From unknown Tue Aug 19 10:00:11 2025 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.509 (Entity 5.509) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 From: bug#24661 <24661@debbugs.gnu.org> To: bug#24661 <24661@debbugs.gnu.org> Subject: Status: shred: allow running shred on directories Reply-To: bug#24661 <24661@debbugs.gnu.org> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 17:00:11 +0000 retitle 24661 shred: allow running shred on directories reassign 24661 coreutils submitter 24661 Mohammed Sadiq severity 24661 wishlist tag 24661 wontfix thanks From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Mon Oct 10 13:27:54 2016 Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 10 Oct 2016 17:27:55 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51427 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bteMk-0005Q2-Mn for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2016 13:27:54 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46963) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bteMj-0005Pp-Dt for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2016 13:27:53 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bteMd-0002VP-CX for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2016 13:27:48 -0400 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on eggs.gnu.org X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM autolearn=disabled version=3.3.2 Received: from lists.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::11]:33333) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bteMd-0002Uo-96 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2016 13:27:47 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37919) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bteMb-0001u8-5Q for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2016 13:27:46 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bteMW-0002SD-VU for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2016 13:27:44 -0400 Received: from md-77.webhostbox.net ([199.79.62.63]:40201) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bteMW-00026m-Pg for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2016 13:27:40 -0400 Received: from mail-lf0-f46.google.com ([209.85.215.46]:33618) by md-77.webhostbox.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.86_1) (envelope-from ) id 1bteLg-003wZn-9q for bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Mon, 10 Oct 2016 17:26:49 +0000 Received: by mail-lf0-f46.google.com with SMTP id x79so138341154lff.0 for ; Mon, 10 Oct 2016 10:26:51 -0700 (PDT) X-Gm-Message-State: AA6/9RldpPq5YXQ80HGYsevOUkEdA2xDHDyyRcjh49DAYEhFE++1MQacS6Zy03YLuZzB1kFfTvji/scQuwh9IQ== X-Received: by 10.194.175.106 with SMTP id bz10mr31057152wjc.42.1476120409951; Mon, 10 Oct 2016 10:26:49 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.194.44.72 with HTTP; Mon, 10 Oct 2016 10:26:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Mohammed Sadiq Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 22:56:49 +0530 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: [RFE] Allow running shred on directories To: bug-coreutils@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Authenticated_sender: sadiq@sadiqpk.org X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - md-77.webhostbox.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gnu.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - sadiqpk.org X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: md-77.webhostbox.net: authenticated_id: sadiq@sadiqpk.org X-Authenticated-Sender: md-77.webhostbox.net: sadiq@sadiqpk.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::11 X-Spam-Score: -3.5 (---) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: submit X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.5 (---) 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. Possible use case: 1. The user have to delete several files, along with nested directories. shred command on directory may shred each containing files and shred them, then rename the directory to 000... (The same way as files are handled). I find overwriting with Zeros a nice idea, but I have no lazy way to do that for directories with any available tools. 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[184.68.105.38]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id 72-v6sm22236019pfl.126.2018.10.28.00.05.39 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 28 Oct 2018 00:05:40 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: bug#24661: [RFE] Allow running shred on directories To: Mohammed Sadiq , 24661@debbugs.gnu.org References: From: Assaf Gordon Message-ID: <3df5a193-0bc1-5ff2-ee03-56008750a9c7@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2018 01:05:38 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.2.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 24661 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -1.0 (-) 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 From unknown Tue Aug 19 10:00:11 2025 Received: (at fakecontrol) by fakecontrolmessage; To: internal_control@debbugs.gnu.org From: Debbugs Internal Request Subject: Internal Control Message-Id: bug archived. Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 12:24:10 +0000 User-Agent: Fakemail v42.6.9 # This is a fake control message. # # The action: # bug archived. thanks # This fakemail brought to you by your local debbugs # administrator