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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: kalle <kalle <at> projektwerkstatt.de>

Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 10:39:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: kalle <kalle <at> projektwerkstatt.de>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: info shred:documentation feedback
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2017 12:38:09 +0100

hello,

- at the sentence "by default does not truncate": what does truncating a
file means? Could this be described better in the manual?
-part "on a busy system": why is this written here? Is this a usual
method to overwrite content?

thanks,
kalle
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