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wipe -a does not work in contradiction to manpage/help #1

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tyll opened this issue May 30, 2011 · 1 comment

tyll commented May 30, 2011

Description of problem:
wipe -a /tmp/foo fails:
wipe: invalid option -- 'a'

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Seems to be still existing in git HEAD.

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:

mkdir /tmp/foo
wipe -ra /tmp/foo

Actual results:
wipe fails:
wipe: invalid option -- 'a'

Expected results:
wipe should remove /tmp/foo and abort on error as documented by --help/manpage:

$ wipe -h 2>&1| grep -- -a
-a Abort on error

This is a copy of the following Red Hat Bugzilla entry:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=569821

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tyll commented Mar 7, 2013

Would you apply a patch if I provide one or did you abandon wipe?

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