Subject: Re: bug#24661: [RFE] Allow running shred on directories

From: Assaf Gordon <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2018 01:05:38 -0600

retitle 24661 shred: allow running shred on directories
severity 24661 wishlist
tags 24661 wontfix
close 24661
stop

(triaging old bugs)

On 2016-10-10 11:26 a.m., Mohammed Sadiq wrote:
> This is a request for enhancement.
> 
> It might be nice to allow users to run shred on directories which
> would recursively shred the directory and its contents. This may be
> limited to happen only when `-u' flag is used.
> 

It seems your message was lost and not replied to in 2 years.
Sorry about that.

Regarding shredding subdirectories,
this suggestion has been previously discussed, and deemed undesired
for shred, as there are other tools that can be used to shred files
recursively (e.g. combined with find/xargs).

For details, see:
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/rejected_requests.html#shred

As such, I'm closing this bug.

regards,
  -assaf