[debbugs-tracker] bug#21502: closed ('shred' -NUMBER not recognised)

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: 'shred' -NUMBER not recognised Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 23:23:17 +0000 (UTC)

Ostensible discrepancy between 'shred' and its documentation.

(shred (GNU coreutils) 8.23 on Xubuntu 14.10)

On the 'shred' info page:

‘-NUMBER’
‘-n NUMBER’
‘--iterations=NUMBER’
     By default, ‘shred’ uses 3 passes of overwrite.  You can reduce
     this to save time, or increase it if you think it’s appropriate.
     After 25 passes all of the internal overwrite patterns will have
     been used at least once.

If I try the '-NUMBER' method to specify number of iterations:

$ shred -1 file
shred: invalid option -- '1'
Try 'shred --help' for more information.

The other two methods for specifying number of iterations work.

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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#21502: 'shred' -NUMBER not recognised Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 00:40:40 -0700 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 Thanks for reporting that -- it has been a bug in the manual for sixteen years! I installed the attached patch.

0001-shred-don-t-document-NUMBER-option.patch
Description: Text document

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