On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 08:02:12AM +0100, to...@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.
