From 6859252584eff7286815982be70239ff45123473 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 19:43:05 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (usage): Give a little more info. Remove FIXME comment. --- src/shred.c | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/shred.c b/src/shred.c index 365d7c5..aa2da63 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 .")); } exit (status); -- 2.7.4