Re: shred bug? [was: Unidentified subject!]
On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 08:02:12AM +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 07:10:54PM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 04:05:21PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
> > > 2024-02-10 16:03:50 dpchrist@laalaa ~
> > > $ shred -s 1K - | wc -c
> > > shred: -: invalid file type
> > > 0
> > >
> > >
> > > It looks like a shred(1) needs a bug report.
> >
> > I'm confused what you expected this command to do. You wanted to
> > "destroy" (by overwriting with random data) a pipe to wc? What
> > would that even look like?
>
> What Thomas was trying to do is to get a cheap, fast random number
> generator. Shred seems to have such.
Well... I certainly wouldn't call it a bug. Maybe a feature request.
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