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Diffstat (limited to 'src')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/shred.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/shred.c b/src/shred.c index 365d7c5f1..aa2da631e 100644 --- a/src/shred.c +++ b/src/shred.c @@ -462,7 +462,8 @@ usage (int status) { printf (_("Usage: %s [OPTIONS] FILE [...]\n"), program_name); printf (_("\ -Delete a file securely, first overwriting it to hide its contents.\n\ +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\ -f, --force change permissions to allow writing if necessary\n\ -n, --iterations=N Overwrite N times instead of the default (%d)\n\ @@ -475,7 +476,11 @@ Delete a file securely, first overwriting it to hide its contents.\n\ --help display this help and exit\n\ --version print version information and exit\n\ \n\ -FIXME maybe add more discussion here?"), DEFAULT_PASSES); +Delete FILE(s) if --remove (-u) is specified. The default is not to remove\n\ +the files because it is common to operate on device files like /dev/hda,\n\ +and those files usually should not be removed. When operating on regular\n\ +files, most people use the --remove option.\n\ +"), DEFAULT_PASSES); puts (_("\nReport bugs to <bug-fileutils@gnu.org>.")); } exit (status); |