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+.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.48.5.
+.TH SHRED "1" "January 2024" "GNU coreutils 9.4" "User Commands"
+.SH NAME
+shred \- overwrite a file to hide its contents, and optionally delete it
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B shred
+[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... \fI\,FILE\/\fR...
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.\" Add any additional description here
+.PP
+Overwrite the specified FILE(s) repeatedly, in order to make it harder
+for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data.
+.PP
+If FILE is \-, shred standard output.
+.PP
+Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
+.TP
+\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-force\fR
+change permissions to allow writing if necessary
+.TP
+\fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-iterations\fR=\fI\,N\/\fR
+overwrite N times instead of the default (3)
+.TP
+\fB\-\-random\-source\fR=\fI\,FILE\/\fR
+get random bytes from FILE
+.TP
+\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-size\fR=\fI\,N\/\fR
+shred this many bytes (suffixes like K, M, G accepted)
+.TP
+\fB\-u\fR
+deallocate and remove file after overwriting
+.TP
+\fB\-\-remove\fR[=\fI\,HOW\/\fR]
+like \fB\-u\fR but give control on HOW to delete; See below
+.TP
+\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR
+show progress
+.TP
+\fB\-x\fR, \fB\-\-exact\fR
+do not round file sizes up to the next full block;
+.IP
+this is the default for non\-regular files
+.TP
+\fB\-z\fR, \fB\-\-zero\fR
+add a final overwrite with zeros to hide shredding
+.TP
+\fB\-\-help\fR
+display this help and exit
+.TP
+\fB\-\-version\fR
+output version information and exit
+.PP
+Delete FILE(s) if \fB\-\-remove\fR (\fB\-u\fR) is specified. The default is not to remove
+the files because it is common to operate on device files like \fI\,/dev/hda\/\fP,
+and those files usually should not be removed.
+The optional HOW parameter indicates how to remove a directory entry:
+\&'unlink' => use a standard unlink call.
+\&'wipe' => also first obfuscate bytes in the name.
+\&'wipesync' => also sync each obfuscated byte to the device.
+The default mode is 'wipesync', but note it can be expensive.
+.PP
+CAUTION: shred assumes the file system and hardware overwrite data in place.
+Although this is common, many platforms operate otherwise. Also, backups
+and mirrors may contain unremovable copies that will let a shredded file
+be recovered later. See the GNU coreutils manual for details.
+.SH AUTHOR
+Written by Colin Plumb.
+.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
+GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
+.br
+Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>
+.SH COPYRIGHT
+Copyright \(co 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
+.br
+This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
+There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/shred>
+.br
+or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) shred invocation\(aq