-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Eric Blake wrote: > According to Adam Jimerson on 12/26/2008 4:14 PM: > > Thanks for the report. However, coreutils use GNU getopt semantics, where > unambiguous abbreviations of long options are recognized. Therefore, you > need not type the full name, and can get by with: > > rmdir --i > > until such day that we introduce another long option whose name begins > with i. Meanwhile, your claim that 'rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty' is > equivalent to 'rm -r' is false; a recursive 'rm' deletes regular files to > cause the directory to become empty and thus removable, while 'rmdir' only > removes directories that were already empty or contain only empty > subdirectories also being removed. >
If that is the case then can that be added to ether the help, man, or info pages? I am using openSUSE 11.0 with version 6.11 of the GNU Core Utilities and non of those pages said that you can shorten it to just - --i making me think that I had to type the whole thing. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAklWS3oACgkQRMKiLy/EUZSYnQCgpeLhPK8YQbG9z7ygd28hhj98 K1IAn3HrQj/VwCUTaEbIc+8lVDC3JLst =UjJ/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils