There hasn't been any activity on this issue for a while now. It isn't a bug in coreutils nor will it be added as a feature. So I am going to close it from the bug tracking system with this message. Feel free to respond and add more information to the ticket as needed.
Bob Bob Proulx wrote: > J wrote: > > I'm a newbie but, Please can you make a GUI for this > > program. Shredding and such are risky business should a typo have > > you destroy the wrong partition... Can this be added to Nautilus > > like Wipe can? Can it be added to do free space as well as files? Or > > maybe even entire partition? > > The coreutils isn't a GUI based set of utilities. It is also > installed on every GNU system. Adding a dependency upon a large and > complex graphical library would be in conflict with those needs. > Therefore it isn't the right place to add one. > > But as you suggested Nautilus may be able to add this functionality to > their interface. They could call 'shred' on the files you select. It > is probably something that you could add for yourself as an extension. > > http://live.gnome.org/Nautilus > > You might want to suggest this to them. > > Bob > > > >