retitle 24661 shred: allow running shred on directories severity 24661 wishlist tags 24661 wontfix close 24661 stop
(triaging old bugs) On 2016-10-10 11:26 a.m., Mohammed Sadiq wrote:
This is a request for enhancement. It might be nice to allow users to run shred on directories which would recursively shred the directory and its contents. This may be limited to happen only when `-u' flag is used.
It seems your message was lost and not replied to in 2 years. Sorry about that. Regarding shredding subdirectories, this suggestion has been previously discussed, and deemed undesired for shred, as there are other tools that can be used to shred files recursively (e.g. combined with find/xargs). For details, see: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/rejected_requests.html#shred As such, I'm closing this bug. regards, -assaf
