Re: Shred Feature Request

[Bob Proulx]

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