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Diffstat (limited to 'src/shred.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/shred.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/shred.c b/src/shred.c index 92f4209bd..c9f66622a 100644 --- a/src/shred.c +++ b/src/shred.c @@ -464,10 +464,15 @@ usage (int status) else { printf (_("Usage: %s [OPTIONS] FILE [...]\n"), program_name); - printf (_("\ + fputs (_("\ Overwrite the specified FILE(s) repeatedly, in order to make it harder\n\ for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data.\n\ \n\ +"), stdout); + fputs (_("\ +Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.\n\ +"), stdout); + printf (_("\ -f, --force change permissions to allow writing if necessary\n\ -n, --iterations=N Overwrite N times instead of the default (%d)\n\ -s, --size=N shred this many bytes (suffixes like k, M, G accepted)\n\ |