} to suppress that behavior. +Thus, by default if you shred a 10-byte regular file on a system with 512-byte blocks, the resulting file will be 512 bytes long. With this option, shred does not increase the size of the file. |