script to shred multiple files?

Newb needs to shred multiple files. Have been using:
shred -vuxfn 5 <filename>
and it works great but only one file at a time. Info shred indicates shred is for devices but this is just a folder. I thought about creating a new /dev/hda8 then transfer files to this partition, but.....
I don't want to shred the device or disk, just about 40 or 50 non critical financial files before i sell my PC.
New to scripting. Any help out there?
Thanks

I don't know shred (and I don't know what it means), however if you make a list of files you want to "shred" in a file called /home/user/shred.txt, then to shred them, try this command:

Code:

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cat /home/user/shred.txt|xargs shred -vuxfn 5

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try this out. it works for me
shred -n 200 -z -u /<directory name>/*.*