On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 01:40:35PM +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2024 at 11:38:21AM +0100, Thomas Schmitt wrote: > > [...] > > > But shred(1) on Debian 11 refuses on "-" contrary to its documentation: > > shred: -: invalid file type > > A non-existing file path causes "No such file or directory". > > Hmm. This looks like a genuine bug: the man page mentions it. > > Also, /dev/stdout as target runs into the very same problem.
Ah, it seems to be this one, from 2002: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=155175 which is archived. The argument seems to be that shred on stdout doesn't make any sense, because the shell would truncate the file anyway when you did shred - > /this/file/to/be/shredded ... which, of course, undermines shred's purpose. It seems they hadn't your sneaky use case in mind :-) Cheers -- t
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