HggdH wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: > > How about > > --random-source=FILE > > If I understand correctly, the --random-source must be as big as the > data to be shredded, which makes it only useful for smallish files (a > few hundred megas, at most). Certainly not effective for full disk > shreds.
You could use FILE to be a pipe that you create. Send output to it from a program that you write to produce output produce whatever output you desire and the output could be infinitely long. No longer random but under your control and faster than /dev/urandom. Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
