Hello again!
I discussed that some time with Bob Proulx, no I want your opinion about
my thoughts:
Most of the gnu tools like ls, cp, rm, grep, chmod, chown, ... have the
option -r or -R
included. Why not rmdiring recursivly ?
If a directory only includes other directories, we could remove all of
them with
rmdir -r first-directory/
Bob mailed this small shell script to me, that does what I mean:
#!/bin/sh
if [ $# -lt 1 ]; then
echo 'Error: missing arguments' 1>&2
echo 'Usage: rmdirtree file [file ...]' 1>&2
exit 1
fi
find "$@" -depth -type d -print0 | xargs -0 rmdir
But in fact, why should we not integrate it into rmdir ?
All the other tools have -r, this is inconstant.
Regards,
Nico
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