Wouldn't it be better to use 'find' + 'shred' to do that? That should work without any changes needed to either 'find' or 'shred'.

Also, please read this:

https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#shred-invocation

to see why neither find+shred nor your proposed patch is all that private and secure nowadays. The situation now is even dicier than it was three decades ago when Gutmann's paper was published.



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