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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2003-03-13 13:15:56 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2003-03-13 13:15:56 +0000
commit0a604bf564d614fa1ed68450c9014ab990b08c1c (patch)
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parent814ec278fc2c6ea7fb33af92e4b74ea6374c542c (diff)
downloadcoreutils-0a604bf564d614fa1ed68450c9014ab990b08c1c.tar.xz
tweak wording
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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
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@@ -6823,7 +6823,7 @@ multiple of the filesystem block size to fully erase the last block of the file.
Use @option{--exact} to suppress that behavior.
Thus, by default if you shred a 10-byte regular file on a system with 512-byte
blocks, the resulting file will be 512 bytes long. With this option,
-shred does not increase the size of the file.
+shred does not increase the apparent size of the file.
@item -z
@itemx --zero