Re: Shred: Add recursion operations [PATCH]

[Eric Blake]

On 12/09/2011 10:22 AM, Amr Ali wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not sure if this was discussed before, but I've got tired from having to
> work around the lack of native recursion within `shred`. So, attached is a 
> patch
> to add recursion, including documentation.

Thanks for taking the effort to write a patch, but we probably won't
accept this upstream.

The philosophy of the Unix toolset is for each tool to do one thing, and
do it well, because then you can piece tools together to do larger
things.  find(1) already exists to add recursion to ANY program, so
rather than bloat shred(1) with recursion, you should instead couple
shred and find together:

find dir -depth -exec shred --options {} +

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