Patterson, Shaun M Mr CTR USA AMC wrote:
I have implemented a -r/-R/--recursive option in shred. Anyone
interested or is piping shred with a find command enough?
Hmm, it's one of those marginal ones.
You wouldn't gain much really over using find.
Though in saying that, rm has this option, so it
Well if anyone is interested the patch is below.
This is my first GNU submission...I tried to follow the GNU coding rules as
best as possible. I'm open to criticism.
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Shaun
--- shred.c.orig2009-06-29 13:36:11.485435000 -0400
+++ shred.c 2009-06-29 13:40:59.278678000 -0400
@@
Hi Giuseppe,
I noticed two potential problems.
The first appears to affects only kernels 2.6.13..2.6.20.
The second one doesn't have to be fixed before the upcoming release.
From 6d0d1c47b28ea4989a6608e9f7d51218ee0c89ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering meyer...@redhat.com
Date: Mon,
Bob Proulx wrote:
Craig Sanders wrote:
spaces and quote characters and even backslashes in filenames are far
more common, especially on systems were files are uploaded by users from
non-unix systems (e.g. ftp upload to web servers, samba file servers,
etc)
Yes. And cursed they are but so it
Matthew Woehlke wrote:
Bob Proulx wrote:
Yes. And cursed they are but so it is. :-)
Oh, come on. I know all about the inherent danger, and I still use
spaces in my file names, and probably always will. It's simply easier
for us humans to think that way.
If you couldn't tell I was
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 05:40, Jim Meyeringj...@meyering.net wrote:
enh wrote:
if i create a dangling symbolic link within a tree, chown -RH
top-of-tree gets me a cannot dereference error.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
cd /tmp
mkdir chown-test
cd chown-test
ln -s poop parp
cd ..
