Package: coreutils
Version: 9.1-1
Severity: minor
Tags: upstream
The info page for shred includes this example code:
i=$(mktemp)
exec 3<>"$i"
rm -- "$i"
echo "Hello, world" >&3
shred - >&3
exec 3>-
The last line is incorrect. It should be "exec 3>&-" which closes file
descriptor 3. As written, the example code creates or truncates a
file literally named "-" instead.
This same error appears on
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/shred-invocation.html
(as of today) so I believe it's an upstream bug.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.5
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-18-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages coreutils depends on:
ii libacl1 2.3.1-3
ii libattr1 1:2.5.1-4
ii libc6 2.36-9+deb12u4
ii libgmp10 2:6.2.1+dfsg1-1.1
ii libselinux1 3.4-1+b6
coreutils recommends no packages.
coreutils suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
